Wedding Planning Tips

If life was fair, I would be feeling my beloved Evangeline Tim Tebow’s presence instead as his 6′3″ figure stands in front of my little 5′3″ self (big height difference, I know, but OMG, makes us look way cute together *says very humbly*. I love starring at THE picture), holding my hand and saying:
“Princess K, I love you too and look forward to parenting Timothy Richard Jr., Timothiana Richarda, Jade Mia, Brady, Jared, Justin, Kimberly, Barack and Mandy with you. Let’s make the inevitable happen, my love. *gets on knees* Will you marry me?”
….then I say YES! and wipe off my tears snot not very attractively but he doesn’t care and is just happy I accepted. Then we would have a Lion King-themed wedding, which is perfectly planned already but I’m open to make changes for his preferences (except getting rid of the Scar pinata. I’ve always wanted to beat the crap out of that jerk).
I mean, it will happen someday, I just don’t know when but it will. IT WILL!♥
In the meantime, HOW CAN I STOP FREAKING OUT? Dude/dudette, I’m telling you, this place is messed up. The other night a thing ran its nails over my pillow and now it feels weird. And I’m not even one of those people who tend to believe in that kind of crap. I’m 142% sure it’s Toby from Paranormal Activity 3.

My partner and i have recently gotten engaged, and we would like to have a small wedding. I have worked out that for all our family and friends to attend it would be close to 200 people. My question is, Has anyone heard of ways we can celebrate our engagement/ wedding with all our friends and family without having a big wedding. Is it rude to have an engagement party and not invite those guests to the wedding. We will be getting married just before my 21st and i was thinking about making a combined party. Do you have any ideas?

My husband and I have been discussing getting married for a couple of weeks, but recently he had been acting like he didn’t want to talk about it. I still went on making little plans, of course we didn’t want a big wedding, not even a traditional one. Just our parents and a Justice of the Peace. We head over to my parents house the other night just to hang out so naturally I didn’t dress up, just wore my ratty house clothes. After a little bit his parents, grandmother, and a Justice of the Peace suddenly walk in. His mother hands me a bouquet of flowers and starts putting jewelry on me. His father sets down a big cake that says congratulations, and my fiance turns to me and says, “Surprise! We’re getting married!” I was not happy. I went through with the whole thing, and everybody took a ton of pictures of me dressed like a bum, and when we got home my husband was upset that I upset about the whole thing. It really hurt that he went ahead and planned everything and everybody but me knew about it. It was our wedding and he kept it a complete secret from me. Needless to say I spent my wedding night crying, and I feel like I was cheated out of the wedding I wanted. He still doesn’t see why I’m upset. Am I wrong for feeling this way?

I love him more than anything in the world and I want nothing more than to be with him forever… but to him marriage is key to this. Yeah, I think it is too but not at our age. We are only 18 and 19 and although I have known him (and been in love with him) since second grade.. I don’t think it’s right for us quite yet. I want to get my PhD and I want to have some fun… to me marriage is a title… I don’t feel the need to rush into it. But he says that “if i have to wait so long I at least want to be engaged. i want to have you more than I do now.” but i do not want to be engaged for five or so years… I want to get engaged and start planning a wedding.. you know? Help me out? I don’t want to hurt his feelings… I dream of marrying him and starting a family with him… just not at like 20… I have dreams too high..

My friend told all her bridesmaids for the bridal shower to wear pink all except me..I was never told about this. so of course I wore a beautiful light blue suit jacket. My friend was upset and didn’t include me in any of her picutres…….
When I was bridesmaid for the wedding, and it came time to take a picture with the bride and groom, the bride yelled at me that she did NOT want me to be in the picture at all. Her brother said : “Why not why can’t she be in the picture?”
At the end of the reception evening a bridesmaid told me to go to the videographer to wish the bride and groom good luck. They had all bid their wishes but I was the last one.
I am a very considerate person, and I believe if she hates me good for her….and if she doesn’t like me why would she want me to be part of her wedding and then treat me like a pariah?

I just don’t want a wedding reception. I hate planning it, it’s not fun. I don’t want to play hostess and we can’t afford a wedding planner. I’ve changed my mind so many times on what I want for this wedding, I’m starting to drive my future husband nuts! I want to marry him and have an intimate ceremony but I don’t want the whole entertaining guests afterwards. I know that’s the whole point of the reception but I can’t be bothered with it. The marriage is so much more important to me than the wedding itself. I had fun picking a dress, the idea of getting married on my in-laws front porch, imagining our wedding photos, having cupcakes and cider aaaaaaaaand then I have to start thinking about the rest of it. My guests not wanting the wedding at a certain time, family drama, no alcohol, dancing, little kid food allergies. I was excited at the very beginning but now I want no more than 15 people, have cupcakes and cider and then go out to eat. That’s it. As far as a first dance, I would love to dance privately in the living room, just him and I. My fiance is cool with it, he wants whatever is going to make me happy. Does anyone else feel like they’re going crazy over a wedding (reception mainly)?

