Preferably letting the first letter start with "s" also such as #simplysims but I am open to any ideas and suggestions thank you in advance for all your help (:

My sister is getting married. Her initial plan was to have a very small dinner with just very close Friends and family for a total of about 30 guests. She sent me a message asking if it would be okay to have a larger church ceremony with a cake reception immediately after the ceremony and then only immediate and extended family would be invited to a dinner at a restaurant near the church immediately after the cake reception. I believe the cake reception would be about 30 minutes to an hour of her guests eating cake on paper plates and while her and her new husband share a dance for her guests to observe. I think it is quite rude to asks guest to the ceremony and the "Cake reception" and not to the dinner after. During the initial wedding planning, I proposed ideas were she and her finance could invite between 50-75 people with in her budget, but a little more than she paying for this small dinner. While weddings need not be opulent and stretch couple pocket book, I do think that there is a certain etiquette that both the couple getting married and the guests are expected to comply with. I feel that essentially inviting some guest to dinner and not others not rude. I think she either needs to have the small 35 person wedding she first came up or find a way to do her wedding within her budget that accommodates all of her guests equally. Over all, this is her wedding and her decision, but I am wondering if I was right, is this a breech of wedding Etiquette?

I think a proposal doesn't have to be old-fashioned anymore. Women can propose to men. However it seems like when women do it, people think she's being desperate or he doesn't really want her.

My soon to be husband has a 3 year old. She's a wonderful kid and I truly enjoy my time with her and think we have a great bond. I'm stressed about the wedding coming up though because I don't know how to incorporate her in it. We are going to have a daycare set up for the ceremony so no kid under 5 will attend. To her dad and I, it wouldnt be a big deal for her to not be in it because it's already implied that she's a part of the family and she won't want to be in it because she doesn't like to have attention on her. We can't even get her to take professional pictures; she will go hide in the corner until we can coax her out and that's just 1 person she doesn't know not 100people. We almost know she will cry and not want to be a part of it. If we got married at the court house it wouldn't be a big deal if she wasn't in it to others but I feel like people will get offended by this when in all actuality it has nothing to do with her it just has to do with her age. We don't want to exclude her and if she were older, she would no doubt be in it. I want to be able to do this where it makes everyone happy so I was thinking of having a separate ceremony after the main one, at the reception that she will be in, like a sand ceremony or something. If she were my child this wouldn't be a big deal because I would do this plan but since I'll be stepmom people will think my intentions are bad but that's truly not it. I love and treat her like she mine. Any suggestions would be nice.

Hello! So here s the story. My boyfriend and I are planning on getting engaged soon, we have been together for 10 years (high school sweet hearts). He bought a ring that I picked out a couple of months ago. He had been asking for me to pick one out. It was very inexpensive, well compared to other rings we ve seen. But hey we re in college and can t spend 1,500 on a ring. But over the holidays, my mom found some of my deceased grandmother s jewelry, including her wedding ring. -We thought that it was either missing or stolen, she died very young. Although, I love the ring he bought... I cherish the ring that is from my grandma. As it was left to me. Is it appropriate to tell him about my grandma s ring? Or even ask him to reconsider. I do not want to offend him or hurt his feelings.

My fiancé and I are in the closing stages of buying a house. At the last minute, the bank has told us we need to be legally married for the loan to go through. We want a religious wedding (we're both Baptist), and we want to do premarital counseling. My question, if we do a courthouse marriage now in order to close on our house, can we still do premarital counseling before our religious ceremony, and will our religious ceremony still be able to feel like an actual wedding? (rather than a renewal of vows or something else) Neither of us would look at the courthouse marriage like a real marriage, only a technicality, with the real marriage occurring in front of our friends, family, and God.

I'm just curious. Now it's a common thing to do, as no one really saves it for marriage