Hi there, I'm just stepping in the conversation.

Me too I was pretty much by myself to choose my dress, my menu, my invitation template etc.
My parents just told me they would pay for nothing. Same for my family in law but for other financial reasons. Anyway, my fiance did help me quite a bit... But I would say that things are getting tense closer to the dates.

Because of the non implication of our family, and because one wants to invite 20 people at OUR expense (my mother in law too), my fiance and I are a little fighting.
It's always HIS family over mine, they can do pretty much what they want to, and he doesn't speak up when they do these kind of thing...

For example, we have a white and orange theme for our wedding, we are now 2 months and a half from it, the invitations are sent out (with the white and orange theme), and my MIL phones up my fiance to get 20 more invitations for her friends that I do not know at all (neither my fiance) and to say that the invitation looks "terrible and what an awful color orange, yuck yuck yuck, can you print some invitations but in green for me ??"...

OMG... I was so p****d. Anyway, my fiance came to me and tried to negotiate with me to change the orange color (that we had chosen together), just to please his mother, that I have only met once !

Things have been more or less solved, and the orange color remains... But now I feel my fiance less closer to me, and when I want to talk to him, he doesn't want to....

The problem is that his family is Italian, and when they talk, I can't understand a word... And it drives me a little crazy and I get a little paranoid .. Or is it the wedding stress ???


Anyway girls, hope all gets well with your weddings :-)

Brit.