Here is a budget idea for wedding party proposals! I went to the thrift store and found them picture frames that matched each person's aesthetic. Inside, I write out a little note that said, "I couldn't picture my day without you!" Then, after the wedding, I can gift them the photo of us to put in the frame.
After deciding between family only, best friends, and “if we add Julie, then we have to add Hannah” . Our wedding party grew way too big. SO we decided to just forgo a wedding party altogether. Way easier.
Yes. And so much cheaper... 😉 We got married without guests, just my wife and I. It was a great das! Then, we invited our family and friends seperately to dinner at a nice Restaurant to tell them and to celebrate. No wedding tax at all. Totally stress free and we saved so much money! Instead of a big wedding party, we treated ourselves to a fancy honeymoon. 😉👍
Although I married an American 32 years ago I planned our wedding less American style and thus saved us a boatload of money. (The only American "things" were him, his friends, the rings and the invitations.) My mother (being a semi-professional seamstress) made my dress and I bought shoes I could definitely wear again. So I had the wiggle room to pay for her dress and my dad's suit. There was a lot of pretty and delicious diy-ing and all in all I think we stayed well under $1750. You really don't need all the OTT stuff. (Considering that by the end of the 20th century 60% of all marriages ended in divorce, shouldn't we be re-thinking how we wed and spend more time etc on the marriage?)
Slightly mean thing to say but I think it applies to your point that people aren't going to change personalities just because you got engaged...no one cares about your engagement as much as you and your partner do. Doesn't make them selfish or bad people to have, just don't expect to show some bridezilla behavior and people tolerate it.
Ugh it seriously bugs me that your channel doesn’t have more subscribers. Your channel is so great, informative, entertaining and much needed for so many brides to be. I even started letting ads play (something I never do…like EVER) because you mentioned in a video that it helps pay the bills (which I didn’t even think of like that). So even if no one else tells you, I appreciate you Jamie for all that you do for us subscribers!! God bless you and your lovely (humans…lol) family ! 💯🙏🏽♥️
Her first tip was the reason my parents decided a month out of my wedding to not pay for what they had already committed to pay for and that included the venue and a couple other vital aspects that we couldn’t afford(and they knew that) 😒😠. I’m not bitter at all. It didn’t make a difference though, we eloped with just our daughter and we’re having a vow renewal now that we’ve been married for 10years.
Regarding youngsters in the bridal party: We are having our ring bearer's grandparents sit strategically to "catch" the little one if he doesn't make it to the front or if he's too antsy to stand there with us.
When you've been a fan for a while now and still aren't even engaged 😂 and there's an AWESOME special offer for your programs. Hopefully when I do finally get engaged you will still be doing amazing offers! Love you Jamie!
Hello, I thought I'd share a "wedding party" idea! Just like in Jamie's video, we had budget concerns (not only for us but didn't want to burden members), an unbalanced number on each side (2:5), fiancé also wanting just us two at the alter and sweetheart table, drama, etc. We thought up a few plans like the ones Jamie mentioned (get your own attire, one line procession that circles around to sit, etc). I brought up possibly forgoing the wedding party to my planner but also mentioned my lingering feelings of wanting to get ready with company and taking wedding party photos. She suggested having "VIP guests" as an option whom we would invite for lunch/tea time during getting ready hours and take group photos with before the ceremony without stressing about what to do "formally" for the wedding. We still haven't decided but we're thinking of doing that with one MoH and Best Man to help with my bouquet, dress, and rings.
i would like to hear your perspective on wedding trends. The ones you like, the ones you don't and why. I kind of feel lost with all the inspo and being unsure if i actually like sth. or if i just saw it on Pinterest so much that i know think its cool. would really appreciate your take on that.
