True or False - Wedding Planning Edition

1. Your and/or your FH's family is paying for your wedding? True - my parents are hosting. We're not sure yet if FH's family is hosting the rehearsal dinner and/or day after brunch. If they aren't, we will be.

2. You have a supportive / involved mother? True - we talk wedding all the time and she is super supportive without being overbearing.

3. Your bridesmaids check in on you, ask about your wedding, and offer to help with wedding related tasks? Both - one of my bridesmaids does all the time and she wants to be super involved. A couple of them will mention it if I see them and I know I could go to them in a pinch, and one of them doesn't at all. They're all completely fine by me!

4. Your FH is involved in the wedding planning? False, but to be fair, we agreed on that when we got engaged. We had talked about waiting until he graduated to get engaged but he surprised me and proposed 7 months earlier. When we were deciding on dates, we agreed that either we book it for about a year out (ended up being 17 months) and I do most of the planning, or we book it at least two years out and don't do much planning until he's done with school but plan more together. Honestly, I love planning and go to him whenever I need input, and really don't mind it this way. When it gets closer and we have some of the little "last minute" tasks, he is fully aware that his help will be needed and he plans to help however I ask him.

5. Wedding planning is FUN? True!

6. Your bridesmaids have offered to through you a bachelorette and/or bridal shower? True. Three of my bridesmaids are already planning my bach weekend. I had two aunts and five family friends offer to host my showers.

7. Your dress shopping experience was exactly how you imagined it would be? False - it was better. I was so worried, and it was lovely!

8. You are a budget bride? False, I'm so blessed that my parents really want to give me my dream wedding and go all out on this.

9. You have had some sort of wedding related family drama? False

10. Your parents are trying to dictate your wedding? False. Considering they are hosting the whole thing, they're giving us a lot of freedom to make decisions. The only big thing that they dictated was the city where we have it (our hometown where 80% of our guests live vs. where we live now). We agreed because it was important to them. They toured venues with us, and have looked over all vendor contracts before they are approved, but ultimately give us free reign unless they feel something is an issue. We're lucky that we see eye-to-eye with them almost all of the time anyway.

1. False

2. True

3. Partially True

4. Partially True

5. True

6. False

7. Partially True

8. True

9. True

10. True (FMIL)

1. Your and/or your FH's family is paying for your wedding? False. We paid for it ourselves, though my mom did end up gifting us the money for photography after the fact and MIL did host the rehearsal/welcome dinner.

2. You have a supportive / involved mother? False, in that she was supportive of the marriage/wedding overall, but not involved in planning at all. She's elderly and lives on the opposite side of the country from me, also 1600 miles from where we had our wedding.

3. Your bridesmaids check in on you, ask about your wedding, and offer to help with wedding related tasks? False. I had an MOH and a bridesman, both of whom live on the opposite side of the country from me. My MOH was very excited for the wedding, though, and was patient with vetting pictures from the dress issue in #7.

4. Your FH is involved in the wedding planning? True.

5. Wedding planning is FUN? True. It was not as stressful as I hear people talk about.

6. Your bridesmaids have offered to through you a bachelorette and/or bridal shower? True. My MOH threw us a bachelor/ette party. I didn't have a shower (see distance issues above)

7. Your dress shopping experience was exactly how you imagined it would be? False. I tried on probably 30 dresses in stores (mostly alone), some at home, then ended up buying one online. I never really, really liked any of them.

8. You are a budget bride? True. Compared to some, our budget was low, but I personally think $10K is still a lot of money for a party; that was our top budget and we didn't *quite* hit it.

9. You have had some sort of wedding related family drama? False.

10. Your parents are trying to dictate your wedding? False (benefit of both being "older" and paying for our own wedding)

1. Your and/or your FH's family is paying for your wedding? True - my parents are paying for the majority of the wedding

2. You have a supportive / involved mother? True - she has been very supportive, even though we've butt heads throughout the process

3. Your bridesmaids check in on you, ask about your wedding, and offer to help with wedding related tasks? True and false - some do, some don't. Everyone has their own lives though, and they've been there for me when I've needed it

4. Your FH is involved in the wedding planning? True - he definitely gives his input but doesn't really take initiative when it comes to actually planning the details

5. Wedding planning is FUN? True and false - some parts are more enjoyable than others. A lot of it is stressful

6. Your bridesmaids have offered to through you a bachelorette and/or bridal shower? True - although my mom is essentially hosting both events

7. Your dress shopping experience was exactly how you imagined it would be? True, I guess - didn't really have too many expectations

8. You are a budget bride? True - I try to be very mindful of the cost, esp. since my parents are footing the bill

9. You have had some sort of wedding related family drama? TRUE - endless, countless drama

10. Your parents are trying to dictate your wedding? True, kinda - my mom has pushed some things on me but generally backs off when I mention it

1. Your and/or your FH's family is paying for your wedding? True or False (only a portion of it from each family, most of the payment is from me and FH).

