June 2008 Weddings
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Most Annoying Thing Someone Did at Your Wedding...
This poll is inspired by the Tacky Weddings poll.
Re: Most Annoying Thing Someone Did at Your Wedding...
DH and I both made the mistake of having our MOH and BM be our childhood friends (you know the ones you are still friends with only because you have been friends for so long and you don't have much in common with anymore.) I had another friend who actually took on all of the MOH duties and called herself the maid of honor, and DH's other best friend took care of the best man duties instead.
Anyway, during our wedding Best Man gives this ridiculous speech. He goes on and on about how he never thought DH and I would make it this far and he is surprised, yada yada, and then tops off his speech by stating that He is sure there were bloodstains in our duplex somewhere. He was trying to be joking, but it came off as really weird and awkward. DH was not impressed.
May I list two?
1) My in-laws showed up**
2) A wedding crasher showed up and tried to start a fight with me (yes, sweet little moi) for not inviting her. Luckily I had the wherewithall to just stare at her blankly then walk away. Some of DH's friend's girlfriend's were there in about two seconds though. Haha.
**Granted this is super-inclusive: My father-in-law telling the photographer to take a bunch of pictures of DH's niece (not, you know, me and DH), My mother-in-law showing up in some ugly-ass dress instead of the one I bought her corsage for because she figured, you know, it would just be a casual affair, My father-in-law (again) for telling the DJ to let him do a toast to DH's deceased brother and then playing "When September Ends" as people swarmed our head table, sobbing. To top it off, there were no gifts from FIL, MIL, or SIL. Not even a dang card.
I love my dad, but the fact that my dad wanted, and tried to convince, the DJ to play every song that was about Money or had the word Money in it. (That is my maiden name, and my family is obsessed with it. They have $'s everywhere.)
ETA: I feel like I should mention that my parents are both remarried and the Money thing is just on my dad's side of the family.
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My MIL grabbed my BIL and his at the time girlfriend (now wife) and posed them infront of a window facing a beautiful sunset over the Ohio river w/ lite up bridge in the background view, then grabbed my photographer from photos in a different area of the reception room and told her to take a picture.
Excuse me.
Shouldn't you have grabbed us and said this is an amazing scene, capture it while you can BRIDE AND GROOM.
Instead we were an after thought and our pictures are totally dark, while theirs is gorgeous!!
Try to walk in right before I walked down the aisle...as in they opened the church doors and my dad and I were starting to walk down and they tried to walk in--our coordinator almost had a heart attack.
These were DH's cousin's boyfriends that were in jeans when everyone else was dressed up too
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At the time? When my MIL asked me while we're lined up for the rehearsal didn't my DH want to walk her down the aisle? I looked at her, told her to ask him that although we were getting married I don't have ESP and btw shouldn't this have been discussed before? So she asked, he couldn't say no really, and my entire family was confused about who the groom was since the best man was standing up there solo. Thanks MIL.
Looking back - I'm really annoyed with the make up my SIL wore. Everyone is in this natural, muted but classy make up. And then there's my SIL in bright red lipstick and heavy eye liner. Knowing her better now, she knew what she was doing and it makes me wonder why she did it....
DH's obnoxious friend who I loathe (the feelings are mutual, he hates me as well) decided that he had every right to give a speech at our wedding. No, he was not the best man. No, he was not asked to give a speech. He stood up there and waited for the Best Man to finish and then reached his hand out for the mic.
Here's the "I'm gonna kill you" look on my face when he was waiting for the mic:
(1) The Church custodian telling Jim at the last minute that we couldn't use an aisle runner (after I cleared the use of one before spending $$ on the rental) and that there were no other chairs available but these cheap ass metal folding chairs. MEANWHILE, there are like many different kinds of chairs on the altar. I wasn't there and DH, for whatever reason, didn't insist. I'd have dragged those chairs over my damn self. I was pissed. they were so uncomfortable and looked terrible.
(2) Hair person being late and hungover and keeping me for nearly THREE HOURS to do hair and makeup - on just me! - causing me to be late and very stressed out.
(3) Winnter though goes to our PRIEST who told my Photographer like :30 seconds before I walked down the aisle that he didn't "allow" photographers and there could be no pictures of the ceremony. Um, excuse me? Thankfully the photographer told him no, he was hired to do a job, blah blah. but the priest banned him to the back so everything is like either telephoto lens or a bunch of peoples heads.........and us. Bastard.
Besides drunk cousin trying to dance on the table?
The brides from the two smaller rooms in the reception venue showed up at my reception to "crash the grand ballroom wedding." It was awkward!
Someone stole all of the tip money out of the bartenders tip jar I guess while the bartender wasn't paying attention/there. We are also guessing it was the same person who went upstairs into the room where my stuff and my bridesmaids stuff was from getting ready before the wedding and stole money out of 2 of my bridesmaids' purses. We all think it was somebody from the catering company's staff, which the owner of the catering company also owned the place where we got married at. Everyone tried not to tell me until afterwards so I wouldn't get upset, but I found out anyways.
There is also my godsister showing up with her then boyfriend last minute from Ohio, after having RSVP'ed No. It's a very long story, but our relationship is strained, especially now after the whole ordeal. She just tried making a big deal about how she couldn't bear the thought of missing my wedding or seeing her daughters in my wedding, even though she found out she had strep throat a day or 2 before. She also kept making a big deal about having to stay at a hotel 30 minutes away that they couldn't afford, not my problem because you didn't plan ahead. She then had a fit because she wasn't sitting at the same table as my godparents, her parents, who were sitting with the rest of my family. Well, you didn't have a seating card at the family table because you said you weren't coming. Luckily we had a few no shows, so she and her trashy boyfriend were able to sit at a table basically by themselves in the back, which she pouted about. Also, her boyfriend showed up in jeans, a baseball jersey, and a ball cap. Real classy. She just has not been my favorite person for a few years, and if it wasn't for her 2 daughters who I absolutely love to death, I probably wouldn't ever talk to her.