April 2010 Weddings
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In honor of the new season of SYTTD and "Four Weddings"...
So, maybe one of these days I'll get sick of all things wedding, but it doesn't look like it's gonna happen anytime soon :-)
The new seasons for my two favorite wedding shows begin tonight, and I can't wait! In honor of these two new seasons, I have to ask:
1. If you could do it all over again, would you still "say yes to the dress?"
and
2. If you could rate your own wedding on a scale of 1-10, what would you give it, having had some time to reflect on everything?
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Re: In honor of the new season of SYTTD and "Four Weddings"...
1. Looking back now I think I'd say no. I loved my dress and all, but part of me wishes I'd have gone with the Bonny one, which was my original first choice.
2. I think I'd rate my wedding an 8, mainly because the weather could have been better (as it was 85 on Thursday with sun and heat, 65 on Friday with wind and partial clouds and 45 and overcast/windy the day of). Minor things included my dress still being too long, the bridal party (as well as Mike and me) not getting any cake and the fact that I spent so much time in the hallway having photos done, that I dind't get enough time to dance, talk and visit with my guests.
1. Yes! I loved my dress, it was perfect
2. Although so many things went wrong, I would still rate my own wedding as a 10 because it was the happiest day of my life. Even with all the problems and stress, it turned out absolutly beautiful, meaningful, loving, fun and very "us". I really couldn't ask for more than that! Now, someone else rating my wedding I don't know what they would give....but we're still getting compliments on it so that's a good sign! It was by no means perfect, but it was perfect for us.
I know what you mean!
1. After a lot of hard deliberation, and my dress was beautiful and I still love it...I would also have to say no...
When I first started dress shopping, my main goal was something light and cool, because I planned all along to hit the dance floor, or either a "regular gown" and a second "party dress"...
Well, I strayed from my original gameplan when confronted with all of the dresses in the shop! And ended up with a lovely dress, but man, was it hot!!!! It was a heavy silk/satin, and I can still remember wiping persperation like crazy and my dress sticking to me when I was dancing! It didn't help that it had four layers (although you wouldn't know it from the photos). So, yeah, I wish I had kept to my original plan as well!
2. I would rate my wedding 9. In my heart, it will always be a "10", but from a purely planning standpoint:
Our outdoor ceremony was moved inside when the site coordinator panicked at a few drizzles the morning of, even though it was sunny and partly cloudy. I told him to wait a few hours prior to see what happened, but he had no gonads and set it up for an indoor ceremonyfrom the start.
In the end, though cloudy, it didn't rain. And the outdoor feel that we had worked hard to achieve sort of went by the wayside...so while I would say the overall feeling I had was a 10, a few planning gaps kept it from coming off exactly as I had envisioned! But yeah, even looking back on it now, it was a rocking good time :-)
1. Hells yeah! I loved my dress and still do!
2. I'd rate it a 9. If it wouldn't have been so cold and rainy it would have been perfect. It also wasn't a perfect 10 because there were so many people that I didn't get a chance to talk to.
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My dress was my #1 choice when I was looking online for them, #1 in the store when trying them on, and I still love it. I wish I could wear it like once a week...seriously!
I would give my wedding an 8. It was a great day, but the sound system at the church messed up part-way through the ceremony, so no exit music (ugh). Then I also adored my photographer, but I am just not a very photogenic person, so I wish she would have been at the front of the church taking pictures of me coming in, rather than half way, so I could have had more options of pictures of me coming in and of Jeff and I walking out. Other than that, it was great! : )
I loved my dress, but I do have some regrets about it. For one thing, I only went to 2 salons, one place down by my mom's and Kleinfelds and wish I could have had the time to shop around more. I found a dress I really loved at the first salon. Since they also carried it at Kleinfelds, I tried it on there again with a bunch of other dresses. I narrowed it down to dress #1 and the one I ended up buying. My mom preferred the dress I bought but I really think that dress #1 was more "me" and fit the style of my wedding better. That being said, I find that the importance of "the dress" has diminished a lot for me. Looking back, I think I would have been just as happy that day if I'd gotten married in a potato sack.
I would also give my wedding an 8. The pluses: really neat,unique, modern location along the Hudson with amazing NYC views, excellent food (I'm still hearing about it), great DJ and almost everyone was dancing for at least the first hour or so. I really feel like I looked great too.
The minuses: the rainy, chilly weather was the big one. We were supposed to have an outdoor ceremony on the big lawn or the patio, but had to go to "plan C" and have it inside. It was in the same room as the cocktail hour so they had to sort of usher everyone into the reception side of the room to do the changeover and then try to get everyone back, but a lot of people stayed on the reception side (they were connected so not a huge deal). The venue did a good job coordinating this but it was not ideal. The other minus was unavoidable - since it was a Sunday (it had to be for a Jewish wedding), a few people left early even though we ended at 9, and most people stopped dancing and started winding down earlier than I would have liked.
