Open thread: Will you feed your wedding vendors?
Do you include your vendors in your head count for food? I ask because in my first wedding, I did not. And then my hired professional photographer got in line for the buffet and sat down with their assistant and ate. Should I be including my DJ, and some of the “hired help” in meal counts?
Open thread: Are there reputable eBay wedding dress sellers?
I read the post about ordering a wedding dress from China. Thanks for it, it was great! I have looked at dresses in eBay and have found some lovely ones. I would like to ask if you can recommend some reputable eBay wedding dress sellers? I have tried to find information about eBay-sellers in internet but all information I have found is old.
Open thread: how do you deal with wedding body-shaming?
I just got engaged, and I went on my first dress shopping outing with my sister and my mom last weekend. I was hoping it would be a fun bonding experience, but instead I felt criticized and harassed by both of them. I’m a plus-size bride, and both of them kept making comments about how dresses would fit once a lost a few pounds, how certain dress styles would look good after my wedding diet (…that I’ve never once said I was doing!), how this dress covered up my arms and looked better than that dress that didn’t.
What was supposed to be a good day, turned into a day where I went home feeling like I’d been a victim of wedding body-shaming. How do other plus-size brides stay body positive in the face of constant criticism?
Open thread: What were your favorite wedding gifts?
We know a lot of y’all just got married. (Congrats, and thanks for still hanging out with us!) So here’s a fun post-wedding related question, one of our readers recently asked… “Totally materialistic post: What was your favorite wedding gift? Most unique? Most creative?” Ooh ooh, I’ll start…
Open thread: Are you hiding or showing your scars on your wedding day?
Offbeat Bride has published numerous insightful and encouraging posts about “controversial” body markings such as tattoos, piercings, and out-there hairstyles — but what about scars? Especially those that have a story you DON’T want to tell, like scars from self-harming?
Open thread: How do you have a no-kids wedding ceremony but kid-friendly reception?
With 5,000+ posts in our archives, it’s rare that we get a reader question that we don’t have an answer to, but here’s one: “Any tips on letting family and guests know that couple prefers no children at the ceremony but all are welcome at the reception?” We posted this question to our Facebook page, and y’all supplied some great tips…