June 2012 Weddings
SoSaysTara
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First wedding after your own
Hey guys!
How many of you have been to another wedding after your own? Do you find that it's a totally different experience?
I am getting ready to go to a wedding here in a few hours and I'm struggling to not be judgmental ALREADY. I know this makes me a total B but they included a card with their invites that said "Change. Reception will now be at ABC place. Please bring money for the cash bar. Park at 123 Place. Registered at Store, Store, and Store."
And my head is just screaming at them. Haha..
Re: First wedding after your own
My younger sister got married exactly 50 days after I did, and I was her MOH. It was a very, very different wedding from ours! NMS at all. They had nine BMs, nine GMs, three FGs, and a three-year-old RB, who wore (no joke!) a BEAR costume. Because he was the ring bear. We made all of the bouquets and decorated the reception hall ourselves. The rehearsal was about two hours long. We were required to have our hair done professionally and mine looked terrible. Photos took FOREVER with that many people in the bridal party (and big families on both sides as well!) They were going to have the BP do a choreographed song and dance routine, but fortunately scaled it back to a choreographed grand entrance. It was all very different and I just had to remind myself that I'd gotten the wedding that I'd wanted, and now it was my sister's turn!
I have two cousins getting married this fall. One cousin is getting married 4 hours away next weekend and the other about 2 hours away in Novemeber. They both made it to my wedding in June, so I feel it necessary to attend theirs.
It will be nice to enjoy the experience from a guest's point of view and party for the reception and eat and drink and have a blast.
After my ceremony, I found myself trying to organize things quickly while we had everyone's attention. I didn't have a chance to eat much of anything. I only ate portable food (mini crawfish pies) and had 1 beer and a little champagne. I was very concerned trying to reach everyone and our wedding and speak to them and thank them for attending.
We went to a wedding in August, and I was so happy that it wasn't our turn anymore. I didn't miss any of the stress! She did a beautiful job with her reception space decoration, but her food was just ok. Not much for me to judge, we just relaxed and had a great time.
I went to a wedding about 2 weeks ago and it was soooooo different from my wedding in every way imaginable but I still did compare the two. The bride's dress was actually a dress I had tried on, really liked and considered buying. When I saw it on her I realized how happy I was that I didn't buy it and it reminded me how much I loved my own dress. The dress looked amazing on the bride and I still think it was a beautiful dress, but it just wasn't as "me" as my dress.
Amazingly, I don't even know when the next wedding I'm attending is and no one that I'm close with/related to is even engaged. I'm welcoming the break.
Except I'd be beyond excited if my MOH cousin's bf proposed like, right now.
We haven't been to any and don't have any on the agenda as of yet. Although, one of our ushers did get engaged a couple weeks ago but they haven't set a date yet.
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It's super interesting to help someone else with their wedding after yours. I was the MOH in my friends wedding 2 months after ours and it was weird to do everything over. I think the thing that was most interesting was that I was so used to having to make all the decisions and I didn't for hers (obviously!).
My fiance and I were engaged for almost an entire year. Around end of March 2012 his older brother announced he got engaged and they were planning for August 2012 only a month and a half after we got hitched. We knew what they were trying to do, as his brother kept stating during our engagement to all friends and family "I can't believe my little brother is getting married before me!" (He was always bitter about us "beating" him down the aisle.)
Right after we got married we moved to a different province, and I had to put looking for a job on hold because of their wedding. We had to buy flights down there. Their wedding was on a friday and we had to be there all day thursday to help set up, because they didn't hire a decorator(it's fine). But since my husband had just started a new job and had already taken time off for my bridesmaids wedding a month before our and our wedding (we didn't take a honeymoon yet)he didn't want to take anymore time off.
Basically we ripped everything apart but only to each other. It also doesn't help when you've got my new cousins, aunts and uncles, grandparents and even my new parents telling me everything they liked about our wedding better, from food, entertainment, our pastor, favors, decorations, flowers and the fact that we had alcohol. We even had a a cousin of his stay with us not long after their wedding as he was passing through town and was told by the other cousins how much of a party he missed(he wasn't able to make our wedding due to location).
Enjoy picking apart things but just keep it between yourselves, we had our day and they had theirs. Our day was the best day of my life and I'm sure theirs was for them. When people ask us how their wedding was we usually reply with nice, lovely, or interesting.
Tips: regardless how convenient it is don't do the pictures before the ceremony, it's sooooo worth it to have him see you for the first time in your dress walking towards him. (we did our pictures after the ceremony, they did them before, he got to see her for the first time in a hotel lobby!)