I know it's pretty easy to start dwelling on the little things that went wrong at your wedding and not really think about all the things that went right. So, what are some of the things you were complimented on during (or after!) your wedding?
For me, it was hands down the ceremony, especially our vows. Guests were totally in love with them!
After that, it'd probably be the decorations. Our venue even asked us if they could keep whatever we were going to throw away (i.e. the tissue poms that were a huge part of our decorating and flowers) because they were having an event the next week and they thought the decorations were too beautiful (!!!!) to be wasted. (Trust me, I was over the moon, ego-wise, about that comment, LOL!)
There were also a lot of compliments about the food (my mom and her friends made a delicious "home cooked meal" for 100 people, it was awesome!), the photobooth, and, randomly, the fact that the guests could watch the bridal party goofing around taking pictures outside during the cocktail hour. Hahaha.
So, what were your guests impressed by at your wedding?! :)
A lot of people commented on our ceremony/vows, as well. We completely wrote it/them ourselves, and our officiant asked if he could keep a copy to give to other 'clients' as a sample.
Other than that, a lot of compliments were also given about our decor. I DIYed everything, and everyone loved the personal touches. Food was also a big crowd pleaser...
All-in-all, the whole day was a success, and has been called both 'epic', and 'untoppable'.
@ladyartichoke: Here's a facebook picture of the reception room during set up, so it's not complete but it gives a good idea! Ahh, just looking at pictures makes me miss the day already!! hahahaha. Anyway, we had 100+ poms hung up in the reception room, and quite a few in the ceremony room as well. I loved it! :)
@brighteyedgirl: that sounds awesome! "Untoppable" would have me grinning like a loon :) ahaha
We got a ton of compliments on our venue --the service, food, and the decor. I have been told when they opened the doors for our guests to enter the reception room that people gasped. Made it worth every penny!
I also received compliments on having a crafts table for the kids during cocktail hour and stockings (our wedding was a week before Christmas) filled with activities to keep them entertained during the reception.
- short ceremony
- no gap
- food
- flowers (our florist was amazing)
We got a lot of compliments about how beautiful our ceremony was. It was simple and around 25 minutes, not too long. Also, the colour (guava) seemed to go over well with everyone.
The biggest compliment was the photo booth, everyone loved it!
The food and the dancing! Unfortunately, we didn't even get to eat!!
Our guests commented on a few things:
-everyone liked the food at both receptions (we had a combination of Indian/Sri lankan food at our first reception and upscale Tex-Mex at our second reception)
-everyone commented on our officiant's speech and how good he was at our American ceremony, my american friends loved our hindu ceremony and dressing up in sarees, etc.,
-DH's extended Sri Lankan family kept commenting that they were impressed that we "pulled off" a real, Sri-Lankan style wedding in Dallas, TX. They were also impressed with my DIYs, the Decor, and the color scheme. Several of them have kept commenting on how it all came together....almost as if they thought a white girl from Texas couldn't do it? ;-) lol
I show pics all the time, but I'm going to show them again!
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Second night:
We also received a ton of compliments about our (outdoor) ceremony. The morning and early afternoon had been rainy, and I had more than one unrelated person come up to me and swear that the sun came out when we were pronounced husband and wife. Who knows if it was really that dramatic, but it makes a nice story :)
Other than that, a lot of people raved about our venue. We were married at a 1920's Long Island mansion, so I made sure to leave the decor simple to really let the beautiful venue shine.
Everyone really loved the food, and I was complimented on that a lot by almost everyone. I was also complimented on the intimacy of the ceremony. Although we had over 100 people, that is small for my culture, and the room felt intimate. I think people really felt the love in the room (which I also think is partly because the room was smaller). I also got a huge amount of compliments on my veil.
I had so many compliments on our guestbook, the food, our centerpieces, our candy table and the venue.
For our guestbook I just laid out wood letters for people to sign that spelled out Mr & Mrs. The food was from a very small local caterer who works out of her home, it was some of the best food I've ever had in my life! I made the centerpieces myself and they were pretty difficult to come up with as well as transport and set up. I was happy everyone liked them because we did all of the decor ourselves and it was a task. EVERYONE loved the candy table, people talked about it for weeks and even our caterer posted a photo on her website saying how she loved it. We bought all the candy, we set it up, it was hard but so worth it! We got married in a 1920's theater so people loved it and told us how fun and unique it was.
I had a few friends and family members tell us it was the most beautifully decorated wedding they had ever been to. That was awesome to hear after all the hard work, they must not have been to many weddings though lol.
The venue staff came to us after the reception and told us how amazing they thought the place was decorated, they said they never saw it look so beautiful or saw anyone put so much effort into all the little details. They were such sweet people.
Oh, I miss my wedding now. We got tons of compliments on our ceremony. It was a Catholic Mass and so many even non-Catholics commented on how beautiful it was and how they wish that it wouldn't have ended.
At the reception, people (even my DJ) commented on the candy bar, old fashion popcorn maker, bathroom baskets, flip flop baskets, and the cake.
