When a couple gets engaged, it’s common for them to ask their friends and family members for wedding planning advice. Sometimes, however, this advice can overstep people’s boundaries, making them feel like the engaged couple is stealing their best vendors, cherished DIY ideas and favorite style tips.
After planning your own unique and stylish wedding celebration, would you share your best ideas with a friend or family member? At what point does it become mooching off the kindness of friends and family? Does the idea of someone copying your wedding make you want to rant or rave?
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November 21st, 2008 at 9:18 am
I think it’s between a rant and a rave. If you just start hiring vendors/using ideas without saying a word, RANT RANT RANT. If you say to the person, I loved how you did this, and I’d love to do my own twist on it…than it’s ok (but not a rave. Still rude.)
November 21st, 2008 at 9:51 am
I often see clients try to copy others through images or stories they might see or hear…which can easily get frustrating…but idea mimicing can just as easily be taken as a compliment. It means someone loved your original idea enough to want to use it at their own event.
November 21st, 2008 at 4:56 pm
one of my best friends and i planned our wedding at the same time and we both shared vendors and reused the same ones and had a blast planning together. i thought about it being the same (considering we even happened to have the same wedding colors) but after both weddings, they both came out different because we were still 2 different people. Though, id still agree with Tara about “If you just start hiring vendors/using ideas without saying a word, RANT RANT RANT.”
then again, there is nothing new under the sun =)
November 23rd, 2008 at 5:55 pm
after i got married, a few people called and asked me how to recreate our candy bar buffet. after putting all that effort into it, I was glad to hear that it was well receive and even gladder that i had thought of it first! however, when people just rip off your idea before you even have a chance to implement it at your event that just makes me what to rant!