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The How-To Lounge: Choosing Your Wedding Party
There’s something really special about having your closest friends and family members stand by your side as you take your wedding vows, but oftentimes the task of picking who can be downright draining. To get some quick tips on making this particular wedding task less stressful, read more
The How-To Lounge: Choosing your Wedding Party
Choosing your wedding party sure can be a daunting task. While it would be nice to have all your friends and family stand up for you on your special day, a large wedding party is bound to take away from the bride and groom. Check out my tips on how to choose your wedding party.
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Do Tell: How Many Pre-Wedding Parties Are Too Many?
Being a part of someone's wedding is a huge honor, but it's also very time-consuming and expensive. It seems that everyone's free time is getting more and more limited, so when you add wedding requirements to the mix, they can feel like more of a burden than an event to look forward to. Typically brides have one engagement party, one bridal shower, and one bachelorette party, but some have many more.
Wedding Parties Week in Review
Just in case you missed any of the wedding party week coverage here on Dear, you can check out my recap below!
- Coed parties are the new trend, but are they a good idea or a bad idea?
- Learn all the proper etiquette when it comes to throwing a bachelorette party or bridal shower.
- What do you think? How many pre-wedding parties are too many?
- Managing family issues during your wedding can be a real struggle, so check out my advice for dealing with a demanding sister-in-law, estranged relatives, and a familial rift.
Ask an Older Woman: Help! My Friend's With a Married Man
Conventional Wisdom is a different kind of advice column. Your questions will be answered by people from all walks of life rather than by advice experts. If you have a question you'd like answered on Conventional Wisdom, you can submit it here.
Dear Poll: Would You Want to Know?
Bachelor parties are known for their wild and crazy antics. It's a time for boys to be boys and for good friends to let loose and revert to their partying ways. But when you add in the code of secrecy that so many bachelor parties abide by, it can leave the women curious and worried about what really happened.
What Kind of a Bachelorette Party Do You Want?
I've been to a handful of bachelorette parties, some relaxing and some wild and crazy, but my favorite one had a little bit of both. Picking the location of your bachelorette party takes a lot of consideration, especially when factoring in a bunch of different women's preferences. If I were to plan my own, it'd be someplace warm so we could be poolside by day, but also someplace fun so we could be painting the town red by night.
Bachelor Party Has No "Happy Ending"
We posted this a couple months ago, but felt that it was too funny not to bring back for the wedding party week. The tradition of hiring strippers — aka "exotic dancers" — for a bachelor party goes way back, but what does the "exotic" in exotic dancing really mean? These guys find out that it can mean a feminist interpretive dance about childbirth and child loss, complete with a dramatic reading of the lines: "Babies, babies, babies!
Top 10 Tackiest Bachelorette Party Favors
I've never understood how having a raunchy bachelorette party helps usher you into a loving, stable marriage, but it's here to stay as a tradition. I've gathered up some of the tackiest party favors and products I could find. Oh, the romance of weddings!
You Asked: I Can't Stand My Future Sister-in-Law
Dear Sugar,
My fiancé and I are getting married later this Summer, but my negative relationship with his sister is putting a damper on things. We've always been friendly toward one another, but we've never really connected as friends in any way. Since the wedding planning has begun, she's been helping out with some of the details, so I've started to spend more time with her.
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