What did you hate about your wedding?

ajroemisch · April 2011

Me? Our cakes were a gift from a family friend who USUALLY does an amazing job, well, she spent more time on DH's cake (I'm sure...as he wanted a Dr Pepper can and it came out awesome) and my 3-tier heart shaped cake (I hated that I chose hearts, first of all....) was supposed to have TINY scrolls on them....They were HUGEEE! And, it was sitting on top of a fountain! EEK! I didn't ask for the fountain! And it was leaning!

CarolinaGirl82 · April 2011

I didn't have the girl who did my hair put my veil on, because it was pouring down rain and I wanted to keep it out of the puddles--one less thing to worry about. So, my mom and bridesmaids put it on in the bridal room right before the ceremony. They put it on too far forward, so it kind of pulled my bangs back and gave me a serious fivehead

I hate all of my pictures with that darn veil on! I can't believe with all those girls, not one of them said, "Let me fix your bangs", they all said it looked perfect. Ugh! Vapid, but my biggest annoyance from the day.

happilyeverafterxo · April 2011

Oh no! Bummer...I too have a cake story. A coworker of DH and I made our cake. (They are always delicious and beautiful.) Our wedding was in July and it was so hot. When she came to put the cake together the staff at the reception venue would not let her put it in the walk-in cooler.

Our cake collapsed. Haha. The best part about it was I didn't even care because at that point we were married.

The manager of the place we had our reception tried to fix it as best he could, but it still crumbled. We luckily were able to cut the cake and do the traditional cake feeding bit, but it was definitely leaning and shortly thereafter fell over.

It makes for a good story

littlemonster417 · April 2011

I hate the fact that I let my parents ruin my wedding and didnt enjoy it.... yep.. im still bitter lol

JayNina · April 2011

I loved our grooms cake which was an armadillo (dh's cousin made it). I wish we wouldve gotten her to do the wedding cake too. It ws okay but I couldve made what she did.

OutOnALimb55 · April 2011

It went too fast, oh and our officiant totally f'd up the vows we picked. He just said whatever he wanted j@ckass!!

manda42 · April 2011

The only regret I have from my wedding (and no, not everything went as planned) is that my grandfather played the piano during the ceremony, and I don't have A SINGLE picture of him. Not even a guest took a picture of him at the ceremony. That still makes me a little sad.

Melgor78 · April 2011

Glad I'm not the only one with a cake story. I'm still upset about mine but hey whats done is done.

MrsT0522 · April 2011

I loved our wedding (we eloped to the courthouse, with 8 family members) but I wish we would have splurged a bit on a photographer. DH's mom takes pictures as a hobby, so she offered to do it for us, but we were disappointed in the photos. We have about three that are frame/sharing worthy, but other than that it was a bust. Oh well!

ajroemisch · April 2011

CarolinaGirl82:

I didn't have the girl who did my hair put my veil on, because it was pouring down rain and I wanted to keep it out of the puddles--one less thing to worry about. So, my mom and bridesmaids put it on in the bridal room right before the ceremony. They put it on too far forward, so it kind of pulled my bangs back and gave me a serious fivehead

I hate all of my pictures with that darn veil on! I can't believe with all those girls, not one of them said, "Let me fix your bangs", they all said it looked perfect. Ugh! Vapid, but my biggest annoyance from the day.

oh! this get's me too!!!! My hair was "ok" but not exactly like I wanted it. We didn't have a trial run because we just flat out didn't have the $$ and was on a budget. Well, she pulled it so slick on the sides and top! ha! and the veil was put in backwards! it didn't get put over the top of my hair, it was un the underneath part. I never noticed until we got our pictures!

oncoRN · April 2011

Our wedding day went very smoothly, and surprisingly I don't really have any regrets...except we paid for all of the boutonnieres for the groomsman and DH, and they all "forgot" to wear them (actually they were sitting in the bridal suite the entire time haha)...so no flowers in pictures! Oh, and we forgot to wrap up the top of the cake well and it's completely freezer burnt now

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ajroemisch · April 2011

JayNina:
I loved our grooms cake which was an armadillo (dh's cousin made it). I wish we wouldve gotten her to do the wedding cake too. It ws okay but I couldve made what she did.

hahaha! armadillo? very steel magnolias!

Hazell121 · April 2011

MY DH and I got married in the fall. One of the main reasons that we picked our reception venue was because it was set back in the woods overlooking a pond. We planned on having all of our pictures taken out back in the woods around the pond surrounded by all of the colorful fall leaves. Unfortunately, the day of the wedding it was practically a monsoon outside. We made the best of it with umbrellas outside, but you the overcast skies muted all of the colors. Instead of having gorgous oranges, reds, greens and browns, I have rain drops in all my pictures! As terrible as the weather was, it was still the best day of my life!

ames243567 · April 2011

Nothing, we are luck any it went off with out any hiccups!

babiesbabiesbabies · April 2011

mine is a photography thing too.

