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MaryM
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Tell me about your wedding!
I went to a bridal shower yesterday and after being married 5 years now, it made me think of my wedding. Times have changed from dresses to etiquette it seems... (Uh e invites?) Do you have any regrets of yours? Any happy memories to share? Tell me all so I can blissfully be taken back to being a knottie!
Re: Tell me about your wedding!
evites are still tacking, IMO.
i don't have any regrets, actually. i might have tried the sparklers before taking them outside to use for pictures and realizing that they don't like to work in frigid temps (or were all duds) and might have arranged for transportation to take us from the venue to the hotel instead of winging it, but those things were really no big deal at all so i don't consider them regrets. i wouldn't change anything about the wedding.
I don't really have any regrets... I wish I had a limo.. lol. I passed on it as an expense, and everything was just fine without it. But I do kinda still wish I had had one...
I was pretty happy with our wedding. With the help of a couple good friends it was pretty much "perfect"
The DJ was probably my only beef. He played the steelers polka. We were ok with polka, but we didn't want nonsense. didn't want any line dances and all that, stuck to old school stuff- totally plotted out our music basically (DH was most involved with the music followed by food. He really didn't care about anything else). It was a September wedding the day before a game, but that steelers polka SO NOT approved.
I was also annoyed that he messed up and played our first dance song when we walked in instead of the bigband song we had picked. blah since we danced righ taway everyone got to hear it twice =/
Married, September 23, 2006
My sister got married in May, evites are still tacky. My wedding was 10 years ago and I still think all the same rules apply.
The only thing I would have done different was make sure that our photographer got more pictures at Heinz Chapel. But other than that it was an amazing day.
There are so many other things that people do now. I really wanted a photobooth but they were soooo expensive, now there is a groupon weekly.
I would have gotten a limo.
I would have taken more pictures with my mom (lots of pictures with dad and only a few with mom!).
I wouldn't have picked a venue so quickly before realizing how many great venues there are in the area.
I would have discovered Etsy before wedding planning. Everyone talked about it, but I didn't know what the big deal was!
Jake - 1.15.08
Liam - 5.17.11
My style has changed and a lot of new wedding trends have come about since then, so there are definitely things that I wish I could have or would have done...but I had a great day, so I really don't have any regrets.
If anything, I would not have picked a reception venue before looking into more options. I had a good experience with ours, but I wish I maybe looked into something different. Also my dress - I loved it at the time, but now I am 'meh' about it.
My biggest regret is the photographer. He wasn't very good, and we ended up having a lot of issues with him. I wish I had better pictures from that day, but I don't really display pictures in our house much so it's not the end of the world. Naturally I'd probably make different style choices now than I did 8 yrs ago, but I don't hate anything that I chose at the time.
The best choice we made was our band! They were so much fun and really set the tone for the evening. To this day I've never seen so many people dance at a wedding. I wish they were still together so we could take the kids to see them!
There really isn't anything I would change. We're approaching 9 years, so a lot of the minute details are fuzzy. We (and our guests) had so much fun that we extended our DJ by 2 hours.
We had a few hiccups on the day, but nothing that I could have controlled. Torrential downpours. 60 degree temperatures in JULY.
The most annoying thing was that the limo never came back to take us home. Casey drank a lot - so I had to drive us home in his tiny Chevy Cavalier. My dress barely fit. It was up around my armpits, I'm sure I looked like I was covered in marshmallow fluff to passersby.
Our photographer was SUPER annoying.
The only thing I think I would change is that I wouldn't have worried so much about what my inlaws and more judgmental friends thought,
I really regret my videographer choice. Had I know it would have turned into a 2.5 year battle to get a mediocre video and almost a legal battle I would have absolutely chosen someone else or just not had one. It still breaks my heart when I think about it. I haven't watched it since we got it back because it upsets me.
Other than that, no other regrets - i just wish you could have a do-over every few years to capitalize on some of the cute new trends (without paying for it of course!) ha ha!