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The WORST advice I was told was: "If you're pissed at him, just withhold sex. You'll eventually get what you want."

Needless to say, she is now divorced.

Best: My dad (married 40+ years) asked me after the wedding if anything was different or had changed. I said “no, not really” and he said “then you got married for the right reasons”. His advice to me: be a complete, interesting, self reliant adult before marriage, enter marriage only after really getting to know your partner (including living together), and make sure you are not getting married in order to “get” or “fix” something in your relationship (i.e., because you want to be able to live together, or be intimate, or you think you can change a partner or relationship by getting married, or you think getting married will make you somehow different or more interesting).

Other good advice: Continue to be an interesting person, don’t become a Stepford Wife.

I'm not sure what the worst advice would be.

The best I think is just my parents saying I better "keep him", they totally adore DH. Parents being that happy and aproving is important to me.

The worst...well it was more crazy weird than anything. After we got married we took the party bus for the wedding party and DH and I. It brought us to a few bars and few places for pic ops with our photographer before heading to the reception hall. Well we stopped at a bar on the way, we all went in and got a drink and what not.
This older man at the bar turned around and raised his glass to us and said "Enjoy it while it lasts because it wont last long" then started laughing. Wow rude!

I think the overall worst advice is the one everyone's heard... "Don't go to bed angry."

We definitely don't go to bed "angry", but sometimes both of us need time to cool off before having a resolution conversation. We like to talk things out when we are calm, so sometimes overnight bed time is needed.

@rubies, wow that is awful.

I think the best advice we got was not to let life get in the way of our relationship and to cherish each other always.

@CameronsMomma: agreed!

Going to bed angry and going to be with things still up in the air or not completely resolved are COMPLETELY different.
Anger roots, and there's no denying that. The longer you hold on to something that someone's done the harder it is to get over.... and sometimes, you don't even realize you're not over it (you feel better the next morning) until that particular thing comes up again and now it's compounded with the previous account.
We have an apologize quickly and forgive even quicker policy in our house.

So yes, that was one of the best.... along with don't go more than 4 days with SOME kind of sexual intimacy.

Now I've struggled with that one b/c of some things in my past but it does make TOTAL sense!

Worst advice -> I don't think I've ever gotten any "bad" advice.... then again I'm pretty particular at who I ask. lol

I've gotten some good advice, but one of the worst pieces of advice was to spend time away from each other. I know that some people need time away from each other, but there are couples who would rather do everything together. So I guess I would say that it's good advice for people who do need their independent time or time with their girlfriends or guy friends. But Rob Sr. and I have been inseparable since he moved here 9 years ago. We actually only have needed one car ever since we got married, because we go everywhere together. We'll probably have to get another car once we have another kid, and we'll need to divide and conquer when we no longer outnumber the offspring... but the need/desire to always be together isn't so strong anymore, so that's fine.

Also, I had a friend in college whose sister was going through a divorce, and she told us "don't get married until after graduate school" (she had married right after college and then divorced after dental school). This advice doesn't even apply to everyone, but I know that I definitely changed a lot (mostly grew up and got to know myself better) during graduate school and it probably would have been a bad idea for me (personally) to get married before then. I think about that advice periodically, and that it was really good advice for me.

Best: The "honeymoon" phase/romance/sex will only go away if you let it. It'll only stop when you stop making the effort.

Worst: Haven't really had any horrible advice thank goodness.