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Happy Monday Ladies! A few months back, we had a discussion on the boards as to the meanings of all these crazy wedding related abbreviations. When I was first engaged, I began reading Knottie bios and noticed that a lot of girls would talk about their “E-Rings”. I thought that an E-Ring was some newfangled electronic ring that girls were getting from their fiances, similar to an “E-Mail”. I wondered for over a month why I had never heard of this new fad in “virtual ring giving”. So here they are, in all their strange abbreviated glory.
May you never be confused again as to why girls are getting so excited over their newly acquired STDs.
BF - Boyfriend or Best Friend
BM - Bridesmaid or Best Man
BP - Bridal Party
BTW - By The Way
C&P - Copy and Paste
DD - Dirty Delete
DF - Dear Fiance
DH - Darling Husband
DW - Destination Wedding
E-ring - Engagement Ring
E-party - Engagement Party
FG - Flower Girl
FI - Fiance
FIL - Father-In-Law
FILs - Future In-Laws
FBIL - Future Brother-In-Law
FFIL - Future Father-In-Law
FMIL - Future Mother-In-Law
FSIL - Future Sister-In-Law
GF - Girlfriend
GM - Groomsmen
GTG - Get Together
HM - Honeymoon
HTH - Hope This Helps
IHO - In Honor Of
ILS - In-Laws
IMHO - In My Humble Opinion
IMNSHO - In My Not So Humble Opinion
JP - Justice of the Peace
LTBM - Living Together Before Marriage
MIL - Mother-In-Law
MOH - Maid/Matron of Honor
MUD - Made-Up Drama
NFT - No Further Text
NH - New Husband
NWR - Not Wedding Related
OOT - Out of Town
PIB - Pictures In Bio
PSA - Public Service Announcement
RB - Ring Bearer
RD - Rehearsal Dinner
RP - Repost
SAHM - Stay-At-Home Mom
SAHW - Stay-At-Home Wife
SAHD - Stay-At-Home Dad
STDs - Save-The-Date Cards
TIA - Thanks In Advance
TMI - Too Much Information
TY - Thank You
WP - Wedding Party
Anything missing? Funny stories about misinterpreting abbreviations? Lets hear them in the comments.
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That’s so funny. I spent about 3 months trying to figure out what DH meant on the knottie boards. You did forget one though, b-pics!
MIA is missing 
I just read it in another post after reading yours. Thanks for the clarifcations though!
LOL…so true…I’ve been engaged for 4 months and I didn’t know what half of these were…until today! Thanks for your help!
Epics had me confused for a long time. Finally I saw someone hyphenate it - e-pics - and it clicked for me. Engagement Pictures.
Are b-pics Bridal Pictures?
The one that took me the longest to figure out was AW. Like when someone has something good to say (like bought a dress, or pro pics, new bio, etc.) they say “AW: Pro Pics”. The AW stands for “attention whore.” My guess is it probably started out negative at first…girls who posted about something good in their lives were just seeking attention, but now everyone uses it…it’s like saying “yep I want attention and I’m proud of it, now go look at my great pics!”
oh one more XP - stands for “cross post” like when you ask a question on your local board but you are also asking it on another board.
OH!! That’s what DH means!! Man, it’s been almost a year and I still haven’t figured it out.
SFW means safe for work, NSFW means not safe for work. good for when you’re posting those boudoir photos!
in my emails about save the dates, i can’t abbreviate b/c my work filter will pick it up and i definately don’t want IT guys getting the wrong ideas!
Dirty Delete - its when you write a post, get flamed by others, and then delete (because you regret writing it and you’re upset with the responses youre getting) it even though some people have already read it…
thats my interpretation!
B pics are Boudoir Pictures
Ha! Even though I know what it stands for, I can’t help but read DH as designated hitter. That’s the Cards fan in me!
That clears up sooo many things lol. I knew I was reading things wrong but i just didn’t know what things stood for. I orginally learned DH to be Deployed Husband and that took awhile to recognize just to be husband. lol.
It took me a while to figure out what an “AW” post was. So for anyone else that might be wondering, it means “attention whore.” Cute, eh? 
This is not wedding-related, but a friend of mine thought that LOL meant “lots of love” for the longest time. So whenever we’d email each other, she thought I was sending her “lots of love” when I was actually laughing at her jokes/quirks. LOL.
This is SOOO helpful! I’ve been guessing for so long.
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