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Congratulations and Best Wishes! Thanks for the tips :) How does it feel, being on the 'other side' of the wedding? :)
Bella
Sooo good. I miss having a purpose on the boards. Now I guess I will just offer opinions/advice to the bees on the road to marriage. It feels like graduation or something.
Any other married bees have tips? Please post.
Congrats, great tips! I wish I wouldve practiced my bustle - I had some girls help because we were in a rush and they didnt tie it right so it kept falling down a little. My mom was following me around with pins all night trying to pin it so I didnt step on it :)
I also agree with the lazy honeymoon - we went to Domincian Republic and did nothing but hang out at the hotel for 9 days, by the pool and the beach. It was so relaxing and great not to be on a schedule.
I agree about having a relaxing honeymoon...we had an exciting trip through the Mediterranean, but we were exhausted when we got back. Looking back it would have been better to go somewhere where we could have just relaxed. :)
Congrats!!! Macchu Picchu? Holy wow! I bet that was cool. Post pics (wedding and honeymoon) please!!!
Now that it is all said and done, I totally agree with the day of coordination. I felt like I was being pulled in 20 directions and everyone wanted/needed me to do something different. The reception is all a blur and I did not enjoy it. I did not even get to eat any of my cake except the one bite when we cut it.
Thanks for the tips!
I hope you had an amazing wedding day! Now enjoy the marriage, and try to relax after such an adventurous honeymoon!
congrats!!! and thanks for posting tips "on the other side"!
Your last tip about the honeymoon has inspired a conversation with my FI on what we should do. We originally wanted to bike the Tatras, but I didn't think of how tired we're probably feel after a week of organizing, stress, and hosting. Thanks for the insight!
congrats! thanks for the tip on the bustle. knowing me, that's something i wouldn't think of :)
Thanks for the tips and Congrats
I think we'll go to either Dominican Republic, Jamaica or Puerto Rico for our honeymoon
Thanks for the bustle tip, never would have thought of that! Congratulations, do you have pictures yet?
As a bridesmaid in my fair share of weddings...my suggestions to any brides who need to bustle...
1. Have the person who will be doing the bustle go with you to your final fitting for instruction.
2. Have the seamstress use ties that you tie through the slipknot and NOT the loops. It makes the bustling go a lot faster and smoother...and it's more secure.
3. Have the seamstress color code the ties and slipknots so that you can easily tell what needs to be tied where.
My last two friends that got married followed these tips I learned as a bridesmaid =) and we were able to have them bustled and back at their reception in no time at all.
OR
You can do what I am doing....buy a dress that doesn't need to be bustled ;)
That bustle tip would have helped me! Thanks bees for all of your good wishes. It's good to be married. Yes Tarragonfly, hold off on the biking trip. Make sure you do it, but a few months after the wedding. Just hang out in luxury and rest. We would have been better off waiting to do our adventure trek.
As far as the 'day of' coordinator... get someone you trust to be your personal assistant. I had a good friend of mine hold my phone all day long... she did need to ask a few questions that were last minute (which happens), but it was so helpful to just hand my phone calls and texts to someone else so I could relax before the ceremony. We are on day 12 of our marriage and it couldn't be more perfect... good luck girls, getting married is so exciting!!!
I agree with all of your tips, with experience.
Also, give an ordered shot list of family photos with names to photographer (we have a blended and super complicated extended family.)
Spend time with your hubby-to-be the night before the wedding to calm nerves and reconnect. (It will be hard to ward off the family but definitely worthwhile.) A couple's massage in the hotel and intimate dinner the night before the wedding was perfect for us.
Yay! Congratulations!
I totally have to agree about the honeymoon. We were originally thinking Hawaii for ours, and then decided against it after asking ourselves, "how tired will we be after the wedding?" The answer was "very." We knew if we went anywhere exciting that was a "once in a lifetime" trip, we would feel obligated to see all the sites and be on the move all day to take it all in. So we decided to save it for an anniversary trip one year.
We ended up driving two hours to Vermont for five days. We slept and ate and went for drives to look at the foliage. It was perfect. Did I say we slept? yeah, we took a LOT of naps. We even just vegged out one rainy afternoon and rented a movie from the Inn's video library. We had nothing to do and nowhere to be. I can't recommend a honeymoon like that enough!
I wish I would have hired a DOC. Because I didn't me and my new hubby ended up missing some valuable picture taking time in order to find a new DJ. Lucky for us, one of our groomsmen stepped up and took over so we could go to a local watering hole and grab a drink with the bridal party before we hit the cocktail hour and reception.
totally agree on the DOC. We would have been lost without her. I got to enjoy every minute of everything. It was awesome! Best $500 I ever spent!
I agree on the DOC. It was awesome to have the wedding in the hands of the coordinator and my dear cousins! Also as a serial bridesmaid, the bustle is always an issue-- the more people who know how to do it before the wedding(like going to the seamstress) the better!
I have to add that leaving from the reception to the airport for a transatlantic flight wasn't a good idea. It wasnt the ideal situation to leave the day of anyway, but a really long 2 weeks of moving. wedding planning, sleepless night before and a screaming baby on the plane meant we were exhausted the next day when we finally could go to bed! We enjoyed our French/Italian honeymoon, but the first week was a little more hectic than we would have preferred and the second week we got sick from that. We had a great time though... but now a week later I am wishing we'd done more just "hanging out" cause I want that instead of working!
I agree with you on the bustle. Even though my MOH came to my dress fitting I still think it was not done correctly. Sometimes it bothers me when I look back at our pictures. All in all, and I'm sure you'll agree, it's still such a wonderful day. Congrats again and enjoy married life!
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Thank you to all of the bees that have helped me along the way. I have recieved so much good insight from this site. Thank you all for helping me get there!
It was a success.
But my tips:
Practice your bustle. Mine didn't work. It fell out. I had to carry my train all night.
Hire a day of coordinator (I was sooo glad not to be in charge)
Stop asking for people's opinions and just make the decisions before the wedding. If people don't know there is an option, you won't offend them.
Maybe don't go on an adventure honeymoon after the wedding. We went to Macchu Picchu and did the trek (or at least I did, my husband quit on day two). We should have just vegged out at a fancy hotel for about three nights somewhere close.