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While having to make those necessary cuts to the guest list can make you feel bad and maybe even a bit uncomfortable, take solace in the fact that many of the people who have been or will be removed from your guest list probably didn't deserve to be there in the first place.
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Within weeks of getting engaged, I began to feel immense pressure to plan a wedding within a year’s time. Some of the pressure came from family, some of it from my religious upbringing, and some from the fear that if we didn’t tie the knot within a year, people would think something was wrong. In […]
Being a bride-to-be and dealing with in-laws is stressful when you’ve only known said in-laws for a couple of years. Creating boundaries with them feels very delicate. Meanwhile, when you’ve been with your man for a decade, you’re part of his family now. You can talk to his parents as if they are your own.
A wedding provides an opportunity for all the people you love and perhaps barely get to see to come together. Friends and loved ones from around the world might show up for your wedding. It’s really the only time in your life all of those people come together. But you don’t get that if you have a shotgun wedding.
If the couple didn’t know each other very well and got engaged too quickly (and I’ll suggest anywhere under two years of dating is rather fast), then wedding planning can bring that to light. Almost every element of someone’s personality is put to the test during wedding planning. Some couples just realize Oh I don’t actually like this person through wedding planning.
You know that game you play at the bridal shower, where you send the groom a list of questions about the bride and visa versa? And you match their answers to see how well they know each other? You make the questions impossible, so the couple questions how well they know each other.
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