Brides: Here is how much influence your parents and in-laws should have on your wedding plans

One of the problems a couple would face during their wedding plans is the amount of external influences they would have to grapple with.

Many brides are familiar with this feeling. As the wedding day comes close, so do intents and advice and wishes multiply. Friends offer this and that advice, family members suggest various things that should add more colour and radiance to the big day… on and on goes the carousel.

While many of these projections can be brushed off when they come from these sources, it is not so easy to do so when they come from parents.

With a bride who is not so sure of what she wants, it’s actually very easy for parents to project so much of their desires on the ceremony that it may well be assumed that the wedding is a renewal of their vows rather than their child’s nuptials.

How much influence should your parents have on your wedding day?

It all depends on the disparity of their wishes and yours, to be very honest. If their wish is to have a ceremony that is totally, totally different from what you have dreamt of, taking on their wishes may be very difficult.

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