What was the craziest advice or suggestion you got?

What was the wackiest, weirdest or most off-the-wall advice you got while planning your wedding, regardnig your wedding? Crazy ideas? Crazy concepts? Insane reception ideas? Odd food suggestions? Let's hear it!





For me: my mom swears up and down I don't have to get my hair done for the wedding. She thinks I can just wash it, dry it and stick the veil in it. I think she is crazy. My hair is and always has been absolutely insane, curly and huge. Oddly, this is the only thing she has a strong opinion about. Go figure lol...What was the craziest advice or suggestion you got?
A co-worker told me to lie to the priest during our meetings with him. Gee, I'll really have to think about that. Especially considering the source - a woman who wants to get a divorce but says she can't afford it. Instead, she stays married and dates a super-rich guy who is also married to somebody else all the while still sleeping with her husband who has no idea that her ';overnight shifts'; are not actually for work so she can ';keep the peace at home.';





Perhaps getting married wasn't in her best interest. I wonder what would have happened if she'd told the priest the truth...?What was the craziest advice or suggestion you got?
Great question. For me, because I am Catholic and my fiance is Methodist, his mother suggested that we marry in a Lutheran church so that we can ';compromise'; on our religion. I found that a little ridiculous.





My friend suggested that I just buy a white prom dress instead of a wedding dress to save money. Um, hello, people would notice, especially since my wedding is pretty formal.





My mom feels that I don't owe my bridesmaids anything, and suggested I get them all a $10 candle. I told her that they have all spent over $100 on their gowns and accessories, and three of them have to fly to get here and they are hosting my shower, but she still doesn't think gifts for them are a necessity, especially for my two sisters.
It's not so much that it was crazy advice, but that people were actually offended when I wouldn't accept their advice (even online folks). I made my own wedding dress and people thought I was insane. It was fabulous. It wasn't that hard. You wouldn't BELIEVE the negative comments I got from people about making your own wedding dress. Even on Yahoo!Answers when someone asked about making their own, I got many thumbs down when I said ';SURE! You can do it!';. I'm not even a great seamstress and someone bought my dress already (Tudor recreation) for $700.





On the whole though, I got a lot of terrific advice on Yahoo!Answers from do-it-yourself-for-less-money allowing me to stay in budget.
At my wedding, my first maid of honor didn't show up. The flowers weren't the flowers I asked for. My cousin didn't have music ready. Then, there was the part where my husband's cousin covered our car in butter, cheese, and hot dogs. That, of course, led to a shouting match and a near fist fight. Which led to my husband's grandmother refusing to be in any of our wedding pictures...I guess because she thought covering the car with butter was perfectly all right.


I didn't get much advice from my mother, because I had heard her for my sister's previous two weddings. The first one she suggested using potpourri instead of rose petals, so every step my sister took crunched.


I felt bad, but my mom was elected to bring chairs and that was about it.
My husband's uncle pulled aside at the reception and gave us advice on our marriage. Cherish each other everyday, always say I love you, etc.





All pretty good sounding advice but this is coming from a man on his second marriage whose current wife NEVER comes around to family gatherings or spends time with him and I believe he's had numerous affairs. Thanks - I think we'll figure it out on our own!
someone told me that the brides maid is more important than the maid of honor and i read about one bride using live gold fish in bowls as their centerpieces/ favors at the end of the night every one got to take home their fish may i sarcastically say 'yay'
To buy a gown that exceeded my entire budget. I couldn't believe anyone would pay that much for one dress.





Then I saw the show ';Say yes to the dress.';, and saw people buying dresses that cost more than my first car.
That isn' the craziest I've heard...my family was pretty good through it all, but HIS family.. oy.. his aunt was stuck on doing a great big cheesy rose infested bouquet for me.. GAG..


It was hard to convince her that It really wasn't my taste or desire, I think she tried for months
lol my cuzzin when she was getting married we were looking or bridemaids dresses and my stupid aunt decided so that everyone save money that we all go in diffrent dresses and this other girl did not have mmoney so her bridesmaid dress was in white =/
my dad's advice...';Don't take my advice.';
my FMIL suggested not to have flowers during the wedding coz they cost too much haha
I went for a make up trail downtown Toronto; it was someone who my mom suggested. I asked the make up artist (if you can call her that) to make me look natural and fresh with a nice bridal glow! a bit like the natural look of the cover girl ads. Well I don鈥檛 know what she did but she was actually using what looked like a small paint brush and painting on the foundation! She used this vibrant Blue eyeliner, about four different colors of eye shadow. It was horrible. I was scared to even look in the mirror because my head felt five pounds heavier from all the make up. I did look, and I was in shock. My mother suggested that I let her do my make up for the wedding and that it looked natural!!!! There was nothing natural about it; I looked like a show girl! I couldn鈥檛 believe she even suggested that I show up at my wedding looking like I just did Las Vegas show!
This isn't crazy advice, but it's just kind of one of those no-brainer things. When we first started planning the wedding, my FMIL (I love her to death, seriously) would suggest the most obvious things that brides-to-be already know. We were looking for a hotel to get a block of rooms, and she said: (knowing full well we were going around asking for their group rates) ';make sure you tell them you're booking a few rooms because sometimes hotels will discount the price.'; Ok, great idea, thanks! :)





Then there was my friend who thought that I didn't need to be considering anyone's feelings, as long as it made my life easier. We're having a beach wedding and I had to think about getting chairs, etc. She suggested making all of our guests stand, because, ';screw them, they can stand for a few minutes.'; Ok, tell that to my 84 year old future grandma who uses a walker. And ';you don't need to feed them, save your money.';





Other than that, though, I've been pretty lucky with people staying out of it or offering constructive criticism.
My MIL suggested that I should ride the limo with everyone else from the hotel to the venue, get this, two hours before the wedding.





They hired the limo from 3 pm till midnight and wanted me to ';wait'; for the limo and drive with them at 3 pm and only have 1 and 40 minutes to get ready in the bridal suite (ceremony at 5 pm). I politley declined as I needed more time to get ready, but they INSISTED that I should ride the limo and they were not letting go!. I was sooo enfuriated that I used the ';this is my wedding, I do what I want'; card... I mean, come'on ...what bride gets ready in an hour and a half????





Another one, my MOH (bless her heart) hands me a glass full of beer right before the ceremony. Here we are in the limo with my sparkling, brand new wedding gown, and she hands me a hand full of beer on a moving vehicle????? I handed out to someone else without making a fuss. I know that she meant well, but I did not want a spill on my dress 30 seconds before the ceremony!!!!





Good luck
My fiance tried to tell me we didn't need any flowers! lol! Of course I made sure that we will have an abundant amount of flowers!