Discussions from Family and Relationships

Any advice on surviving a wedding that you don’t really want to be at? My fiancé's sister is getting married and he’s a groomsman. The wedding is over an hour away drive from our home. I don’t have a...

My fiance and i are invited to my friends wedding. We have already rsvp yes. My friend and i are not very close, we see eachother when we meet in a group of other girls, but never just the two of us....

My FMIL can't travel for health reasons. It makes us sad that she can't be with us for our special day. We are thinking of doing face time of the ceremony. Is that crazy?

So we haven't sent out invites yet, but are working on guest lists. We have limited my fiance's family guests to 50 people because he has a larger family (I'm only inviting 20 of my own family) and...

I have a brother and a sister. Our brother's daughter has invited me to her wedding but I don't know if she invited our sister. Our brother's other daughter got married last year, she invited me but...

Holy cow! I haven’t really been emotional during wedding planning, but every darn time I try to choose a father/daughter song I cry like a baby. My sister eloped, so this will be the one and only time...

Hi all, my fiance’s father has been ill since before we met in high school 9 years ago and the past 18 months have been significantly more difficult for him. He was admitted into the ICU this weekend...

Hello all! So my wedding is in august! I am an only child, but my FH has one sister. I wouldn’t go as far as to say we are best friends, but we’ve always had a good relationship. I asked her to be my...

My fiancé and I have been together for 2 years now. My 14 year old daughter has never given him a chance even though he does everything he can to reach out to her. There are also issues with my ex...

I have been feeling really down and need some type of advice on how I should take my “friend’s” actions and if I should even feel bad about letting our friendship go. I picked two close friends to be...

Everything leading up to the wedding has been nothing but sadness... A brief history... Last April we announced to my boyfriends kids we were wanting to get married. Naturally his kids were not happy...

I'm finally at a point where I can send out invitations, and I've been collecting addresses from the friends and family we're inviting. Our guest list is small, so we're being selective about who...

My fiancé's close friend and his girlfriend (who have been together, for like, 10 years) just broke up, and our wedding is in two weeks! Yikes. We believe that the couple should decide how they want...

Is a plated dinner possible with the Mexican rsvp (or lack thereof) culture? Itzel, today at 2:49 PM Posted in Account Support Reply My fiancé and I just got engaged. We're all over the place in terms...

My son and his fiance' announced their engagement and set a date. The bride then set the number of guests at 100 and calculated a budget; which the parents happily agreed to split. THEN 1) The bride...

I've always had a bad relationship with my father (he's narcissistic and very sexist). I had a celebration lunch after we announced our engagement and my father completely ruined it. He was so rude to...

We are in a dilemma. My fiancé has a huge extended family. His mother is one of 8 children. My fiancé is not close with any of his extended family except for an aunt (her husband) and their son (his...

Anyone here in an age gap relationship? lol. My FH and I are 12 years apart. He's 12 years older than me. Sometimes I get so tired of the constant judgement from others. I want to say here's news for...

I've really been struggling friendship-wise for the past few years. Long story short, I had a great group of friends all through college, and towards the end of my junior/beginning of my senior year,...

Hello! I'm hoping some other brides might be in a similar boat and dealt with a similar situation. I have a large family on my father's side (75 members) and I was going to limit invites to uncles and...