Comments on: Our Wedding Rules http://apracticalwedding.com/2008/11/my-wedding-rules/ Weddings. Minus the insanity, plus the marriage. Wed, 23 May 2012 14:24:33 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Lindsay http://apracticalwedding.com/2008/11/my-wedding-rules/comment-page-2/#comment-75962 Lindsay Sat, 22 Oct 2011 03:24:41 +0000 http://apracticalwedding.com/2008/11/my-wedding-rules/#comment-75962 NO FAVORS!!! When did wedding Invitees turn into six-year-olds at a birthday party?? Will attendees be disgruntled if they don't receive some cheap little favor?? If the point of a favor is to be a rememberence of your wedding, isn't there something wrong if the event were that unmemorable that you need a trinket to remember it by? And really, do we need M&Ms with your heads printed on them? NO FAVORS!!!

When did wedding Invitees turn into six-year-olds at a birthday party?? Will attendees be disgruntled if they don’t receive some cheap little favor?? If the point of a favor is to be a rememberence of your wedding, isn’t there something wrong if the event were that unmemorable that you need a trinket to remember it by? And really, do we need M&Ms with your heads printed on them?

]]> By: Sarah stockmann http://apracticalwedding.com/2008/11/my-wedding-rules/comment-page-2/#comment-26771 Sarah stockmann Tue, 07 Sep 2010 14:40:02 +0000 http://apracticalwedding.com/2008/11/my-wedding-rules/#comment-26771 Ah, no colors. I remember that when I got engaged, the first quetion out of an elders' mouth was: "What are your colors? Well, you will HAVE to choose them" and that cemented my desire to just go to the courthouse and Get It Done. Which we did and I've never regreted it. Ah, no colors.

I remember that when I got engaged, the first quetion out of an elders’ mouth was: “What are your colors? Well, you will HAVE to choose them” and that cemented my desire to just go to the courthouse and Get It Done. Which we did and I’ve never regreted it.

]]> By: Beth Chasing http://apracticalwedding.com/2008/11/my-wedding-rules/comment-page-1/#comment-8009 Beth Chasing Tue, 10 Nov 2009 06:48:26 +0000 http://apracticalwedding.com/2008/11/my-wedding-rules/#comment-8009 I would add to the tiny bows...no making a million tiny hangers for tiny dresses out of wire--bleeding fingers! (bad quincenera experience).<br /><br />The whole bridesmaid discussion is fascinating. I've been a bridesmaid several times and I don't like feeling like a clone. Girls are so different and unique, and I want my girls to feel pretty and special at my wedding not like an accessory. I would add to the tiny bows…no making a million tiny hangers for tiny dresses out of wire–bleeding fingers! (bad quincenera experience).

The whole bridesmaid discussion is fascinating. I've been a bridesmaid several times and I don't like feeling like a clone. Girls are so different and unique, and I want my girls to feel pretty and special at my wedding not like an accessory.

]]> By: Rianna http://apracticalwedding.com/2008/11/my-wedding-rules/comment-page-1/#comment-8010 Rianna Tue, 21 Apr 2009 16:27:21 +0000 http://apracticalwedding.com/2008/11/my-wedding-rules/#comment-8010 # 3 is the best wedding rule EVER. <br /><br />I just stumbled onto your blog and I think I'm in love. These are the best stories/postings I've seen in a long time! Well done! # 3 is the best wedding rule EVER.

I just stumbled onto your blog and I think I’m in love. These are the best stories/postings I’ve seen in a long time! Well done!

