October 2012 Weddings
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QOTD 10/11

Since today is my anniversary and I am being nostalgic, tell me the best part of your wedding and what you would do different if you could do it all again.
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Re: QOTD 10/11

  • Best Part - honestly, when everyone left and we still had an hour left... it was just me and H on the dance floor dancing to what I wish I changed our first dance song to - Hunter Hayes Wanted.

    Change - not add the extra hour to the reception? haha  Honestly, I love every part of it and wouldn't change any. 

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  • Happy anniversary Cathy!

    Best Part - being married at the end of it all

    Change - I would not have a wedding again, I would elope. I actually hated the whole wedding process, and I had imagined I would.

    I'm grumpy today, sorry! :(

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  • Best part - so much fun!  People still talk about how awesome our DJ was and how wild our reception was.

    Change - Not broke my toe a week before the wedding.  Also I wish I would have taken the time to actually look around my venue.  I remember planning my centerpieces, but I don't remember looking at them that day.

  • Happy anniversary!!

    Best part-having everyone around us and being married at the end of the day to my love! Oh and the wedding night!!

    Change-probably the worry I had all morning since it was raining and snapping when my family and bms had us running a few mins late. And I really wish I would have had a list of pics for my photographer to take.

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  • Best part--getting married to H/our ceremony!  Sounds cheesy but it really is.  

    Change:  I cared wayyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy too much about what other people thought of my wedding.  MIL told me at the reception that she didn't like the food (she actually said the word "BLECH!"), and I had to go cry in the other room briefly.  I let it put a small damper on the day, and I wish I could have just said, "that's extremely rude," and shrugged it off.
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  • Best part - OMG, so many things! Probably seeing H all teary and smiling at the end of the aisle during my processional. With the music and my parents and everyone else there, it was just such a perfect moment.

    Change - I would have planned the reception timeline a little better so that we didn't have to run around hunting for H when it was timefor the garter toss.
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  • Best: Seeing DH before the ceremony. I'm so glad I got to give him and hug and a kiss. Having all of our families together...the fabulous appetizers, the overall feeling of love. My first dance with DH.

    Change: I think I would have had a small wedding. We had 250, most of which were family. I still feel badly because I didn't get to spend as much quality time with people.
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  • Best: Our ceremony was amazing and perfect.  The food and our cake were also top notch.

    Change: I'd add an extra hour or start an hour earlier, I would do a first look and take pictures before.
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  • Happy Anniversary Cathy!

    Best: 
    1) Our first look! I'm so happy we did this! It 100% did NOT take anything away from my walk down the aisle like people said it would.
    2) Hiring a day of coordinator! I felt like a queen for the day with her and her team taking care of every detail!
    3) The vendors we hired, all of them were so amazing to work with! The photo were beautiful, food delicious, hair/makeup stunning, and music was perfect!
    4) Being married at the end of the day!

    Change:
    1) I wish someone told me to get into my dress earlier! We had some issues with the inner corset, which delayed pictures a bit. We still had more than enough time, but things felt a bit rushed.
    2) Other than that, I wouldn't change a thing...it was a perfect (although a bit cold!) day!





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  • Best part:  everything? dancing the night away with our friends and family.  oh, and  we got married on our five year anniversary.  during the ceremony H whispered to me "happy anniversary" it melted my heart.

    I'd change: my veil.  It was all bunched up during the ceremony (thanks, dad! grrrr, lol!) and it was kind of an odd length, I didn't notice until I saw it in pics.  I also HATED my smile during allllll my weddind pics, it was all gums. :( Oh, and I wasn't crazy about my photog or my pictures overall. 
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  • Best- driving in the car from the church to our reception site for photos.  It was just H and I and we talked and laughed and got to just be us and married.  Even though we had a driver, it was like it was only us.  A few people passed us on the highway and slowed down to look in a wave at us, we were in a classic Rolls Royce.  We felt special :)

    Change- The florist wanted to put hydrangea in the bridesmaid bouquets as filler.  We had mango calla lillies and circus roses.  I imagined the hydrangea as blue or white, very summery and not the look I wanted.  He took them out of the bridemaid bouquets but put them in the moms' bouquets, they just had red roses.  They were greenish, reddish, brown hydrangea and it looked amazing!  I was so mad I didn't listen to him.
  • Best:
    1) Being married to H at the end of it all.
    2) Our food was unreal. One of my friends told me she judges all other weddings she goes to against my food. Even my dad complemented us on it and he's a food snob.

    Change:
    1) I wish I could have taken more time tying up my dress. It had this weird crease in it from not being pulled tightly enough. No one noticed it but me.

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  • Best part: This look from DH as I walked down the aisle. I am happy I stuck to my guns and we were apart all day. It made that moment so special. DH's family did not understand that at all.
  • Oh, and for change? I have no clue. Maybe I wouldn't have put up with some of the bullshit from DH's family. In the end, even though they didn't approve of how our ceremony was going to be, they told me that it was perfect and they viewed it as completely neutral on the religion side (even though it was basically a catholic ceremony). Apparently, as much as they whined they actually were completely clueless.
  • Best - everything. The day was so wonderful. I constantly talk about wanting to go back and re-do it because I had such a great time and it was so perfect. 

    Change - take more pictures. Our photographers were phenomenal and I wish I had more of me and H, I wish we had more pics with wedding party, etc. Even though we did a first look, we didn't kiss until the ceremony. I wish we'd gotten a few more pics of us kissing. I don't like a lot of them, but I think our first kiss picture is the only one where we are. 
    Lights around the food and cake tables...we ended up having to use the photobooth light during serving before we opened the photobooth. 
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