We got compliments on:
- the family unity song. There's a family tradition on DH's side that the family sings this gorgeous unity song at some point during the reception. We bumped it up and did it during our unity salt ceremony, but added my parents and siblings (both families are really musical!) and people LOVED it!
- Our double ring exchange (both of us had worn purity rings before we were married and we wound up exchanging those and our wedding bands).
- Having my 11 and 10 year old brothers as ushers. They took their job SO seriously!
- Our table decorations
- our photographer
-our DJ (Wow, he was AWESOME!!! About 85% of our guests were out dancing! It was great!)
- The cake
- Popsicles during the dancing (I did it as a surprise for DH and people were thrilled.)
- Our sparkler lit exit
- the reception music
Probably the best compliment I got was "I forgot that you can have this much fun at a dry wedding! This was great!"
In the year after the wedding, we've consistently received compliments on the intimate atmosphere, the dinner party style, the food and alcohol served, the cigar bar (this compliment only seems to come from the guys. lol), the toasts given (not that we had any control over those), and the funny unscripted moments in our ceremony.
And one of the biggest compliments from a non-guest was when our photographer approached me to ask if it would be okay to shoot some extra shots of the ceremony, cocktail, and dinner spaces on behalf of the venue. The venue loved the style of our wedding so much that they wanted professional shots of everything to use in their promotional material. Since the photographer was there on my dime, she had to ask for my consent to do the extra shots. I was incredibly flattered.
Everyone loved the music from our wedding ceremony. We had my mom's cousin as a soloist who sang The Lord's Prayer, and he has such an amazing voice - sounds a lot like Josh Groban. His voice gave me the chills. :)
You're right, it's easy to think about what you would have changed, what wasn't perfect, etc., but it's great to focus on what went awesome! I still hear about:
the dress
the photo booth and how fun it was
the music/dancing
the ceremony--the beautiful church combined with the singing and string trio
how pretty the day was, weather-wise (we got lucky!)
the midnight snack :)
it seems so long ago now. we had a lot of nice compliments from our guest and from the venue itself.
the invites
the personalized/logo backdrop for pictures
the officiant (his service was touching)
my dress and shoes
the meal was amazing
the highend imported tequilas for the bar
really, there was a comment about every detail of the wedding itself but those were the main ones.
the venue even commented how this wedding was the most organized function they had ever done (and it was planned from out of the country). they were even going to utilize some of my systems for future events.
I've had several people tell me they had more fun at our wedding than they had ever had before (at a wedding)
Things people specifically mention:
Open bar
Fabulous DJ
Great food
Candy bowls on the tables as centerpieces
Shorter ceremony with no gap & on-site reception
My dress (that I got off the rack on clearance and David's Bridal YAY!)
People didn't mention the fact that we skipped chair covers, we only had white linens, and we served a lunch meal for an earlier reception instead of a dinner. Saved us a TON of money!
Our taco truck. We got so much flak for the taco truck before the wedding, but we got so many compliments of people saying our quesadilla appetizers were the best quesadillas they had ever had.
People raved most about our centerpieces and our music. Our dance floor was seriously PACKED all night and we danced until 1 AM!
@BookGirrl: Freakin' Gorgeous!
Now I wish FI was Sri Lankan! Go Texas girls!
I'm saving your pom pictures... doing something similar and I like how you mixed the colors.
-"All of the details": they probably wouldn't have been impressed with just the menus, favors, programs, flip flop basket, etc. on their own, but people were impressed with them as a whole.
-The morning-after brunch. It was nothing fancy, just a breakfast buffet and omelette station set up in the private room a restaurant near the hotel, but it's the thing we're most consistently complimented on. Everyone liked having a chance to talk one last time and who doesn't love a good breakfast after a long night of partying?
-The flowers. We splurged and it showed. The ceremony space made me cry the first time I saw it and the centerpieces were just gorgeous. I still hate the idea that we spent so much on arrangements that were just going to be thrown out after a few hours, but when I look at our pictures I have no regrets.
-The food. We went for simple but tasty and plentiful. We had 3 buffet stations - mashed potato bar, pasta bar, and traditional chicken/beef/sides dinner station. No issues with people finding something to eat, even the vegetarians. And we've heard nothing but rave reviews. My dream of plated surf and turf couldn't make the budget cut, but I think it may have turned out better this way.
-Guest transportation to/from the hotel. Very much appreciated - and used by most of the guests, even the ones not staying at the hotel.
-After-party in our suite. We had pizza and leftover beverages from the reception. People stayed and partied until 4 a.m. It was a total blast. (My bridesmaids and I also used the suite to get ready - it was PERFECT for that.)
We got a lot of compliments on our vows. We did them duet style and included some really funny vows and some of the more emotional ones. too. Our guests said they had never heard vows like that before.
We also got a lot of compliments on the food, the photo booth, and the music (DH's uncle's classic rock band played the wedding!).
We had a very small and intimate wedding. People still talk about how much they liked the venue, the food and the exraordinary service from the wait staff.
