Everything For The Bride

Ok, so my fiance and I have been engaged for 6 months and are beginning to prepare our wedding. An aquaintance/friend of ours got engaged a couple of weeks ago and have begun planning straight away. We have had a particular date set for a while and the other bride has gone and booked on our date and is now telling people that I’m trying to compete which is really not me…to the point of it kinda being funny. I don’t really mind sharing the same date. We have separate venues and it would only affect a handful of guests who would be invited to both. The only problem is that my brother is a groomsman and the other groom wants him in the wedding (my brother will of course be at ours) but he other groomsmen doesn’t seem to want to put the foot down with his bride. My question is…how do I deal with this situation? How do I deal with the bullying? Do you think the other groom will put his foot down? I’m very easy going usually but the bullying and being made to feel is making me feel uptight? Should I just brush it off as there problem and how do I do that? Thanks in advance.I know it’s a long bunch of questions but any help/advice is appreciated.
By "being bullied" I mean writing nasty things on facebook. Not being bullied into doing anything. Just being bullied in general which just doesn’t feel right. I’m not bothered about our ‘guest clashes’…whoever comes comes…it’s about us getting married and that’s all that matters. Thanks for the advice so far! It’s great to hear other opinions

my fiance said it would be cute as s*it if we married on valentines day of 2012. i think it would be cute too. when should i start planning and what do you usually plan first..?

I’ve been engaged for 2 years, and my fiance has never shown any enthusiasm in planning for our wedding. Although that hurt me, I’ve kept quiet all this while. But I finally snapped recently because we were aiming for a wedding December 2011 yet I hadn’t been able to make him sit down and talk things over. He apologized profusely and swears that he’s going to buck up now.

My best friend said that weddings are really for the bride anyway, and I shouldn’t have felt hurt by his couldn’t care less attitude. Is that really true? I always thought it should be something we planned together. I’m so disheartened now. please advise me…

My fiance and I want to start planning our wedding. The thing is, neither of us even know exactly where or what to start with. We’ve gotten the most obvious and necessary part figured out already–the date. April 27, 2013. So a little over two years from now. What should I start planning first? What little details do I need to look into? Like flowers, guestlists, decorations, etc… Any help is GREATLY appreciated!

My fiance and I have been engaged for close to a year now. We don’t really plan on getting married within the next year or two, but are still starting to look into what’s to be expected.

We both have a love of Renaissance Faires and currently reside in San Antonio, TX. we have been looking into having our wedding and reception at the Texas Ren Fair out by Houston. They have some affordable wedding and reception packages. The majority of my family lives in California and the majority of my fiance’s family lives in Alabama. We have already made a list of people we MUST have attend and a secondary list of people who we would like to attend if we, and they, could afford to have them come.

Beyond that, we don’t know a thing about what to do before, during, or after a wedding. This will be our first for both of us. We are both 24 years old. I want to know some of things we should expect and plan for at all stages. I know it is a big task for all involved.
I have yet to look up wedding planning sites or advice columns or magazines. I want to avoid getting a wedding planner since most people tend to spend MORE on their special day with one. We want to keep the weeding small with 50 or less guests. We are really interested in the Texas Ren Faire as an option for a place, but of course are open to other things.

Only my sister a few select friends know we are engaged. We do not have rings yet and my fiance wants to ask my mom and dad for my hand first. Once he does that and we have our rings, then we will make it public to them.
Apparently, I didn’t make myself clear as to what my question was even though I said it right in the beginning. What should I expect in terms of planning for a wedding from beginning to end? I don’t know anything at all.

I had no idea wedding planning could be so stressful!!! I have gotten into arguements with my Mom, fiance` and Matron of Honor. Now to top it off my Bridesmaid is not happy with the dress but to me via email she is all fine and dandy about it all. I’m just shocked at all the attitudes and opinions. I thought that since this was a joyous occasion that things wouldn’t be so dang stressful. Its just plain crazy!

I need to get some Idea’s going for a wedding gift for my Fiance that I will give to her on the day of our wedding. I’ve been trying to find something completely different, but haven’t been able to come up with anything.

My fiance did that, and even though I love him, I think that it’s a really messed up tradition. I mean, like I need to be passed from the hands of one man to another in my life.

I just think that kind of thinking is really, really outdated.

And I was wondering where it came from, and what other sort of sexist traditions are out there?

My fiance will more than likely be deployed while I am doing all the wedding planning so i just wanted to know where to start?

My fiance and I live in Alaska and we are getting married next fall in North Dakota. We don’t have a lot of money to make frequent trips back to plan things so we will be doing most of the planning through phone, mail, email, etc. We want to have a nice wedding without having to spend a ton. Any suggestions on not getting ripped off since we may have to book certain things like reception hall/ dj / flowers etc without the benefit of sitting down face to face with the respective business owners????

Also, any tips on centerpieces/decorations??? We don’t want a bunch of stuff that we will have to find storage for or have to try to bring back on the plane with us.