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    upstatebroad    August 10, 2013   Saratoga Springs, NY

    There are so many options for the night before the wedding.

    A lot of brides choose to leave their soon to be husbands for the night and reunite when walking down the isle.

    Some choose to spend the night at a hotel or home with all the Bridesmaids and doing girly things like gossiping, painting nails, and regressing to childhood games.

    While others choose to stay with their moms or alone in preperation.

    I was curious to how everyone is planning to spend their last night before the wedding?

     
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    greenleafmountain    7.31.2010  

    Probably in my regular bed, I would worry that I wouldn't sleep well if I changed anything, and I really don't want to end up getting really tired toward the end of the reception.

     
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    krissybee    October 15, 2011   :: chicago IL ::

    the whole wedding party will be staying at a hotel.... i'll prob share a room with my mom and sis the night before. All the other bridesmaids will share a room with their SOs prob. We don't know yet if we are doing a first look.. if not, the next time i'll see my FI is walking down the aisle :)

     
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    egb    January 2010  

    My husband planned for one of us to spend the night somewhere else than our room. But when the time came, he changed his mind and did not want to leave my side. Which is good because we never came to a decision as to which one of us would give up the honeymoon suite to go bunk with our parents, lol! He left before 7:00 on the morning of the wedding though, and we didn't see each other until I was walking down the aisle.

     
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    LadyGoodman    September 25, 2010   Baltimore, MD

    I am going to sleep at my parent's house in my old bed.  I'll invite my bridesmaids to sleep, but it's not a big deal to me if they spend the night or not.  We're having our bridal party for a BBQ/crab feast and drinks at my parent's house that night, so I'll just stay when everyone leaves.

    My fiance will probably stay at our apartment by his lonesome.

    Honestly, I wanted to sleep at home with him the night before our wedding & go our separate ways in the morning, but he kindly informed me that we aren't supposed to see each other the morning of the wedding.  Very kind of him :-)

     
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    prettyflowers    September 2010  

    There's a decent chance we'll end up staying together in the fancy suite we're getting for the wedding weekend, and split up in the morning while we get ready.

     
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    upstatebroad    August 10, 2013   Saratoga Springs, NY

    @LadyGoodman, I LOVE the idea of BBQ/crab feast the night before! So Maryland!

     
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    Magenta    July 31, 2010   Springfield MA- Wedding in PR

    we will be sleeping together at my inlaws house where the wedding will be. we have a lot to do the day of the wedding so we cant miss any time

     
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    MissAsB    June 6, 2009   Married in CO, Living in AL

    We stayed in our own house.  We weren't superstitous about seeing eachother before the wedding since we had a first look.  We hung out together most of the day.

     
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    sctigergirl81    October 10, 2010   TigerTown, SC

    oh we're not seeing each other sat night...i mean we are in the evening, but after that we wont see each other till i come down the aisle!

     
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    Vonnegurl    June 12, 2010  

    I'm going to hang out with our families after the rehearsal dinner for a bit, probably at their hotel, and then my FI and I will return to our apartment and try to get a good night's sleep. We might have the Best Man on our couch.

     
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    Miss PumpkinPenguin    September 5, 2010   NC

    ahhh, this is one of those things that's been nagging me to figure out.  i'm guessing i'll stay with my parents?  really i bet i'll just want to sleep in my own bed that night.  i am already planning that it's gonna take a benadryl or something to knock me out that night; i'll be so excited.

     
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    MsTerrapin    June 19, 2010   Maryland

    I'm spending the night at a very close family friend's house (where we are having the rehearsal dinner and located about 10 minutes from the venue) with my BMs.  We'll be doing flower arrangements all night!  

    My FI is going to stay at the hotel with his family.  We won't see each other until the ceremony

     
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    Ms Mini    July 17, 2010   Medicine Hat, AB

    I think my sisters would like to do a "sleepover" at the hotel, and FH will stay at our house, we are doing a first look, and I am ambivalent about being separate - but it seems to mean a lot to them!

