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Mrs. Toucan, Boston Age and Occupation: 25, Full-time Research Assistant, Part-time Graduate Student Fiance's Age and Occupation: 25, Actuary Engagement Date: February 18, 2007 Wedding Date: June 7, 2008 Blogging Since: November 07, 2007 Venue: St. Catherine of Genoa, Jin Asian Cuisine Restaurant About Me: I’m a Gemini to the extreme. On one side, I’m a girly girl. I read countless bridal and fashion magazines, and have an obsession with keeping up with the latest Hollywood gossip. On the other side, I’m a sports fanatic. Despite being a full-time bride-to be, full-time research assistant, and part-time student, I’m also a full-time Red Sox fan from spring training to October, and a full-time Patriots fan from mini-camp to February. I devote almost as much time researching my for fantasy football team as researching for our wedding!
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The Future In-Laws

March 6th, 2008 @ 2:31 pm by Mrs. Toucan

I am super, SUPER fortunate to have future-in-laws that I not only get along with, but really, really like! Just the other night, I had a quick question for my FMIL. Mr. Toucan was out playing trivia with his work buddies, so I decided to just call her up myself. The “quick question” should have only been a 2 minute phone call, but we ended up chatting for an hour and a half!

So tell me, how’s your relationship with your in-laws/future in-laws? Do you get along, or are FMIL Toucan and I freaks of nature?

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Mrs. Lovebug, Tucson Age and Occupation in 06: 31, Writer Fiance's Age and Occupation: 27, Professional Game Show Contestant Engagement Date: February 18, 2007 Wedding Date: April 19, 2008 Venue: Historic Inn About Me: Likes: blogging, wikis, semi-colons, cuddling, fragrant flowers, syntax, and spooning. Dislikes: typos, dangling modifiers, flypaper, citronella candles, and run-ons. If I had my druthers, I'd exchange simple vows in a candlelit library. But I lost my druthers long ago...anyone seen them?
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Be My Friend, Not My Mom.

January 28th, 2008 @ 4:57 pm by Mrs. Lovebug

If you had to choose one word to describe your relationship with your future mother-in-law, what would it be? What would you want it to be? For me, being able to answer this question truthfully has been one of the greatest things to come from planning our wedding.

As a child, Mr. Lovebug had a soccer mom. A make-the-Halloween-costumes-by-hand mom. A never-miss-a-single-important-event mom. A doting, expressive, and very available PTA mom. I had one, too. Only, mine isn’t around any more, for a handful of those complicated yet devastatingly simple reasons that life sometimes dishes out. And if there’s one thing I’m not looking for, it’s a replacement.

I know; that’s a shockingly cold thing to say, isn’t it? Particularly when the woman in question is an effusive, bubbly sweetheart of a mother, just dying to pull me under her wing and into the nest. I mean, really. She calls me her “kidlet”, which is just about the cutest thing ever, right?

Only, why does it make me feel like a phony? Am I an ungrateful brat, for not wanting that?

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Mrs. Canary, New York Age and Occupation: 24, Marketing Fiance's Age and Occupation: 25, Journalist/Editor Engagement Date: February 16, 2007 Wedding Date: July, 2008 Blogging Since: October 19, 2007 Venue: Pier Sixty, Chelsea Piers About Me: I'm a born and raised New Yorker who loves all things crafty and artsy, food (cheese and dessert!), magazines, and shoes. I'm a power shopper always on the lookout for good deals or great quality-- sometimes I'm lucky and I find both! I love to dance and "shake what my momma gave me" but can also really enjoy a quiet night in with Mr. Canary and a good episode of Seinfeld or curl up with a good book.
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Meet The Parents

January 24th, 2008 @ 2:09 pm by Mrs. Canary

Mr. Canary and I have been engaged for almost a year. (I can’t believe it!) Time has flown so quickly and now we’re getting ready to move into our new home (finally!) and finish planning the wedding. But one big thing that hasn’t happened? Our parents have yet to meet. We had initially planned a meeting of our families for the summer of 2007, but both our fathers travel frequently for work, so with the scheduling conflicts, our parents will not meet for the first time until tomorrow night!

We have a great individual relationship with each set of parents– I met Mr. Canary’s parents at the very beginning of our relationship and have since exchanged birthday/holiday gifts, frequent emails and visited often with the future-in-laws, whereas Mr. Canary currently lives with me at my parents’ house and sees Mama and Papa Canary every day.

