My Mom has relatives she hates. Should I exclude them?

I was however able to locate 7 Pigeons, a Night Hawk two wild Turkeys and a Burrow Owl and have put them all in a large box to be released at the wedding. Do you think people will be able to tell the difference

I'm not a great speech-giver, so I intend to keep this short and sweet. GROOM is actually known as the talkative brother between the two of us – he can talk to anyone about anything for hours – days if he actually knows what he is talking about. GROOM is a lucky man today – he got to marry a beautiful, intelligent, charming, and caring girl who will always be there for him. And BRIDE, you got to marry, well, GROOM.

My boyfriend and I have dated for 1 1/2 years and I know a proposal is coming within the next 6 months because we have talked about it for months now and he's took me to look at rings I like, has bought a ring, we've talked about marriage timeline. So we're all excited, our families know it's getting close. I really love his mother, we get a long great. But ever since he told his mother 3 months ago that he knew proposal was close (she told me about the conversation), she has been pre-wedding planning. She had me try on her dress, which was beautiful but as a couple we want a dress that is something we share alone so I politely declined. She has told everyone she knows in her small town that he is proposing any minute now (we've had friends of his mother come up to us asking when the wedding is and that they expect a personalized invite), pulled old flower girl's dresses out of the closet, asked me constantly about my color pattern plan for flowers / bridesmaid dresses, has been looking for decorations, venues, food vendors and has even tasted cupcakes... without me or my boyfriend being there. Now, I know its going to be a small cheap church wedding. And when the time comes, I'd love her help since 1) My mother is much of a planner and 2) I don't care about small details so if someone else wants to them great. However, we are not even engaged yet and it feels like she is taking away mine and my boyfriend's moment to just enjoy dating and for him to enjoy the proposal planning. He wants it to be special and loves planning things out. But now he joked that he may as well just give me the ring, we're basically engaged. All he did was tell me his intention to propose and told his parents his intentions and now it's exploded into something that feels like the proposal has just been skipped. I haven't even told him how much pre-planning she has done and I told him to take his time proposing so he feels in control and not pressured. The only thing I have asked is that he proposes in private so we can enjoy our moment in peace. The breaking point was a few days ago when we were visiting his home town and I went yardsaling with his mom and she started negotiating wedding decorations without really asking if I liked them and asked my boyfriend to see the ring. Idk if it was everything adding up but I asked him to let me be the first to see it. But how should I deal with this? It feels like a third person is in my relationship but I feel thankful that I have a future M-I-L I mostly get along with.

Okay, so I am having two of my young cousins be guestbook attendants at our wedding in a few weeks. Their younger sisters are flower girls. I was going to get each of them these personalized bears with their wedding "title" on the shirt. I think the title "Guestbook attendant" sounds really lame for girls that are 8 and 10.. Any better suggestions? I attached a picture of the bears we are getting so you can kind of see what I mean. Thank you!

We want to elope in France & have a small get together with our friends & close relatives in her parents' backyard. She still wants a wedding dress though and I don't know how work it out

We are trying to save money on our wedding and have found a website with some really beautiful, real looking silk flowers. I'm considering using these for our centerpieces, which would save almost $500 on flowers. Centerpieces would be lanterns on the tables with a few loose flowers (roses) around them. Have you ever paid enough attention to the centerpieces to notice this? Would you think it was tacky or weird if you went to a wedding that did this? I understand that it's my wedding and my decision and I shouldn't care what other people think, but I do. I don't want people walking away thinking we cheaped out on our decor, so I'm just looking for opinions here.

I have one person I am friends with. We became super close over the coarse of this year. We tell each other everything. We don't hang out much, maybe 2 times per month. We have sons that are really close as well. She is my only friend, and I consider her my best friend, but I don't know if I am hers because she has more friends than I do. Would it be weird to ask her to be my maid of honor?

OK, long story short: we are childhood friends. He came in a time where he struggled a lot as a child and I understood many things of him only later. My mom found him and his aunt in a train station almost 18 ys ago. His parents died in a migrants ship sunk by the gov. He barely spoke at the time but we became friends slowly and shared everything (food homeworks bikes time). They stayed at our home because his aunt worked but nobody was willing to male her a contract so they stayed with us for 2 ys.Then his aunt died of cancer and ne was sent back to our country. I never heard from him for like 15 ys. I met him by chance on a journey and he fell in love but I am so jealous and insecure of his love, I was alone for years I was bullied and think that life is not for me. I am a quiet and sensitive girl and I always think that he loves me but not ad much as I do, and I am convinced that he loves me for our childhood and past not because I'm the girl of his dreams. When we argue I go away and dell him to find another girl, richer prettier niger than me he gets mad turns red and explains his points making me feel like a stupid for questioning his love. I love him so much that I could't immagine being left by him but I try to pretend like I'm stronger. Then I feel guilty because he's an awesome person that gas no family I should be better becuse he deserves that but all I do is ruining everything with my insecurities. And he never made love because I am so afraid of it, I am already so attached to him that if he left me I'd be destroyed, let alone being dumped after making love. He told me he wants to marry me so I can trust him but I feel like he proposed just to reassure me not because ne loves me

My fiancé and I have started to plan our wedding, but we're being met with a roadblock at every turn: my mother. When we first got engaged we said we wanted an intimate wedding, inviting immediate family only. My mom freaked out, saying we had to invite all of her distant relatives out of respect. (Her extended family is huge; our guest is now double). It wasn't what we wanted, but, to keep the peace, we agreed. Since then, she's told me she doesn't like certain people I've picked for my bridal party (and people from her side of the family she'd rather have included), has told me and that she hates the music we chose (and demanded we change it to more of the music she likes) among other things. On top of all that, she repeatedly tells me she hates the date we chose for our wedding, because it's "a bad luck day." She even considered buying a mermaid-style wedding dress to wear for the day. When I told her she couldn't, she got angry at me and told me I was objecting because I wanted her to "look boring." Every time I say or do something she doesn't like or agree with, she calls me a Bridezilla. I'm at the point where I don't want to share anything with her anymore -- I know that no matter what I do, she'll have an issue with it. I'm tired of her butting in and undermining mine and my fiancé's choices -- we're really happy with everything we've done so far. My fiancé and I are paying for the wedding entirely on our own. Has anyone else had a similar experience?