     
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    grass    July 24, 2010   boston, ma

    We're having a small cocktail party after our rehearsal dinner to get all the out-of-town guests together, and then my fiance will be staying at our apt with a few of the groomsmen, and I'll be staying at the hotel w/my sister.    

    We're doing a first look, but I thought that it would be nice to spend the night before the wedding apart since we already live together, and it will make the night of our wedding that much more special.  :)

     
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    FI is staying at the hotel with GMs and OOT guests.  I'm staying at home.  We aren't doing a first look.  The first time he will see me is when I walk down the aisle.  :o)

     
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    rplatzer    August 15, 2010   NYC, wedding in CT

    We will be spending it together :)

    I can't imagine anyone else I'd rather share my excitement & nerves with at that moment than the other person going through the same experience.

     
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    frugal_faye    June 6, 2010   Michigan and Illinois

    We will be spending it together :)

    I can't imagine anyone else I'd rather share my excitement & nerves with at that moment than the other person going through the same experience.

    I agree 100%  I know I'm going to be super-nervous and I don't want to go through that with anyone but him.  My sister (of all people) recently found this out, though, and is throwing a fit about it.  Everytime I talk to her now, she just tells me she can't believe we're doing this. Of all the things to care about...

     
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    Baileyh    July 24, 2010   Vancouver

    Im planning on having my mom and sisters stay with me. That way when we get up at the ass crack of dawn we will be together getting ready :)

     
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    lotam240    October 3, 2009   Philadelphia

    I stayed in the bed I grew up in at my parents' house.  it was so comfortable and I got a reeeeeally good night's sleep on a night I knew I'd be getting zero sleep.  And it was a really neat but bittersweet feeling coming down to my parents drinking their coffee like they always do and having a few moments with them before all of the madness began :)

     
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    alishadhs4    June 5, 2010   Colorado Springs, CO

    I might stay at my bridesmaids house, because we have to be up at 5am to get our hair did at 6. So it would be nice to wake up that early with my girls!

     
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    starr_bee    June 20, 2010  

    After the rehearsal dinner we're saying goodnight and then he is staying at our house with his parents and best man (they're flying in from far away) and I am going to one of the hotels where the OOT guests are.  I'm sharing a room with a bridesmaid.

    I'm pretty excited about it because I feel it's our last truly 'separate' time and that it'll help build up the anticipation until we see each other for the first time.  Eek!  I also chose to go the hotel as I think it'll be better for more stunning photos of me and the bridesmaids as it's near the water.  Although he still has our cute deck area to take photos in.

    Excited!

     
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    OttawaBride2011    May 21, 2011   Ottawa, Ontario

    I'm going to stay in our house with my parents, sister, brother-in-law, and niece (all from out of town) and possibly my 2 bridesmaids... Wow that sounds like too many people lol. My FI is going to stay at his parents house, only 10 minutes away!

     
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    audamy    June 5, 2010   DC/MD

    I'm staying with my FI the night before. We're getting married at his grandmother's cabin so we'll stay there together with most of his family. I had considered staying in a hotel with my MOH the night before but realistically, I just don't sleep well without my FI (we've lived together for 4 years) and I want to be well rested. I think it will be fun to wake up together, eat breakfast, finish up any last minute prep and then sort of go our separate ways to get ready- that way there will still sort of be that sense of anticipation/excitement.

     
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    Miss Chapstick    September 2009  

    We stayed together in our room at the hotel (DW). We didn't care about tradition or superstition! He left the morning of the wedding when my hair/make-up people arrived.

     
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    Ms. Caniche    September 18, 2010   Orange County, CA

    I will probably spend the night at my moms house.  A few bridesmaids in tow...

     
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    septcabride    September 2010  

    My parents, my sister, my FMIL, and my fiance and I are all staying my parents house.  I hope we will get up early enough to escape for a walk on the beach and some breakfast before anyone else wakes up so that we have some quiet time together to reflect on the day before all the getting ready hoopla starts. 

