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Wedding Re-do

If you could go back and re-do one thing in your wedding, what would it be?

I would have hired the first photographer I interviewed. She was a bit more expensive, but I think she could have done a better job.

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  • Less people, better food.
  • I would have had someone else do my hair and make up.
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  • I would change my hair style and a better photographer!!
  • I would have made sure we got to talk to all of our guests.

    We thought we would have enough time to go table-to-table to talk to everyone, but our photographers took us outside for some pictures at sunset. I knew they were going to do this, but I didn't realize it would cut in to our time to greet everyone. By the time we got back in we went right in to the cake cutting, dances, etc. By the time we were done with all of that, people were up and mingling so it was hard to make sure we talked to everyone. There are some people I didn't get to talk to at all :(

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  • The DJ. Our venue gave us a choice between two professional companies (dj included in cost) and we wish we would have picked the one we didn't go with. 
  • Elope like I wanted to. 

     

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    make H plan the whole thing since he's the only one who ever wanted a wedding.

  • I would have taken one picture of me alone, all our pics were with relatives, friends, spouse - it would be nice to have one (even if little) picture of myself
  • I would have gone to the correct courthouse...
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  • I would have sat down and ate dinner! I totally missed dinner and I'm bummed about it. Apparently the food was really good too!
  • I probably would have changed the date so my family and friends that couldnt make it would have been ther with us!!
  • Not one damn thing.
  • Better food and better DJ. Everyone left super early because the DJ sucked.. no one danced hardly at all and it was super awkard. So everyone decided it was time to go.
  • i would have made individual pics with all my bridesmaids. it's the one thing i am sad about not having from my wedding. other than that, i wouldnt change a thing! (except maybe the temperature- it was close to 100 degrees at our outdoor wedding. luckily we had lots of fans!)
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  • The only thing would have been insisting that DH send actual invitations to the rehearsal dinner. He forgot to ask one of the groomsmen :-/ I felt terrible. the groomsman didn't seem to mind and laughed it off but I still feel bad.
  • Nothing, it was perfection!
  • Different bridal salon, the bridal salon completely fudged up my alterations. I was horrified the day of. My last fitting they took it in too much, I told them to take it back out (and no I didn't gain a lb between the week). I picked it up and they didn't have a room available for me to try it on but promised it was all perfect.

    Well day of, the dress could not hold my boobs and only covered them half way. So the whole morning/ceremony it looked like my boobs were pouring out! I had told them a million time I wanted my chest covered from a certain part up, "no worries, it will be perfect." 

    Oh and when i put my dress on the lace was falling off under my arm, where they altered it.

    Needless to say I was uncomfortable the whole night and my pictures show it.


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  • I would have hired a different photographer... Pretty much everything else was perfect! My photographer was a huge disappointment. I feel like I could have had a friend do the same exact thing he did. I was very bummed out, I didn't get any pictures of my reception room before people got in there, no centerpieces, no pics of the guest table and those kinds of things, all of the things I took so long planning and doing I never got to see the outcome. He rushed us with our pictures and just feel like he didn't get any great shots of our gorgeous venue... VERY DISAPPOINTED! BUT, the day was absolutley beautiful and we had the most fun!!! We got to spend it with our close family and friends and dang did the night fly by!
  • Would've had one! DH & I did the courthouse thing on a wednesday morning, just us - told no one then went on our honeymoon. :) I do wish that we'd had a ceremony but that would have required our parents to accept the marriage... and, at the time, they did not.

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  • I would not have invited as many of my co-workers that I did. 4 of them RSVP'd that they were coming as were their spouses and they didn't show up. I wound up being laid off a few months after the wedding.

  • My hair (it started to fall out halfway through the reception) and I would have added chair covers (the pictures of the reception would have looked better).
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  • Different groom.
  • I wouldn't have changed a thing!
  • A different Maid of Honor!!!
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    I would have taken one picture of me alone, all our pics were with relatives, friends, spouse - it would be nice to have one (even if little) picture of myself

    This!

    I thought the same thing.  

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  • Our venue was gorgeous! But!.. My mother did the decorations and it looked too cheap for the place. I would have done a different hairstyle, and taken my veil off after the ceremony instead leaving it on the entire time.

     

  • My flowers. I don't know what happened....all the bridesmaids bouquets were perfect. But for some reason mine was not at all what I'd requested from the florist. It was clunky looking, and really badly put together, looking back at the photos. I didn't even think of it at the time because I was so excited/nervous, but looking back its just kinda ugly looking! lol. All the flowers I'd asked for were in the bridesmaids bouquets and I had chunks of hygrengas and big fat callah lillies poking out in mine that I specifically asked to be exclued! Grr.

     

    Also, our venue only did daytime weddings. And as amazing as it was, part of me wishes we could have partied on into the night.

     

     

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  • I would have hired a real photographer & had a list of shots I wanted. There were some great ones, but I don't have one of just me and my mom and there are several others that I'm missing.
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  • Not really a single thing.

     Although if we would've remembered, I would have grabbed DH's grandpa for a couple of pictures. He's somewhat of an "outsider", and the only picture we have with him is of him giving us a hug after the ceremony. He's the only grandparent DH has left.

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  • Nothing, it was just what I had in mind!!!
  • A few things like make sure the pastor had the scripture I wanted read during the service. Get a picture of my mom, my grandmother and my at the church. Make someone do a plate of food for me, I didn't eat but my husband did! Oh and I would have done all the pictures before the wedding and screw tradition. 
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