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1. If you could do it all over again, would you still "say yes to the dress?"
Absolutely. Everyone commented on my dress and how perfect it was for me. I might have tried some more on just because I didn't try very many, but I loved my dress so much.
2. If you could rate your own wedding on a scale of 1-10, what would you give it, having had some time to reflect on everything?
An 8. It was low key and low budget, but it was perfect for us. Just a few things went wrong, but overall, it was exactly what we wanted.
I adored my dress... x10 especially after I saw our wedding pictures.
so yes. i would say yes again!
I would give my wedding a 8 :-) but that is on a brides perspective. I saw all the things that went wrong... but others most likely didnt notice.
1. I didnt wear my blusher part down the aisle...i completely forgot.
2. they only sent one makeup girl...so one of my bridesmaids wasnt ready when I wanted to get into my dress or start taking pics.
3. my mom was like 40 minutes late with my dress ( not late for wedding , but late to start pics when i wanted.)
4. the teenager we hired to start the music for the wedding (via ipod on speakers) .... started to play my march for the bridesmaids (but that was corrected quickly) ...and he didnt start the recessional music till my husband and I were half way down the aisle.
grrrr.... lol but when you look at the important things ( our vows, and ring exchange...blesssing from priest) the day was perfect.
1. Yes! I loved my dress! BUT I would have picked a second dress for the reception - trains (even bussled ones) are annoying on the dance floor!
2. 9.5, ha ha! Even the things that didn't go as planned didn't really affect the day at all. The only major problem was that DH forgot the programs (and he still feels bad about it - sometimes I tease him about it :P) and people didn't have the map to get from the ceremony site to the reception site, but everyone got there!
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1. If you could do it all over again, would you still "say yes to the dress?"
I loved my dress, and I think it was perfect for me. I would have liked to try on some more though. I only tried on about 5, and I kinda wish I tried on more while I had the chance!
2. If you could rate your own wedding on a scale of 1-10, what would you give it, having had some time to reflect on everything?
I would say 9.75 since my only regret is that DH and I missed our cocktail hour. We had a huge cocktail hour, and we would have liked to be there, but we were still taking pictures. However, everything else was so perfect...everything happened on schedule, the weather was PERFECT, and it was the most fun day from beginning to end. I wouldn't had done anything differently!! Also, my venue has excellent food and service, and my guests were raving about it. So I know everyone had as great a time as we did!
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1. If you could do it all over again, would you still "say yes to the dress?"
100% YES. I absolutely loved my dress and still love it to this day. I was nervous about my dress choice when my mom didn't love it like I did in the beginning. (I wanted that mother's stamp of approval.) But in the end - my dress was perfect for me.
2. If you could rate your own wedding on a scale of 1-10, what would you give it, having had some time to reflect on everything?
I would have to say 9.5. In my mind our wedding day was perfect and I wouldn't change a thing except the weather. We had tornado sirens, tornadoes, and torrential downpours throughout the day. But we got every single picture we wanted and never got caught in the rain. So while I wish the weather would have been nicer, I can honestly say it never once affected us. I still get a goofy grin on my face when I look through our wedding pictures because of all our good memories.
1. I also would have liked to have tried on more dresses, but the more I look back at the wedding pictures and see myself in my dress, the more and more I love it and know it was perfect for me. I can't imagine wearing anything else. So yes, I would still say yes to my dress!
2. I'm trying to wrack my brain to find anything that went wrong that actually mattered. We discovered, after the fact, the box of bluejays we had intended to give to the florist for the centerpieces. But many of our guests ended up taking pictures using the bluejays we gave out as favors in creative ways (as earrings, lol, and in the centerpieces too). So it worked out better than we could have planned. I had been bracing for cold/rainy/snowy weather, but the day was absolutely warm and gorgeous. Only the wind made our family portraits a bit "messy" but they still came out really nice. The best thing about the day as a whole is that, for all the stressing and long days we put into planning it, DH and I were able to relax on the day of and enjoyed every single minute of it!
So honestly, in many ways, our wedding came out better than we could have hoped, so I give it an 11.
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Hmm, there were some things that I just loved about my dress, but I did not love the neckline, so I kind of wish I tried more on.
I would give my wedding an 8.5. Most everything went great, everyone danced the whole time, and we got to talk to most everyone. The biggest thing that went wrong was 2 of DH's cousins kids started crying during my dads speech, and THEY STAYED!!! I was SO mad about that. And we had even hired a babysitter to handle kids. I think that was incredibly rude of them to not walk the kids out.
The other thing, that did not really affect the day was that I felt my photographers missed a lot of stuff, and that annoys me. And they took forever to get the pictures too me. Also the video guy missed some important stuff, so that kind of annoyed me as well, but again, it did not affect the actual day.