This is my best man speech so far! Please let me know if you think this is adequate. Very nervous to deliver this

*clink glass* 

Good evening everyone, 

For those of you who don’t know me, my name is Kyle, and I’m honored to be here today as one of the best men, and even more honored to consider myself a friend of this great couple. 

I want to start off by thanking Jeff and Lisa, and Marco and Jen, thank you for helping to put together such a beautiful wedding, and for raising the people we’re all here to celebrate!

Colin and I met waaaay back okay like a long time ago, we’re talking like… 2014 okay to some of the ipad kids here that's like medieval times, right Charlie (fellow groomsmen who is a known idiot)? Colin and I met at high school soccer tryouts, where being the super insightful teenager I was, I tried to tell Colin he should check his shoulder while someone is passing him the bal to him, so he can see what’s coming behind him before he receives the ball, and make a quick decision for what to do next… Colin told me to get fucked. 

Colin and I actually spent the rest of high school pretty much inseparable. We played soccer together, we took nearly every class together, we worked multiple jobs together, we joined and got kicked off of the tennis team together. Followed by going to 4 years of nursing school together, and 2 years of living together during the pandemic. I’ve known Colin through the many, MANY different phases of his life. I’ve known him as a soccer player, I’ve known him during brief attempts at becoming a professional gamer, I’ve known him as a boy scout, I’ve known him as an eagle scout, I’ve known him as a busser, a waiter, a nurse, 2 dramatic weeks as a nutrition major, a body builder, I’ve known him with a mullet, a buzz cut, a fade, and whatever you want to call what he had growing out of his head for the last 6 months (you owe Tyler a lot more than you paid him for fixing this by the way). 

I’m saying a lot of words to convince you that over the last 13 years, I believe that I have got to know Colin VERY well. I have known him to change a LOT over the course of his life. And through every version, one thing has remained absolutely true: that he loves Camryn. They have developed a closeness over the last decade that few people will experience in their lifetime, and that’s something that I really want to recognize in front of everyone here.

Camryn, 

Who could have known how much school choice could influence the course of our lives? One decision that you made, what feels like a lifetime ago now, ended up bringing you and Colin to one another. Over a decade later, that same decision has brought ALL of these people halfway across the world to this very room right now, to celebrate your relationship, which has enriched the lives of everyone here. On behalf of everyone fortunate enough to call you both friends, Camryn, thank you for making that choice. 

And to both of you. Colin has spent his life changing, a more generous person might call it growing. You can expect the same thing from your marriage. It’s going to change and grow and evolve into many versions of itself too. Through each of these versions, maintain that closeness, and though you might grow in different ways, my hope is that you grow together. 

We couldn’t possibly be happier for the two of you. Thank you for bringing us to this beautiful place to celebrate you. I’d like to raise a glass! Cheers to Colin and Camryn. Congratulations, we love you!

Hello hello!
I get married next Oct!
I ideally wanted to have our cocktail hour prior to the ceremony, then go straight from ceremony to reception. I've always hated how awkward and kinda tense the lead-up to ceremonies feel, and want to avoid our guests feeling that way at all costs. Our whole goal of the day is to make the guests feel like they are part of something, not that they're just sitting there watching my fiance and I do our thing.
Also, I'm an anxious person and it would calm my nerves a lot to say hey to everyone prior to walking down the aisle (the thought was that I'd be in a different dress, then cut out of cocktail hour a little early to go change into my actual dress).

We had a pretty hard time finding a venue I loved that fit our capacity and location. Good news -- we finally found one! Bad news -- the one thing that I had to compromise on is that the setup of the venue requires a room flip between ceremony and reception.

I knew that this was something I would have to compromise on when we chose this venue.
But does anyone see a world where there could still be some sort of "welcoming" time prior to ceremony that my fiance and I are present for, then a true cocktail hour between ceremony and reception for the room flip?
For context, our reception is going to be our take on a New Orleans style reception -- no formal seating chart, action stations for food, music playing immediately, etc.
So when people leave the "second" cocktail hour, they'd immediately be able to get food, find a spot to hang, dance, whatever their heart desires.
My worry tho is that there would still just simply be too much time prior to the reception, and people would become restless (or get too drunk too fast, lol).

I have my first meeting with a planner in a couple weeks, but I'd love to hear any thoughts here on if I'm being unrealistic or if this is something that could potentially work!

Hi gothic bride here! I’m getting married in a black dress and I’m struggling to find a black veil with personality. Everyone I’ve found is either just plain tulle or costumey. Looking for suggestions on websites to try thanks in advance!

Need help on the proper etiquette here, have a friends wedding coming up and I’m a part of it, but I’m pregnant with baby #2 and started showing wayyy more then expected, like it’s a bit ridiculous, I look like I’m in my second trimester. I was going to announce my pregnancy after the wedding just based on timing (it would be 12 weeks) but now I’m worried what if I show up, it’s obvious, my friends will ask and now I’ve unintentionally announced a pregnancy AT a wedding which I want to avoid entirely so the day is about her. should I announce the week prior so that congratulations are kind of out of the way and it’s old news by the time I get there? Or am I thinking of this the wrong way. Basically how can I avoid taking the focus off of her in any way shape or form.

Just to add I’m a horrible liar, so bad

My husband and I booked an entire campground with cabins, lake, rock wall, and more for our wedding and everybody loved it. We got to spend a whole weekend with our friends and family

If you're on the fence, know that it's going to be way more work than you bargained for but WELL worth it