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While planning your wedding, there may come a time (OK, it may happen a few times) where you'll want to throw your hands up in the air and give up. You may think that this is only happening to you, but as a professional wedding planner, I can assure you that most brides experience the same dilemmas. It's how you deal with those struggles that define your wedding-planning experience.

Do you and your partner share an obsession for koalas? Are you all about the llamas? Do you have a pack of dogs living under your roof? If you're an animal lover, you're probably wondering how exactly you can involve those furry friends in your wedding ceremony. Go beyond the dove release with these six animal wedding guests we'd love to see at more weddings.

1. Elevate your event with elephants. 

Want to plan a ladies' night out to remember? The Bach, an online destination for bachelorette party planning, has pulled together a list of the country’s top bachelorette party destinations for 2015. To our shock, NYC ranked #1, while Vegas took third place. Now that the results are in, here are the top five cities and our pick for the “can’t miss” venues in each hot spot:

1. New York City

Who says you should only get proposed to once? Dean Smith popped the question to his girlfriend, Jennifer Kessel, a whopping 365 times — without her knowing — using a whiteboard while going about his daily routine! He captured the year-long proposal spree on tape, which he finally unveiled to Kessel on January 8, 2015 (her 26th birthday) while they were on vacation at the Playa Linda Beach Resort in Aruba. (Jennifer has been vacationing at the resort since childhood.)

When my husband Michael and I first got engaged, we were overly confident that we could put together our wedding for way less than other couples we know had spent. However, when we started getting quotes from vendors and banquet halls, reality hit us; hard. Knocked off our high horse, we were forced to consider the following:

A) What was truly important to us (and what we would remember after the day had passed).
B) What our guests would notice and appreciate.
C) How much money we realistically could (and wanted) to spend.

Welcome to our latest installment of "Ask the Experts," where our contributor team of wedding planners solves readers' most pressing wedding-planning dilemmas! This week, Cathy O'Connell from Celebrations of Joy counsels a bride who's having second thoughts about the wedding dress she purchased. 

At the start of the New Year, I’m guessing that many of you vowed to eat better, exercise more and really get in shape for the wedding. My own New Year’s resolution was to improve my diet, forgo junk food (struggling with this one!) and live a healthier lifestyle. It’s not always easy but certainly well worth the effort, which leads me to some fantastic products geared toward keeping your homes and bodies super-fit and healthy. Add these to your registry list, and you’ll feel and look your best long after the wedding day.

Elizabeth Jensen went shopping for her wedding gown on February 20th but once she found "The One," something remarkable happened; she discovered that a complete stranger had already bought it for her!

"I was just so incredibly touched. To have that person who can look inside themselves to do something nice for someone else, it's something I'll never forget for sure," the 21-year-old bride tells ABC News. 

Proclaiming marriage vows is an emotional experience for many couples but what made Brian Scott's wedding ceremony even more special was that he recited a separate set of vows to his stepdaughter, Brielle. He got down on bended knee and promised always to tuck her in at night, to love and protect her, and to show her how a man should treat a woman through his relationship with her mom.