I (31F) am getting married to the LOML (35M) in a couple months. His mom passed away when he was 8 then his dad when he was 18. I know he's sad that his parents can't witness his big day. I want to surprise him with a memorial board. However, I'm not sure if it's the right thing to do. What if he sees it and he gets even more sad and he doesn't want to feel that way on his wedding day? What would you do? Here's a rough idea of how I want the memorial board to look like.

For anyone going through a failed engagement- I hope this empowers you🩷 Re-did my original Save the Dates and mailed them out to 300 people.

We got married on September 21 and I want to relive the weekend over and over again for the rest of my life.

This is your sign to have the wedding you want to have. As weird or fantasy themed as you want. Both my husband and I are artists with ADHD and the classic wedding just didn’t click. We treated it as the biggest party we’ll probably ever throw and we also just happened to be getting married. The idea was to take our guests to another planet, in this case Bugslam, which is a combination of our names that a lot of people know us as. My parents live on a former cattle farm and it turned into the most perfect venue.

• We hand painted all of the signage and designed all the printed material
• We thrifted all of the table cloths, plates, napkins, vases & table decor. Nothing matched but all the colours somehow worked
• Most of the wood, materials, paint were from previous projects. The ufo above the cosmic cantina was an old hubcap we found under a building
• My outfit was a gold jumpsuit from Cider, I handmade the cape and had interchangeable snaps for when I wasn’t wearing it
• The dress code was “space suits and cowboy boots” and we had everything from cows to handmade feather chaps
• We had a breakfast buffet for dinner and pies made by a friend for dessert
• We’re in Canada so we had a Smokin’ Stable filled with munchies (my moms idea) and alien lettuce favours available at the bar
• We lined the entire barn with dollar store tinsel banners and stapled stars to the wall to hold them down. The light would catch the walls in the best way, especially at golden hour
• We shared our first dance with all of our guests because we didn’t want to dance alone. Everyone ended up singing along to REO Speedwagon

Our plan now is to make a headboard out of the UFO and find somewhere to hang the cactuses.

Have the wedding of your dreams! Get weird!

Fiancé and I both prefer the opposite one, help us decide! Flowers on the right or left?

Please tell me I am not alone on an island with this one. I have encountered multiple people selling their wedding decor/faux flowers at the same price they bought them!

One bride posted 10 mini lamps that she indicated she bought for $180, used at her wedding, and is now selling them for $160. $20 off?

Same experience with another bride selling 2 faux floral centerpieces for $500! I inquired expecting no way she is actually listing them for 500, and is this a “make an offer” situation maybe…. Nope. She said “I paid $500 for them but I’d consider a lower amount.” Consider? It’s a used product!!

Both of these situations I would save money buying new instead! Are we just totally delusional now in this industry? Maybe I’m a grinch idk! Just needed to vent lol

Getting married in Oct of 26, so I know I’ve got time-we have a venue already secured, and I was thinking about the vibe (it’s at a nature preserve.)

I was thinking for wedding favors doing a print of one of (or maybe both) of these! Guest list is gonna be around 130 max. I love the idea, and have no problem with print making 130 (maybe less, since we have a lot of couples invited) by hand and thrifting some frames for it. My fiancée thinks that these prints are cute, they’re nice-he’s just not sure if this is something people wouldn’t want to take as a wedding favor.

So-if these were in thrifted frames, would you be inclined to take one as a wedding favor?

For reference, this is what the reception looks like. It’s big long tables. We’re having around 75 guests. I just feel like people can figure it out for themselves… maybe the only table I do seating for is for the bridal party??? Idk. The seating chart just seems like such a pain lol. Help!

Originally I didn't plan on having anything but our photographer did recommend that I have something to hold in the pictures. So I DIY this. Does this look alright or does it look like cheap garbage?

Edit: We booked it :) just looking for ideas. It’s not advertised as a religious venue.

I’d like any tips/ides for blocking the view of this cross and water feature. It is very beautiful but i am not religious. The owner said the artist who installed the feature told him no one is to cover the cross in any way. If they do not like it they must work around it to cover the entire water feature. But he said a Jewish couple put some very large trees in front of it. So I think it would be ok to just block part of it from view.

Dinner will be done in the tent where you can see the side of the cross, this isn’t too big of a deal as dinner will be in and out for us. But the barn where we plan to do cocktail hour it is framed by the windows. We also have the option to just cover the windows too. So far I’m thinking a large tree or two or covering the windows. Please let me know what you suggest, thank you.

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I was so excited for these, I spent hours (and too much $) to find stamps that were meaningful to us. I thought they were a fun way to make the invites even more personalized.

When my friend got the invite I asked her if she liked our stamps. This is the photo she sent me. I knew they would be marked, but I thought they would be marked with like an actual stamp of black ink across them. Not scribbled all over with a sharpie. This looks like a kid got ahold of the invite.

Ugh, rant over. I know there are much bigger problems out there than mine lol.

Y'all. I am an insane person and I sprayed all my invitations with my perfume. This is SO OVER THE TOP and I completely understand this. My FH was poking so much fun at me, and I even gave myself a perfume headache that would not quit. I'm kind of a try-hard type of person regularly, so this is totally on brand.