I got a little impatient when taking pictures after the wedding and we didn't get as many formal family pictures as I would have wanted. We only have one pic of me, dh and both girls and half of it is very dark

I was upset because my photographers flash went out and it was a really shadowy venue to begin with. oh yeah, and there was a hurricane.

bwe1100 · April 2011

Early in the night, the DJ played a bunch of songs that we'd had on our "NO!" list (we have a great picture of the moment I heard "Mambo #5" come on - I look so pissed, and promptly pulled him aside to get him in line). And he played the wrong version of the father-daughter dance. grrr.

Other than that, I really wish I could re-do the bridesmaid dresses. Specifically, I wish I'd turned that decision over to my sisters, since they were the ones who'd have to wear them and I love their style. I just got frustrated with all the options and picked a dress that looked ok, and now I regret it when I see the pictures.

But it was altogether an amazing, joy-filled, wonderful day and night!

MJH184 · April 2011

The only kind of regret I have is about my dress. I love the dress I picked, but I wish I would have spent more time shopping around. I only went one day with my mom, MIL and BM's. I wish I would have looked around more, because I see dresses now that I like more than mine.

mrsfowler1016 · April 2011

My photographer and MOH were late so we didn't get very many GOOD pictures because we were in a hurry afterwards. It was all messed up and the reception was horrible. People left because pictures were taking so long. I really wish we would have saved the money and eloped.

PrimReaper · April 2011

Nearly everything. I wanted a small wedding, either parent's backyard or vegas. DH wanted the wedding at his parent's farm which is 8 hours north of where most of our friends and family live. 70% of the guests were his side, complaints and changes requested on everything we decided from his family, his brother took our photographer (family friend) aside for family photos in the middle of our formals, our venue cancelled 6 weeks before our wedding and we had to pay more for everything than with less options because the wedding was in the only major city within 400 miles.

I've told DH we're doing it over MY way after we're done having kids....Vegas, November 2012 is the plan.....

mljohnson · April 2011

So disappointed with our photographer. I bought cheap and I got cheap. Sad

LovestruckAJ · April 2011

I wanted to capture the beautiful desert sunset in my wedding pictures. The only problem was, that my wedding & reception both took place during the day. So by the time we gathered my wedding party together for these sunset shots (after the reception) everyone was drunk. (I obviously didn't think this through ahead of time...lol!!)...I'll have to admit that some of the pictures came out pretty funny though. I just wish we would have taken more of everyone gathered SOBER.

ccam · April 2011

I HATED my bridesmaid dresses.... and one of the bridesmaids, actually!

melissa721 · April 2011

ajroemisch:
Me? Our cakes were a gift from a family friend who USUALLY does an amazing job, well, she spent more time on DH's cake (I'm sure...as he wanted a Dr Pepper can and it came out awesome) and my 3-tier heart shaped cake (I hated that I chose hearts, first of all....) was supposed to have TINY scrolls on them....They were HUGEEE! And, it was sitting on top of a fountain! EEK! I didn't ask for the fountain! And it was leaning!

Can I see a picture of these cakes?

Sweets11 · April 2011

littlemonster417:
I hate the fact that I let my parents ruin my wedding and didnt enjoy it.... yep.. im still bitter lol

This... but slightly different...

My mom (who's divorced and not very happy in her life) really liked my husband and even told me she liked him more than me (yes, she is crazy).

When I announced we were engaged she was 'happy', but not very excited for me.

Then, three years later when we started wedding planning (we had a looonnngg engagment), she flipped because I told her we were inviting my Dad to the destination wedding and not her boyfriend (long story, he is abusive on every level, a severe alcoholic/gambling addict and he openly cheats on my Mom. My sisters and I have nothing to do with him.)

After that, she did everything to try to sabotage our wedding. She would tell anyone who would listen that I was a 'Bridezilla'. She made up stories about terrible things that I said to her (complete fabrications!) and she tried to pit my middle sister and I against each other the whole time.

MH and I ended up having a beautiful destination wedding surrounded by friends and (most of) our family. My Mom didn't attend. It was unfortunate, but we didn't let it spoil our day, we were just thrilled to start our life together surrounded by the people who were happy for us.

awillis13 · April 2011

We had gone back and forth with the florist during planning, and had multiple contract drafts before everything was set. While the flowers (type and design) were correct, we were missing 2 bouts for groomsmen(technically 3 because 1 groomsman was sick in the hospital the week of the wedding), but had 2 Fathers bouts (when DH's father passed away 6 years ago). I found out after the fact that the florist had been working off an old (and incorrect in numbers) contract and had misplaced our final contract! Luckily the final payment she quoted us was off that incorrect contract so we didn't pay for things we didn't get, but it definitely made for a difficult morning of with flowers. There were a few other things with her that we didn't like, so I probably would change my florist if I were to do it again, but other than that I think everything was absolutely perfect!

