we got bracelets for our bridesmaids and for our flower girl and engraved pocket knifes for the groomsmen but the jr groomsman and ring barrer have me stumped. they are five and seven and have not found anything i like any ideas?
Any Suggestions are appreciated, thank you.
My daughter just got engaged and she’s having a destination wedding which is great! She’s sending e-mails to her 2 friends as part of the wedding party, myself her mother and now she’s including her ex-stepmother as well. My ex died 21 years ago and she (his widow) left the country without even saying goodbye to my daughter back then and hasn’t done much for her since. I know I can’t tell my daughter to not have a relationship with her but am I wrong to feel that she should not be included on the same level as the “bridesmaids” and I, the bride’s mother”? I feel very hurt that my daughter did not discuss this with me but I will talk to her about it. When does someone stop being a stepmother? When the spouse (child’s parent) dies or when she remarries? Any thoughts out there? Is there any authority on the subject or does it fall under Family Law?
I really want to do what’s best for my daughter and not get her upset but shouldn’t she have spoken to me first about having her ex stepmother involved? Let me have your thoughts please!
Thank you
A couple months ago I bought a winning lottery ticket and thanks to my lawyer acting as my legal agent to claim the winnings on my behalf, my name is staying out of the news. Now comes the tricky part as my fiancee and I are planning our wedding–our combined annual income (until now) was less than $50,000, and the wedding we’re planning is going to cost about $5,000. My fiancee’s parents know about my lottery winnings and they’re very happy for us (my fiancee and I are making plans to take care of them financially as well), but we’re determined that my mother not find out about this, both because of her free-spending ways (we’re not going to be her blank check) and because she tends to be a gossip–which would result in the rest of our small town finding out that I now have “big bucks.” So what I’m trying to figure out is a gracious way to have my mother not pay for a portion of the wedding without raising questions on why we don’t want her to pay anything. Years ago when I finished college, my mother loaned me several hundred dollars to help me get on my feet, and although I paid her everything back in full, since that time she has asked me for one favor after another “because I’ve done so much for you.” (That was 15 years ago–I’m 37 now and she still reminds me of “what she’s done for me.”) So to keep her from piling on any sense of obligation on me and my fiancee that my mom’s doing what’s socially expected of her anyway, we don’t want her to pay for a portion of the wedding just so she won’t come back later reminding us of “everything” she’s done for us. My fiancee and I are basically set financially for the rest of our lives but plan to live like we still have very little and plan to invest the money and give a large chunk away to charity and our church–but the last thing we want is for my mom to know we have money in the first place, because then we’ll never hear the end of it from her. She’s retirement age (67) but she has spent money very foolishly for years and as a result has nothing left for retirement besides Social Security–and if she sees me and my soon-to-be-wife as a deep piggy bank, that will create all kinds of problems that we really don’t want. So what I’m wondering is if there’s a way to persuade her not to worry about paying for a portion of the wedding without raising any suspicions that suddenly I might have money, or that something weird is going on that I don’t want her to pay for part of the wedding. Any suggestions would be very much appreciated.
kiran
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GL CANCELED ENDS IN SEPTEMBER… SAVE THE LIGHT!! DO ANYTHING YOU CAN!!! What you can do: Call P&G! *IMPORTANT* Sign the petition: savetheguidinglight.com GL production offices: 1-866-695-1859 (1 regarding the recent announcement ) Send emails to different stations telling them that you would love it if they picked up GL Send emails to CBS telling them they suck Send emails into magazines Send emails to the actors Repost the the save the light anywhere you can think of! More ideas and …
Wedding Planning Part 2of 3
