What my wedding taught me about being a better wedding guest
I had this whole “being a good wedding guest” thing down. Now that my own wedding has passed, I realized that there were some wedding guest mistakes I was making, despite my best intentions. These are the things I’ve learned about being a good wedding guest that I never would have realized until having my own wedding…
The drama-minimizing guide to not inviting family members to your wedding
Ug. This is a post no one wants to write, but that definitely needs to be written. Unfortunately, for a whole bunch of legitimate reasons ranging from addiction to abuse, crime to communication problems, some of you are going to face the challenge of not inviting certain family members (or ANY family members) to your wedding.
Bilingual wedding: How are you handling the multiple languages at your wedding?
My future husband’s family speaks multiple different languages, but none of them are English. How do I help my husband’s family not feel so left out when the whole ceremony is in English. Our wedsite is in English. And the vows are in English.
Distance between wedding ceremony and reception: How far away is too far?
I’ve realized, though, that the place where I would love to have the reception is over half an hour away from the church. I’m guessing this would be a big drive, especially for the out-of-towners (and there are a lot). Is that too much of a distance to ask my guests to travel? I don’t want to be “that wedding we went to where we had to drive so far to have dinner!”