2. You have a supportive / involved mother? True or False In between, she's supportive absolutely, but I don't include her in everything cuz I don't want all the opinions.

3. Your bridesmaids check in on you, ask about your wedding, and offer to help with wedding related tasks? True or False In between, some do, some don't. I have been asked about different aspects of the whole to-do whether planning or bachelorette

4. Your FH is involved in the wedding planning? True or False He started out decent in the beginning but then he just complains now.

5. Wedding planning is FUN? True or False

6. Your bridesmaids have offered to through you a bachelorette and/or bridal shower? True or False I am planning the bachelorette and it was my mom's idea for the shower; FMIL and bridesmaids will contribute.

7. Your dress shopping experience was exactly how you imagined it would be? True or False

8. You are a budget bride? True or False In between. I try to be on most things I can truly control. Guest list and venue food/bev pricing was not ideal.

9. You have had some sort of wedding related family drama? True or False

10. Your parents are trying to dictate your wedding? True or False

1. Your and/or your FH's family is paying for your wedding? True

2. You have a supportive / involved mother? False

3. Your bridesmaids check in on you, ask about your wedding, and offer to help with wedding related tasks? True

4. Your FH is involved in the wedding planning? False

5. Wedding planning is FUN? True(ish)

6. Your bridesmaids have offered to through you a bachelorette and/or bridal shower? True

7. Your dress shopping experience was exactly how you imagined it would be? False (it was easier)

8. You are a budget bride? False(ish)

9. You have had some sort of wedding related family drama? True

10. Your parents are trying to dictate your wedding? False

1. Your and/or your FH's family is paying for your wedding? FALSE

2. You have a supportive / involved mother? True

3. Your bridesmaids check in on you, ask about your wedding, and offer to help with wedding related tasks? Ehh False

4. Your FH is involved in the wedding planning? .... FH has mood swings regarding wedding planning

5. Wedding planning is FUN? Both true and false

6. Your bridesmaids have offered to throw you a bachelorette and/or bridal shower? True

7. Your dress shopping experience was exactly how you imagined it would be? True (it was non traditional and awesome)

8. You are a budget bride? TRUE

9. You have had some sort of wedding related family drama? Pretty minimal, false!

10. Your parents are trying to dictate your wedding? Absolutely False

1. Your and/or your FH's family is paying for your wedding? False.

2. You have a supportive / involved mother? Sometimes. My mom can be super supportive and involved on occasion and then wonder why I’m bringing up the wedding the next day.

3. Your bridesmaids check in on you, ask about your wedding, and offer to help with wedding related tasks? Not particularly, but all of them work full time and have other things going on and two of them don’t live nearby.

4. Your FH is involved in the wedding planning? True

5. Wedding planning is FUN? Parts of it are fun, but not all of it

6. Your bridesmaids have offered to through you a bachelorette and/or bridal shower? True

7. Your dress shopping experience was exactly how you imagined it would be? False. It was actually awful and my consultant was terrible. Thank God for my MOH being there and eventually pulling THE dress off the rack.

8. You are a budget bride? False

9. You have had some sort of wedding related family drama? True. I have a family member who has been with her SO years longer than us and she was mad we had a shorter engagement that her and her FH. She even got my grandmother and a few of my aunts involved.

10. Your parents are trying to dictate your wedding? False. Aside from asking if we planned to invite the families, my parents haven’t been very involved in any of the details.

1. Your and/or your FH's family is paying for your wedding? False. We received a gift from my parents, but we are paying ourselves.

2. You have a supportive / involved mother? False. She's only involved when she thinks it will put her in the spotlight.

3. Your bridesmaids check in on you, ask about your wedding, and offer to help with wedding related tasks? True. I regularly update on status and my Matron of Honor is a rockstar.

4. Your FH is involved in the wedding planning? True. He gives input on the things that are important to him and leaves me to decide the rest.

5. Wedding planning is FUN? True. The planning part is a blast...the paying part is what hurts.

6. Your bridesmaids have offered to through you a bachelorette and/or bridal shower? True. Again, rockstar MoH.

7. Your dress shopping experience was exactly how you imagined it would be? False. I thought having a group of people would make things easier...turns out I just needed one person.

8. You are a budget bride? True. Well budget-ish, I'm down for a deal, but if it's 20$ extra and I don't have to stress about it....take my money.

9. You have had some sort of wedding related family drama? True. See question 2.

10. Your parents are trying to dictate your wedding? False. They only insisted that I have a wedding.

1. Your and/or your FH's family is paying for your wedding? False

2. You have a supportive / involved mother? True( involved) False (supportive)

3. Your bridesmaids check in on you, ask about your wedding, and offer to help with wedding related tasks? False

4. Your FH is involved in the wedding planning? Somewhat

5. Wedding planning is FUN? Use to be

6. Your bridesmaids have offered to through you a bachelorette and/or bridal shower? False

7. Your dress shopping experience was exactly how you imagined it would be? True

8. You are a budget bride? True

9. You have had some sort of wedding related family drama? False

10. Your parents are trying to dictate your wedding? False