Thank you for breaking the gender role myth for the bride & groom! I'm having both bridesmaids & bridesmen. There was once a bride who had 22 bridesmaids & while she had some of them at the alter with her & the other were standing on both sides of the aisle as Biblical Bridesmaids holding lantern to light the way for the wedding procession. Can society also stop telling brides it's all about them & that's their day when the fact of the matter is their wouldn't be a wedding in the 1st place if the groom hadn't proposed? It's the groom's day too & the wedding industry & society gases up so many brides then acts offend or put off when they turn into bridezillas. I am so glad you tell the truth when it comes to wedding planning
I'd love to see a video of different ideas of how to honor and include people who arent in your wedding party? For example my brother and I are very close but hes not much for public speaking and same with mine and my fiance's parents how do we honor these people without making them feel uncomfortable
I'm from Brazil and it's very interisting to notice the differences between the ceremony styles, like, the bridesmaids and groomsmen sit through the whole ceremony, they do not stand next to the bride and groom. And it's not a common thing to make them use a matching color or color palette, although it is becoming a trend recently... Other thing is, I never went to a wedding that has seating charts, the guests always sit wherever they want, the only reserved table is the family's table. The toast is not made by friends and family, the bride and groom give a quick speech and them everybody toasts and it's done!
I love your idea of mixing groomsmen and bridesmaids on each side! Never heard of that but I love the symbolism behind mixing families/friends. I am having just my two sisters and my fiancé is having his sister as the “Best Woman”. It’s keeping things super simple, which is extra nice when planning during the current state of the world.
Ah yes, planning during the plandemic...when undignified dignitaries could wed without (anti) social distancing and the daughters of kings got to throw birthday bashes -all while common folks were locked up in isolation inside our own homes.
I was the best woman at my brothers wedding. It was a last minute step in, but he confided that he wanted to do that in the beginning but he didn’t know you could have groomswomen (men & weddings lol) I was Sooo excited and our family/friends loved it, they were like “duh...y’all are two peas in a pod”.
Agree on all points. I asked everyone who would be offended if I didn’t do my confidence. One turned it down for financial reasons and we are still on great terms because I understand. So I have now have an equal number of bridesmaids to groomsmen. With her it would have been one more.
I so love your ideas on being more reasonable in regard to the wedding planner and wedding. I found your channel when looking for information on favors, so many of them are just thrown out and I have seen thrift store mugs as a take home and then the rest go back to a thrift, such a great idea. Going into the event with obligation on any side is not healthy. Another thing is that you do not have to invite children. Instead of the gifts back it off of expenses. We have a wedding venue near us, we cringe each time. Each event they do not consider parking and guests block fire lanes, alleyways, driveways and even get locked into gated lots. What is obvious to the event people may not be obvious to guests. In our case police and ticketing is often involved. Anything outside becomes litter so sparklers are found in landscaping, found by pets and in car tires. We are still finding gold confetti from three years ago. We often find monogramed things in the trashcans and our landscaping. People will carry it out-then toss it. Whole bouquets and even food is tossed onto storm drains or behind landscaping, think rats. BTW love your ideas on the suits, would also work for bridesmaid dresses, so considerate of all involved and I will share this on recycling pages. Goodwill has online options which might make it easier to find them. The other day out looking for gardening pots I found racks of Ballews/Memphis TN wedding dresses new with tags, also bridesmaid and short/long formals/prom dresses at a 'Discount Store'. $50 brand new wedding dresses, do some hunting, let me know if you want the contact information for this place. We love to enjoy a good wedding but to be honest investing in pre-marital counseling and full health physicals is a better investment in the long-term health of the marriage.
I'm already married but I still enjoy watching your videos and I agree with so much of this. Our groomsmen had mismatching suits (just told them all to buy a medium grey, looked beautiful in photos!). There were definitely some friends I still wanted apart of the day but we did not want a large bridal party so I asked other super close friends to do readings for us/ stand in as ushers to walk my mom, grandma and dog down the aisle. Haha.
On the point in matching outfits or not, we are having our ‘maids match for dresses but not accessories and our ‘men match ties but wear whatever suit they already have as long as it’s black. On special people not being included, my fiancé has 3 brothers and I have one. Neither of us have sisters, so we decided friends only for the bridal party since balance was important to us. Besides, most of our brothers are very shy and not good in front of people, so the less unwanted attention the better. Also my fiancé wanted one of his best friends to be a groomsman, but this guy is in the military and doesn’t have his schedule nailed down yet (he’s still in training). We’re still not sure if this friend will be able to make it at all, but he still very special to us. Lastly, on gifts: We decided to not get proposal gifts and instead are going to give more meaningful and hopefully useful gifts at our Bachelor(ette) parties. As for how I asked, I asked my MoH in person while we were hanging out one day and my two bridesmaids on the phone since they live farther away. My fiancé did something similar.
