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Every day that goes by since our wedding, I just can't stop thinking about all the things that went wrong. Don't get me wrong, I loved getting married and there are some really great memories from it, but it's like for the last week I'm trying to un-do some of the damage done from it.

My wedding was on the 6th and my reception was on the 12th. The wedding itself was great! My only complaint is that when we came back home, I got pinkeye on the 11th and spent half the day at the doctors office.

But the reception... good grief. No doubt about it, it was fun. But man so many things went wrong. I don't want to seem ungrateful or anything but does anyone else feel like a little too much went wrong, like more than just the average thing or two??

I know I shouldn't dwell--it just brings me down. I guess the 3 things that bother me most are...

1) Of my whole 5 family members (I have a teeny little family), two of them got ill from eating at McDonalds and my sister was way late (like usual) and missed the whole first half the reception so I only had 2 family members there. It just would have meant a lot to me to have what few family members I have be there.
2) I haven't done an official count but of the 109 RSVP'd guests, only about 60 or so showed up.
3) I had used this tattoo covering makeup on my arm tattoos at my outdoor ceremony that took place on the 6th. It turned out great in our pictures, you couldn't even tell I had tattoos. So I used it again for my reception on the 12th. When I got all the pictures back I was shocked. For some reason (maybe because it was indoors this time and the lighting is different???) the spots where the makeup was all turned out like... practically REFLECTIVE in every single picture. I look really nice and tan in all our photos and then I have these huge glaring bright white arm bands going on where the makeup is. We didn't hire a professional photographer so it's heartbreaking to know that I'm going to half to photoshop every single picture.

There's other things too like having pinkeye and my eye was still all red, no one made a toast so all the champagne we bought wasn't even touched, and the fact that no one bothered to take home our favor bags but the top 3 I can't seem to just forget about. I guess I'm just dwelling though. I can't change it and I don't want to take away from the good memories.

You're right Mrs. Spring. There were a lot of good things about my reception day and I know I'm eventually going to find the whole arm discoloring thing funny soon. I guess I'm just embarrassed now because I know that all our guests are getting back their pictures and wondering what the heck is up with my arms. I'll post a picture later on tonight--it's so bad it's almost funny. I'm thinking it must have been the flash from the cameras that caught the makeup weird since it didn't do it in the outdoor pictures. It looks so horrible but I'm going to try and have a sense of humor about it. Maybe it could be like my reverse farmer's tan or something?

On the flip side, the cake cutting was hilarious and I got frosting up my nose and my hubby got frosting in his ear. The DJ was great. And the food was AWESOME.

I'm just in a funk today for some reason (I've been thinking a lot about my career path) so I think I'm just kind of extra down about some things.

Thanks for the good advice!

So the first picture is us in Vegas getting married. And the other 2 are us at our reception with my reflective arm bands.  Literally every picture of me looks like this. Maybe my arm tattoo makeup was haunted by ghosts? I'm not sure. Our reception day was 90 degrees and our hall didn't have any AC so if my "wedding glow" is a bit excessive, just ignore that part

I was thinking about this today though and except for the indoor/outdoor lighting I *did* do something different on the ceremony day--in addition to my normal tattoo cover makeup (forget what it's called but it comes in a tin box and they sell it at David's Bridal and theknot.com) I also added Cover FX makeup over it. I wonder if this helped at all because I didn't add the Cover FX makeup over the other makeup at the reception.

Huh. Well too late now! Any tips on how to fix this in pictures? I don't have photoshop, just Gimp and the old trusty paint program.

I'm so sorry to hear about the family members that couldn't make it. I too am struggling with accepting that certain people will NOT be at my wedding instead of focusing on who will be there like I should. I definitely hear where you are coming from.

As for the Arm band, yes, it's noticeable, is it the end of the world? Absolutely NOT! I have some great photographer friends... I've seen them photoshop caution tape off a boat, sunspots of my FI's hand, all sorts of things. With my personal knowledge of photoshop, that arm band is a really easy fix. If it was something on your face I'd say you were in trouble, but if you find anyone with medium to high photoshop knowledge, I'm sure they would do a fantastic job on your favorite photos. I wouldn't worry about doing all of them, or try doing it yourself. You will only get frustrated and more upset! Find a friend! There are actually lots of great bees I know on here who might be happy to do a few free of charge.

Best of luck -ETP!

Ok one more photo, kind of unrelated...

Anyone else notice the girl I'm standing next to in this picture wearing the white strappy dress with rhinestones on it (wow just like mine) next to me? I'm trying to find a better picture of her. She walked in and (no joke) literally says to me "Oh my god we almost match!". I just laughed and went to get myself a drink! I had to share this photo with someone.

Our DJ played Push It at the reception...probably the worst song ever for a wedding!