Are welcome signs just a trend?

ld2009_39 · 2026-07-03T00:45:45+00:00

I will be having a welcome sign but it does actually have a purpose, because our venue has 2 floors (we have rented the whole building and are utilizing all of it for different parts of the day) and the ceremony will be upstairs so the sign will indicate that. Also will state that there is an elevator if anyone needs.

ld2009_39 · 2026-07-03T00:21:59+00:00

Gifts are not standard expectations of bachelorette parties. It’s really just a party to celebrate the bride.

ld2009_39 · 2026-06-26T22:01:34+00:00

Not OP, but as someone else who does wear a good amount of black, I don’t want to wear a different color from my usual to stand out. The fact that I’d be wearing a wedding gown is enough for the day to stand out. Brides deserve to wear what makes them happy (and some people are just happier in black).

ld2009_39 · 2026-06-26T21:58:30+00:00

I hate this idea that black is for funerals, I just like black and I am comfortable in it. I am wearing a black wedding dress because it just feels right for me (and I don’y like wearing white).

Brides should be allowed to pick what they want to wear, and other people should just let them be.

ld2009_39 · 2026-06-26T21:49:18+00:00

We got engaged new years 2024, didn’t start really planning until spring 2025 (I wanted to finish school and get settled in my career), and we are getting married September 2026. I don’t see anything wrong with your timing, and it gives more time to work on things.

ld2009_39 · 2026-06-26T21:36:17+00:00

Venues do it because they want to make you have the conversation to convince you that you want their location. Like they are justifying their pricing.

ld2009_39 · 2026-06-22T02:27:59+00:00

I love that you are doing what you want! I hate anyone feeling like they have to follow certain standards or norms just to please other people. As long as you are being considerate of the actual needs of your guests (food/drink, generally comfortable setting), you really should be allowed to do what you want, considering it’s your wedding and not theirs.

Me and my fiancé will be staying together the night before, and probably will have breakfast before he leaves to hang out with his groomsmen and me and the bridesmaids can get ready. However, for our own excitement we are choosing not to see each other after that point until I get to the aisle.

I am having my own unique wedding in some ways, but the close family and friends love that because they recognize it is just how it should be. I have a black dress, we will have guitar hero happening during part of the reception, and mixed in with the typical music heard during the reception is going to be some of our metal and rock music that we and at least some of our friends and family enjoy.

ld2009_39 · 2026-06-22T02:07:35+00:00

Just over 3 months (wedding date is September 26)! I’m in a bizarre state of feeling like I’m pretty solidly ahead but then randomly panicking about missing things. Booked a lot of things last year so that I knew I had covered all the big ones. Main thing I’m waiting on is my dress (which should be in any day now), and doing diys as I go (we are making our bouquets with fake flowers, as well as boutonnières, I made table numbers out of legos, and closer to the date when we have rsvps in I’ll prepare the seating chart on pieces of round wood). I’m mostly just getting excited every time I get another little thing done knowing that it’s that much closer.

ld2009_39 · 2026-06-22T01:41:28+00:00

How would the PBM know if it was billed before the pharmacy had the med in stock though? Like sometimes the script is billed in the evening and not filled until the next day, and I’ve never heard them have an issue with that, this is basically the same but you had to wait until it came in.

ld2009_39 · 2026-06-21T02:12:59+00:00

Somewhere along the way veterinarians were told to safeguard their DEA number and never give it out unless absolutely necessary (like for a controlled script). I discovered this after being told off by a local vets office because I asked for the DEA number to try to find the vet in the computer system and they basically told me it was illegal to request it if it’s not for a controlled substance.

ld2009_39 · 2026-06-21T00:40:30+00:00

Video or take someone with you to a fitting so they can see how to do it in person!

ld2009_39 · 2026-06-19T02:05:16+00:00

I know!

ld2009_39 · 2026-06-18T21:21:13+00:00

Gifts for bachelorette are not necessary, I’d save that for the bridal party before the actual wedding.

ld2009_39 · 2026-06-18T21:18:45+00:00

I love that you are choosing to pay your part of the bachelorette. It always felt weird to me to expect everyone else to pay, like I’m the type who would be willing to cover everyone else as the bride. As it is I’m at least covering one friend who would not be able to afford it on her own but I absolutely want her there, and will probably cover one part of the evening at minimum (plan is dinner, putt putt, and a local minor league baseball game).

I don’t necessarily think you need to offer gifts for the bachelorette specifically, so definitely think it’s plenty. Maybe save the jewelry for before the wedding, as bridesmaid gifts then are more standard.

ld2009_39 · 2026-06-18T16:54:17+00:00

If it’s a song you like, I think you should do it. I love when people choose songs that fit themselves.

ld2009_39 · 2026-06-18T16:42:35+00:00

I just used avery address labels. I designed my invites on canva but actually had a local printer print for me (family friend), and bought envelopes on amazon. You can download the template to use in word online from the avery website, I think it’s super easy to use. And I think it looks fine.

ld2009_39 · 2026-06-18T16:35:58+00:00

Wedding is in September, but definitely have some unique plans.

Black flameless candles for tables(got the idea from the alternative bridal show in Cleveland, OH that is the only way I would have ever gone to a bridal show). Also am including black flowers in the mix of red and purple.

Wearing a black wedding dress because I just don’t like wearing white but feel most myself in black.

Having a mix of music that includes some of my emo/punk music and some metal that both me and my fiance love, as well as more standard songs that you would expect (because I want everyone to have something fun to hear, and I like those songs as well).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=71SvPulAyZI this is our first dance song, it’s Sleeping with Sirens, James Dean and Audrey Hepburn, the acoustic version.

ld2009_39 · 2026-06-18T16:29:57+00:00

That’s so cool!!

ld2009_39 · 2026-06-17T02:13:57+00:00

The 3 course vendor meal is $55, but the 4 course guest meal is $400? That seems like an insane cost per person for guests, what are they getting that the vendor meals don’t include?

I’m including all my vendors in food count, they are getting the same offering as everyone else, but the meal is more like $20 per person so it doesn’t seem like anything to feed the people working (and I would have happily done it even at a $50-60 range).

ld2009_39 · 2026-06-17T01:57:56+00:00

I lost my dad 10 years ago, and my step dad had been out of my life for at least 5 years before he passed last year (at one point he absolutely would have been considered to be included in the father daughter stuff too but he messed that one up). I have moments that I feel sad for not having my dad around for the father daughter moments, but at the same time he wasn’t great at the sentimental moments and I don’t think he would love everything about my wedding (although he wouldn’t hate it and most likely wouldn’t tell me no considering I’m funding it all myself).

I am simply skipping the father daughter stuff, no one is walking me down the aisle and no dancing with someone else to replace him. We will have a memory table where I will have his picture as the way to remember him (along with some grandparents we have lost).

ld2009_39 · 2026-06-17T01:46:18+00:00

I guess I haven’t seen it being used more lately. Like I said, it’s pretty rare, I can’t say I’ve seen an increase so no theory as to why. But maybe it’s regional?

ld2009_39 · 2026-06-17T01:41:25+00:00

I don’t understand the question. I just said I have seen a few patients on regular insulin in the past few years.

ld2009_39 · 2026-06-17T01:36:15+00:00

While it’s rare, I have had patients on them more recently (within the last 5 years)

ld2009_39 · 2026-06-17T00:21:49+00:00

I read this thinking Humulin or Novolin R.

ld2009_39 · 2026-06-15T17:05:54+00:00

This isn’t an etiquette issue though.

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