Tell me about it! I love how people think it's easier to ask forgiveness than to ask permission. Except that generally people never ask for either and just do what they want. :P My ex-fiance's sister tried to sub her 10 year old daughter as a bridesmaid in my wedding, and when I told them no, they whined about how she…

I had no bridal party whatsoever. As far as I know, the only person who questioned this was my mother and as much as I love her, she didn't have a say in it. It was soooo stress free. I didn't have to worry about anyone doing their hair or nails. No tux rentals or matching hideous dresses. No rehearsal or rehearsal…

The way you think: I like it.

I'm interested in hearing more about what made your setup successful and any lessons learned as far as having the dinner at a restaurant. I like what you've described. The main thing I want for my event is 1) simple easy ceremony 2) excellent food and drink.

Hear, hear! My little sis is getting married soon (second time around). Her words: if you want to be a bridesmaid, show up...the more the merrier. I predict it will be a motley collection of family, friends and little kids.

One of my bridesmaids showed up uninvited to my husband's bachelor party. Then flashed her breasts at everyone half the night. Now, I don't mean to sound judgmental about that- after all, as long as I'd known her, she was prone to showing people her boobs while drunk. I've always been in the 'her body, her…

I just don't understand why people get so fucking pissy about weddings. Two people are getting married. If they love each other and the family is there, WHO THE FUCK CARES? It's just a super expensive party, that's it. Just be happy for the people getting married and get the fuck over it. Isn't the important part that…

Yep, any wedding tradition I didn't like, I didn't do (which pretty much reduced my wedding to a 5-minute civil ceremony in a pretty dress followed by dinner at a nice restaurant with a bunch of my family and friends). I went with one bridesmaid/maid of honor, because I have one sister. Therefore no arguments about…

Yeah, I did just my sisters because the next stop was people being pissed, and I was surprised when THEY GOT PISSED ANYWAY. You can't win with weddings.

Do weddings just turn seemingly reasonable people into raging assholes? My coworker, who is usually sweet to the point of being annoying, just got engaged. Suddenly, she's in my cubicle bitching about how the girl who was supposed to plan her bridal shower had to back out.

She gave me a copy of Emily Post's Wedding Etiquette for a gift.

Double truth. A wedding is a social mine field. I didn't have any bridesmaids at my DIY super casual thing, accept my best friends who were flying across the country sort of understood themselves to be bridesmaids anyway and bugged the heck out of me until I approved their outfits, and then one of them, when I…

You know, I think I'm with you on this one. I'm not engaged yet, but it's a pretty foregone conclusion that my boyfriend and I are getting married in the near future.

My uncle's wedding was over 13 years ago, and my (WASP-y) grandmother still complains about parts of it. For every aspect of a wedding, there WILL be one person who doesn't like it. You can't please all the people all the time.

when life gives you lemons, poison the wedding party.

Not feeling the giving people food poisoning one, that's pretty fucked up. Send the bitch a damn bill for all the time you wasted.

Come the bridal shower, my sister sent the fiancee a gift: the bridesmaid's dress. Apparently it caused quite the stir when the fiancee opened the gift at the shower.

I think another commenter aptly described this behavior as "Machiavellian".

If that food poisoning one is actually true, then that's awful. Her and the bride had a problem, and a bunch of wedding guests had to suffer because of that? Yikes.