]]> By: Accidental Housewife http://apracticalwedding.com/2008/11/my-wedding-rules/comment-page-1/#comment-8011 Accidental Housewife Fri, 09 Jan 2009 23:08:55 +0000 http://apracticalwedding.com/2008/11/my-wedding-rules/#comment-8011 Awesome! It's been crazy hard not to snark about my rules since almost all of our friends (who have ALL gotten married in the last ten years, and we've gone to ALL of their weddings!)have included almost ALL of these gag-worthy details:<br />NO wedding at centre court. There have GOT to be options other than gyms, aren't there?<br />NO unity candle, coloured sand, freaky coloured gel crystals, glass pebbles, etc.<br />NO baby's breath.<br />NO tuxes. Seriously, when all your guest are wearing a shirt and tie and cute cocktail or sundresses, does your bridal party NEED tuxedos and floor length satin gowns?<br />NO garter toss. Between me and the man, thanks.<br />NO DJ. I want NO excuse for crap music at my wedding.<br />NO expensive dress. Honestly, the number of weddings I've been to with baloons and paper plates but the bride is wearing a $1000 gown?! WTF?<br />NO tulle, trellis, fake ivy, columns, etc.<br />No lying in front of a priest just to be married in a pretty church. If you don't believe in it, don't do it.<br />No white shoes.<br />No big bridal party.<br />No making your wedding party look like anyone other than their awesome selves.<br />NO dried roast beef/turkey, bland mashed potatoes, frozen mixed vegetables.<br />NO letting people convince you it's less special if you've been together a long time.<br />And on a happier note!<br />DO keep traditions that you love.<br />DO take the chance to spoil yourselves a little. A new suit for the man? Excellent.<br />DO include fewer, more beautfiful, better quality details.<br />DO showoff the best iTunes collection this side of the 49th parallel<br />DO take the opportunity to say, publicly, how you really feel about each other.<br />DO refuse to accept that you have to have a crappy wedding because you have no money.<br />DO have FUN. It might be more work when you DIY or have to really search and barter, but the fact is it's NOT just one day! It can be a whole little journey where you connect with your family and friends and rediscover just how exciting it can be to say "I Love You"! Awesome! It’s been crazy hard not to snark about my rules since almost all of our friends (who have ALL gotten married in the last ten years, and we’ve gone to ALL of their weddings!)have included almost ALL of these gag-worthy details:
NO wedding at centre court. There have GOT to be options other than gyms, aren’t there?
NO unity candle, coloured sand, freaky coloured gel crystals, glass pebbles, etc.
NO baby’s breath.
NO tuxes. Seriously, when all your guest are wearing a shirt and tie and cute cocktail or sundresses, does your bridal party NEED tuxedos and floor length satin gowns?
NO garter toss. Between me and the man, thanks.
NO DJ. I want NO excuse for crap music at my wedding.
NO expensive dress. Honestly, the number of weddings I’ve been to with baloons and paper plates but the bride is wearing a $1000 gown?! WTF?
NO tulle, trellis, fake ivy, columns, etc.
No lying in front of a priest just to be married in a pretty church. If you don’t believe in it, don’t do it.
No white shoes.
No big bridal party.
No making your wedding party look like anyone other than their awesome selves.
NO dried roast beef/turkey, bland mashed potatoes, frozen mixed vegetables.
NO letting people convince you it’s less special if you’ve been together a long time.
And on a happier note!
DO keep traditions that you love.
DO take the chance to spoil yourselves a little. A new suit for the man? Excellent.
DO include fewer, more beautfiful, better quality details.
DO showoff the best iTunes collection this side of the 49th parallel
DO take the opportunity to say, publicly, how you really feel about each other.
DO refuse to accept that you have to have a crappy wedding because you have no money.
DO have FUN. It might be more work when you DIY or have to really search and barter, but the fact is it’s NOT just one day! It can be a whole little journey where you connect with your family and friends and rediscover just how exciting it can be to say “I Love You”!

