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Anyone getting married?

RainbowMama7RainbowMama7 member
in October 2015 Moms
My fiancée and I planned our wedding for April 2016 last November, January I was pregnant! So I will be having a wedding with a 6 month old...anyone else getting married soon after baby? How are you picking your dress? Are you getting a babysitter for the day to stay with your baby? Any other ideas? Lol with baby brain I'm totally forgetting planning the wedding!
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  • kfry22kfry22 member
    My brother in law and new sister in law got married when my nephew was six months old. She didn't show at all until the very end of her pregnancy and lost all the weight immediately so she went dress shopping about a month after he was born. If that's an option for you, five months is plenty of time to get a dress picked out, ordered, and fitted. They brought my nephew to the wedding and my father in law held him during the entire ceremony. He got passed around to all the relatives during the reception because many had not met him yet and we all live two to three hours from them. They wanted him at the reception for pictures. They backed a really complete and full diaper bag and left it somewhere easily accessible to family members in case he needed anything. They seemed to make it work, but then again this was a very small wedding with only 50 guests around lunch time and only took about 4 hours.
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  • Knottie86476496Knottie86476496 member
    We were planning to get married before we found out about Baby.  I actually want to get married before I have the baby for legal reasons.  If, got forbid, something happens to me during labor I want to make sure that my SO has the legal rights to the make decisions about my welfare, there is no questions about assets going to him, and no questions about paternity.  So we will go to town hall and do the deed.  I plan to sometimes after the baby is born doing a vow renewal or something more formal but I want to make sure legal rights are established before our little girl comes.  I also right now would rather spend my money on the baby then a wedding.  

    I would suggest having your baby there.  I agree that maybe you can find a trusted friend (or even a babysitter) to take care of the little one during the ceremony. I would think you want a few photos with him/her.  Just a suggestion though, if you take pictures maybe have a cute blanket between you and baby in case it spits up.  You certainly wouldn't want to ruin your dress and the flashing lights and all the excitement might make baby a bit more fussy.  I'd also see if your location can have a quiet room so the baby can nap or if it gets to fussy the designated person can remove the child and let the focus be on you and not a crying baby.
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  • RainbowMama7RainbowMama7 member
    Sorry probably typed that wrong, totally would want baby there for pictures and a good portion of day, just trying to figure out if I should hire babysitter to spend day there for help because would feel bad making my family responsible and want them to enjoy the wedding too. I was thinking I could set up pack and play in bridal suite for naps and have someone stay with him when napping, etc. I would honestly rather spend $ on baby now too and have same worries about SO and having legal rights, etc. but I already paid deposits on everything pre baby! Attaching outfit I'm thinking of getting for him. Want him comfortable and don't want to put him in suit or something like that
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  • jenn2132jenn2132 member
    I'm planning my vow renewal for September 2016 so LO will be almost a year. It's going to be very small just immediate family but we plan to do it out of town so there will be some planning into it. Since this our last baby it was important to us to have all the kids there
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  • edavis926edavis926 member
    We were already planning our wedding too and it's going go be June of 2016. She'll be there but I'll have so much family in town that otherwise may not have met her yet that I doubt I'll even see her much! I think she'll stay the night with my parents night of. Right now we are looking at getting married about 3 hours from home so everyone will be staying there.

    I went and looked at dresses a few days ago to make sure that I actually liked the style on me that I want. One store opted out of putting me in a bridal corset because I'm already showing quite a bit at 22 weeks. One store put me in one for about 5 minutes and that was a terrible idea. Most likely you'll just try on a couple sizes bigger and they will clip it to be more fitted. I plan on buying in January or so.
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  • ellasnowellasnow member
    With my first pregnancy i was 5 1/2 months pregnant :)
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  • bgriestbgriest member
    My fiancé and I got engaged last fall and booked our wedding for October 2016. I'll have exactly 1 year to lose weight before our wedding! I'm planning on beginning looking for a dress in December when the baby is about 2 months old. Hoping I will have lost enough weight by then. Not all, just enough lol.

    We are having a rustic country wedding so my plan is to incorporate him into it. He'll be 1 when we get married (or days shy of 1) so not sure if he'll be walking yet. I plan to have him sit in a little red wagon and have one of his older cousins pull him down the aisle. My nieces will be 7 and 10 at that point and both flower girls so I think one of them can pull him. My nephew will be 3 at the time so we're having him be the ring bearer.

    My fiancé and I may be doing a town hall wedding ceremony this fall. Depends on if we decide it's more cost effective for me to stay home and quit my full time job than to send baby to daycare. If I quit then I lose my dental and health care so we would get married early so I can go on his health and dental with the baby. We are already planning on putting the baby on his insurance anyways. We also would still be keeping our venue and ceremony for next year for friends and family.
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  • MamaOwl15MamaOwl15 member
    I was 23 weeks along with DS when I got married. My husband and I had previously talked about a wedding that October, but we wanted to be legally married before baby arrived. I opted to have a very small and intimate ceremony so we could get legally married and also have my dad (who is a minister) officiate. The idea of a big wedding overwhelmed me anyway.

    However, you could get married at the courthouse and still have the ceremony and celebration later, if you need to be legally married earlier. For us, insurance was a consideration, since my DH turned 26 a few months after the wedding and needed to be added to my insurance since he couldn't get his parents' insurance after his birthday.

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  • Knottie86476496Knottie86476496 member
    That little onsie is super cute.  I think having a sitter watch him during the ceremony will be a load off.  If you are anything like me, if you have a family member watch him, you might be extra worried about how he is behaving (because you want all your guests to have a good time).  I think I would end up hoovering because I'd be worried about how he was behaving.  Depending on the baby, there is a chance he may get fussie with all the activity so at least if you are paying someone to deal with it, you don't have to worry if that person is having a good time.  
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  • Wigglesx2Wigglesx2 member
    I know someone who married 2 years after having her kids and had pictures with and without so she could decide later if she wanted to tell them they were born before or after the wedding. She didn't have them at the reception at all, she got baby sitters.
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