Category Archive

family drama

Oof. From momzillas pressuring you to lose weight to not inviting family to your wedding to dealing with angry siblings to estranged fathers to angry sisters and bridesmaids… this is our archive of how to handle family drama from wedding planning. We also highly recommend our conflict resolution posts!

4 ways to avoid interfaith wedding drama alternative wedding ideas from Offbeat Wed (formerly Offbeat Bride)

4 ways to avoid interfaith wedding drama

The internet abounds with horror stories about the drama that can surround interfaith weddings. Families insisting on this or that, wedding officiants refusing to work with you… but the truth is that you can have the wedding of your dreams — a beautiful melding of your cultures — with minimal drama. Here’s how…

frustrated groom alternative wedding ideas from Offbeat Wed (formerly Offbeat Bride)

I’m a frustrated groom who feels pushed out of planning my wedding

It’s funny how my future in-laws offering to contribute to my wedding ends up with me, the groom-to-be, feeling pushed out of the wedding planning equation. I will be lucky if I know even 20 percent of the people at our wedding. You know what? That makes me the weird creepy guy sitting in the corner that nobody knows at my own wedding.

Well, I can tell you that I did NOT want to be “that guy,” or that groom rather… yet here I am. I feel like it’s time to sink ever so slowly into the background of my own wedding.

How to deal with misbehaving guests & abusive relationships at your wedding

How to deal with misbehaving guests & abusive relationships at your wedding

My wedding was amazing… but for one guest. We’ll call her Cruella. When we got home from our honeymoon, I learned more about the “Cruella Sagas” — I was not the only person she got out of line with at the wedding. Looking back, I would have trusted my gut and handled the situation differently. Here’s the advice I would have given myself about dealing with a difficult wedding guest, having now been through it…

wedding stress mug on offbeat wed alternative wedding ideas from Offbeat Wed (formerly Offbeat Bride)

Wedding stress: why is everyone stressed out but me?

I had an almost “Anti-Bridezilla” moment — “I don’t care which shade of teal they are! If I’m not dealing with wedding stress, why is everyone else stressing?!”