Oh my gosh! I'm planning my wedding for 2023 and I've been wanting to buy the master plan but I don't want it to go away before the big day! This bundle would be amazing!!!! (My fiance and I are paying for everything ourselves so we pushed the date out to allow us plenty of time to save and budget)
My fiancé and I are only doing one and one wedding party. He chose his dad and I went with my sister so I wouldn’t upset to of my friends. And I’m okay with that.
Can you please do a video on how to move on from your wedding? I just got back from my wedding in a warm, nice country. No honeymoon due to covid, and I can't stop dreaming of our wedding but also think of the negatives of the day, which are the things that didn't go right.
OMG Jamie! I needed this video today! I’ve been planning my bridal party and struggled so much! This video helped me figure out a lot of things. Thank you for making videos for us budget brides who can’t afford a wedding planner/ coordinator! 💕💕
👏 👏 Great tips! We're having 2 maids of honor, 1 best man, 1 ring bearer, 3 flower girls & 2 super Jr bridesmaids. 😁 It's going to be great. I was going to have my sisters as my bridesmaid's but they're already going to be part of everything and we're already all bridesmaid for my other sisters wedding so I decided to keep my party small and just incorporate my nieces, nephew and God Daughters.
Every time I watch these vids . I go back to my vision board and delete stuff . I'm a minimalist, Yet still trying navigate that same idea w. Planning a wedding and reception.
Im so glad for this channel lol My bridesmaids range from 24-54 and I’m 29. My mom and sister are being a pain in the ass about half of my choices 🤦🏼♀️
We've rented an airbnb for our wedding. It's a large house with a yard. We'll be having 50ish guests and the vibe is very casual. But I'm struggling with ideas for how I can decorate the inside of the house to make it look a little fancier. Tips for a backyard/airbnb wedding would be awesome. I know you have a video on the bigger aspects of it, but decorating is where I'm lost.
Hi Jamie, as covid is still a very real thing and still all look uncertain, I would (and I think other brides) like some guidance on "covid contingency planning" in the form of a Jamie video! What are some of the options (even though those are ever changing), how to address it, what to do it you don't want to replan, etc. You're channel has taught me so much and given me so much guidance already, thAnk you!!!
I went to my uncle’s wedding and it was like 14 people going down the aisle and kissing the groom and each had a song. I was super bored. It took forever.
I am 50 my fiance is 26. My Maid of Honor is going to be 18. His Best Man is 16. These kids look at me like a second mom. They look at my fiance as a brother. Their dad, my best friend, is one of my attendants. One of his attendants is female (she was my friend first but she is closer to him than me, they are mideval fighting buddies). My flower man is in his 30's. His ring beareress is his 21 year old sister.
Yes!!!! Love this video!!! I know I’m going to be having less people on my side and for some reason, I do feel weird about it. I think I’m going to have some guys on my side, some girls on his side so it evens it out and mixes it up!! Love this!
Am I the only one that never thought the bride picks all the girls and the groom all the guys? I've always thought it was a beautiful blend of your support systems. Oh man- the Martha Stewart thing: when did bridal parties go from "Yes I will be at your bachelorette & keep you calm the morning off & be your personal Barbie doll." to "You have to help me pick colors, go to dress fittings, make placecards, etc."???
I had the wonderful idea 💡 of a spring wedding during Covid and I love planning and I’ve got that handled but as my engagement party showed I can’t do it alone when it comes to execution. It was a massive disaster.😩🥺
EVERY other society outside the US pays for the wedding party's outfits. I personally think it's in very poor taste to expect your wedding party to pay for their outfits
Hannah McCormick It's not like that in all American weddings. But in my "half American" wedding we paid for the dresses. (There were just two. As you can see I'm not American by birth so I didn't want an all-out American wedding to begin with.)
