Wedding Planning Tips

to plan your guest list, do you assume all unmarried guests will bring a date? where do you even begin planning who to invite and who not to?

I am planning on using white and ivory pre-cut fabric squares as my wedding guest book. My fiance’ loves the idea! I also got some red and black accent fabric. The problem is I have absolutely no idea how to make a quilt! The only thing I can think to do is sew each piece with a border of the accent fabric and then piece them together. I would love some other ideas and tips. Thank you in advance!

I am having a fall wedding. I am open to any idea of how to do a more creative “guest book”. I don’t want the traditional sign one. Its very boring compared to our personality & I feel like its more of a “past” tradition and clutter. I also don’t want the one where you put something in the middle and they sign the matte around. I think that looks sort of messy. Cute idea but not for us. I do like that tree idea where people use there fingers and an ink pad to make a leaf type of print and write just there name on it. However my friend is doing that at her wedding the week before and do not want to “copy” her. We have 110 of the same guests so it would be clear “I copied her”. I also saw a rock idea where you write (i don’t know what) on rocks, but then Im not really sure what to do with the rock after other than sticking it in a vase? I have been to a wedding where they tried to do the cork signing thing but no one really knew what they were for? So I guess we are just looking for something really creative. If you could give me any ideas or links to check out I would appreciate it! Im more of a visual person so pictures would be great. Let me know what you did at your wedding as well.

My fiance and I decided not to invite plus 1’s for our single guests (or guests who aren’t in serious relationships) as we saw it as an unnecessary expense. We made 3 exceptions:
-We invited plus 1’s for 2 of our guests who are flying in from other cities because they won’t know anyone else there.
-We’re allowing my 25yr old brother to bring his girlfriend of 4 months because 1. they seem serious and 2. HE’S MY OWN BROTHER!
We invited this couple who are old friends of my parents. My mother said we should invite their 2 sons as well because otherwise these people would make a huge issue of it. So we invited the 2 sons (17 and 20yrs) too. We decided to just send them all 1 invite and invite them as a family as the one son still lives at home and the other one just barely moved out. The 20 year old didn’t have a girlfriend when I sent out the invites but has now met someone. Now this woman RSVPed for all of them plus her son’s new girlfriend!! She even instructed my mother as to where they are to be seated in the table plans! (My mother just smiled and nodded of course but will be ignoring her) But I can’t think of any polite way to tell them the girlfriend can’t come! Any ideas?
I just find this so rude and forward – it freaks me out!

Well my mum is going to a wedding and has agreed that i can do her makeup. She doesn’t normally wear it (i have only seen her wear lipstick once at a party but that is it) so i don’t want to go all out because she might not be comfortable. So got any ideas? No face makeup. She has flawless skin (Lucky her) just eye makeup. And yes i am only 14 but i am very experienced in applying makeup (no cake face for me)

So I want a unique guest book alternative… I really don’t want the normal book or photo booth scrapbook, I don’t want the photo matte or ceramic dish, I don’t want the fingerprinted or stamped tree, and I’m even starting to hate the quilt idea. However I really want something that I can put together afterwords because I don;t want a bunch of extra space if not everyone signs. I would also like something that would encourage people to actually leave a message other then just congrats. Any ideas on how I could do this?

The wedding invitation says the rooms are a special wedding price. But when I look online I see I could get the same room for less money if I book it myself. Does the wedding planner earn a little from each room the wedding guests book? Could the bride/groom be committed to booking a certain number of rooms? Will I miss out on anything, or cause problems if I book a room myself at the same resort through a discount site? (I’m not cheap, just broke)

I have a large family (about 78) and I was planning to have a smaller wedding. I want to invite all my aunts and uncles (17 people), but when it comes to the cousin, that will add a whole bunch of heads. I am not terribly close with a bunch of them. However, I do want to invite two families of cousins no matter what because we are close. Is this an all or nothing thing? Can I invite some cousins and not the others?

So my first wedding as a guest is coming up, because I’ve never been to one before I have no idea what to wear.
Any ideas where I can find a suitable dress, and accessories to go with?
Keeping in mind I’m only 5 ft 1 so petite dresses would be a good area!
Thanks

Do you have to give wedding favors to every guest, or can you give them per couple? I picked a wedding favor that’s a bit expensive.