I would like to think I was a good Maid of Honor to my sister. I think that if you asked her, she’d agree.
But as a bride, MOH, sister and friend I had so many different perspectives on Lilac Sister’s wedding day that I would like to share with any MOHs out there.
Toasting my sister the bride. Photo by Lilac dad
Anything that can go wrong will, is totally true. The bride and groom may not be the picture of health on the wedding morning and you have to deal with it, that may mean force-feeding the happy couple bananas or supplying Asprin.
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I have an ethical dilemma ladies that I would like some advice on.
Should I tell my vendors that I blog?
Image from: zankyou.com
More specifically, should I tell them that I will blog about them?
I ask for multiple reasons but mainly because I have refrained for the most part from using names when I complain about bad vendors. But then I feel like I have the responsibility to let other brides know who to avoid. And I’m the kind of person who rates my professors so you can bet I’ll review my vendors places other than here as well.
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Oh tradition! It’s a great thing, something we both break and follow at different times. This summer I wrote a blog about tossing the bouquet toss. In the blog I shared a photo from my cousin’s wedding that Lilac Dude captured. Here’s the picture:
That's me to the left in green
The girl beside me in the pink sweater, who is obviously going to catch the bouquet is my second cousin. You can see that I’m not trying at all to catch the bouquet, even though many who watched scolded me saying that I had a fair chance to catch it.
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My sister is getting married on December 3rd. Shortly after she became engaged she asked if she should ask someone else to be her Maid of Honor. Since I’m planning my own wedding, I thought that would be a good idea, so she asked a friend.
As time progressed I found myself helping more with her wedding plans than I had expected and her maid of honor became more and more invisible.
My sister's photo of the two of us in the Bridemobile
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Although I don’t entirely agree with the saying, “When you marry the man, you marry the family” I think it’s really nice to “fit in” with my fiancé’s family.
I happened to have two well placed days off that allowed me to help Lilac Dude’s mom prepare for and run a garage/estate sale. I spent those mornings and afternoons with Lilac Dude’s mom and 15-year-old brother, while Lilac Dude was at work.
What was awesome to me was that we are comfortable enough to joke around even to the extent of me putting a 50 cent price tag on my future mother-in-law’s forehead.
Lilac Dude's mom and I at the airport (calling our own moms to report a safe landing)
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Our house is getting ridiculous. We have piles of wedding items all over the house. Boxes of reception items, ceremony items, decorations, gifts, etc. And that’s in addition to all of the planning items – binders, magazines, folders, templates, test pages, and more.
Clutter!
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Daily Candy – the fun company who sends out region-specific information on beauty, food, clothes, and more – has a whole site devoted to weddings!
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From their website:
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And that will give you the scoop on all things wedding! I know we are all a bevy of information here, but this gets delivered right to your inbox. Check it out.
