Wedding Blog
That’s right friends, we’re down to single digits.
It’s starting to feel real. My sister (Joey MOH) arrived yesterday and I feel like that was the official start of the wedding countdown. She’s the first of the wedding party/guests to arrive and today FMIL Joey will be here.
I am SO glad Sister Joey is here. For one, because I missed her, and also because she can manage all the last minute details I don’t have the capacity for. For example, where I’m going to stay the night before the wedding, and what is our wedding transportation will be.
I was going to stay at my parents’, but they now have 8 out of town guests staying at their house. That feels like too much madness and not enough hot water for me. Mama Joey is upset that I’m considering not staying there and possibly staying at my apartment the night of the wedding. She says it’s tradition to stay at your parents’ house the night before the wedding, and I say it’s a logistical nightmare. I do not have the energy to fight this out with her so I’m leaving MOH/Sister Joey to figure this out.
Where are you staying the night before the wedding? Did anyone spend it with their FI?
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I spent it at my parents, with explicit instructions that OOT family may not stay there the night before the wedding! They were welcome the night of, after I was gone, but I wanted to have some family bonding before I left. No madness for me!
hope you get it worked out.
ps. CONGRATULATIONS! I didn’t mean to leave that out. it’s getting so close! I’m glad your sister is there so early for moral support and another set of hands and brain!
I’m not married yet………9 months to go. But we have already discussed this issue and plan on spending the night together. We aren’t much for tradition or supersition.
I’m definetely staying at home with my honey! There is NO WAY I would spend the night without him… I already won’t get to see him the entire day of! I think it’s sweet to stay together, especially if you already live together. It says to me “Just because we are getting officially married doesn’t mean we don’t see ourselves as married already.” I know FI and I surely do! 
Nope, I spent the night at my apartment with the girls. Parents were here the day before and then came back up for the morning of. Hubby and I didn’t live together until we got married.
My entire family checked into the Hotel where the wedding/reception/ and wedding night hotel room were… and it was a 2 minute drive from teh rehearsal dinner place. So I still got to crash with my parents. My husband was in the same hotel, but a different building.
congratulations! so excited for your big day! FI and i will be staying at a hotel (even though we are having the wedding in our hometown). we are going to have lots of oot guests, so we want to be near them and celebrate the whole weekend.
I have a hotel room the night before, actually… my family has many lovely qualities, but their house has always been, and will always be, a filthy disaster. My sister’s room, which has a bed for me, usually smells like garbage (no, actual garbage. She brings food containers in there and then forgets them.) My family had a hard time dealing with the fact that I wasn’t staying there, but I made it really clear that I needed a low-stress sleeping situation the night before… and that I will feel warmer and fuzzier toward them on the wedding day if I’m not wading through a laundry pile to get to my bed the night before.
I’m spending the night in a hotel with my girls, with the parents in an adjoining room. Our rehearsal dinner is two blocks from the hotel, my parents house is 40 minutes away. It just didn’t make sense. I’d be sadder if my parents hadn’t converted my bedroom into a guest room. So, it doesn’t really feel like my room anymore.
Good luck! I’m so excited to see how everything turns out
I’m pretty sure I’ll be spending mine in my own house in my own bed with my almost husband!
Oh, that’s true sarsk624, my youngest sister got my room after I left for college, so “my room” doesn’t really exist anymore… If it were still there, I’d probably stay in it.
Congrats! This next week will be soo exciting! I still have 7 months to go, but for my sister’s wedding this past April, we stayed in a hotel the night before the wedding, about 5 minutes from the venue. While I live about 3 minutes from the venue and our parents live about 10 minutes from the venue, ALL of my sister’s in-laws were staying with my parents in their house. Most of the groomsmen (and 2 dogs) had taken over me and my FI’s apt. so we just thought we’d leave ALL the chaos and stay in a hotel nearby. It made for lovely me and sis bonding time before she became a Mrs! I’ll probably do the same for mine! 
Have fun!
Yay one more week! You can do it!
