March 2009 Weddings
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Regrets?
Ok, I know it was over 2 years ago, but I've had a really crazy, stressful week that makes me want to think about anything NOT work, and I just got like 90 prints of the wedding from Shutterfly, so I've been thinking about that. Now that we're so.far removed, anything you wish you'd done differently? I have 2 regrets I can think of offhand, and they're related: I wish I'd just picked a color or color family and let each bridesmaid pick her own dress. I found out recently that one of them.wasn't crazy about the dress and I wish I'd let her pick something else. The other is that I wish I'd said yes when E's sister asked if she could wear her dress uniform (U.S. Navy) to be a bridesmaid since she couldn't afford the.dress. I said no, in large part because the others were all wearing the same dress and I didn't want a non-MOH standing out as different. So different dresses would've helped with that too. She ended up not coming to.the wedding anyway because she couldn't get leave, but I'll always wonder if she would've made more of an effort and put in for leave earlier if I'd been more accommodating. Damned wedding brain.
Re: Regrets?
Not asking the reception staff to put water in the vases on the tables for our bouquets. We had droopy tulips.
Hiring our photographer... I still don't have an album, they guy was paid in full and is MIA.
I know I have more, but those are the only two I can think of right now, lol.
My planner was a waste of money, my venue was all inclusive and it really wasn't necessary to have her there.
Wish I had dress shopped more, and had air brushed make up.
a different photographer for sure -- we just didn't see eye to eye ( artisticly ) and it doesn't help that his f_king flash was used in every picture-- I hate my pictures so much I can't even make an album. I don't have any pictures of DH and I with my grandparents ...
a different color scheme ( i am in love with navy and hot pink )
I wish I would've been a little exact about the color of flowers I wanted, they were too pale for my taste ...
a smaller guest like ( like 25 people total is what I wanted )
oh hell, I really want a redo !! ( maybe I can talk DH into a 5 year renewal ? )
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I agree on the photog thing. Our pictures just didn't live up to what was on her website/blog. A lot of our church photos are really dark, and most of the guys look like they have mullets from the shadow of her flash. I did B-pics with her and those turned out great so I don't know what happened.
I also would have skipped the chocolate fountain since we also had cake. None of the cake got eaten because of the chocolate fountain.
We also had a "champagne" fountain. I should have asked what exactly they served out of it. Dummy me though it would be champagne, but it was some sort of non-alcoholic pink "champagne". Which I drank all night thinking it was the real stuff and didn't even get tipsy at my wedding! Had I known, we wouldn't have shelled out $500 for a juice fountain.
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Ohhhhhhh I would totally have done different flowers/florist. My florist had a major life issue going on and I was more friend than client with him and the result was mediocre flowers from a fantastic florist.
Oh, cake! We had a "dummy" cake and they didn't take it away to pretend they were taking it back and cutting it. So people were wondering how the cake was still sitting there when there were slices out. AND I thought they served everyone the different choices of cake (because they did to the head table) but later found out that they just put the slices on a table and expected people to go up and get them - WTF?!
And I would have paid more for a better DJ.
I have another big one: I really wish I'd asked my best friend Eric to be a bridesman instead of a reader. I'm so NOT all about tradition, so I have no idea why I got so traditional and in-the-box with the wedding. Eric would've been happy to walk for me. Instead, I kept it all girls, and the poor guy had to suffer through a reading TERRIFIED. He asked me the night before if his wife could go up with him so of course I said yes, but then everyone could only hear every other stanza of the poem - hers. He was practically mouthing the words. I didn't need to torture him like that.
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