Okay so she's already 16 but I'll be turning 16 in three months and she turns 16 next month but my sweet 16 party is the day before her wedding! And I planned to stay out until late and I'm obvs getting totally drunk like hello. She just now tells me about the wedding like wtf. I knew her all my life almost since we were kids and she knew my party was that date. She has a hall rented and everything her mom hired a DJ etc and I'm so upset because now she can't come to my sweet 16 and I might not be able to go to her wedding since she's getting married early and an hour away from where I live! Why would a friend do this? Get I'm going to her sweet 16!

I want a destination wedding always have since I was little, I understand grandparents can't attended these weddings, but we are also having a reception at home they are more than happy to attend. My grandparents have passed away, but I also would do this if they were still living. Well, his mom just told me she will not go therefore, she doesn't want her husband to go because she doesn't fly. There is a two hour ferry she can take, but she stated she doesn't do boats either. So, I suggested the keys and she said now she is scared of bridges but they will TRY to make it. His grandparents want to be part of the wedding, but they can't make it. So they want me to have a separate wedding at a chruch with there family and mine so they can see a wedding. They said we don't have to get dresseed in a full tux and dress and they don't need pictures. They just want vows. Is that selfish of them? They want me to do it in a chruch, I don't want a chruch wedding because I'm not a virgin and I feel wrong doing it, it's my own personal presences. So I suggested a court house wedding and they staged it was impersonal? Who's the selfish one here?

I would love to meet someone one-day & get married, but I'm photogenic & shy. I might just want it to be my spouse & I, maybe his parents, siblings, close friends & mine. I might want a nice dress to take pictures in.

I really love my girlfriend and was planning on popping the question. I looked at engagement rings and they are really expensive. I am thinking about asking her to marry me without a ring and buying a cool car instead of a ring. I figure that other girls would find me more attractive if I have a cool car. If I can do better than my current girlfriend, I can upgrade girlfriends and drive a cool car. If not, I can stick with what I got and marry her. What do you think?

Due to some family problems, I think it's best that we not attend the wedding. We have only received the "save the date", not the actual invitation yet. The bride has quite a few family members in town, and several more who are coming in just for the wedding. She told me the reception will be held in a small space, so I don't really see a problem with not attending. Although I'm sure they will both understand if we don't attend. I just don't want to be rude, especially since we see / spend more time the Godparents of our youngest child. @firefly: Your response is completely full of assumptions. All I was asking was if it would be rude to decline to attend. Just to clear things up, the reason I'm thinking about this now is because every time I see either one of them, they constantly ask if we're coming. Regardless of how much time there is between now and the wedding, the "family problems" will only be escalated by attending the reception. It's not the WHO I'm concerned about (although there a few of the bride's relatives that I cannot stand--one of whom we fired as our childcare provider), it's more of what will be SERVED at the reception. We attended an out of town party this past weekend, and I'm still trying to move past the blatant disregard for the kids and myself and the complete disrespect I was shown in front of our youngest's Godparents.

This woman has two adult children: a son and a daughter. The son began dating his bride first, in fact while the daughter was still married to first husband. Now the son is getting married for the first time and his sister is planning her second wedding to some other guy. The mother and daughter duo aren't happy that the son is getting married around the same time and the mother won't help him get the family list together for invitations. What the bleep?? I'm sure this issue comes up a lot in the wedding industry as siblings are often around the same age and place in life, so how can it be resolved and why would a mother place one child's wedding of a higher level of importance than the other??