I am glad my friend chose a local wedding and a destination family honeymoon so that we could attend her wedding. No way we could have afforded to go to a destination wedding.

Between them, my parents and their spouses make about a million dollars a year. But my wedding only cost $20,000. And it was juuuuuust right. We have better things to spend money on in our family. Like charitable giving.

My Ex who took off with a girl who's caused us problems intentionally for a year and went on vacation with her, her family to what was supposed to be our wedding destination. I dumped him as soon as he left. We've been talking. He brought up going to his dream vacation together next year. I told him I'm not going with him but I will go with one of my buddies. He got p*ssed. He can take his "friend". I'm glad he showed who he was 3 months before the wedding. It still makes me boil that all my work planned their vacation.

Dear MOH yes we decided to elope because it was the cheaper & less stressful way to do things, Don't go telling me the whole family is pissed off at what I did when I was endorsed by the five people who matter the most: my now DH, his parents & my mom - sorry to save you the $$ on being MOH & the stress of dealing with being in such a position. Sorry that "complete strangers" were there: again our parents knew them, it was fair no one from either of our families was there. If your goal was to hurt me congrats, I cried for three days, & now I'm pissed off b/c you lied to me

You'd think people would put the bride and groom ahead of themselves for one g-damn day. Jeez! The posts on here about what some family members and friends do to the happy couple just wreaks of selfishness and pettiness. And on the actual wedding day! To all of those who have had to put up with people like that on what was supposed to be the happiest day of your life, I'm truly sorry.

The hardest part about my grandpa dying, is knowing that he won't get to be there on my wedding day and I won't get to dance with him at my wedding like I have at every other family wedding.

I hate it when people make general statements about taking your husband's last name. Every person is different. Every relationship is different. A woman doesn't necessarily lose her identity when she takes her husband's name, nor does she disrespect or dislike her husband's family by keeping her own name. It's a private and personal decision and I will never judge someone based on what they do with their name!

I constantly have to fight his family for time with him. I only win one or two days a week, and only for a few hours. I'm so sick and tired of it but I love him too much to leave him for it. I can't wait until we're married.

My FH actually did not want me to take his last name-he believes it's an antiquated notion of possession that's long outdated. I am taking his name, not because he "owns" me, but because that will help identify us as a family, and give our kids a better sense of identity. Hypenating names was not an option, as his last name is already hypenated, and he wants to keep his name-so no combined name either. This debate lasted a couple of weeks as we delved into the reasoning behind the name changing.

Just a quick thought for all of those who make up a new name, do not have a hyphenated name (your's and your husband's) or who do not change their name to their husband's; it makes it so difficult for geneologists (family historians) to trace who you are, your marriage, your children, etc. So make sure you have a family tree, so those who might care in the future and be curious where they came from can figure it out. :)