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One thing I thought my FI would totally latch onto was the food, but I've had to fight every step of the way to really get him thinking about stuff. Luckily I think we've got it figured out AND it's definitely worthy of a "culinarian".
THe first odd thing that my FI has spoken up on happened today. Sure, he was opinionated about the limos, cake, and some other items, but he insisted on buying my shoes for me.
It is rather sweet though, he wants us to have 'matchin shoes' for the wedding. He will be in his white uniform and wants me to wear the white pumps tha female officers wear. How can I say no to his puppy eyes? :)
Haha..these are all too funny. I have an opinioned FI on my hands...
Save the Dates- he HATES the onces I picked because they had a belly band. He lost that battle, but his friends love giving him crap about the belly band because they know it makes him upset.
Invites- they had to be pocketfold (and they are). No calligraphy, no floral anything.
Cake- he wanted to have donuts instead of cake. But my grandmother is paying for it, so we are having wedding cake and using donuts as favors instead.
Colors- no purple, no pink, no yellow, no orange. So basically, my choices were red, blue or green :) I went with mint green and silver, so far he seems pretty happy with that.
Venue- omg, venue shopping was tough. He insisted on looking at every venue with me and my mom. Nothing traditional anywhere, or he would nix it.
Photographer- no corny poses. He isn't super excited about our photographer, but I've sold him on it because they are a couple and they are only charging us $500 with full printing rights for 6 hours.
Mine is pretty willing to let me do what I want....but! There were 2 things (actualy 3) that he will not give up on... Me wearing my hair down and the garter/bq toss. I had at one point gotten him to agree that if I let him add one set of people to our wedding party we could do away with the nast garter/bq thing...but some how both were snuck in some how. The hair thing is not so bad untill he decided he wanted me to let it grow out some more. Wedding is in 2 weeks and I kid you not the hot, too curly mass will be chopped the day after before we leave for the honeymoon.
Of all things, he is MOST adamant about my dress (I thought I got to pick it? lol), he is insistent that it have straps/strap of some sort and be within the 'white' family i.e.: he really doesn't like the idea of me wearing a red/yellow/green/purple dress (not that I had really planned on buying an orange dress or anything).
He was also really opposed me wanting bright blue or coloured shoes of any kind.
"Won't that be like, distracting or something? Aren't you worried about it not matching?"
Uh, yeah hun, that's kind of the point. XD
Colors- No pink. I have a Martha Stewart Wedding magazine that features pink weddings. I think some of the pictures really disgusted him for some reason and he is adamant against pink of any kind.
Invitations- He seems to think these are super important. I've been trying to tell him we should just get the cheapest ones possible since we don't have a large budget, and he gets upset.
My FI is very concerned about our guest book of all things. I told him I wanted to do away with it and his jaw about dropped. If I didn't tell him that I didn't want a guest book he probably would not have even thought about it. He says he wants to "Read guests signatures 20 years from now." I thought it was kind of funny/cute.
My FI is very concerned about our guest book of all things. I told him I wanted to do away with it and his jaw about dropped. If I didn't tell him that I didn't want a guest book he probably would not have even thought about it. He says he wants to "Read guests signatures 20 years from now." I thought it was kind of funny/cute.
Cake shape - Square Tiers. No discussion, he just stated that was what we were having. lol. Oddly enough, the baker said that was pretty common?
Oh, and he is paranoid about seeing my dress or hearing any details about it. Even if someone is looking at a picture or talking about it, he leaves the room. He just can't risk it. It's adorable. :o)
he HAD to have royal blue and HAD to have bluebonnets and for a fall wedding thats hard to pull off in a vineyard wedding
The main thing that my FI felt strongly about was sitting on the "stage" (like a platform thing that the fireplace is on) to eat dinner. I thought that we could sit in front of the doors for the breeze, but he wants us on the stage, so we are :)
He also wants the traditional guest book. We haven't decided on this though because I don't want to go that route! We'll see who wins this one ;)
Yesterday we purchased his suit--I called him in the afternoon to tell him that the store was having an awesome sale and we should go check it out in a few hours. He kind of whined and said he didn't want to go and why can't his sister and I just figure it out? He said he didn't have an opinion at all because he didn't know anything at all about suits--to which I explained there are people there that assist you and walk you through the process and the only way to learn how to do it is to go look around. I told him it would be better if he was there so we could get the correct fit and sizing, but he pretty much flat out refused and I was not in the mood to argue so I opted just to go and find something and deal with the sizing later.
So I met up with FSIL and we started looking around. Ten minutes later, FI strolls in out of the blue; turns out FMIL had called him while I was out, he had told her where I was, and she told him he needed to go. (Thank you FMIL!) We find a nice suit, and we turn to ties. I ask him what he likes, he says he doesn't care at all, so we wander around and I grab a few to try on.
I guide him toward the cufflinks, show him a few that looked nice. He doesn't really look at all and then out of the blue says "This is the one thing that I get that will be 'me", since you get to choose everything else... You don't even get to see them beforehand."
