Wedding Planning Tips

My soon to be husband and I have been living together for three years, and our “baby” is our dog. She’s two, and the sweetest happiest dog anyone has ever met! We plan on having a fairly small wedding, by the beach with mainly only family. I want my dog to be involved in the ceremony perhaps, but at least there. The wedding is going to be very simple and not very fancy. Any ideas on how to involve my Penny? Is this maybe too tacky?

i saw this sitcom where a pregnant girl is gettin married to this guy…..along with her sister & husband, try to make the father cry…
another scene is when the to be couple go for dance classes and turns out the husband can dance a lot better than predicted
then there was a scene where the father goes to the wedding planner to get refund of the deposit made for the wedding

Now thats what I call a supportive and understanding wife.
This is actually quite a common practice in Saudi Arabia, I’m told. The wives encourage their husbands to take young second, third, fourth wives even going as far as picking out a suitable wife for him. As the women are veiled and cannot be seen by men before marriage , so the wife is in a better position to choose a pretty young wife for her husband based on his tastes. Whatsmore, the older wives train up younger wives to please their husbands. There is no jealously at all, just an acceptance of the reality that men prefer younger women and thats normal and natural, and a genuine desire to seek their husbands happiness. I find that interesting!

I asked a question of how is the wedding of common-law married couples and got these answers:
1)If a couple have a wedding, they are no longer “common law” married
2)There is no wedding ceremony for a common-law marriage. In fact, there has been no legal paperwork filed for the wedding.
is this true?well of course I know there has been no legal paperwork filed for the wedding.but I mean that if two person want to live together as spouses and don’t do paper works for a formal wedding and they know they’ll be common-law married after some time,so can they have a wedding party where they celebrate their wedding with family and friends?
and if yes,how would be their wedding?I mean as I live in Persia and here the weddings are a bit different from european and north american countries(I mean about the cultural things about wedding party) so I don’t exactly know which things in a wedding of other countries are just for formal marriage and which you can plan for it in your own way.
mostly as I’ve seen on the tv the weddings are like this(exception of those who just go to judge and sign paper works without having a party):for example some have a wedding party where they walk the aisle,exchange wedding bands and saying wedding vows,bride has bridesmaids and the same about groom; and then they have their party ,eating wedding cake,bride drops her bouquet and etc…
what about common-law married couples?which of these things can be in their wedding(considering if they can have a wedding party)?
anyway can they plan for their wedding party and dress up?how?
P.S:as I said I know there is no paperwork for a common-law marriage so I don’t mean a wedding ceremony with presence an official capacity or so,I mean a wedding party to celebrate the wedding with family and friends and to announce they are husband and wife.
Additional Details
1)oh,it’s not my wedding.I don’t even have the idea to get married now,it’s soon for me .I’m asking out of general interest and also to figure out something.
2)the country is Canada
3)by the way if they can have the party can they also walk the aisle,exchange rings and say wedding vows?

Why not?

I’m a fifteen year old girl and I love to sing. My mom is getting married to a truly great guy, and the wedding planner wants me to sing something to them to them during the ceremony.
I can’t think of any songs! Help? :c
I don’t want it to be “I love you”, i want it to be about them as a couple. I want to sing it TO them.

first of all am not married. if i were then i probably would not be asking this question.
but am curious. a lot of my married friends complain about how their wives are controlling and put them second to the kids, about how some times their women openly disrespect them infront of friends and family and the worst of all(to me atleast) how they knowingly deny them sex and blame them for almost everything that goes wrong in tha r/ship. some of these men prefer to work late rather than go home to their wives which i think is just wrong, then agen am not in their shoes.
again the divorce rate is 50% and 66% of these are initiated by women who usually have more to gain from the divorce. it makes me wonder if SOME women are more in love with the wedding than the marriage, and are more in love with the idea of being married to someone than they are with the someone they are marrying.
what do you think??

My hubby and I got a civil marraige with the religious stuff in April. My sister in law (hubby’s older sister) is always stressing them out wondering how much planning my family and I have done. His parents called me and said “I’m sorry your gradfather passed away but its time to move on and plan the wedding” I got really offended. First of all, we have planned everything. Second of all, I think what he said was really inconsiderate. He then said “For my daughters wedding she planned everything. She did this and that etc” She didn’t hire a wedding planner so she ended up doing more. My family has hired one so we aren’t doing much of the nitty gritty….but everything has been planned/deposits paid etc. This is just an example of how they compare me to their daughter.
What makes it worse is my sister in law is in the same field I am. We are both doctors. She’s been practicing for a few years while I just recently graduated. I kid you not, every decision I make regarding my career is always followed by “well my daughter said you should do this or that”
Im losing my mind. I try talking to my husband about it but he ends up getting mad at me saying that I hate his family…Help!

As of right now my only solution has been to stay away from them but I’m 8 1/2 months pregnant and I’m wondering if it’s unfair to my son to not let him meet his father’s side of the family. My fiance seems to think they’ll change and treat me with respect after I have him but I don’t agree. In my own opinion they don’t support me or our baby so why should I let them be around my child?
Since day one they’ve been very rude to me. None of them have taken the time to get to know me. First time I met his grandma and mom, they both ignored me and came off very stuck up. The second time we went to visit his grandma on christmas eve. She was all alone so we figured we’d be nice and give her company as well as bring her christmas presents. As soon as we got there she picked a fight with my fiance and began screaming and crying about how he should be with his ex and his ex still loved him (his ex also screwed him over bad). The woman was seriously 2 feet away from me acting like I wasn’t there. Of course we both ended up leaving pissed off. This type of behavior continued with every holiday and family get together. Mostly it was his mom and grandma.
Every time I was around they ignored me..when I spoke up I got yelled at. They’ve now gone so far as to start calling me nasty names to my face. I’ve never been so disrespected in my life. It’s gotten so bad that we don’t go see them anymore. Last time I saw them I told them I was expecting and next thing I know I’m hearing nasty rumors about me and was told I ruinned his life and their plans to get him back with his ex (keep in mind we’d already decided to get engaged at this point and they still choose to ignore it).
What gets me is that they hated his ex and treated her like this too. Now suddenly they’re her best friend. I don’t understand because I’ve never done anything to them. I’ve never disrespected them and my fiance and I are very happy together. So now my predicament is…how do you handle people that are so unreasonable? I want my son to know his family but I don’t think I can stand it. it’s bad enough I don’t know how I’m supposed to have a wedding without them making it a bad day for everyone. It’s like they hate everyone that’s happy. Also they do this to everyone who isn’t blood related. They arent nice to their own family but my fiance’s aunts that are married in are really treated like dirt.

I want to get them their own gifts, but I need ideas. Its 25 years and I want to get them something special. Please help!