Weddingbee Blog

Amanda - does your family and your FI’s know that you live together? are they okay with it? If so, I say go for it.

Amanda - I live my with FI and I just had them addressed to me (not both of us) at our address for simplicity purposes…now i wonder if i should do it differently?

Question: I love/respect my father but am not, nor have I ever been his “little girl”. We do not have a close relationship. Having said this, I know he is looking forward to the father/daughter dance. I don’t mind doing it, but all the songs I can find are very “she’s my little girl, he’s my hero”, which is not the case. I also don’t want to insult him by having a song that makes no sense to dance to with your father. Any suggestions? An English or Spanish song will do.

Question: is there any post-wedding registry etiquette for the couple? We have gift cards that we can use towards our completion registries, but is it rude to do that and leave nothing on the registry for the stragglers? The completion thing is only good for 3 months, but I heard that guests have up to one year to give a gift.

Question:

My BF hasn’t asked yet, but we’re talking about getting married in September. (He’s supposed to ask before the end of June.) Is that long enough to get a dress from someplace like David’s Bridal, or should I start thinking about alternative places like Dillard’s? If I do that, are there ways to dress up the dress, like could I wear a cathedral veil with a dress that doesn’t have a train, or is that just tacky? I haven’t tried on anything yet, so I have no idea how anything looks at all.

Also, what should we be sure to do first after he asks (besides calling family and setting up a budget)? I’m trying to plan ahead as much as I can without actually doing any “official” planning, but it’s difficult to really know what to do.

Thanks!

that should be “to work with”

what is wrong with me today??

Amanda–I had the same concern. Everyone knows we live together, but I didn’t necessarily want to rub my grandmother’s face in it, you know? I just used our address without any names on our RSVP postcards. There’s really no need for names on an envelope unless you live with a group of people–the post office just needs your address. It would mean you would have to get new address labels printed, but eh, if it’s worth it to you, then go for it.

Question: I am having a private ceremony for immediate family and a reception one month later for family/friends. Should I wear my wedding dress to both? Or should I get a separate dress for the reception? It is actually just a formal dress with no train bought from Melanie Lyne. My mom says people will want to see it, but I might feel weird.

Amanda- I live with my FI and I addressed it to “Christina & Cal” - no last names with our address. I kind of just threw out the whole etiquette thing on that one and I’m not looking back

Kymberlli - slide show songs - for the bride - somewhere over the rainbow - the version from finding forester, beautiful girl, girls just want to have fun, brown eyed girl (if you have brown eyes), the song from devil wears prada- for the groom - the theme song from et, beautiful boy (the beatles), for the couple - at the begining from disney’s anastasia, the song from the end of keeping the faith,