In My Humble Opinion...

The following are some miscellaneous thoughts of mine regarding wedding planning. They aren't meant to offend anyone, they are just my opinions. Here they are...in no particular order.

• Return Address Labels - I don't like when couples send a wedding invitation with a return address label that makes it look like they already live together/are married. You know what I mean? When it's listed with their names as _____ & ______ _____________ and then their address. I don't think that's right. You can insert a card with your new address after you are married in the invitation so that people have it and can mail cards directly to you, or you could always just save those labels for your thank you notes.
• Wedding Colors - I laugh that people use whatever wedding colors are "in style". What is that about? Why wouldn't you use colors that have been your favorite your whole life? Or the colors you want to decorate your home in? The one thing that all "in style" weddings will one day be is "out of style". But if it's "your style", it never will.
• Invitation wording - I love creativity and personality! When considering the wording for your wedding invitations I think it's great to make it sound like you...on your best behavior! Don't even get me started on those invitations where the couple is "gettin' hitched" and so on. Ugh!
• Telling people what to give you. This one is a HUGE pet peeve of mine! Of course I have no problem with registering. I think people are really starting to appreciate not having to guess what to give. And it's one thing to encourage gift cards if you are getting married and then moving across the country or something. But I have seen wedding invitations that say (I am NOT lying) "In lieu of gifts the couple requests cash gifts in $20 increments". Are you kidding me???? Since when do you tell someone what gift to give you? What happened to being thankful for any gift at all??? And if you are going to be that...wretched, why not shoot for the moon and say "$100 increments? I have seen so many invitations like this lately. If it were my child, I would pull all funding from the wedding (not to mention my name from the invite) if they tried to pull a stunt like that. It is tacky and horribly rude! And in this economy where people are just trying to keep their house and keep food on the table, it is completely unacceptable!!

I'm done now.