Bridal showers/ wedding presents: if people want to give you gifts then good for them. But I think it's rude to push a registry or specific requests on people. (We plan to deflect difficult etiquette questions- specifically this one!- onto our mothers. Our answer is "we only ask for the honour of your presence". But if we had a registry we'd ask our parents to give it out to those who ask)

Listening to a child scream at the grocery store. Not crying due.to unhappiness, just jumping around yelling. Mother just ignoring.the.crap out of her like its ok. So happy with my essure. I will never have to deal with that.

I am giving my fiance's mom a mothers day card thanking her for the blessing that is my very best friend on this Earth. I hope she doesn't think that is creepy!

I don't get people's hate for diamond. Sure it's expensive for an engagement ring, but that's why it's more worth it to have. Look at Elisabeth Taylor's jewelry collection. The thing about diamond is it's an investment, the value never goes down. There was a time when we were having economic trouble, my mother has to sell her diamond jewelries. It saved us because she got double the original price. Therefore i still prefer diamond from other gems, because their market price is not as consistent as diamond. Think of it as an investment.

I was engaged twice before I got married. I am so glad I didn't go through with either of those marriages. One man kept a job search entirely secret until he told me we were moving to another state. One man could not stand up to his mother, she was the first woman in his life and that was not going to change by marrying me. I now have a wonderful DH. So - if something is making you unhappy now - LEAVE! It's easier to cancel a wedding than to get a divorce. Happiness is possible.

I feel so sorry for you after going to your wedding and meeting your 4 brothers-in-law. You got the pick of the litter but you are going to have to deal with these selfish loutish inconsiderate guys who have no social abilities for the rest of your life. After meeting their mother, I understand why they're like that. You poor thing.

For my wedding, my mother forgot to wear her jewelry so insisted on stopping somewhere on the way to buy some(while we were fighting awful traffic), the florist was late delivering the flowers and my sister? Oh, she was an hour and a half late- her kids were the only ones in the wedding. Fortunately, it was a small wedding (15 people), but dang!

I was never one to dream of my wedding as a younger girl. But once I started thinking marriage with my FI my first thought was of us getting married in January in the mountains with snow on the ground (and if we were lucky, snowing lightly. I LOVE snow. Grew up in it). Due to logistics of getting my disabled mother and elderly grandparents to such places though, I don't think it's going to happen. It makes me sad. I'm willing to sacrifice it for family because I love them more than that vision, but still. Sad :(

Etiquette dilemma: My parents were planning on holding a family reunion in the fall for the side of my mother's family that we haven't seen since I was about four years old (they had a falling out, and recently reconnected via Facebook). My mother called me yesterday, and told me that her cousin suggested that we all (my mother, my father, my fiance, and I) come to her daughter's wedding this summer and have the "reunion" there. I don't know about this. Does her daughter know that her mother is inviting a bunch of strangers to her wedding? (Cont. in comments)

My mother insisted she buy wine for my wedding. She brought me two cases of Two Buck Chuck.