Our bridal party didn't match and we're still together all these years. Our pictures look great and we're all still friends. I wasn't about to tell my bridesmaid who had to leave that she needed to tell her mother on the other side of the country she should choose another week to have cancer kill her. Get over it ladies. It's just a wedding. The marriage is what counts. Also treat your family and friends right. Not like props. If uneven bridal party pictures bug you, go use the money in your envelopes to treat your OCD.

My wedding was very short, hardly anything at all, not much traditional. MIL wanted me to go big. She compared my wedding to the big ones in the family and would show me the videos, trying to push me into having a wedding like them. I felt it was odd since all of them had ended in divorce. As of now, all DH's siblings, his parents, and most of his aunts/uncles are all divorced. DH is about the only one in his family who isn't.

I never enjoyed going/being in weddings. I am engagaed and getting married on a Tuesday at the courthouse. I have gotten a ton of attitude from friends and family. I DON'T WANT A WEDDING LEAVE ME ALONE!!

I want a small number of people at my wedding but my family is SO DAMN BIG! It's impossible to pick and choose who I think can be left out. Not only are we big but we are all very close, just with those I consider absolutely essential guests we are up to 40 (30 my family 10 his). That's without any friends. I'm going to go mad, broke or unwed for the rest of my life!

We had a very non-traditional wedding, only about 15 family members attended the 10 minute ceremony and then we had a casual party at our house with all of our friends. Everyone always gushes about how we were so smart in doing that and it was so fun and stress-free yet people still insist on having over the top weddings all the time. I don't get it. Who knows, maybe people just feel obligated to tell us that. To each his own, I guess.

I really hate it when wedding vendors or family members say "It's your day." when they talk to me, but not to my fiance. Um, if it weren't his day too, then I wouldn't need their services.

I wish MIL would stop telling me it's "my day." If it were only about me, I'd go down to the courthouse with FDH and then come home and order a pizza. I hate weddings, but we compromised on a very small, cheap one because it is important to FDH's family that there be some kind of ceremony. So really it's MIL's day, not mine.

I always thought I'd get married (and have a family) when I grew up, but it hasn't happened. Now, I feel like it may be too late. I'm almost 45. Too old to be a bride. And yet, I still can't let go of the hope that maybe "one day" it will happen to me too. Silly for a grown woman perhaps.

Our wedding is in 25 days. I called it off yesterday and spent today cancelling everything. 2 days ago my (ex) fiancé was pulled over for erratic driving. He blew high enough on the breathalyser to have his licence suspended for 3 days. 6 years ago when I was 17 a drunk driver killed every member of family. I have no living relatives. Ex says I’m “overreacting” because he only blew enough to get a suspension and not enough to get charged with impaired driving. He could’ve a called a designated driver service, a taxi or me. I don’t care what anyone says. This is my dealbreaker and he knew that.

I only called my Mother and best friend after we got engaged, and only bc I knew they would be upset if they saw it on Facebook first. We changed our realtionship status right away and figured everyone would see it there. His family was already on their way over for lunch so he waited untill they arived to tell them. (and they ignored my text.) They were 'hurt' they had to see it on facebook fist. Really? everyone "knew" we were getting engaged soon--he had showed them the ring the weekend before.