does anyone else feel like this

How you are feeling is normal honestly. Wedding planning can be really stressful and everyone's a critic on mist things you soon find. Just try and keep focused on why you are doing this and waft you want. I promise every single om had a spate of feeling this way at some point. Keep smiling.

The first time we started trying to tell OH's Mum about our plans she had a hissy fit and said if we did things the way we wanted we shouldn't expect to see her there! Of course she is coming. We just don't share with her anymore and she wonders why she practically has to drag information out of us!

I guess weddings bring out the worst in some people.

Hi pink and glitz ,

I am pretty sure if I looked back at previousthreads of mine you'd find some of them contain very similar content to this. For some reason weddings make people crazy but there are fun bits too - trust me ! I've had some awful stuff come up during the planning but it gets better - promise xxx chin up beautiful

Thank you for all your kind words you beautiful brides to be, weddings seem to bring out the worst in some people x

I'm far from a bride to be but ive been where you are now. Xx it gets better.

We have problems with some of our family and they won't be coming to the wedding but hopefully your Mum will come out her huff, i'm sure she won't want to miss the most important day of her daughters life. She'll probably think on it and realise she's being silly, lifes too short for all that rubbish. I'm sure everyone feels like you do at some point in their wedding planning but as Mini says keep smiling and you'll get through it, it'll all be worth it on your big day and all your worries will leave i'm sure

I nearly called our wedding off altogether after Christmas because there was so much stress and nonsense with family pressure. I'm hoping it will calm down; the easiest thing I've found is not to discuss it too much with family. Wedding planning just brings out the crazy! I've found it much easier to talk about things to friends because, in the nicest possible way, they don't really care. I think parents, mums in particular, have been planning their daughters wedding for years and it comes as a bit of a shock when said daughters or daughters in law have their own ideas! I'm not looking forward to my wedding at all, tbh.

It's so surprising that people think they have some sort of input into yours and your fiancés day. I've got my gran telling me that she doubt she will eat any of my 'posh' food and that We should have steak pie and chips and apple crumble with custard. No disrespect but I can have pub grub whenever I like, this is a special occasion. I told her she can have a say over the food if she wants to pay for it...

Try not to worry about what others think, just enjoy your wedding planning. Xx

I've been engaged for a year and after starting to plan the wedding, elopement looks SO tempting.

Family politics I have never been involved with is coming out of the woodwork, certain family members are pushing their 'input' and pushing my ideas out of the way, other family members are asking if they can bring _____ who i have never met.

The tip? Glass of wine, phone, rant to a close friend.

Whenever any of the cr*p surfaces I just imagine my OH waiting for me in his suit at the end of the aisle, and it remember why I want to do this. It's about us, and he and I are sticking strong together through all the difficult stuff, which to me is a great sign for how we'll work as a married couple. Remember why you're getting married, keep the things you're most looking forward to in your head, and tune out the rest. It's a learning curve, but do-able! And come and rant to all of us when it all gets too much :0)

Yeah, weddings bring out the worst in people I mean how dare me and my OH get married on a Friday in the county capital! We've completely ruined one of our guests plans for the evening. No word of a lie

Elixia- I had this because we are getting married on a wednesday!!! How dare we try and save money by not going for a weekend ! Quite simply people need to get a grip ! X