We have rented a cabin that we are staying at with my mom and a few of the bridesmaids. The night before the wedding my FI is going to stay at a hotel with the groomsman. He is totally traditional and doesn’t want to see me until I am walking down the aisle.
Single Digits! AAAHHK! so exciting! I’m staying at my parent’s house, but then they are not having a million others there too.
I spent the night in a hotel suite with my mom. My fiance stayed at our apartment; he was getting up early the day of the wedding to play golf and our apartment was closer than the hotel was.
You will survive!! I stayed at a hotel since our wedding was not in my hometown, but I understand your frustration with wanting to keep the peace with mom, while also keep the peace and sanity of the night before the wedding. I say definitely let your sister see if she can calm your mom down about the whole thing. I don’t know what your timeline is for the wedding day, but maybe you could get ready at mom’s house or at least do breakfast with them?
I’m splurging on a luxury hotel (our reception is at one of their country clubs, so I get a discount!) My parents house will be full of OOT and while I love the house I grew up in, my room has changed to an exercise room and sleeping in a guest room does not feel very homey. My FI has explicit instructions that he can stay anywhere as long as it’s not with me on our wedding eve! Congrats and I say stay where you are most comfortable you want to be relaxed and rested so you look your best.
we live in a different state than my family so i’ll be staying in my mom’s hotel room the night before. i know it sounds silly but i’m looking forward to just getting those last few hours of time with her as just her daughter, not someone’s wife.
we stayed at the Inn where the wedding would be. The original game plan was for him to stay with his dad the night of the wedding, but we stayed up late the night before so we ended up staying together. Which honestly was much better b/c we could have a quiet moment the day of the wedding before we went down to breakfast where all our family and guests were and the chaos of the day began.
Congrats!!! Try to take a deep breath and enjoy these last days leading up to the wedding…and I agree let your sister work with your mom on the “not staying at home” option. Congrats & Best Wishes!
Stay wherever you will feel most comfortable! We had four house guests the few days before the wedding, and it made me pretty crazy. I almost didn’t get to shower before the rehearsal because we had so many people in our house!
So excited for you!!!
Mr. Quiche and I stayed together the night before the wedding. I think you should stay wherever you think you will be the most comfortable and where you think you’ll get the best, most relaxing sleep!
I stayed at my mom’s house the night before the wedding and my husband stayed at his best mans house. It was the best thing we could have done. I had the best nights sleep, and Jason stayed up playing Playstation until 5am! Men! 
I think logistics is important since the wedding day is hectic enough. I stayed at my parents house but they lived right down the street from the church where the ceremony was so I had the best of both worlds, I was close to the church and got to spend that morning with my family just like when I was younger. It was one of the bset parts of my day.
Spent the night before with my honey bee. Some couples do spend the night apart though, B&B or the same hotel as the wedding night to make things easy. Personally I would not be able to spend it at the parents….eeeek stress factor!
I’m staying at the hotel, in the suite that we’ll stay in after the wedding,with my MOH. It’s easier and I’m looking forward to spending my last “single” night with my best friend. Reminiscent of middle and high school sleepovers!
Oh, and congratulations!
We’re staying together, either at home or at a hotel. I don’t think either of us will sleep much, but we’re both so much more at ease when the other is around that we agreed that for our nerves sake we will stay together. My maids have agreed only cuz they are planning to come steal me early in the morning…
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Mrs. Joey, Seattle
Age and Occupation: 28, Project Administrator for Public Health NGO
Fiance's Age and Occupation: 30, High School History Teacher
Engagement Date: June 24, 2008
Wedding Date: August 2009
Venue: Eastside Catholic Chapel and Lake Union Cafe
About Me: I'm a Seattle girl through and through except for the fact that I don't drink coffee. I love my job most of the time because I get to travel and work with brilliant people who are trying to prevent Malaria. I love DIY projects of all sorts, cooking, and watching sports. I'd wear anything at Anthropologie and could spend all day on Etsy. I love to travel but shouldn't because I always get myself into unbelievable situations!
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