So my MIL to be is 60 and stuck on trends back when she got married I've told her weddings is sim different in today's world but omg she is driving me up a wall but I love her lol
We're eloping, but I still want a bachelorette weekend. The ladies would be my bridal party, but since we arent having a bridal party, I'm not sure what to call them. Head party goers? Chief attendees?
I wish I would’ve been able to find this video before my sister got married because she made me the maid of honor and I had no idea how to do a lot of the stuff when it came to weddings because it’s just not my thing .is she thought like I was gonna literally pull a miracle out of my behind
JAMIE! My Daughter and I both recently got engaged. We’re having a DOUBLE WEDDING, and couldn’t be more excited. Do you have any tips? Have you ever planned a double wedding? Please help us! 🙈😂❤️
Love your videos. Me and my man eloped this past December and were going to do a reception in April. Do you have any tips about how this could go?? thank you!!
I asked 3 of my bridesmaids in person. Empty handed. I asked 1 bridesmaid and *my MOH* over the phone... I told them all I'll buy their dresses for them (I feel bad putting financial burden on them...) but feeling like a huge asshole for not giving them *something* when I asked. Thinking I'll give them all a gift at the bachelorette?? 😬🥺🤦♀️
2 of my 3 bridesmaids dropped out but my FH still has his 3 guys and I just want to cancel the wedding party 😓 We don't even know if we can get married in May or not. we already postponed from May 2020 😥
Houston we have a problem! I overspent on my wedding budget. I had a bigger budget pre-covid and that has now changed and deposits have already been put down... what do I do?!?!?!
Oh shoot! Maybe just call the people you have already paid and explain the situation? Maybe you can come up with a plan that will cut costs, such as doing a buffet rather than a plated dinner, for example. In my experience, vendors are usually pretty nice and understanding about budgeting, especially since everyone suffered financially this year.
Hey Jamie! I am wanting to be a wedding planner when I grow up and I am just wondering what kind of degree if any do you have? I am wanting to know where to start with this journey!
I know there are small certification programs ☺️ It will look good to say you are certified. But I think this kind of job is something you can learn a lot about just from watching videos on here and maybe getting a job with a planner for a time?
i know you said age doesnt matter within a bridal party, but do you think it'd be odd if there's like an odd person out? my fiance and i each decided on a maid of honor and a best man and 4 bridesmaids and 4 groomsmen. my maid of honor is 18, one bridesmaid is 19, one is 18, and one is 17. By the wedding my maid of honor will be 19, and ill have a 20 year old, 19 year old, and 18 year old bridesmaid. I want to include my cousin but my cousin is 36. She's already a very self conscious person bc she's plus sized, do you think she'd feel like she sticks out as a 36 year old bridesmaid next to a bunch of teenagers, and is there a way to make her blend in so she wouldn't feel like she sticks out?
As much as I hate it, my wedding is in August and I have 3 girls and he has 2 guys. When walking together the groomsman will have 2 bridesmaids on each arm. We also might ask a girl friend of ours to be on the grooms side bc he's really close with her but what do we call her not a groomsman or bridesmaid idk
I've asked my adopted mother and my future father in law to walk me down the aisle and my father in law to do the father daughter dance with me as my father is no longer with us.
Hi , im new to your channel & have a question. I am the mom to the groom & they would like for me to plan the wedding & make sure everything is going as needed but how could I do this without missing this special moment in my sons life. I feel honored to help out but I also don't want to miss out aswell.. Any advice (on top of this my soon to be daughter inlaw would like for her mother & I wed them) I need your guidance/ advice 🙏 ❤ thank you or anyone 😊 for yoyr input
What would you suggest for someone possibly planning a digital wedding? I'm thinking about using Wedfully which it seems like an amazing company curious of your thoughts on it? Or do a virtual vow with an officiant and do the zoom myself rather than hiring a company? Since some of my family is overseas in Europe.
One of my best friends is super flakey. I wanted her to be my bridesmaid, but I don't wanna go through the pain and be upset when she keeps being herself and not showing up, so she can just be a guest at my wedding. That way, it wont be as much of a problem if she doesnt show. Or shows up 2 hours late. Or whatever.
