I know how it sounds like I'm kind of an arrogant stick up snob but I'm going to have this ring for the rest of my life! Is a solid 1 carat pear shaped diamond going to give me the wow factor that I desire (it is a vs quality stone, meaning that you are unable to see any flaws with the naked eye)

I am getting married in a couple of months and I wanted to find a dress from say yes to the dress where their were two twins who were both getting married on different dates their mom gave them each a budget of 2000 I think and one sister found a dress over her budget so the other sister said they can both combine their budget and wear the same wedding dress.

So my daughter recently announced she was getting engaged with a man she's been with for a couple of years. The only problem is he's got a sizeable birthmark on his cheek. Its so damn unsightly! I asked her how she can stand and she said it doesn't bother her. How? He is a very nice guy and treats her well but that birthmark bothers me. What can I do?

Giving a bridal shower for a friend. Ordered these bridal shower scratch off cards. I'm assuming i'll be giving out gifts to winners but, how do we know who the winner is? After scratching it off, will it say "You're a winner" or "You're not a winner" Never played this before, it's all new to me

Our wedding photos were just released online. Was completely happy until we got to our reception pictures. The photographer completely got rid of our uplighting due to his flash. If there was uplighting present it was very minimal and some of the colors looked purple... we didn't have purple. He destroyed the whole mood of our wedding, we even had center pieces that glowed at the bottom to complement the room but all of that was missed by how bright he made our pictures. I complained to the studio who then said that all uplighting pictures in order to show correctly you have to do some technique....Since he got rid of our uplighting due to his flash what's the chances of the studio being able to add colors back in to look like what our reception actually looked liked. Additionally, we've already paid in full but I really want to either have them reimburse us for our uplighting cost as none of it was shown in our pictures either at all or if it was the colors were purple which was wrong. Or I want to be refunded for the hours spent at the reception. Do you think this demands are reasonable and or possible. Thank you

It will be outside and the colors are pink and white

Just some hypothetical questions because I don't know a lot about weddings. If someone was having a destination wedding, would the bride/groom pay for guests to fly there? Or guest hotels? Also, should you still invite people who are friends/family even if you know they can't/won't fly out?

We are preparing our own food, and would like to set it up buffet style for the reception, but I am concerned about people over serving themselves and not being considerate of other guests. Our wedding will not be catered, but I would still like to have people to put the food onto the plates for guests rather than letting them serve themselves.

We were in Hawaii for vow renewals. We had already had several mishaps with waiting around for shuttles and hotel staff. It wasn't the smoothest trip. We had a vow renewal scheduled at the beach in the evening. I had a book with me in case things didn't work out again (e.g. photographer was late). My wife had already had to go to the concierge and hotel staff many times to straighten out other things. I had the book with me in case the same thing happened, again. My wife says that this is an extremely rude and uncivil thing to do and that "100 out of 100 people would agree" with her. She was the one who prompted me to ask around and even write on the internet to get feedback which I am open to receive since my judgement could be clouded. I never opened the book nor read it (didn't even think about it). It just sat there, since everything started up smoothly. The rest of the evening went great all the way through dinner (in my opinion). The beach photos were awesome and I had a great time. So, was it wrong? Bad taste? Uncivil? What if I was in the hotel room waiting? What If I went down to the lobby and waited with the book (still not reading it). I would have it in case I have to sit around and wait (again). If I were waiting WITH my wife I would NOT pull out the book since I know that would be rude. I would pull out the book only if I had to wait and she was taking care of something or I was taking care of something. I would love feedback. Thank you.

I have my wedding ring but I can t decide what band will look better?!?!?

My cousin and I are very close friends. We've had a great bond ever since we were kids. He's always been there for me, and vice versa. We hang out together all of the time, and have never had any kind of falling out. This week I found out from my mom in a casual conversation that this cousin is getting married next Saturday. She seemed surprised that I didn't know about it, and that she learned about it through her sister, my aunt. I know his fiancee, but she never hinted that they'd been engaged, and I never saw any engagement rings. How should I go about bringing this up to him?

My mom is getting married to this really amazing guy. They've been together for the last 5 years and are finally getting married. I'm so excited because I've wanted them to get married for years. He's really nice to me and while it's not exactly a father/daughter relationship. He's someone I would hate to lose from my life. I don't think my mom could have found a better man. My moms future in-laws offered to pay for the photographer. They accepted gratefully and seem delighted that they won't have to worry about that part themselves. So we were at their house last Saturday for my moms fiances birthday BBQ. I was going to the bathroom when I overheard his parents (I think they might have wanted me to hear them, but I can't be sure) talking about how the photographer they hired has agreed not to get me in the pictures whenever possible. This didn't surprise me since they never seemed liked the fact my mom has me and she and her fiance don't want to have children together (I think they believe it's because of me). There's always been a coldness whenever I'm around and they very rarely speak to me, even when I say something. Of course, they always seem friendly when he and my mom are around. I don't know what to do. I'm afraid to say something. But I also know it will eat away at me until the wedding (in a couple of months) and I'd hate for them to find out when they see the photos. But I don't want to cause problems either. What should I do? I'm 15. No, but the photographer could always photoshop me out. And he will be there for most of the day, taking photos of the whole wedding (the future in-laws idea). Though I do agree, maybe it won't be a big deal to them if I'm at least in some.

