Family and Relationships
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![Emily](https://cdn0.weddingwire.com/usr/3/0/6/7/utbp_40083067.jpg?r=60001)
Hello ladies! So, my mom is planning my bridal shower along with my two grandmothers. In her day she had a shower for both her side and my dad's side of the family. She started planning the shower for...
![Amber](https://cdn0.weddingwire.com/usr/3/2/2/6/utbp_40263226.jpg?r=63191)
My mother isn't showing any interest in being involved in my wedding planning. It is really starting to get to me as this is supposed to be a time when mothers and daughters bond. I continue to try to...
![Lauren](https://cdn0.weddingwire.com/usr/8/9/0/1/utbp_33378901.jpg?r=12301)
I am marrying my HS sweetheart next month, we reconnected 7 years ago. He is 40, I am 38 and I have a 14 year old and a 12 year old and this is my 2nd marriage, his first-he has no children. I am...
![Meena](https://cdn0.weddingwire.com/usr/4/5/7/9/utbp_40744579.jpg?r=54225)
I don't know if it's just me not liking other people telling me what to do and I often feel like I wish I was accepting and positive rather getting offended, or my MiL is genuinely out of line. My...
Anyone else getting married for the second time? The first time I was married, I had the full support of my entire family and friends, and people I didn't even know! This time around, I have the...
![Alyssa](https://cdn0.weddingwire.com/usr/6/4/6/9/utbp_39186469.jpg?r=34612)
I’m shy, well sorta. I’m not a shy person, but when there’s a big life change in my life (good or bad), I tend to not tell anyone until weeks or months or whenever it comes up later down the line. Im...
![Kelly](https://cdn0.weddingwire.com/usr/1/6/0/3/utbp_40131603.jpg?r=55882)
My fiancé and I have decided to not have kids at our wedding besides our son (which is a give in), two flower girls (they are sisters and I didn't want to ask one and not the other and they are only...
![CountryBride](https://cdn0.weddingwire.com/usr/2/9/1/3/utbp_9412913.jpg?r=15076280)
Not sure if this is the right forum to post on but here goes. My husband and I have been married for 1 yr now together for 10 yrs. Throughout our entire relationship there have been intimacy issues....
In my fiancés culture, the MOH and best man are supposed to be a married couple. We don’t have very many married friends, and we were close with his middle sister and her husband at the time we...
Hi everyone! I need some serious advice and support since I feel like my fiance isn't supporting me and wants to do whatever his parents say. I have found myself with mixed feelings and questioning...
My wedding happened recently. It went really, really badly. The ceremony was beautiful but it all went wrong from there. My dress was absolutely destroyed in the mud, it poured on me and my fiancé...
Hi! I have an extremely opinionated and big family. I have 9 aunts who along with my mom, feel the need to give me their opinions on everything. I tend to people please so from even before I started...
Hello, I am very frustrated lately and I though I could find some advices here. Me and my fiancee are together for 3 years. He proposed to me in May this year. I wanted it so much, so I was very...
I was disappointed when I received a the "no" RSVP from a very close friend but gave her the benefit of the doubt. The conflict had to be something important, right? She also declined my bachelorette...
![Justine](https://cdn0.weddingwire.com/usr/9/5/4/5/utbp_39299545.jpg?r=29612)
So it has been a tense time for me planning this wedding. My older sister is supposed to be my maid of honor, but we recently got in a fight about nothing that has to do with the wedding. Mean things...
![Airica](https://cdn0.weddingwire.com/usr/4/3/2/2/utbp_40334322.jpg?r=41894)
How is you guys relationships with your maid of honors? Do they get on your nerves sometimes?? Are they extra helpful or do they trying to dictate things and tell you what to do?
Hi there, I’m here again, asking another question; this time is for support, and I want to know if it isn’t normal to feel like this. My fiancé and I have reserved the venue from a long time ago (it’s...
![Shirley](https://cdn0.weddingwire.com/usr/8/3/6/3/utbp_33238363.jpg?r=21973)
2020 just keeps getting better and better. During this wonderful contested election, I posted online that I had voted and who I voted for (which I now regret) but not why I voted the way I did. I got...
So we had a lot of (my) friends not come to our wedding- these are late cancels I'm talking about in the 2 weeks to 1 day prior range. Range of excuses (some of which were legit others not, I think...
![Marissa](https://cdn0.weddingwire.com/usr/7/8/3/4/utbp_40417834.jpg?r=62155)
My future sister in law has pretty much invited her and her daughter to be apart of the bridal party and just assuming they are going to be in it. My FH has had no comment towards this and it kinda...