My stepfather has played a big role in my life and I want him to feel included also so I was hoping to have my bio dad and my step-dad walk me down the aisle. On a side note, I’m not looking to have a strictly traditional wedding. It’s going to be a relaxing beach wedding….

If anyone had told me 10 years ago, that I would be the mother of the bride, I wouldn’t have believed them. My life changed completely when out daughter came into our lives. In 2001, my husband and I became foster parents. Our first placement was a 12 year old girl, who just wanted a mom and dad. She was supposed to be a temporary placement, but she became a permanent part of our family in 2002.
Now our daughter is 22, a college graduate, teaching kindergarten, living on her own, and she’s about to get married. Our daughter is beautiful,very confident, strong, very mature, responsible, self-reliant, and down to earth. She has a love for the Lord that knows no boundaries. Where has the time gone? When was my 12 year old little girl, replaced by this 22 year old young woman? I’m actually sitting here with tears in my eyes, thinking about her wedding day. I know it’s not for a while yet, but I can’t help but reminisce. I truly enjoy the woman that she has become.
My daughter has been dating a very nice young man for the past 3 years. My husband and I really like the young man that the Lord has chosen for our daughter. He comes from a really nice family, and I know his parents really well. I should know, they are the best friends of me and my husband. They actually introduced us to each other 13 years ago. Our daughter and her fiance haven’t set a date yet, but they’ve been throwing around ideas of getting married sometime in late 2012. My daughter’s fiance is deploying soon, and they don’t want to plan a wedding without a firm date in mind. I told her to enjoy their engagement. She was going to be a married woman soon enough.
I’m sorry for rambling, but I am so happy for our daughter. The Lord answered our prayer. My husband and I couldn’t be more pleased with our daughters choice. How did you feel when your daughter became engaged?
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Fiance and i have recently gotten engaged last month. But a few months before that have started planning a xmas wedding this year on a cruise ship in new orleans…it is already payed for and the honeymoon is not refundable…she has let me know 3 days ago that she doesnt want to get married on the boat anymore, so being a loving supportive fiance i found a gorgeous venue (on a short term notice) that will work with us and make it doable….she agreed and liked the new idea initially…with this we can still go on the honeymoon cruise. Today she told me she doesnt want to get married in december but now she want to get married next summer…
The problem with this for me is:
1. Why is she being so indecisive?
2. The honeymoon trip this winter is already paid for and worthless now…
3. We are students and if we are married before the end of year, we will qualify for the PELL grant (which would be a blessing…)
4. We started planning the wedding for december before we were technically engaged…and i feel like her mother is influencing her on this even though i feel like it should be left up to us…
5. I know that she loves me and wants to get married but she says now she thinks i manipulate her about all this and she needs time to think about it and figure it out.
Soooo… as of now i do not know where we stand on this. I really truely felt this was the best thing to do it this year, but she says its not enough time….next summer we are moving and buying a house so that takes time and if we get the financial aid for school in the spring semester we will be able to save that much more for the move and the dp on the house..
so i suggested a beak between us in order for her to ‘figure her out’ but she said she doesnt believe in breaks…also i believe she was engaged before and she backed out because she needed time to herself…i thought this sounds similar to my situation and maybe its just her so i brought this up and she said its different because ‘i really love you’….nevertheless i am big time hurt and i ended up taking the ring back…
This wedding stuff is really causing major stress on our relationship and i dont know what to do….
I really need others opinions on maybe what is going on in her head or how i should feel or what i should do….
BIG THANKS

so a couple of months ago my ex girlfriend and I started talking again. we would text pretty much every day and we would do things together. In June she invited me to go out to the bars with her I did and that night we ended up making out and falling asleep together. The next day we talked about what happened the night before she said that she wasn’t looking for a relationship or having a boyfriend right now, so I said ok I understand since at that point we had been talking to each other for about three weeks after not taking to each other for two months. Anyways we continued to hang out with one another some more in July she invited me over we hung out talked on her balcony listened to some music and watched a movie together when it came time for bed she told me that I could either sleep in her bed with her or I could sleep on the futon. I chose to sleep in her bed, the following morning she asked me which dress she should wear to a wedding we were going to the following weekend I told her which one I liked and she said that that was the one she was thinking of wearing. The following weekend was wedding she was a little hung over when I saw her that day so she didn’t seem too talkative. When I left her for the evening she said that we would talk sometime/do something before she went to long island at the beginning of August for a few days I said ok. Anyways we ended up not getting together before she went away. Last week I decided that I was going to send her a message it basically said hey what’s up how have you been and how was your trip she responded with “hi I’m great! I’ve been busy with work and the trip was fun” this past Monday I go online and I see that she is now in a relationship with some guy that is friends with one of her ex-boyfriends (she told me that her ex-boyfriend before me treated her awfully, and the guy she is currently dating seems like the same type of guy. I also don’t plan on saying anything bad about this new guy she is with only cause I want to seem like I’m still the better catch).
Anyways she has some of my dvds and I was going to ask her if she could bring them over, but I also want to know if telling her how I feel about her is a good thing, I was going to tell her that I’m happy for her and that she deserves to be happy and treated with respect. So should I tell her how I feel about her?