We’ve reached the end of our Goin’ to the Chapel series with Molly McDonald, and if you’ve stuck it out this far you’ve gained some tips on how to:

Stay within your wedding budget without stressing out over money.
Create your wedding guest list so that it matches your budget and pleases both you and your soon-to-be spouse.
Determine whether or not your nerves can handle children at the wedding, as well as how to prepare your wedding for children or politely let adult guests know they should leave the kiddies with a babysitter.
Deal with the anxiety an unwanted wedding arrival may cause.

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Unless you have a super fantastic relationship with your soon-to-be husband’s ex-fiancee, the thought of having her at the wedding probably stresses you out a lot a bit.
They were together for five years. His parents adored her. They were even engaged to be married!
Yep, that kind of wedding guest could make even the most collected of brides feel anxious.
Fortunately, in today’s installment of Goin’ to the Chapel, Molly McDonald offers some tips on how to manage the stress of those unwanted wedding arrivals.

Thus far in the Mental Health Notes Goin’ to the Chapel series, Molly McDonald has offered tips on how to stay within a wedding budget and keep a wedding guest list practical, all while avoiding becoming overstressed.
Today, Molly takes the wedding guest list theme a bit further and addresses the issue of children as wedding guests.
Should you invited them? If so, what kinds of preparations should you make for them? And, how can you politely tell parents who are invited that their children are not?
Read on for Molly’s answers!

During yesterday’s installment of our Goin’ to the Chapel series, freelance designer Molly McDonald shared tips on how to stay within your wedding budget in order to help you stay stress-free while planning your wedding.
Today, Molly tackles the issue of the wedding guest list.
Who do you invite? Everyone from your best friend to your old high school cheerleading squad to your mother’s fifth cousin twice removed? Wouldn’t that be expensive? Or do you narrow it down, including only your closest friends and relatives? In that case, what if someone’s feelings get hurt?
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