@@YourDailyDoseofJillish , I say that to any person who calls me Jill rather than Jillian . Nevertheless, Jilly bean is a nick name my father gave me and has followed me through out my life. I personally love it .
@@jillianchaloux6186 yeah, I think my Mom started calling me it. Also random people start calling me it even if they dont know its my nickname. Jilly Bean or Miss Jill.
I was wondering if you could help me out with a question 🙂 my wedding has been a long time coming. My fiancé and I where engaged on Christmas Eve 2019. We where supposed to get married in March of 2020 however unfortunately our wedding venue burnt down in the summer bush fires (we’re from Australia). Because of this and the short time we had to find another venue we ended up having to postpone our wedding, which caused us to loose a lot of money on deposits, save the dates etc. Our wedding was then set for September 2020 at a new venue with another deposit paid COVID struck us and changed our previously planned wedding of 160 guests to a 10 people maximum with no dance floor. With just our siblings outnumbering 10 people we once again postponed and lost another deposit. Now we have a new date set for 4th of Sept 2021. However as we’ve lost so much money on our previously planned weddings we want/need to cut our budget by cutting our guest list to 100. We managed to come up with the list however we’re concerned about offending people that we don’t invite this time around, especially as we have already set out one set of save the dates (for the first wedding) and assume these people are still expecting an invitation to the actual wedding. What do I do to tell these guests that we’ve had a change of circumstances and they are no longer invited. PLEASE HELP! P.s. I think you are just the most beautiful human ever!
sending ❤️❤️ from WA!! I’m sure people would understand given you are on attempt #3. - my fiancé & I are trying to keep our list to around 50 & had been considering having a post wedding party where those people we can’t invite to the wedding have a chance to celebrate (ie super cheap party that doesn’t require feeding everyone!!) ... maybe try to involve the people you cut in some form like that so they know they are still special but that given the circumstances you can no longer have as many for the actual wedding? good luck for a better 2021 ❤️❤️
Nice ideas I don't think having a grandma as a bridesmaid would work like at the wedding sure but like going to the strip club getting drunk for the party before hand don't see you wanting her to be there for that
#9: You don't have to have a wedding party at all! ♥️ We are not having a wedding party because why bother defining roles? I don't want to put that added responsibility on people. I can still "get ready with my girls" if I want to without having them stress over a dress and standing up there with me. Sounds uncomfortable and unnecessary.
I decided to not have a bridal party after my cousin's wedding. After being a bridesmaid a few times, I figured I was just a picture filler. I could be doing better things on the morning of the wedding than waiting around for picture taking. I told my best cousin and long time friends that I'm not having bridesmaids. They were disappointed but l just don't want to waste their time and I really want to be alone and just with my sister before my wedding.
Also another myth: your MOH has to plan your bachelorette. I LOVE planning trips and I also have a slight issue with relinquishing control over a day that matters so much to me. So I took the responsibility of planning all the details of my bachelorette party but I included my MOH in building the Pinterest board for inspiration. This allowed her to be involved but not responsible which took stress off her too.
I am the same way and am planning my bachelorette party! Nice to know I'm not the only one lol. I am of course including my MOH and bridesmaids for ideas and fun things to do but they were happy and releived to let me plan most of it
Thank you, its something I've thought about because I too love planning trip and want to enjoy what is done without telling my MOH/bridesmaids what to do/plan so maybe I'll follow your lead or all plan it as a group. Plus even though I know my girls I haven't picked a MOH yet and not sure if I plan to.
I've been one of two groomsmaids in a wedding, she and I wore the same as the men from the waist up (our jackets however were tailored for women) and Calvin Klein pencil skirts that were dead ringers for the jacket material. It turned out great and the bride loved it 😁
For my cousin’s wedding (which is the best wedding I’ve ever been to) she had two official bridesmaids but then like 5 other “girl gang” members, we all wore blue dresses but they were slightly less fancy than the BMs. The groom only had one man, and it was the bride’s step father. He was great, the whole wedding was great even though it basically was all 90% planned and put in place in less than two weeks. 😅
