I wanted pouffy as you could get... in black. But was shot down. My mom convinced me to tone it down on the layers of frou-frou and color of the dress by saying I looked like the Devil's cupcake. I did see another black gown with less pouff and more lace but by then my mother's withering words and scathing looks had… Read more

I wore my mom's dress. As she handed over the box to me, she said, "I'm sure you will have to take it in A LOT. I was very chunky in 1968." Cut to me trying on the dress a few weeks later at the alteration place. Dress fit me like a glove. That was like delayed shade. Read more

I'll keep mine brief. I kind of ruined my wife's experience. I got dragged along and was doing my best to be helpful. As a guy who's mind is several places at once, I was mulling over a job problem when she came out in the dress she wanted. I liked it, I really did, but apparently I made this face that indicated… Read more

I bought my wedding dress in a city where none of my friends or relatives lived because we had just moved when we decided to get married. I went shopping alone. I thought it was going to be sad but it was nice, I could really chose what I liked the most. When I was trying on my favorite dress the mother of another… Read more

... and for goodness sake's, if you're offering to pay for the dress, in part or in full, do not threaten to withhold the money if the bride doesn't pick out exactly what you had in mind. Read more

Ha! I have to admit, I did not see that comment coming. Read more

Good news everyone: If the ring you had to give back in any way referenced pop culture/children's literature/anything someone else doesn't like, chin up! You were NEVER SUPPOSED TO GET MARRIED ANYWAY. Read more

ahem. Read more

Oh if this we're a game, I would win. Read more

Sold it. Bought Jeep parts. (This was a divorce... He never did like the Jeep.) Read more

Where's the poppycock? YOU FORGOT TO INCLUDE POPPYCOCK YOU HARPY! Read more

My ring was so cool! It was a cool diamond that was set in the band, so it looked like it was floating - a tension setting, I think it's called? It didn't really look like an engagement ring. When I dumped the crazy bastard, I asked if he wanted it back, and he said no. I lived in a town in Wyoming that isn't that… Read more

I was very romantic and threw mine into the sea :) Read more

I broke off an engagement and gave him the ring back, because it was a family heirloom. Months later we spoke, and he told me his mom had started wearing it...as a pinkie ring. Read more

Or Dayna Evans' pen article. Read more

Returned it along with every single item he'd ever given me, socks, tshirts, books, etc. If I could regurgitate the meals he'd bought, I'd have done so and returned it in ziploc baggies. Didn't want a damn thing from him. Read more

I gave the ring back to him and he gave it to the girl he was cheating with and married her SIX MONTHS LATER. I always wonder if she knows it was my ring or if he just pretended that he bought it new for her Read more