JayNina · April 2011

ajroemisch:

JayNina:
I loved our grooms cake which was an armadillo (dh's cousin made it). I wish we wouldve gotten her to do the wedding cake too. It ws okay but I couldve made what she did.

hahaha! armadillo? very steel magnolias!

Yep My favorite movie and Dh's family is from Amarillo so it kinda tied it all together

mcgeeva · April 2011

Aye...where to begin!!! What I hate most---my horrible decision with making friends.

First off I would like to say bad things happen to good people and I am still trying to remember I married the man of my dreams so that is what it all about Smile

But...I could of done without having a bridesmaid who is a mother of 3 girls by the way get so drunk she barfed and peed on herself and then passed out in the hotel bathroom all by 10pm. My maid of honor got drunk way to early..called my photographer a "Fat @itch" because my photographer thought my flower girl was her daughter (Who cares anyways) and then told my husband he was a "piece of @hit and never liked him" because he asked her to grow up and stop thinking of herself. And lastttttttttly..she my Maid of honor with her husband at the wedding kept flirting and trying to rub up on my single guy cousin and he was super uncomfortable so his older sister told her to act married. Long story short..my wedding ended and I ended up getting screamed at for 10 minutes about what a B I was for not standing up for her. She didn't deserve my help for what she did so all I could do was tell her while I was crying my eyes out "It's my wedding day".. Then the crazy B went into my bridal suite to delete all my blackberry contacts. Haven't spoken to her since that day!

All I can say is my wedding made me learn how to tell what a true friend is. Just sucks it took me until then to figure it out

Milliways · April 2011

Our dinner was the only thing I would change. Our venue charged extra to use an outside service and the tasting went ok so we went with the venue for dinner but paid extra to have very nice passed apps from an outside caterer. The day of the apps were amazing but the dinner tasted like cafeteria food from camp. DH is a chef so it was a huge disappointment, what made it worse was after the amazing apps it was such a let down.

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Betsy Boo · April 2011

The air conditioning in our venue died about half way through the night. Other than that our day was great!

watkinae · April 2011

For the most part, it was a wonderful day, but there are a few things that I would change if I could.....

1) Would've never taken $ from the in-laws. They contributed a third of our budget (which was their wedding gift to us) and thought that meant that they could invite all these random people that DH doesn't even know to the wedding.

2) Would've gotten a different photographer. She was ok, but she wasn't heavy on the photojournalistic style which was what I wanted more than the posed formals.

3) Would've turned my hairstyle into an updo for the reception. I have VERY curly hair and it was straightend for the wedding. Toward the end of the night, it was starting to get a little frizzy, so would've preferred to put it up for the reception.

JayNina · April 2011

I also hated our photographer. We paid a lot for him and he did not do half of the pictures that we said we wanted. UGH!!

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pengwins · April 2011

I hated our photographer. I originally wasn't even going to hire a photographer and just ask all our friends and family to take pictures, but my FIL insisted and so we agreed. The photographer was my FIL's choice since he paid for it and the photos turned so old-fashioned. And since there was a photographer, no one else took pictures.

I wish I took the time to pick a photographer after my FIL offered to get us one. I would have rather had no photographer at all than pay for a bunch of photos I'm not happy with.

MGW4034 · April 2011

Simply that it went by WAY too fast!!!

stephgamerbabe · April 2011

My photographer

Cholzmei · April 2011

My wedding went very smoothly. The only thing I hated was having to wear a veil at all. I didn't want one, but my mother said, "I don't think you look like a bride without a veil" so I caved and let them stick one on the very bottom of my updo. When everyone hugged me in the receiving line, the veil got caught in the hug and pulled my head back. I took it off shortly thereafter. The most expensive accessory that I've ever worn for only 45 minutes!

Also, OT, but JayNina, your horse is GORGEOUS!

Am I to take it from your sig that you are a barrel racer?

Ricola · April 2011

I didn't hate one single thing about it. To me it was the perfect wedding.

brookelynpaisley · April 2011

I wasn't happy with our photos. We used a friend who's an amazing model photographer, so I thought we'd get his edgy style in our photos. Nope. There are moments missing from the day, and there's nothing creative like I hoped for about them.

emu0013 · April 2011

DH and I got married in Vegas and then had a renewal of vows and reception a year later where we live.

For the vegas wedding I wish I would have dished out the $350 they wanted to get my hair done; I didnt like the way it looked.

For our Renewal the darn cake was suppose to be chocolate brown with cream polka-dots and it showed up cream with chocolate polka dots....Yea I was so not happy about that.

MissusW · April 2011

I know this goes against the flow. But I absolutely loved the way my wedding turned out. Better than I had expected.

BUT I do wish we had it on video (we chose not to do that) so I could watch it as the day becomes a blur after a while.

Amomtomanyluvs · April 2011

I hated the fact that we could not do something on the beach which would have been great. And that I allowed a friend to try and ruin my special day. I also really hate that I did not try and lose more weight before hand...ugh.

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