For my engagement pictures I went to Azalea park. It was amazing but for the wedding pictures i want to do something different. Don't want to be on grass, don't want to ruin dress and shoes. is there any place with a nice, big fountain? Something like in the picture.

I recently got engaged last November to my boyfriend of three years. We are both children of divorce and went cautiously through our relationship before deciding to get married. My parents have been divorced for about 10 years, but have had a very long battle of emotionally drive love/hate and always talk about each other still. Anyways, my dad has been acting strange over the past year, dating around mostly crazy women. My dad started dating different women last spring and essentially forced me to move out so he could feel better about bringing them home. He has seemed to be looking for a wife, ever since I moved out but not a rewarding relationship. He had brought up the idea of getting engaged to almost all 5 women that I have heard about in the last year. He met a woman in December, then said he wanted to marry her within weeks. Today he texted me a photo of her ring on her finger with a caption of "I'm engaged now." I am getting married in May, and I am not happy with my dad's decision to get married so quickly. He seems to be looking for a wife no matter the person, to fill some sort of void. Of course part of me is upset that he is being too rash, not communicating well, and causing drama in our family so close to my wedding. I am worried that he is making a big decision too fast, and for the wrong reasons. I would be worried no matter the timing, but so close to my wedding just stresses me out more, especially because this might cause drama in my family. Please help.

Did you choose a white or ivory wedding dress and why?

We would like to have a bridal party that consists of 9 groomsmen and 5 bridesmaids. We are fine with the uneven number but is this too big? Our wedding will be close to 180 guests. We would probably prefer to go 5 and 5 but this is the number we get to when including everyone we want

I was just married and my husband just revealed that years ago before he had even married me he came to a point in his life where he had just lost his job and had plenty of extra time on his hands. he never understood how someone could say they had been searching someone their entire life when they are saying whatever they can to get some girl into bed. He wrote to his future wife like what marriage meant to him what he wanted in a wife, sweet messages, poems , articles on marriage. He made a promise that he would always send me something once a day continue his search for me and no matter what never give up. He also felt that when ever things got hard in our marriage he could reflect back on this and it would remind what its all about. I just wanted to see if anyone elses husbands does something like this and how would u feel about it? Thanks.

Which has a better "wedding" atmosphere?

First let me give you some background. My mum and dad have been married for 46 years. My mum is from the UK, and my dad is American. My older brother and I were born in the USA, but we do have British citizenship through our mum. I was in the military for 24 years. I was stationed in the UK for the last 3 years of my military career. While I was there, I met someone whom I thought was the one. We actually got engaged. He broke off the relationship, because his "good friend" told him I had been cheating, which was not the truth. His "good friend" confessed that he lied to my ex to break us up, because the "good friend" hated Americans. My ex tried to make amends, but the damage was done. Now that my cousin is getting married, he wants me to come back to the UK for his wedding this summer. My ex is going to be at the wedding, because he's the best man. I still love my ex very much, and I've missed him. But I'm not sure if I'm ready to face him again, after all that went down. My cousin says that my ex has been lonely, and he hasn't moved on. I haven't moved on either. My ex has been begging for me to talk to him for months, but I've ignored him. I'm still hurting from how he treated me. I'm thinking about telling my cousin no. I can't face my ex again.

Can't find listing of the aforenoted shower on rcharmingwedding.com How can I rectify??? Teddi Guju

I am engaged to be married this August. My fiancé & I both have a ton of student loan debut. He obtained his PhD & I'm still working on my masters. We've been putting our wedding on credit cards since money is tight. In total we will owe between the two of us including the wedding, and college costs around $400,000. We've decided to move in & live with his sister for at least 2-3 years. She's offered us a room free of charge so we can save up & pay down out costs. A lot of my family is angry & has been telling him & I we are setting ourselves up for disaster by being in that much debut as newley weds. My father went as far as to say he thinks our marriage will end in divorce. Is this a bad idea? I love him! We've been together for 8 years now.

How do you know when you are ready to get married? How do you know it's the one for you and that they're the person to be with you for the rest of your life??

I constantly meet women at work, friends of my parents, mothers of friends etc., who are my mom's age (40s-50s) and a good majority of them either dissuade me from marriage or encourage me to push it as late as possible. Most of these women told me they married around my age (I'll be 23 this year). Yesterday I went to a cultural function for Persian New Year and saw a few of my mother's friends. One of them initially said they hope I find a nice man but then she goes "Pshh please! Live your life! Who needs a husband!" I've gotten messages ranging from: "Don't marry early" to "Don't marry at all". Yet, most of these women ARE married and as far the ones I know personally, are happily married. Why the anti-husband/marriage messages? baby boomer - Nooo of course they are not arranged! Iranians are not the barbaric image you see on tv. We never had arranged marriages, they choose. Plus Iranians are modernized people, they have premarital sex, they date etc.

I m planning a ceremony on a Florida beach followed by a catered BBQ in a pavilion next to the beach. All my guests will be flying in from other states. I m wondering if this is too cheap and casual for my guests? I feel bad that they will spend all this money on traveling and it will end up being too casual an affair for them. Thoughts?

My finace has two teenage children with his ex wife who are now 16 and 15. They've always had a good relationship but both are refusing to come to the wedding. My fiance is so hurt they won't even consider coming. We know it might be a little difficult to see him getting married again, but it's been years since their parents were married and things seemed to be good. My fiance spoke to his kids and they told him they just don't want him to get married again. He asked them if it's because they have hope he and their mom will get back together and they said no, they just don't want either of them to get married again (but dating is apparently okay). It's so hard because I think my fiance wants to put the wedding on hold and wait for his kids. He said he couldn't imagine getting married again without them there. To add to everything, their mom seems a bit too happy that they've said no to the wedding and doesn't want to get involved. What do you think we should do? Postpone the wedding? Continue with the plans as they are?

My father wants to invite only his sisters and their husbands and not invite anyone from my mothers side. And he wants me to wear a wedding dress the way he wants it to be designed. My in laws to be cannot eat spicy food, but my father wants to the food to be very spicy, catering to his own families tastes. He said that it is HIS event and things should happen the way HE wants it. He argues, shouts and screams when we even try to explain to him that we need to satisfy the needs of the in laws to be.