Support and Planning Tips for the MOG
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If you are a mother of the groom after the wedding and you feel like something is wrong with you, I want you to stop right there. Nothing is wrong with you. What you are feeling is real, it is valid, and almost nobody talks about it. Not because it does not happen, but because…
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…
Nobody warned me about this part. I knew things would be different after my son got married. But grieving your son’s marriage while being genuinely happy for him? Nobody prepares you for that. He was building a life with someone, and that was exactly what I raised him to do. I was proud of that….
This is the day you’ve been building toward for decades. You belong in it, completely, without apology. There’s a quiet thing that happens to a lot of mothers of the groom somewhere in the middle of the wedding day. You’re standing there watching your son, and you feel this wave of emotion rising up. And…