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Tag - Parents in Wedding Planning

Parents are key stakeholders in weddings but they can be a huge source of stress. When todays weddings look nothing like the weddings of their day, assumptions about what the wedding should be may play a huge role in the stress and conflict. Add the enormous financial burden of weddings today and it's amazing anyone survives intact.

The First Dance in Today's Complex Family

Wedding Budget

Handling Differences with Your Family

Whose Wedding Is It?

So Many Decisions, So Many People

Intro to our book: Take Back Your wedding

Eloping: Avoiding or Stirring Up Family Drama?

The Competitive Side to Wedding Planning: Comments by singles, engaged, and married friends or family

The Hour of Engagement Bliss

What Deciding on the Guest List Can Teach You About Marriage

Top Wedding Mistakes - Inviting Children?

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- Elizabeth Doherty Thomas, is a co-founder of The First Dance, along with Marriage and Family therapist father Dr. William J. Doherty.  The First Dance was a Modern Bride Trendsetter award winner in 2007 for taking on the complex family dynamics of wedding planning.  Read Take Back Your Wedding: Managing the People Stress of Wedding Planning for more advice on working through the people stresses of wedding planning as a couple, with your families, and how to strengthen your upcoming marriage through this enormous first task of married life.