so, I m moving to Europe to be with my fiancé. The visa in coming on says that we need to get married within 60 of my arrival. Well, after spending $7,000+ on me moving, we can t afford an official wedding the day we get married. So we re going to the courthouse. We still want a wedding with all of our family, a dress, and so on, but the courthouse marriage only allows two witness, no more, no less. We are also only just signing the papers and not exchanging vows, rings or last names. We re saving all of that for the formal wedding we re planning. Well, I ve had family telling me that it doesn t matter, as far as they re concerned, I will be Mrs_______ and not ms freeman, that it s not a real wedding, and that they re not flying overseas to come because it s just dress up. I m really depressed and cry about it a lot. This isn t how a girl dreams of her wedding to be.... so, is our wedding still going to be a real wedding, even if we have to get married before we can afford the ceremony and reception?

I'm the groom I didn't propose to my girlfriend at someone's wedding and I heard so many bad stories about people doing it spontaneously at their friends or extended family's wedding....apparently it takes away the bride's moment to shine, but my brother is dating my girlfriend's best friend and I discussed it with her and she'd be more than happy to help, she came up with the idea to "shock" the crowd during the catching of the bouquet rather than throw it she will hand it to her best friend and my bother will pop the question...not sure if this is a good idea or not, what do you out there think? Should we allow it?

I m engaged to be married in August, we have a great relationship and we re a pretty popular couple in our immediate circle. My fiance has this one friend/co-worker who, from the first time I met him, has said some pretty disrespectful and embarrassing things to me when we re around other friends. Sometimes, he s very nice to me and we have some decent conversations, but then he ll go and accuse my fiance and I of having sex in the parking lot if we ve gone out for a cigarette - in front of other people, and go on and on and push it til everyone else is egging him on. Or he ll get drunk and call me a liar and tell me I don t know my fiance as well as he does. And this last weekend, he brought some friends in to the bar I work at and very sarcastically and condescendingly said he will leave me a big tip because, "You work in the service industry and you live off of other peoples generosity." I ve had it. I don t understand why my fiance won t stand up for me. I can comprehend that it would be an uncomfortable conversation, but it would be less uncomfortable than how his comments make me feel.

Can we still get married even we don t have an authenticated advice from our parents?my fiancee is 22 years old and I m 24 years old. Thank You!

If I proposed to my girl, does it mean that I'm already engaged to her? (Even before the official engagement party which we're about to held in September). Is a proposal an automatic engagement?