Fun side effect of keeping your last name for me has been the number of people who, having met me first, assume his name is HisFirstName MyLastName. I love it when this happens.

Honestly, I don’t care what people say. I love my ring. I love that my fiance knew to take me at my word and NOT get me a diamond. So people can say or think what they like because it will not change how I feel about my ring. But I’m ornery like that.

We are TERRIBLE brides. The worst.

I told my mom years ago I wanted to elope. She heaved a big sigh and said, “Well, I guess I’d forgive you....”

I can only hope this is the wedding dress. But for reals, I do not understand why wedding is not a theme for a wedding and bridal shower isn’t a theme for a bridal shower and get wasted doing whatever isn’t a theme for bachelorette parties. I don’t want a theme. I hate up lighting. I already own 80 koozies. My wedding…

My live-in boyfriend and I are not committed to the idea of getting married. We kind of already function like marrieds so I feel like if we made it legal, it would be more for practical purposes (his kickass insurance for me, my tuition remission benefits for him, etc.). That said, I still dream about how we would do…

The longer this drags on, the meaner I get.

Our ceremony was maybe 12 minutes.

Here’s the thing about weddings: no one else gives a fuck about your wedding.

Saying this shit to a person planning a wedding is rude. But it seems like you’re lumping in people who express hopes and preferences about their own weddings, which is a thing people should get to do in a conversation that’s not specifically about another person’s wedding, without getting shit for it. If someone says…

I told my at the time boyfriend - I don’t believe in diamonds. You get me a diamond and I’m saying no. He got me a beautiful opal ring, and yet bitchy sister in law - who’s diamond was paid for by mommy in law - said, “Well, at least there’s chips surrounding it so you still got your diamond.” I was so flabbergasted I…

YES. I’m dealing with a lot of this, except it’s my fiance who wants a bigger, more traditional wedding. I wanted a super cheap, DIY, self-catered BBQ party in a local park. My family and friends would have been fine with that. But my fiance really didn’t like that idea- he needs air conditioning and real chairs, and…

How much of what we do in life is 100% necessary, though? I assume you chose your own hobbies, and you choose to watch tv. You choose to buy certain clothes. A lot of that is because people made advertisements that sell us things.

I’m always happy when I hear people’s genuinely happy memories of their wedding, since I don’t really have any. The most fun I had at my wedding, literally, was when taking a whizz. My dress was too foofy for me to handle on my own, so I needed the help of others, and because of the awkward way the bathroom was laid…

Me too! We had a blast. My friends, sister, and I danced all night. We hardly ever get to be together in a big group.

The fascinator one is a little odd, but is she a person who cares a lot about fashion? Maybe she’s trying to show excitement in her own way by speaking about these accessories. As in, I saw this fascinator and it made me think of your wedding! And I’ve never had anywhere special enough to wear this fur, but your…

So I’m currently planning my wedding (blech). And I gotta say that I don’t want a wedding, I want a really big party. If it were totally up to me we’d be having a court house wedding but it’s not. It’s important to my fiance that his family see us get married. The compromise is a VERY short ceremony in front of family…

I didn’t get to have a wedding because my parents didn’t like him, his parents didn’t like me and I was pregnant. Now we’re 8.5 years in, we have a great kid, parents have chilled out and we actually kind of all love each other now, and I really want to have a big 10 year anniversary party with fancy dresses and a lot…

Don’t worry, you wouldn’t escape these types of comments even if you had a ring. I have one but it’s not diamonds (The HORROR!). And I hear everything from “Oh, how lovely” (southern for what-the-ever-loving-fuck) to “oh, neat. A non-traditional ring” to “don’t worry, you can trade up in a few years”. People, they’ve…

As someone who wasn’t crazy about the idea of doing a wedding-wedding but is doing it anyway, for a variety of reasons - look, we can’t always get the chill backyard paper lamp-lit commitment ceremony of our dreams, ok? I made my peace with doing a wedding-wedding because, well, my parents and extended family would be…