]]> By: Lisa Hirsch http://apracticalwedding.com/2008/11/my-wedding-rules/comment-page-1/#comment-8012 Lisa Hirsch Fri, 12 Dec 2008 16:22:45 +0000 http://apracticalwedding.com/2008/11/my-wedding-rules/#comment-8012 Wow I'm so glad you have this site otherwise I'd probably think I was nuts. Everyone insists that I have to have colors. I have no colors. I have flowers that I like. Blue hydrangeas for the bouquet and multicolored snapdragons for the reception. But I am not choosing "colors."<br /><br />AND we're not assembling anything complicated. I am giving away seed packets as favors, and my thought was to print something nice on a label and slap it onto the seed packets. My friend wants me to put a handful of seeds in a favor box and tie it with a bow. Um no. Why? Because it's too much work and wouldn't people rather just have a seed packet anyway? They can just throw it in their purse or their pocket! People are crazy. Wow I’m so glad you have this site otherwise I’d probably think I was nuts. Everyone insists that I have to have colors. I have no colors. I have flowers that I like. Blue hydrangeas for the bouquet and multicolored snapdragons for the reception. But I am not choosing “colors.”

AND we’re not assembling anything complicated. I am giving away seed packets as favors, and my thought was to print something nice on a label and slap it onto the seed packets. My friend wants me to put a handful of seeds in a favor box and tie it with a bow. Um no. Why? Because it’s too much work and wouldn’t people rather just have a seed packet anyway? They can just throw it in their purse or their pocket! People are crazy.

]]> By: Marni http://apracticalwedding.com/2008/11/my-wedding-rules/comment-page-1/#comment-8013 Marni Wed, 10 Dec 2008 12:59:55 +0000 http://apracticalwedding.com/2008/11/my-wedding-rules/#comment-8013 Our most firm rule is, "If neither of us have never met them, they're not invited."<br /><br />We hold firm and are inflexible.<br /><br />(can you tell we're having some parental issues?) Our most firm rule is, “If neither of us have never met them, they’re not invited.”

We hold firm and are inflexible.

(can you tell we’re having some parental issues?)

]]> By: Joanna Goddard http://apracticalwedding.com/2008/11/my-wedding-rules/comment-page-1/#comment-8014 Joanna Goddard Sun, 07 Dec 2008 06:54:03 +0000 http://apracticalwedding.com/2008/11/my-wedding-rules/#comment-8014 no favors! yippee! :) no favors! yippee! :)

]]> By: blind irish pirate http://apracticalwedding.com/2008/11/my-wedding-rules/comment-page-1/#comment-8015 blind irish pirate Thu, 04 Dec 2008 00:39:09 +0000 http://apracticalwedding.com/2008/11/my-wedding-rules/#comment-8015 I giggle-snorted when a previous commenter grumped about the unity candle. When I grump about them, you think I'd have spat on the Holy Bible or something... <br /><br />and it's NOT. Holy, I mean. Or biblical, for that matter. I giggle-snorted when a previous commenter grumped about the unity candle. When I grump about them, you think I’d have spat on the Holy Bible or something…

and it’s NOT. Holy, I mean. Or biblical, for that matter.

]]> By: Julia http://apracticalwedding.com/2008/11/my-wedding-rules/comment-page-1/#comment-8016 Julia Wed, 03 Dec 2008 18:23:52 +0000 http://apracticalwedding.com/2008/11/my-wedding-rules/#comment-8016 amen, numbers 2 &4. also - totally agreeing with those who've said "marriage more important than wedding". personally, I'm adding these two:<br /><br />1. no scheduled toilet breaks - the day-of schedule, if there must be one, will run in increments of no less than 1 hour!!!<br /><br />2. The bridesmaids will wear shoes that they are comfortable in, and not ones that I believe are necessary to complete the wedding. amen, numbers 2 &4. also – totally agreeing with those who've said "marriage more important than wedding". personally, I'm adding these two:

1. no scheduled toilet breaks – the day-of schedule, if there must be one, will run in increments of no less than 1 hour!!!

2. The bridesmaids will wear shoes that they are comfortable in, and not ones that I believe are necessary to complete the wedding.

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