Support and Planning Tips for the MOG
How to support your son…you love your son. But somewhere in the middle of all the wedding planning, you realized something uncomfortable. You were making it about you. Not on purpose. But still. Most of us do it. We get our feelings hurt when we’re not included. We give opinions nobody asked for. We say…
Welcome to One Thing Wednesday — a series where I pull one item straight out of the Mother of the Groom Complete Planning Checklist and break down why it actually matters. No fluff. Just the stuff you need to know before you need to know it. Every single week I’m going to take one Mother…
If you are the mother of the groom planning a rehearsal dinner, let me save you some trouble right now. I did it myself. I cooked a full taco bar for a crowd (I had help), stayed on budget, and lived to tell about it. But I would do a few things very differently next…
I was not prepared for the silence in my own head when it came time to plan the rehearsal dinner. That’s how the Mother of the Groom Rehearsal Dinner Planner eventually came to be. I had my trusty MOG checklist, sure. But when I sat down to actually plan the thing? I needed more than…
Here is something I did not fully understand going into my son’s engagement. I assumed the mother of the groom rehearsal dinner was mine. Not in a demanding way, not in a controlling way, just in the way that water flows downhill. In the South, that is how it has always been done. The groom’s…