Tessa Chavez’s brothers made sure she had the perfect wedding day, despite some missing family members on the dance floor. Unsupportive of his daughter’s sexual orientation, the bride’s father was absent when she marriedher wife, Cyn Wang. Though Chavez wasn’t able to experience a traditional father-daughter dance, her loyal siblings Guillermo and Diego took the opportunity to celebrate their sister themselves. Wang shared footage from their special family moment in anow-viral TikTok postwith 1....

A stock image of a bride’s heels.Photo:Anchalee Phanmaha/Getty Stock Image Anchalee Phanmaha/Getty Stock Image A bride’s final wedding dress fitting ended in a “bloody nightmare,” according to a friend who was present during the harrowing ordeal. The best friend of a bride-to-be explained in aposton Reddit’s “Wedding” forum that their friend’s big day is one week away, so they went with the bride to her final wedding alterations. “Seamstress during final fitting did not use safety pins, and asked her to take a step forward — she felt the pin go straight through the side of her foot,” the poster wrote....

Stock image of bride and guest.Photo:Getty Getty A bride’s friend burst into tears at her wedding because her boyfriend wasn’t allowed to come. The 23-year-old women have “a complicated relationship” because the bride hates her friend’s boyfriend, 24. In aposton Reddit’s “Am I the A——?” forum, the bride said that she didn’t want her friend’s boyfriend to be a part of her intimate barbecue celebration of 30 people because he “treats everyone horribly, is cruel and mean” and is “an ass who doesn’t care about anyone but himself....

Bride looking at her phone (stock image).Photo:Evgeniy Fedorcov/Getty Evgeniy Fedorcov/Getty A bride says she’s feeling hurt after her friend “flaked” on her wedding and then ghosted her. With her wedding approaching, he had RVSPed “yes” and even messaged her two days before the event to express his excitement about celebrating with the bride and groom, with whom he is also friends. But then when the big day arrived, he was “a no show,” the bride said....

Mother and daughter at wedding (stock image).Photo:FG Trade/Getty FG Trade/Getty A bride’s mother purchased a wedding dress for her without consulting her beforehand. It’s common for a bride to bring her mother with her when she goes wedding dress shopping. But that’s not what happened for one bride, who explained in aposton Reddit’s “Wedding” forum that her mother went behind her back and bought her a dress that she has never tried on or even seen before....

Minutes after Marla Rice and her husband Brantley finished saying their wedding vows last September, Marla’s mom pulled her aside to remind her youngest daughter that she and her father had a surprise for the couple. “Is it Theo?” Marla asked, thinking her parents had brought the couple’s 150-lb. Newfoundland to the wedding. “Is Theo here?” It turned out to be something even more unexpected. “As soon as I saw it,” recalls Marla in an interview in this week’s PEOPLE, “my jaw just dropped....

The couple’s engagement ring; Cleveland firefighters work to retrieve the ring from a sewer drain.Photo:Emily Ruth Photography |emilyruthphoto.com|@emilyruthphoto Emily Ruth Photography |emilyruthphoto.com|@emilyruthphoto A bride’s worst nightmare came true during herengagement shoot. Niki Mack and Corey Berebitsky were all smiles while taking their engagement photos at the Italian Cultural Garden in Cleveland on Nov. 24. It was their third attempt at a photo shoot due to the city’s unpredictable weather, so they were grateful for the “beautiful fall day....

Cruise ship wedding (stock image).Photo:Getty Getty An individual is considering skipping their sister’s cruise ship wedding. The bride’s sibling asked users on Reddit via aposton the platform’s “Am I the A——?” forum if they were in the wrong for not wanting to attend their sister’s upcoming wedding in Florida. The nuptials will take place on a cruise ship, with guests encouraged to go on the cruise embarking the next day....

Stock wedding image.Photo:Peter Cade/Getty Peter Cade/Getty A bride’s sister accidentally showed the groom a video of his fiancée in her wedding dress before the wedding. In aposton Reddit’s “Wedding Drama” forum, the guilty-feeling sister asked Redditors for sympathy. She explained that every year, she makes a video montage of highlights from the year to show her family and friends. This year, she made the mistake of including a clip of her sister trying on her wedding dress....

A stock image of an upset bride and a man turning his back.Photo:Getty Images/Design Pics RF Getty Images/Design Pics RF A bride’s stepdad is ready to foot the bill for her wedding under one condition. On Wednesday, Jan. 23, a user, 26, revealed that her stepfather offered to pay for the celebration if he could either walk her down the aisle or do the father-daughter dance. The bride, who made it clear that her biological father would be taking on both duties at her wedding, toldReddit usersthat she hasn’t had a good relationship with her mother and stepdad since she was a child....

Meredith Diedrich and her burned down wedding venue.Photo:Meredith Diedrich Meredith Diedrich Instead of panicking when her venue burned down on her wedding day, a bride found “beauty from ashes.” Meredith Diedrich, 23, and Joshua Diedrich, 26, originally planned to tie the knot on Nov. 16 at The Lodge atThree Notch’d Brewery, Distillery & Craft Kitchenin Nellysford, Virginia. But the wedding venue unexpectedly burned down overnight. “The Three Notch’d venue coordinator had called my mom, who then called me at 7 a....

Marjorie Fiterman and Bernie Littman.Photo:Guinness World Records Guinness World Records A couple with a combined age of 202 have proven that it’s never too late to find love. When Fiterman and Littman’s previous spouses died, whom they were each married to for more than 60 years, neither of them expected to find love again at their age. But that’s exactly what happened shortly after they moved into the same floor of a senior living facility in Philadelphia,according to Guinness World Records....

Bride and groom (stock image).Photo:Getty Getty A bride, who says she set out to throw a “low-cost” wedding but ended up spending $40,000, is sharing her tips so others “can avoid making the same mistakes.” In a video posted onTikTok, Nashville bride Megan Diem Easton — who got married in November 2024 — detailed how she discovered a harsh reality when she delved into planning her nuptials. Despite making “every budget cut I could think of and months and months of searching for low-budget vendors,” she said the total cost of her event quickly soared to $40,000....