I am a bit anxious and I think the parents are a little nervous too, but Mr. Canary denies that anyone’s nervous. The good thing about this first meeting is that it will occur at a party. Every year Papa Canary hosts a large Lunar New Year party at a restaurant, and so it will also be a big social event without the pressures of say an intimate dinner. The future in-laws are here for the party and staying through the weekend.

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Miss Onion, NYC/Burlington, VT Age and Occupation: 26, PR & Marketing and Jazz Singer Fiance's Age and Occupation: 27, Data Analyst Engagement Date: April 2, 2006 Wedding Date: September 2007 Blogging Since: July 11, 2007 Venue: Restaurant in Burlington About Me: I didn't think I'd be "that girl," but I am having so much fun planning our wedding (mostly by myself). I'm a PR and Marketing Director for a major jazz festival and camp by day, and by night, a romantic jazz singer and bride-to-be! I hope all my research can help other brides in their planning.
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How To Address Your New Family

January 7th, 2008 @ 11:52 am by Mrs. Onion

I was wrapping Christmas presents for our families over the holiday and started to write a tag for my father-in-law’s gift from me and Mr. Onion, and I wrote “for Dad” because that’s how he would address his father. Then I was writing my mother-in-law’s gift tag and without thinking wrote “for [her first name].”

It got me thinking — what do you call your in-laws and how did you come to that decision. “Mom” and “Dad” just don’t roll off my tongue.

Do you call your in-laws:


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And if you’re not married yet, is this something you’ve discussed with your boyfriend/girlfriend/fiance?

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Mrs. Jasmine, Chicago/LA Age and Occupation: 25, Attorney Fiance's Age and Occupation: 26, Attorney Engagement Date: March 24, 2007 Wedding Date: June 7, 2008 Blogging Since: September 20, 2007 Venue: Hotel on the westside of Los Angeles About Me: I'm a happy-go-lucky, imaginative spirit trapped in the body of a lawyer. I love reading, shopping, dining out, and exploring my beloved adopted city of Chicago with my fiance. We're planning the wedding of our dreams in my hometown of Los Angeles and we're excited to incorporate our cherished Indian/Pakistani customs and traditions.
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Being A Mother, Being A Wife

October 29th, 2007 @ 1:01 pm by Mrs. Jasmine

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In a revealing Salon.com interview, Deborah Merrill, author of the book “Mothers-in-Law and Daughters-in-Law: Understanding the Relationship and What Makes Them Friends or Foe”, acknowledges that mother-in-law and daughter-in-law relationships can occasionally be fraught with tension and conflict because “while the daughter-in-law is trying to create her own family, her mother-in-law is trying to maintain relationships in her family as they have always been.

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Mrs. Peony, New York Age and Occupation: 27, Marketing Coordinator Fiance's Age and Occupation: 30, QA Engineer Engagement Date: June 28, 2007 Wedding Date: April 18, 2008 Venue: The Fountainhead Blogging Since: August 7, 2007 About Me: Both Mr. Peony and I are huge computer nerds, and our conversations usually consist of the latest gadgets, programming languages, and video games. At the same time, I can also be very girly with an obsession with handbags, makeup, and high heels. And art! I've studied studio art extensively, almost majored in art history, and freelance as a web and graphics designer. Mr. Peony and I are having a ball of a time planning a wedding for 250(!) guests, doing our best to infuse our personalities (geeky chic) with the wishes of our very traditional Asian parents.
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(F)MILs

October 4th, 2007 @ 4:11 pm by Mrs. Peony

Mr. Peony and I had a discussion about mother-in-laws the other day and ended up questioning when exactly it became the norm to not get along with your (future) mother-in-law. Was it always this way? Did cavewomen butt heads with their MILs too?

After spending time with my mother every day for the last 9 months, Mr. Peony now loves her despite the language barrier (she speaks very little English). She in turn loves him back and treats him like the son she never had: cooking for him, cleaning up after him, giving him gifts, and even taking his side when we argue.

I, on the other hand, never really spent too much time with Mr. Peony’s mother because his parents live in Hong Kong. We’re friendly to one another but I wouldn’t call us friends. Whenever I do see her, I turn into a stone version of Miss Peony. I get super nervous, and the thought that I’m the girl who’s taking away her first born son away from her is always at the back of my mind. In addition, she doesn’t speak much English either…trying to converse with your FMIL when you both already speak the same language is hard enough! She’s never been nothing but nice to me, but I’m so bad at small talk and those awkward silences just kill me.

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