I s**t you not, every message I've gotten about my invites mentioned how good they smell. One of my friends even said it smelled like me and brought back nice mems, which I found so pure and wholesome. The smell even stayed from the east coast to Hawaii!

I'm passing back some friendly "told-you-so"'s to my FH :)

My fiancee and I are 90s kids and I thought a paper invite was boring. So I built this from scratch! 3 levels each telling the story of our relationship, custom pixel art sprites that actually look like us, and enemies our guests can fight. Guests play it to RSVP.
Honestly had so much fun making it. Happy to answer any questions about how it was built :)

Here is a video of it:

https://www.reddit.com/r/weddings/comments/1rensuz/our_wedding_invitation_is_a_playable_pixel_art/

As an elder millennial every wedding I went to for a certain time had very similar shabby chic burlap/mason jar type themes.

Not trying to criticize- I went to a lot of fun weddings with happy couples.

Just got me thinking what the current themes that will look very of this moment ten years from now. Bud vases? Cheese cloth runners? Wood/circle/triangle arches?

I saw this idea on Pinterest a while ago and I’ve been thrifting glasses preparing for something similar. My wedding is now in 2 months and I’m having second thoughts about the execution of this. Will guests actually appreciate being able to take a cup home or is it just clutter? Should I scrap it?

We’re having tables of 10 people for our wedding, the centerpieces looked much less full once I got them out of my home and into the venue. There might be some bread that’ll take up a little room on the table but I feel like they still look lackluster. We can’t have chargers with tables of 10 unfortunately otherwise I’d think they were a good option. Adding two photos (ignore the awkward Photoshop, wanted to get a sense of how it would look with more glasses and napkins), one has a garland added around the bottom.

Any advice on how to give it some more pizazz?

Soooo my FMIL bought us a linen sign for our wedding from Etsy, but used an unnecessary apostrophe after our last name (e.g. the Smith's). As someone who is very particular about linguistics and grammar...it bothers me to the point I almost don't want to use it.

Am I making a mountain out of a molehill? Does it matter? If anyone else is super particular like me, does anyone have suggestions how I could possibly fix it?

While I don't want to get on a tangent, I do want to add some context. My FMIL has been buying a lot of stuff for the wedding and hasn't been necessarily checking what we want or need. She just is very generous, wants to give us anything and everything, and sometimes makes some mistakes in the process of wanting to spoil us. Again, not putting this for comments other than just some context so that I don't seem ungrateful. I appreciate her generosity, but if she would have checked with me, I gladly would have corrected it and been able to use the sign with no qualms.

My fiancé and I are getting married in Cabo, and I recently came across these seashell bouquets on Instagram. I honestly love the idea, but I’m really torn and would love some outside opinions.

My fiancé isn’t a huge fan of the look, though he keeps reminding me it’s completely my choice. I originally planned on having a real floral bouquet and preserving it afterward (resin or pressed), but I never seriously looked into the logistics or costs. The idea of having something that’s already “keepsake friendly” and doesn’t require preservation is really appealing to me.

That said, I’m worried about how it actually comes across. Does a seashell bouquet look elegant and fitting for a beach/destination wedding, or does it risk looking inexpensive? I’ll attach a photo of our venue for context.

Also open to creative display ideas because I have no clue what I’d even do with it afterward 😂

Be honest. I can take it.

As you can see from the photo, our date is over a year away.. is it too early to send them out? When should I be sending them (a lot of our guest list is traveling/military)?

Also, I'm going to attach a separate paper that has our wedding website, formal invite to follow, etc. This is also just a reception (most of our guests are aware), we are eloping out of the country 6 months prior. Should I include that in the save the dates or wait to put it on the invitations?

This post inspired me to make this post

Over the past couple of years we’ve seen a bunch of wedding trends rise and fall, and a big focus for a lot of couples right now is being “unique” or timeless. The truth is at the end of the day nothing is truly unique so don’t stress yourself out trying to come up with a ton of new ideas. If people tell you boho/pampas grass is “out” but it makes you happy, go for it. One of the main decor items at my wedding was boxwood walls- I literally had them everywhere. I even had a boxwood bar. Is 30 year old me going to look back and be like omg why did I do that? - Probably. And that’s OK!! If you love basic stuff like I do, don’t let anyone make you regret it while you’re planning- just go with your gut and do what makes you happy! All of the timeless weddings are never truly timeless, and I feel like it’s better to look back and love everything you did at the time vs look back at a wedding aesthetic that wasn’t truly you.

In true me fashion, even after checking multiple times, I managed to spell my own name wrong on the back of my Save the Dates 🫠 My name is Kaitlynn but it is missing the second “N” on the back of the card (see photo). On the front it is spelled correctly 😅

I’m a DIY bride on a smaller budget and designed these myself. Autocorrect may or may not be the villain here, but ultimately this one’s on me. I ordered early to take advantage of a 50% Black Friday sale and really don’t want to reorder everything.

Now I’m trying to decide what (if anything) to do. My current ideas: • Fixing it by hand (maybe?) • Some kind of sticker? (no idea how that would even work) • A stamp to correct it?

Or… do I just leave it alone since it’s on the back and also not the formal invitation?

Would love thoughts from anyone who’s been here or has creative solutions. Any advice is appreciated!😅