Bilingual wedding: How are you handling the multiple languages at your wedding?
My future husband’s family speaks multiple different languages, but none of them are English. How do I help my husband’s family not feel so left out when the whole ceremony is in English. Our wedsite is in English. And the vows are in English.
Distance between wedding ceremony and reception: How far away is too far?
I’ve realized, though, that the place where I would love to have the reception is over half an hour away from the church. I’m guessing this would be a big drive, especially for the out-of-towners (and there are a lot). Is that too much of a distance to ask my guests to travel? I don’t want to be “that wedding we went to where we had to drive so far to have dinner!”
There is no such thing as a DIY wedding
When we first got engaged, we had several long discussions about whether or not to elope and avoid the party aspect altogether. We finally decided to go ahead and throw a small party, but with one overarching principle: We were going to do the whole thing ourselves. But the flaw in our DIY system, I found, was the “Y.”
Did you buy your parents a gift if they didn’t help contribute to the wedding?
For those who financed their weddings themselves (AKA no parental financial help, or help from anyone other than you and your beloved), how did you go about gift-getting for your parents? Did you even give gifts to your parents? If so, was it something sentimental, bought, or otherwise?