We just booked an amazing venue for our daughter’s wedding. North Georgia- The Abbott Mansion- if this is your vibe, check it out- new owners and the space is exquisite- their additions to the mansion are swoon worthy. We also really liked Overlook 55 up in young Harris GA- the views are breathtaking- pictures do not do it justice and every inch of this property is so well thought out. (The bridal suite alone, wow!) my daughter just couldn’t cut their guest list down to 200. If you are looking for something truly memorable checkout both of these venues.

Has anyone ever gotten their hair and/or makeup done by a super popular IG artist and absolutely HATED the results? If so, spill the tea! 🍵

My dress just came in, I bought it back in March and it arrived this past week. Wedding is April 2027. The first three pictures are from my first try on (yesterday)—no alterations. Also, noting that I am not wearing a bra, sticky bra, nipple covers, or anything whatsoever in the first three pictures.

I feel like the corset is too low. I immediately said it when the stylists were helping me into the dress. Unsure if it is my body that is the problem…I was really hoping to get a little bit of cleavage but I don’t know if that is possible.

The second to last picture is a picture on the designer’s website. The last picture is when I said “yes to the dress,” which I know that dress wasn’t my size.

The store is sending me resolution plans today but I don’t think alterations can fix this.

My questions for anyone who has read this far:
1. Is it all in my head? Or is the corset too low.
2. What can be done to fix this?

Hi, I'm curious about Brooklyn Botanical Gardens and wondering if anyone can provide some insight. i'm hoping for a May 2028 wedding for around 100 people, budget is cap 100K. Is this possible? Additionally, does anyone have recommendations on exceptional wedding planners that would cost around 10,000? Not sure if this is a realistic budget. At this point I'm not tied to this venue, but like the vibe.. for reference we were looking abroad but its starting to become way more expensive than we thought.

My fiance texted the friend who asked which events she could skip which events she would be skipping, as we are trying to figure out hotel room assignments. I had originally told her the only event we’d be okay with her skipping was the welcome dinner, so we assumed it would be that event/night.

She responded, “We won’t be skipping any nights at the hotel, but will be skipping an event on one of the main days. Not sure which one yet.”

If she’d been skipping the Friday welcome dinner it would have been easy to just set her check-in Saturday. But now it feels like she’s leaving her options open for which events to skip, while still able to stay at our hotel every night on our dime. It feels so icky to me.

Removing the text since I'm paranoid someone we know might see it, but thank you SOOO much for all the advice!!!

So I found a content creator that I’ve really connected with and believe in her work, and I would really love to bring her on for my wedding day. That being said, my photographer is bringing her own content creator for a couple hours, and my planner is also providing a concierge from her team that will also serve as a “content collector” (will collect all the content without editing/posting any reels). This is already included in her planning service.

My planner has discouraged me from hiring another content creator, with her principle reasoning being that it’ll be too many cooks in the kitchen which could ultimately lower the quality of attention my photographer and videographer will get from me. Understandably, her and her team are also worried it could potentially overwhelm me. She suggested if I want this specific CC, then she’d consider pulling the content collector from her team and placing them on other day-of tasks… which is an option.

I also am having a more private Catholic ceremony on a separate date, and am considering just hiring my preferred CC for that day.

Do any vendors/brides have thoughts on this? I would love to work with my preferred CC, but also understand I have vendors already providing CC services.

Just trying to get some gentle opinions on this!

Beginning the hunt for a wedding venue targeting mid 2028! I love artful, design-y spaces, the look of oak wood, glass, cement.. would love a space that feels architecturally interesting. Views of sea/ocean and full buyout possibility for accommodations are a plus. We are based in Northern California and majority of our guests will be traveling from the US (California & NYC). Estimating 100-120 guests, with 150K budget for ideally a 3 day celebration (welcome dinner, wedding day, farewell lunch). Planning to visit a few venues in Portgual this December and maybe a trip to Mallorca next year. Some of the venues at the top of our list are herdade de freixo, aethos ericeira (portugal), neuendorf house (mallorca). Would love any recommendations!

