Just set the date!!! Also Hello :)

? hello, congratulations and welcome to a very addictive hitched, there is always someone here to help with any questions, or ideas, xx

Hi and congratulations! the best bit of advice I can give you is just ignore other people - weddings can cause so many arguments, so just stand your ground and have what you want. It is your wedding, do it how you and OH want it, because you wont please everyone!

? Congrats and welcome! You'll never please everyone while planning a wedding so just please yourselves! Good luck ?

Hello and welcome, best advice if people interfere is do what you both want and share as little information as possible

Yay a leap year proposal ❤️ congratulations and welcome to hitched ?

Welcome ? and congratulations! and an even bigger congrats on the leap year proposal!

I think you have to just do what you want, take in peoples opinions but in the end it's your day so you need to do what makes you happy. It's always hard with separated parents especially when it is still recent. I'm going to have a nightmare trying to organise my table plan with parents that dont speak etc, but I wont let anyone ruin my day!

Hello and congrats! ?

Awww congratulations welcome to hitched

Hello, how fab a leap year proposal! Congratulations ?. Welcome to hitched x

Congratulations!

Hi, welcome to Hitched!?

? & welcome to Hitched.

That is a nice bit of background, and a lovely proposal story.

Pop on Hitched and specific questions and there will be people who are more than happy to help.

Happy planning!

Congratulations and welcome to Hitched ?

Welcome! As for the issues with your family- I'm finding it awkward, though maybe slightly less so, as I have to invite my dad and step mom, who was the woman who broke up my parents' marriage. It's been about 13 year, though, so obviously we've all moved on a bit.

My sister didn't invite our dad to hers because of it, though, and although it caused a rift between them, after a couple years things were back to the way it was before. I would say do what you feel is best for your wedding. I don't suggest you not invite your mother, but perhaps making a no-new-man rule would be for the best, eh?

Thank you all so much ?

Am sat in tears now because just told my sister of the date and got told its a daft day to have it cause of there kids birthdays before and after it but theres a birthday every month so i cant win.

I really ready to jack it all in ☹️ My parents paid for my sister's wedding a few years ago and planned it all cause she didnt really care about it all but we are paying for mine and are working to a date we can save for.

What makes it worse is they said they want to help and then i tell them stuff and they turn it round grrr not sure why i'm shocked cause its been this way since we was kids lol (i'm the oldest of 6 kids & its always been them against me)

O.k rant over ️?️

Just waiting for the church still and knowing my luck they wont have that date ?

xx

Welcome to Hitched ?

Congratulations on your engagement!

Happy planning.

It's your day, so you choose where, when, why etc and if no one else likes it then tough, I think sometimes too much importance is put on organising the day to suit everyone, would you really be bothered if no one was there if at the end of the day you still get married to the man you love and without the stress

Thank you all again we have had to change the date to the 30th as half the wedding party would still be in school. Now the church is booked and the venue and dj im feeling a lot better. Reading other peoples posts helps as well.

xxxx

Yay, another November 2013 bride! ? Welcome!

Congrats and welcome to Hitched!

Congratulations and welcome to Hitched ?

Hello ? and congratulations. Welcome to hitched.

Hello! And congratulations! ?

That was horrible of your sister. Don't listen to her. My fiancé's sister got married a couple of days away from his birthday and he considered a privilege to have his sister paying for an enormous birthday party for him ?

We are going for a no family politics wedding and everyone is highly aware of that! We decide in private what we are doing and then we tell people. We have had a couple of small complaints that were met with "it's an invite you don't have to accept if you don't want to." we just won't have it! Maybe it's harsh but it's our day and no one is going to ruin it for us. It's worked as we only had to say it a couple of times and now all complaints have stopped. Luckily my fiancé's family are very laid back and extremely supportive. I couldn't ask to be joining a nicer family ?

Anyway, sorry for rambling. I hope you manage to ignore or stop complaints from your sister or anyone else. Your wedding is about you two. She's already done it her way and now it's your turn.

Hello!! And congratulations!!!!

I know wedding planning is very stressful - only 8 weeks away now! I would say to you though, no matter how stressful things get, try and enjoying planning it all. It will be here before you know it! I wish I'd just enjoyed the early stages more, going to more wedding fayres etc! Sounds like you have a lot to battle on your planning journey - good luck and remember Hitched is always great to rant and you will find out you are not the only one in your situation which will really help you. ?