1. Yes, having a vagina automatically makes you responsible for all 250 “to-do’s” on The Knot’s wedding checklist.
2. Have a guest list? Most of the people you want there won’t be able to make it. People with names you’ve never heard of will start to pop up instead.
3. Expect your groom to say things like “just tell me when and where and I’ll show up.” Refrain from punching him in the face.
4. Also refrain from punching people who tell you to just “keep it simple” to cut costs. Even “simple” weddings cost a crazy sum.
5. Be prepared to field phone calls from your family for your wedding being vegan, being held at a farm and for recommending guests refrain from heels. Heaven forbid.
6. Sometimes you will look forward to the day you quit being a wedding planner more than you look forward to being a wife.
7. If you didn’t curse before planning, be prepared to start now. Also, be prepared to start drinking.
8. Expect guilt trips about money from people you never asked anything from. Feel really bad about it.
9. You may have debt after the wedding, but at least you’ll have fancy wine glasses from your registry!
10.Glossy wedding magazines are just about as good as photoshopped celebrity magazines for your self-esteem.
11.Want to make the planning experience extra fun? Quit your full-time job and take a pregnancy test (it was negative) two months before the wedding!
Have anything to add? Want to tell me to “keep it simple” or that I shouldn’t have a vegan wedding? Leave it in the comments!
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it will be fine and perfect and you will love it and forget all about this part of the ordeal after it’s over. not gonna lie, a little bummed about you not being pregnant. selfish, i know – but y’all will make such cute babies and i’m impatient. also I MISS YOU.
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Awwww… hang in there! Every wedding comes with its own set of baggage, believe me. I had bridesmaids badmouthing me behind my back – lovely – and complaining about how much I was demanding of them (in fact, the only thing I had asked them to do at that point was be a bridesmaid). My mother made me “fire” them (they came as guests and I nicely seated them next to the open bar) and they haven’t spoken to me since the wedding… And I was planning the wedding from several states away. I promise it gets better. I’ve been married almost 6 years and now I can look back on the wedding with happiness about the things that went well and laugh off the things that didn’t go the way I planned. At the end of the day, the wedding is about you and Richard. Your guests will deal with eating one vegan meal, the farm will be gorgeous, and you will spend the rest of your life waking up next to your best friend. I know that from inside the center of the hurricane it’s all craziness, but years from now you will look back on it, shake your head and smile.
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Girl- have a vegan wedding! Have people wear flats, have your wedding on a farm, keep it simple or LIVE IT UP whatever makes you happy
It’s your day and if they want to complain then you don’t need them there anyway 
They can suck it. (Okay- don’t tell them to “suck it” but you know what I mean
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#11 – EEK. That’s always a scary couple of minutes!
BTW, with regards to that post you wrote about problems with birth control a while back, I’ve recently switched to the nuvaring… and I love it. SO MUCH BETTER than any pill I’ve taken (I’ve tried three different brands); no side effects and I just feel good in a way that I hadn’t felt good on the pill. Figured you might be interested in that option!
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Ummm…the mean person in me says let the guests where heels to a farm wedding. If they are stupid enough to do that, then they deserve to ruin their shoes.
And what’s wrong with a vegan wedding? Sure, the food will be totally new to the vast majority of your guests, but haven’t they ever tried new foods before – Thai, Chinese, Italian? It’s just a new experience. Wedding guests are very strange people…
Good luck!
There was only one major argument about my wedding, and it was venue. Both of our mothers insisted we get married in a church. We made it work, and there were very few comments they made after that. I think it comes down to knowing whose opinions really matter to you and how much it would change your dream if you improve the day a little for them too. In my situation, we were ambivalent about a church, so we talked to the pastors at our mothers’ and picked one. I still got the flowers, dress, pictures, etc that I wanted, just in a church.
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This is a great list. Scary how much of that is true with so many weddings, eh? Hang in there.
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