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[happyweddingblogs]

What Is a Rehearsal Dinner? Everything You Need to Know

Learn what a rehearsal dinner is, who hosts it, who attends, when it happens, and expert planning tips to make your pre-wedding celebration

Rehearsal Dinner vs Reception

Confused between a rehearsal dinner and a wedding reception? Discover the key differences in this simple guide.

[mom-envy-blog]

If you want to be sure of receiving the right answer and time is not on your side, here is a guide on how to plan the perfect proposal.

If you are super productive and there are never enough hours in the day, proposing marriage is not something you want to spend days deliberating. It won’t help if you keep putting it off, as you will always have this nagging voice in the back of your mind, reminding you about the up and coming marriage proposal. If you want to be sure of receiving the right answer and time is not on your side, here is a guide on how to plan the perfect proposal.

[lifestyleadviceblog]

If you want to be sure of receiving the right answer and time is not on your side, here is a guide on how to plan the perfect proposal.

If you are super productive and there are never enough hours in the day, proposing marriage is not something you want to spend days deliberating. It won’t help if you keep putting it off, as you will always have this nagging voice in the back of your mind, reminding you about the up and coming marriage proposal. If you want to be sure of receiving the right answer and time is not on your side, here is a guide on how to plan the perfect proposal.

[ieventboutique]

"Don't just plan your wedding, plan your marriage." 👉#ieventboutique | Repost by @perfectweddingguide. #weddingplanning #wedding #engaged #yourweddingplanner #bestweddingplanner #marriageplanning #marriageplanner (at International Event Boutique)

[reviewsandthings]

Now that I have my prebaby body back, and baby girl is more independent we're starting to get back into planning #again #marriageplanning #toomuchwork #justthecourthouse

[thelearner]

Confronting the past.

Combing through past memories can be delightful. Seeing how far you've come and much you've grown is incredible. Even the smaller changes, like your vocabulary. My fiancé and I went searching for a status update he made on Facebook almost 9 years ago (long before I met him) and I was confronted with much of his past, specifically speaking, his past relationship, a seemingly serious one. Without getting into details.....eeeh who am I kidding? I live for details! Well, my fiancé, the love of my life, was previously engaged. I have known this since maybe....our 6 month anniversary. This, of course, was not information he offered, it was through my interest in his life before me that I came across some Tumblr (yes, Tumblr archives often snitches) posts in which he used the word "fiancée." Initially, when I asked him about being engaged, he said that it (the engagement, not the relationship) wasn't really serious, I gave hella side-eye. But I didn't beckon the issue any further as it was not really an issue at all. Again, he had a life before me and how can I be upset? Well, I was anyway. I may have been a tad bit petty. But today, while looking for that status update from 9 years ago, I saw many more posts about the fiancée and using that word. There many family members and friends congratulating the two on their engagement. Now I'm thinking, this seemed pretty serious. His cousin, my Soror, even offered to sing at their wedding! I'm not mad, again, I can't be, right? Had this been two or three years ago I may be mad. Heck, let me be honest, had this been a month ago (any day before May 14, 2016 at approx. 12 noon) I may have been mad. But! Alas, sometime after noon on May 14, 2016, he proposed to me. And! Whether or not his past engagement was serious or not....I no longer care. All I care about is walking down the aisle and saying "I do" to him on our wedding day. Because "I do" over and over again. I think that I have grown, and confronting his past is aiding in that growth and developing our relationship in intangible ways. Now, am I ready to confront my own past? Is he? Well that stands to be seen.

[thelearner]

Wife.

I keep saying, or hash-tagging "marriageplanning." But what does that mean? Here's the thing. I. Don't. Know. But what I do, is that if you keep God all up in it, you keep hate, jealousy, infidelity, dishonesty, bitterness, resentment, shame, sin, filthiness, other people, drugs, guilt, anger, depression, abuse, control and divorce all up out of it. I want to be an amazing wife, past the cooking and cleaning "duties" they keep trying to ascribe solely to the woman, I want to be the supportive wife when Bae decides to open his own business. Or the fasting wife when Bae and I need to make the mortgage. The praying wife when the kid(s) need this and that. The Bible reading/teaching/speaking wife when Bae is feeling down, angry or insecure. I think marriage planning is taking each other to the throne room and praying for guidance and ways to use your marriage to bless others and be a blessing to HIS kingdom. Marriage planning is asking God to give you the strength to be weak for your spouse. Marriage planning is remembering that the covenant is likened to the covenant of Christ (Groom) with the Church who is His Bride. There is so much scripture in this point that it cannot be ignored. But often, it is. Hmmm, I have a lot of material for Vows. Should I get started this early?

[thelearner]

you really don't know what you don't know

Thank God I am surrounded by and in constant contact with friends, Sorors and family who either just got married or who are a little closer to their wedding date (therefore further in planning) than me. I have all these wedding planning apps that have checklist on top of checklist, but no resource is better than someone who is living the checklist. Just today, a co-worker reminded me of several things about the wedding planning process that I did not think of....including gifts for the bridal party. There are so many gifts involved in getting married. Gifts to and from the bride and groom, but mostly to, which I ain't mad about. And then the whole something old, new, borrowed, blue and....do we jump the broom?! I don't know, I mean I know it's up to us, but I guess It's let's me know I need to do some research and reflection into my cultural history and whether or not to incorporate things of old....or leave them be....wherever they may be. Here's the thing though, I am black. And I just don't know what historical, deeply historical cultural marriage traditions run in my family. No one knows. So, maybe....ancestry.com? But who knows if that's accurate! But it's worth a try. At the end of it all, I know what's in Bible! And I do plan to honor my future husband by washing his feet after the ceremony.....dry it with my hair? Probably (definitely) not though. Haha