Your feeling is spot on. It's gift grabby and rude to invite people to shower that aren't invited to the wedding. It basically says, "Hey! You're good enough to buy me stuff, but not important … (View Post)
I call mine mom and dad. It's still a little odd, but calling them anything else would feel equally as odd because they never actually indicated to me what they'd prefer. I just kind of picked mom an… (View Post)
I wasn't married on a holiday weekend, but my wedding was out of town for literally everyone (my family is from one state, his is from two others, and we live in yet another). So we made welcome bag… (View Post)
I asked one of my good friends to officiate. He was already ordained through the internet, and I ended up writing the ceremony, so he didn't really even have to worry about that. I view it as being o… (View Post)
He's exactly that guy. FIL (his son) claims that he's part of an abandoned government experiment, because there's no way they're actually related (FIL is a fantastic human being). (View Post)