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5 Things You Should Immediately Stop Saying to Young Brides

Literally don't say these things because I say so and I am the bride thanks.

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5 Things You Should Immediately Stop Saying to Young Brides
Alice in Wedding Land

The thing about being a young bride is that you get to spend as much of your life as you possibly can with the love of your life. Amazing.

Buuuuut the other thing is, suddenly people think they get to tell you crappy crap about your life all the time. Wow.

Here are 5 things that people should definitely immediately stop saying to young brides. Like seriously.

1.) "Wow, you're kind of young, aren't you?"

WOW I HADN'T REALIZED IT MAY SEEM THAT WAY. I may be "younger" than what your idea of the right age to get married may be, but when did I ask you what that was anyway? If I have been so lucky as to find the one whom my soul loves so soon in life, shouldn't you think first to bless that fact for me? So thank you to the same strangers who would comment about people of my generation not valuing anything suddenly disapproving of my life-long dedication to one person. Stop.

2.) "Oh."

This is my favorite one. Saying the word "fiance" or telling someone about getting married has suddenly become an invitation for the famous one word: "oh." Often pronounced in two syllables, coupled with the tight-lipped smile and/or the raised eyebrows. Yep. I'm a happily engaged lady, slightly perturbed rude person, and your excitement for me is so appreciated. Just kidding don't do that.

3.) "I better be invited to your wedding!"

See also "where's my invitation" or "I'm so invited, right??" Guys... the thing is if you feel the need to clarify that you're invited, it's probably because you aren't invited. Sounding like a rotten bridezilla is the last thing a girl wants when it's already hard to feel like you're being taken seriously, but we just can't have every single friend who ever added us on Facebook at the wedding. Plus that's just an uncomfortable position to put someone in! Rude!

4.) "So you're knocked up, huh?"

NO. Just because I am getting married young DOES NOT mean that I'm pregnant. And ya know what, even if the answer was yes, why is that your business? Marrying someone happens when you've decided that they are so dang awesome, they get to be your family now. Whenever that family gets to grow, it's gonna do that. So please take all assumptions about what's up with my life and my family and gooooOOoO away.

5.) "How could you possibly know that you want to marry this person?"

Where do I begin... It's incredible that someone could possibly think they have the right to question not only my intelligence as a capable adult, but also the love between my fiance and I. Would I be MARRYING this person (a permanent set up, FOREVER kinda thing, long-time stuff here) if I didn't know that I couldn't possibly love another person this way in all my life?

So here's the thing about being a young and incredibly in-love bride: you are literally the luckiest person you know—NO MATTER WHAT other people could possibly say.

There isn't a thing in this world that could phase the certainty I have in the fact that I am marrying my best friend. How lucky I am for that to be true. I will not only get to grow old with him, I will get to grow up with him.

So just as a PSA to everybody, from a young sassy bride, I am walking on sunshine down that aisle and you can say whatever you want about it because I couldn't care less.

But seriously don't say these things anymore.

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