A few years back my future MIL turned up at my house with a flower girl dress for my daughter and said "you have one year to get married while this still fits her!" I wasn't even engaged! and now that I am engaged (years later), I feel like I can't do it, and partly because she told me I had to. Which I realize is really messed up on my part since I should be able to get over that. Just feels like I'm not in control of my own life.

4 short years ago, I was celebrating with my best guy friend on his wedding day that put his (and her)family into sizable debt. She was unfaithful, and his divorce was finalized 3 days ago. Damn that! When I tie the knot, I'm keeping it courthouse chic and throwing a blowout bash when we hit the 10-year milestone to celebrate the longevity we've earned. No disrespect to big weddings, but I'm not willing to risk it.

I swear to God if I get another of "if he gets the milk for free why buy the cow speech," I am going to show up wearing a cow's head, and a huge udder for my wedding dress!!!!!

Make sure your future In-laws ive at lst 500 miles away from you. Trust me on this one.

I so badly want to walk down the aisle to Milkshake by Kelis.

I think I have one of THE worst wedding stories ever; a male friend of the family got married years ago and guess who went with them on their honeymoon? Yep, his new MIL!!!! Suffice it to say, their marriage didn´t last. He has since remarried.

I had the perfect relationship with my MIL until the wedding was over. She called every day of our honeymoon, up to 16 times in a row if we didn't answer. Suddenly, I went from feeling like I'd made MIL jackpot to MIL HELL!!! All downhill from there.

I don't know how I managed it, but my FMIL and I get along incredibly well. I hear all sorts of stories here and elsewhere about nightmare MIL/DIL relationships, and I feel so very lucky.

I invited my FMIL to my hen's night. Oh boy, what a mistake that was. I'm glad she left before the stripper showed up!

I'm currently 12000 miles away from my fiance, and will be for the next several months. I can't even put into words how hard this is on both of us.