     
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    artbee    February 28, 2010  

    i kind of regret my choice... but by the time it happened it was too late to change. i stayed in the hotel with my bridesmaids, and my family stayed there too. we had an awesome time- made our centerpieces, went to a cute pizza place, and hung out at the hotel making toasts, drinking champagne, and eating left over cookies that we made for the favors. i just wish my husband was there too.

     
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    kcasam    December 6, 2010   Baltimore

    I'll be in a hotem room with my sister and best friend, probably freaking out and drinking vodka.

    Hey...at least I'm honest!

     
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    @ kcasam... hilarious!

     
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    melodicsighs1    May 22, 2010   San Diego

    I'll be sleeping in the same cabin we're spending our wedding night in - but with my bridesmaids! Our wedding is semi-destination (almost 2 hours from home with many out of town guests), so most people are staying out there. FI has a cabin with his groomsmen which he will switch out for my bridesmaids on the wedding night.

     
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    We stayed apart and with family and both had trouble with non-family wedding party flaking out on us.  His groomsmen decided to go back to a hotel where their college friends were instead of staying with him at his parents house (where the wedding was, and he was helping set up for while we got ready), but he had cousins and his bros at home so he still had fun and got the last few things that needed to be set up done without them.

    I stayed with my mom and sisters at the hotel.  The other bridesmaids were at the hotel too so said they'd have a bit of girly time to relax before they went back to their rooms with their SO's but the one was dating a jerk who decided it was a good idea to leave the rehersal dinner early to go to a bar and so the other friend bm and her husband went with them too so they wouldn't be alone or something.  But then they kept calling until like 1 am saying why won't you come out to the bar with us.  First, it was like well....I'm at our rehearsal dinner where you should still be with the free alcohol, around old friends you get to see too infrequently anymore instead of with strangers at a bar.  Then once I got back to the hotel it's like I'm getting married tomorrow, had enough to drink, not going out to the bar just bc that's where your piece o'crap boyfriend insists on being.  That was something I had to just roll my eyes at and let go so I wasn't pissed off at them at the wedding.

    Still love my bm and really happy that she's since broken up with piece o'crap boyfriend but I'm glad I had my mom and sisters there and didn't rely on the flaky friends other wise I would have felt sad and lonely the night before the wedding because there was no way I wanted to be bar hopping the night before my wedding. 

     
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    maisymay    December 19, 2009   morgan hill, ca

    I stayed in a hotel room with my mom and MOH. We weren't living together, but our house was almost an hour away from where we got married and the hotel was like 3 minutes away from the church. 

     
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    alivoo01    September 18, 2010   Dallas, TX

    Me and my FI will be parting ways after rehearsal dinner the prior night. Or so the plan is currently! Where will the FI go, that is also yet to be determined. haha!

     
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    Rosie Girl    September 18, 2010   Montana

    We are having our rehearsal, and dinner, then will go back to our house and sleep in the same bed for the last time as just being fiances! :)

     
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    Adira    October 3, 2009   New England

    My husband and I had our wedding in our home, but I slept upstairs in the guest bedroom with my MOH and he slepted downstairs in our main bedroom.  Then we got together for breakfast in the morning and split up - he went to play video games until his Best Man arrived, and I took over the master bathroom for hair and makeup.

    My best friend's wedding, she's staying in a hotel the night before and he's staying at the house they rented for friends.  They weren't able to only book the hotel for ONE night, so she's staying there the night before and they'll stay there together on the wedding night.

     
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    Erisque    November 1, 2009   Baltimore, Maryland

    We stayed in a hotel room together the night before (venue was far away from our apartment), but I got up earlier than he did to go and get ready. I did leave him a sweet note to read when he got up. I wouldn't have slept at all if I had stayed with anyone else!

     
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    sloth    May 14, 2011   Philadelphia, PA

    We'll sleep in our house, in our bed, together.

     
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    cpgirl2000    April 25, 2010  

    I'm staying with my parents the night before.  My FI won't see me until I walk down the aisle!

     

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