He is completely serious and I know I give him a look like WTF, through this whole escapade I've been trying to see what you like and what you don't like because to be honest outside of a few parameters (navy blue and really large pinstripes, no thanks) I'm not particular what you wear, I just want you to be comfortable and happy with it. I chose stuff because you refused to. -eyeroll-
These are hilarious! My FI has left everything up to me, saying "as long as you're happy, I'm happy."
The only thing he had an opinion about came up when we were registering at BB&B (which I had to drag him to do; he couldn't figure out why I couldn't just go by myself).
Oddly enough, he was absolutely adamant that we register for a FOOD DEHYDRATOR. Seriously!? That's the only thing about the entire wedding he has any kind of opinion on? He is just ridiculously cute...he scoured the store for one, and when we couldn't find it he insisted on getting online to find one as soon as we got home...hahaha. Luckily, there was one on BB&B's website, so he's just as happy as can be 
.
Oh, the invitations. I'm so glad it isn't just me. It isn't the invitations themselves, he could care less about that, but he HAD to have the tissue paper that goes in the invitations or the world would end. My mom and I had ordered the invites and I didn't pay attention to see if they came with the tissue paper stuff because I really didn't care. After they were ordered, he went berserk about how we have to have the tissue paper stuff and we need the tissue paper stuff and if he remembered a wedding invite from 10 years ago with tissue paper stuff, then we NEED to have it. So, not thinking that the invites we ordered came with it, we ordered tissue paper stuff. We got the invites this weekend and they came with it. So now we have double. My mom and I told him that he needs to make us some kind of origami out of tissue paper because we have so much of it. He offered to make us a big ball of tissue paper. lol can't live with em...can't live without them.
OMG......
The location, since we live in the suburbs about 20mi from Chicago I was looking at our budget and trying to locate places out in the suburbs cause its less costly for the fourth of July weekend than Chicago would be.....NO we HAVE TO HAVE IT DOWNTOWN WE WILL BUDGET, he says.
Okay....But....
He says, No think of your family coming in from the east your mom and siblings would love to stay down there (awwww sweet right but what about the $$$)
I found a gem in the rough but geez.....
Oh and the colors I LOVE Purple he loves Blue....we have been and will be going to some weddings of close family and friends with the same colors I don't want to follow up with those colors so I suggest orange and yellow since its July and hot as hell the men could wear linen suits and my girls can wear tea dresses.....NO I want BLUE (AQUA) AND PURPLE!
Okay #$T ERVWQ GVQ#^#%T
And he wants me to share everything I come across wedding related, I am glad that he has some interest but in the beginning he said to me you just let me know what $$$ to write on the check....where did that go?
Chair covers are a must in my FI book! He is totally not happy about the garter throwing at all. Also I am making my flowers from crepe paper and FI is super excited about it. He is more for showing them off then I am. Also, with his eyes closed he had to touch my dress to make sure that it didn't feel weird.
This is my first post after spending a couple of days obsessing over this site... hahaha! This thread compelled me to register.
My FI is extremely opinionated and has "principles" when it comes to just about everything, which I find noble and cute when I'm in a good mood... and essentially @#$%-ing annoying when I'm stressed/angry/irritated. We seriously got into a major arguement about him wearing a tie at the wedding!! I brought it up to get his opinion, and he went off on a tirade about how he absolutely can NOT wear a tie. It's very frustrating.
I should add that my FI is European, a musical theatre actor/dancer/singer, and a bigger drama queen than me, hahaha. That's pretty much why I'm marrying him, because he brings out the calm, rational, non-dramatic side in me :)
Our wedding is in less than 2.5 months and in my home state (we're currently in Norway with his family), and at this point I'm nervous to even run anything by him... because my family back home is planning the entire thing, and going way out of their way to do so.
Is this a natural phase? Any advice from former brides-to-be would be great!
his ring, my dress!!!!! lol! and the food. he picked the entire menu :) which is fine since im kind of a control freak when it comes to everything else!
The centerpieces. We did a trial version for my bridal shower, and I sent him a picture. He liked it, but sent back some constructive criticism. Haha, I never would've guessed!
this are too funny. My FH picked the color and theme, actually. I was dead set on a crimson red (a color I happen to look good in) and tell my bridesmaids to wear black dresses with shawls I would buy. First of all, he argued, bridesmaids were SUPPOSED to be in all the same color. Excuse me? Then, he very patiently pointed out that my bridesmaids had red hair, blue eyes, and pale skin, then our college colors (where we are getting married) and the colors of his country's flag (Greece) are blue and white, AND both my mother and grandmother - also teachers and July brides, asked their wedding parties to wear blue. Out of shock, awe, whatever, I caved - and now that we are getting florists' quotes I keep turning to him and saying....'well, I wanted red!"
Oh, and a guest book? For some reason a guest book was non-negotiable. We needed one. I said "you're buying it." End of discussion.
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