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My fiance is going to be a groomsman in his friends out of town wedding next weekend. He actually called the mother of the groom to ask when he needs to be at the rehearsal (or if there was even a rehearsal – he didn’t hear anything from the groom or receive an invitation) and she said Friday at 4 with rehearsal supper to follow. And that was it. Am I invited to this? I don’t think it’s a formal thing.

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do I need to have formal printed invitations for the rehearsal dinner

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I am getting married in a month and I usually get along great with my mother-in-law to be. We have become very close.. I am having an average sized wedding (apprx 125-150 people). I sent out expensive formal invitations and included an RSPV post card so that we will be able to get an accurate head count. Since we aren’t having a huge wedding we will be having a formal (expensive) dinner at the reception (which my mom will be paying for). I have already gotten all of my RSVPs back and have our final head count to give to the caterer, but… we just found out yesterday that my MIL to be invited the entire church to the wedding and reception with asking me, my mom, or my fiance’!! She had it included in the church bulletin and in a newsletter that is sent out to every person that is a member of that church! My fiance, myself, and my entire family do not attend this church.. the only one that knows any of these people is my MIL to be. Its too late now because the letter has already gone out to everyone. I also will not have any idea who is coming from the church because I won’t get RSVPs from them. OH!! and I also forgot to mention that my MIL to be is having a huge problem with me wanting to invite my close family (aunts, uncles, cousins..) to the rehearsal dinner because she is paying for the food. I have a very small family and we are very close.. they are also coming from clear across the country for the wedding and I want to include them at the rehearsal dinner. She is allowing her entire family to attend, but not mine. I only want to invite 27 people including myself & attendants to the rehearsal dinner.. She won’t pay for my close family at the rehearsal dinner but my parents have to pay for the entire church to eat at the reception! Not to mention we don’t have any idea how much food to order for the reception because we don’t know how many people are coming. If we order too much she still has to pay for the food… What should I do!!?? Even her own son (my fiance’) is upset with her about this! Help!!
The food has already been decided on and its too late to change everything because it all had to be in 30 days before the wedding. & no it wasn’t an announcement because she just copied exactly what my invitations said ..stating " We invite you to share……blah blah blah.. reception to follow at…" It definitely was an invite, not an announcement.

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We (my wife and I) are planning on starting a business. It’s going to be based around her art (drawings and wedding invitations) and my video projects (wedding videos, rehearsal dinner, etc). We are trying to decide if a LLC or Sole Proprietor would be a better suit. We don’t expect to make more than ,000 per year and the liabilities are slim. Mainly I’m looking to choose the best entity for tax reasons. Is there a difference come tax time between these?

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I’m really bored. Sorry. For some reason I’ve developed a fascination with seeing how much a wedding could possibly cost (a high and low budget) and seeing what other people did.

If you remember, what did you spend on the following and how many guests were at your wedding:

Flowers
Decorations
Wedding Cake
Food
Booze
Music
Favors
Wedding party gifts
Your spouse’s wedding band
Maid of Honor gift (if you got one)
Mother of bride gift (if you got one)
Wedding dress (purchasing or if you had an heirloom dress, cost of restoration?)
Photography?
Invitations?
Marriage license
Venue
Ceremony (church? your elementary school? park?)
Rehearsal dinner (was this a necessity or did you just want one?)

How much does premarital counseling cost? (The classes that churches usually request you take).

Thanks!

Once again, sorry for the boredom. This is my first off day in a while and I don’t deal with them very well haha.

Also, if you’re not married-what’s your budget and how many guests are you having?
Jessica H are you sure you don’t mean 0,000??

I mean, a million dollars for 200 people??

It’s your day, but good grief! What do you do? Can I work with you/for you?

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My parents have paid for almost the entire wedding. They’ve paid for the church, hall, caterer, my dress, flowers, photographer, etc…etc…etc.

My fiance’s parents are paying for the rehearsal dinner, my bouquet, and the minister’s fees. And that’s all. They wanted to pay for the "traditional" things a groom’s parent would pay for, but once they found out what that entails–they’ve just chosen a couple things and let my parents do the rest.

I’ve always been under the impression that the bride’s parents send out the invitation (I did this according to the etiquette book I was given when we got engaged). WELL, his mother is FURIOUS…she felt like they should be on the invitations. I did my research…and, if the bride’s parents are sponsoring, they invite the guests.

Is she right? Am I right?
She did not express any opinion about the invitations until AFTER they were printed and ready to be sent.

And of course I got her guest list…that would have been rude!

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My fiance and I are paying for the majority of expense of our wedding next year. My parents (bride’s side) are not contributing to the costs at all, however, his mom and dad are paying for both the rehearsal dinner and an open bar at our wedding. They are contributing total probably about 00. How do I word the wedding invitation? Would something like the following be acceptable?:

"My Name and
His Name
together with His Mom’s Name and His Dad’s Name

request the honor of your presence…."

I feel like his parents are doing so much and my parents really don’t want to be involved (it is an unusual family circumstance.) I just don’t want anyone’s feelings to be hurt, but i honestly kind of feel like my parents’ names should not go on the invitation. Is it wrong to leave my family’s names off of the invitations? I have searched the invitation wording websites but none have this particular situation as an example. Please help!

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We are printing our own wedding invitations. My parents (I am the bride) and my fiance and I are splitting the cost of the wedding. The groom’s parents aren’t paying for anything. From what I understand, the wording is done to specify who is paying for and throwing the wedding. Is there a way to include my parents and not his? His parents will be at the wedding. I don’t want to offend anyone, but I don’t want his parents to get any credit for throwing the wedding. They aren’t even doing a rehearsal dinner for us which I heard the groom’s parents traditionally do. So my parents and my fiance and I are paying for the rehearsal as well.

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I thought about including our invitation and several other paper items related to the wedding as well as a baby picture of him and a baby picture of me as well as one of us together today. Do you think this would be a good gift to give them at the rehearsal dinner as the bridal attendants also receive theirs?

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I just realized that my wedding is only 81 days away, and am having a small fit. I have been having nightmares about not having everything done. Can you think of anything I’m forgetting? I’ve already:

Booked/Confirmed Church
Done Pre-cana
Met Priest
Arranged Music
Booked/Confirmed Reception Hall (food & drink included)
Booked DJ
Booked Cake
Booked Florist….meeting in April
Bought Dress
Bridesmaids/Flowergirl dresses ordered
Bought Rings
Booked Photographer & Videographer
Ordered Invitations
Booked Limos
Finalized Guest List
Registered
Arranged Rehearsal Dinner (In-Laws doing this)
Picked Readers (but not readings….ideas?)

I know I need to:
Find Shoes
Figure out hair
Find bridal party gifts
Do favors (father’s helping….home-made wine sound good?)

But what else? What am I missing?

Thank you for any help you want to give. Holy crappola, 81 days!
Thanks, all.
Just want to add that perhaps the reason I’m so nervous is because I haven’t given the WEDDING much thought, I’ve been to busy thinking about my life after (which I can’t wait to begin).

And I do have the honeymoon booked, too.

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