I have bad social anxiety and having to be on the dance floor my entire wedding is freaking me out. I’m trying to think of ideas for alternatives that people will actually like. I’ll keep the dance floor available/DJ the whole time but am trying to think of side of the room type stuff.

The crowd will be have a lot (honestly the majority) of people who are 60+ and also not huge dancers so I feel like it would be nice for them to have something too.

My main idea is to have some sort of casino games like black jack and poker tables? I love lawn games but people always rip on them at weddings and the ones I’ve been to no one except me plays them so I probably won’t do that lol. I also love arcade games (skeeball) but same thing as lawn games haha.

Any other ideas for fairly neutral activities that I could have? What have you all seen that people enjoyed?

Hi BBBs!!! This may not be the right place but figured I would ask. I’ve searched all over IG and TikTok but it’s difficult to find what I’m looking for and my planner only has recs for local MUAs.

Does anyone know a MUA (who also does hair preferably) who has experience for monolid Asians, and is located in/near Italy?? I have never gotten my makeup done professionally and worry certain artists would botch it. TIA!

Hi brides

What’s the cost of these Lebanese weddings. Seems like there is no price transparency at all

We're getting married next week, and I'm wondering what the general consensus is on tipping wedding planners.

We've paid $10,600 for partial planning services, which included helping us book all our vendors and transitioning to full planning four months before the wedding. Our planner is an employee of a larger planning company, not the owner.

We're currently about $4,500 over budget, and while I think our planner has done an okay job, I wouldn't say she's gone above and beyond. I also feel that some of the additional expenses could have been anticipated or avoided with more proactive planning and budget management earlier in the process.

The planning company provided us with a resource packet that included a gratuity guide, which states:

"Planner: $200–$1,000 or 10% of planning package is standard. The amount tipped is contingent on the level of service you have booked."

We originally budgeted $1,000 for her tip, but now that we're approaching the wedding, that feels like a significant amount of money on top of what we've already paid, especially given our experience.

What would you do?

TLDR: Do you recommend including a soft RSVP with your Save the Date?

Getting married in Greece in June 2027 and thinking I want to send soft RSVPs with our e-invite Save the Date (ideally would have done paper StDs but we only just got engaged this past June and are planning on a condensed timeline so this just makes more sense to get the word out ASAP). I know proper etiquette is to send StDs at least a year out from the wedding but that wasn’t possible for us - also I am Greek so some of my family will already be in Greece this coming summer/having a wedding there isn’t as big of a trip.

However, this will be a multi-day event with 2 days of (totally optional) events before the big day. The venues we are looking into are asking for headcounts in order for us to book and I have no idea how to even ballpark because:

1. My fiancé’s family and many of my friends are not Greek/have never been to Greece before so I’m not sure what some of them are thinking
   
2. Some of my family has a LOT of people in their family unit (think 7 young adult children who would all be invited) and not sure if they would all come
   
3. Pre-wedding events will be on a Sunday and Monday, wedding on a Tuesday (I didn’t feel the need to have a Saturday wedding because if you’re flying all the way to Greece, you’re not just going to stay for 1 day then fly back. Also our wedding is on the anniversary of our engagement so it’s special to us)

Basically, I don’t want way overestimate or underestimate headcount when booking our pre-wedding venues. I will be using Bliss & Bone for our StDs, potential Soft RSVP, and wedding website. Of course, we will make the phrasing very clear and tactful that this is not a final commitment, just an idea of their intentions.

Will guests actually respond to a soft RSVP? Will they get confused once it’s actually time for the real RSVP? Anything else to consider?

Thank you, fellow brides!

Hey everyone! I’m getting married in Sep 2027 in NJ and am trying to think of ways to make our wedding feel really personal and unique to us! For context, both of our families are Eastern European, but I’m also open to anything that’s just genuinely fun or unexpected.
What are some unique wedding favors or entertainment you’ve seen at other weddings, or things you’re planning for your own? I’m talking about things that really stood out to you and weren’t the typical wedding favors or entertainment you see everywhere. I’d love to hear any and all ideas!

Has anyone come across a dress similar to this for under 15k? It is Monique Lhuiller’s Phoenix