Alone in String-land?

RachAisle

Someone please tell me I'm not the only one who somewhat blindly accepted an offer of wedding funding without getting really clear about what the heck that meant, resulting in a big mess of dysfunctional strings.

Please, pretty pretty please.

Just need to know I'm not the only one who wasn't blessed with either enough foresight to turn down offers of help, or family who said "Here, this is what we can/can't pay, these are our expectations, we *trust* you to make decisions based on this amount."

Thanks :-)

TheDuckis

Nope. My parents paid for the entire wedding and I knew from the get-go that meant it was their (read: my mom's) party. I even knew that regardless of how well everything went she'd find a way to blame me for "ruining" something and stop speaking to me after. And that's exactly what happened. But you know what? I had an awesome free party, I barely lifted a finger, I moved 3000 miles away from my mom, and she got over it. So all in all it was a win for me. 

DG1

Hang around a little more.  There's usually about 3-4 of you here every week.

Wonderw1fe

Sorry, can't relate. My parents paid for most of our wedding and they wanted no input whatsoever. But we got lucky.

kpwedkk

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[QUOTE]Someone please tell me I'm not the only one who somewhat blindly accepted an offer of wedding funding without getting really clear about what the heck that meant, resulting in a big mess of dysfunctional strings. Please, pretty pretty please. Just need to know I'm not the only one who wasn't blessed with either enough foresight to turn down offers of help, or family who said "Here, this is what we can/can't pay, these are our expectations, we *trust* you to make decisions based on this amount." Thanks :-)
Posted by RachAisle[/QUOTE]


We paid for our entire wedding/reception and two days worth of pre-wedding events with tons and tons of food, um, hmm... by ourselves - DH and I without help from parents, friends, or anyone!

Granted family and friends still wanted to give their two cents about everything wedding related, and give you expectations. 

The best kind of advice I can give, is find a way to pay for the wedding yourselves, and heartfully decline other's givings.

Lauriac

You are not alone.

~~Busy.~~

We paid for our own wedding and still got unwanted input. We just ignored it since we were paying for it.