I was lucky enough to purchase and wear a beautiful dress for my wedding. I know there are organizations that you can donate your dress to for disadvantaged women. Id like to do that but i do want it ultimately back just for sentimental reasons. Id like to give it out to a woman to wear and they just mail back after a month or so.

My fiance and I planned our wedding with a venue earlier in the year; for next spring. I have been disabled and was expected to go back to work after a few months (hasn't happened). My FI has been paying large monthly payments on something he needs help with and there is no end (to his payments) in sight. When we planned the wedding he was sure payments would end this month. We have made the down payment but can't afford to keep up payments and decided to let our venue (which included everything) go. We were planning on having a courthouse wedding in Santa Barbara instead (which is quite far for people to travel) but it is beautiful and cheap. We can seat 130 and our original guest list is 85, cut down as much as we possibly can. Most have already been verbally invited and include everybody who has invited us to their wedding as well. The issue is I don't know how will I feed my guests! The wedding date has been changed to December this year, so we can't do picnic style. Restaurants are out of the question for 80+ people. And our budget is zero!!!! We are so bad off at this point we have to cancel our phones! We have been together for six years in a long distance relationship and are really ready to get married. If giving advice please don't question my decision to get married at the Santa Barbara Courthouse. I think we deserve at least one nice thing on our special day :-) I am not looking for sympathy or financial advice, just ideas! (Wedding ideas please) I talked to my family about it and they said they want to go to our ceremony and we'll go to dinner after and everybody can pay their own bill! I love my family, they are so supportive!!! Thanks everyone for the thoughtful suggestions, the rest of you rudies (you know who you are) kick rocks!

There's a huge rift between bio and steps in my family. My dad, my aunt and my uncle have not seen or spoken to their stepsiblings in almost 25 years. The last time they saw the stepsiblings was at my aunts wedding. At the time, my uncle and his wife had just had a baby together, my cousin, Allie. So my stepuncle is a bit of a creep according to my family who've met him. At the wedding reception, he started flirting with my uncles wife and then looked at my cousin and said, quite seriously, "she's going to be one hot chick when she's older, I hope I get to tap that when the time comes". My uncle almost killed him, according to my dad and a fight broke up. He also told me that they never really got along with the stepsiblings, but that finished any contact that had with each other. Over the years my granddad and stepgrandmother have tried to bring everyone back together. But the steps still side with the creepy stepuncle and my dad, aunt and uncle don't want anything to do with them. I asked my granddad if the steps even wanted it and he admitted reluctantly, that they don't. He really expects me to allow them to use my wedding as a way of "bringing everyone back together". I told him no, but I was just wondering if I was wrong for saying no. Am I crazy for seeing it the way I do?

There is a lot of bad blood between my us. It started when my older brother came out as gay when he came out as gay when he was 13. My stepmother, a deeply religious, conservative woman, didn't approve and wanted him to "pray the gay away". She hated me for encouraging him to ignore her and said I was trying to send him to hell. Our dad was always on the outside, doing little or nothing to help the situation. He did try to comfort my brother back then, but it was never enough. My brother married his childhood sweetheart last year. It was almost the perfect day. But my stepmother ruined it by making a huge scene and demanding that my dad leave with her. She threw insults at us, at some of our family and at my BILs parents for raising a "deviant". She said "at least I didn't contribute to (my brothers name) immoral, sick behavior". So the problem is she and my dad are still together and now it's my turn to get married. I change my mind the whole time. Part of me wants my dad there. The other part makes me want to say "f you" to him for allowing this to continue. I keep thinking if I just invite him, but then I know that's against wedding etiquette. It's just so hard. My brother supports me either way and I know he won't hate me for inviting our dad. Ugh. This is so hard!

This is not really a question, just need some advice I guess... My fiance just moved to another state for a residency program (for a few months until we get married). I had summer break from my program so I visited him and stayed with him for a month. Now it's time to leave and I'm just so depressed about it.. I feel like we had the perfect life for that month. We would wake up, have breakfast, he'd go to work and I would go grocery shopping, make dinner ( i LOVE to cook) and just clean up the apt until he got home. Then we had dinner, went out for a walk in the beautiful nature around here then came home, watched some TV, had snacks, joked around, then went to bed. Life was just so perfect here that I'm having a hard time. I know when I go back I have my family and friends, my dog, my school and a whole bunch of wedding planning to do, but i'm sooo sad to leave here...

Im looking for a venue where a glass box comes up from the ground that can hold me in it and has the spinning fireworks in NY

The love of my life and I have gotten engaged about two weeks ago and while it might seem fast to.. Well pretty much everyone.. When you know, you know. At least for me that's the case! And we want to move in to our House on base, as he is in the Marine Corps, before he gets deployed soon so we are getting married this Saturday in Vegas! Then the plan is to get married again and have a big celebration next October when he gets back! I'll be planning it the whole time he's gone but what I'm concerned with is when we say we are married on social media and what not, how do I explain that we're having a big wedding without having to explain it to every person? Will they think it's stupid when they get an invite because we're already going to be married?

My cousin is getting married in September. The wedding is going to be at a park. The wedding isn't going to be too fancy, but I never like to be under dressed during functions. I currently have nothing to wear for the wedding so I will have to buy an outfit since I have recently lost 50 pounds. I am still not at the weight I want to be so I am still uncomfortable in a dress. What would be an appropriate attire for the wedding? Would black dress pants and a dressy top be enough or should I do something more fancy? Any ideas?