45 days to go....

4/14/2010

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I have ^ this many days to go, and I am just about ready to pull my hair out.
My advice to future brides wiith huge families - Elope!


THE END
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Epiphany

4/9/2010

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I had an epiphany this week.

 

It all started last Wednesday. Fiancé and I had a rather intense argument about wedding issues and all the drama surrounding it.

For some reason, people just don’t get it. When an RSVP says “Adult Only Reception”, what does that mean? To a normal person, that means the RSVP card is not for you and your children. It’s for you and another adult to attend. So, if this is in fact what “Adult Only Reception” means, please tell me why people are calling and telling my fiancé that they have to bring their children? And please tell me why he is NOT putting his foot down and telling them “ok”.


As you can imagine, frustration was in the AIR! The argument was intense because we had already discussed how we were going to handle people’s response regarding no children. It’s not that we don’t like kids or think that absolutely no children should be there. In fact, there will be about 10 kids there. Our son, the flower girls, a few of the bridal parties’ kids and a few immediate nieces and nephews. Due to our family dynamics, we had to make exceptions. And I am absolutely ok with that. However, we decided that this was it! If we would have allowed everyone to bring children, it would have been about 40 kids at our reception and at over $40 a person, I’m just not willing to spend that amount on a child.

On to my epiphany -I know that no matter what, I want to MARRY this man. I am not willing to let any of this wedding drama interfere with our planning process. Or have us wasting time being upset at each other. No one is worth the argument that we had the other day.

We are in the LAST weeks of planning and I want us to ENJOY this road to marriage. I just cannot allow this to be a stressful time for us.

So, rather people RSVP for more than we invited, people call and tell us they are bringing their children, bridal party not handling their tuxedo’s, hair, nails or any wedding related business – I don’t care.


 As long as I have my dress, fiancé has his and our son’s tuxedo and the preacher is there, we will be getting married and not letting all this other mess worry us.

 

 

 
 
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Is there a book on wedding guest etiquette??

2/25/2010

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Why do people try to make other people’s wedding a family get together/reunion? Just wondering. It seems like when you get married, everyone wants to come and invite others as well at the payee’s expense. At this point of my planning stage, I should get this tattooed on my face “MY WEDDING IS NOT A FAMILY REUNION!”

 

Are people forgetting the cost that’s involved?

 

$25 for food pp, $10 for drinks pp, $2 for chair cover pp, $10 per table linen $3 for guest favors pp and $2.00 for a slice of cake pp

 

What makes someone I haven’t seen or spoken to in 2 or 3 years think they should get an invite? What makes a family member think that it is okay to invite 3rd or 4th cousins that no one knows? What makes a person think its okay to invite a bunch of children? What makes it okay for a guest to bring 2 or three uninvited guests with them and think nothing of it? Who thinks its okay to go to a person’s wedding with no gift or even an envelope? If I send you an rsvp card and it clearly states that we reserved 3 seats for you, why would you write in 5 people’s names? Is it okay to NOT RSVP, and just show up? Is it okay to rsvp a week or two after the rsvp due date??

 

Just askin???

 

Now that I am planning a wedding, I will now and forever pledge going forth to be the best guest I can be. I followed the rules before, but it will now be my duty to educate ignorant wedding guest on wedding guest etiquette.

 

 

The End,

 

B.Rob
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