We had quite a few compliments on our wedding video "love story" that was shown at dinner by our videographer. We taped it a few months before our wedding in a park. Our videographer interviewed us separately and asked us questions such as "how did you meet?, when did you know he/she was the one?, what does he/she mean to you?" etc and we didn't know what each other's answers were until the video was shown at the reception. It was funny, heartwarming and absolutely amazing. Our guests loved it! I also started tearing up hearing what my husband had to say.
Our entire ceremony. Our officiant was someone we knew; we spent quite a bit of money to fly him in for the wedding because he just started studying abroad!! He also spent 24 hours, each way, travelling to our wedding and stayed for just 3 days as he couldn't miss too much school. Man, he must've been so tired and jetlagged. But the entire ceremony (a full catholic mass) was so tailored to us and people kept coming up to us all night commenting on how heartfelt it all was!
We also did personal vows and everyone loved it! So many people cried (even those we weren't too close with)... I only noticed when I was looking at the photos after haha. Our vows were a surprise even to each other So there was really a lot of emotions in the church!!
Aaaand our video! Our videographers did a 6-minute video of preps and the ceremony and early reception, and played it after dinner. It was great being able to see a vid right away, especially coz I didn't see my husband's preps or anyone else's march down the aisle. We were worried the video wouldn't be nice because the videographer's work tends to be sooo cheesy, and we were extra worried because we were gonna see it for the first time on the huge screen along with all our guests! but sooo thankful it came out great!!! loved ones who were unable to come also loved seeing it, and many cried and watched it again and again haha, and friends kept asking for the video link even after the wedding! :) now i understand why there was so many of them running around with equipment... i was quite shocked to learn we had a team of 12 photographers and videographers that day!
also got compliments on our invites (which we designed and letterpressed ourselves on our cuttlebug!) and our website. I'm glad people at least liked what we worked so hard for haha. :)
I was excited when everyone kept telling me "it was a beautiful wedding!," then I realized I say that at weddings even if certain parts bored me to death haha. So I was more excited about the very specific compliments lol.
Our invitations- which my SO made. He's now getting requests from other people to design their wedding invites. Also we used vintage stamps and we got A LOT of reaction to how cool they were
Our string quartet- they played classic for the wedding and contemporary for our cocktail hour. Some of our musician friends LOVED hearing Lady GaGa and Michael Jackson on strings
The food- One of our friends posted our food on Facebook saying "this is a magical plate of food". We had chicken and waffels and other brunch foods, it WAS really good and different
Our officiant- everyone commented on how well-spoken he was. He was a friend AND AN officiant
My dress- the folks running the venue were like "that is the most insane dress we've ever seen" and it was the general consensus all around. One friend a took of me from behind and posted in on FB "THIS DRESS!" and she was quite possibly the least girly girl who attended our wedding.
The photobooth- it was an old-timey booth with a crazy turn of the century camera "Shoot Booth"- the quality of the photos were AMAZING and it was a real hit, all around. One table had such a good time they did a colloborative photo with the whole table and a sign that said "Table Four RULES". It did, lol!
The number one comment was how much fun it was, which was our goal. Even though our wedding was small-ish (~90 people), the dance floor was packed all night, people from all age groups seemed to really enjoy themselves, and the timing of everything seemed to flow perfectly.
People also said that our ceremony, which was partly written by us and partly a surprise written by our friend/officiant, was very personal and also the perfect length for a kinda chilly day outside. They thought the ceremony venue was beautiful and a lot of people spent time exploring it before and after the ceremony. And lastly, we got props on the food.
So I think we hit our three main goals: good times, good food, beautiful ceremony.
Reading through these make me sad. The only compliment I got was "I'm so happy you didn't feel the need to tan. You looked beautiful pale".
No joke.
We got tons of compliments on:
*location and views (DW in st thomas)
* aisle runner and little DIY things I made-flowers and pomanders
*my dress!!!!
We got tons of comments on how beautiful and meaningful our ceremony was. I got married in October and just this past weekend another person told me how she was so touched by it even still.
I also got tons of compliments on my dress and flowers (mine and the BMs).
We had custom message fortune cookies on the tables at the reception. Those were a hit, too.
The ceremony. So many people told me it was the most emotional and heartfelt wedding they had ever been to. One friend even told me that she didn't cry at her wedding but was balling at ours.
I think alot of it had to because my husband was sobbing through his vows, and we arn't talking a few tears, but sobbing loudly. There is something about seeing a man break down that starts the waterfall effect - it was that moment when my parents, family, friends, all my BMs and myself all started crying.
Mostly on the flowers and the cake (mmm... I miss that cake).
But wierdly, we also got positive comments on going around to each table to visit with everyone-- I thought that was what we were supposed to do!
we got rave reviews on the food and venue. everyone thought the venue was perfect for our winter wedding and it was decorated by the hotel for christmas so we didn't have to spend money on that. they all said the food was amazing (it was a buffet catered by a top notch restaurant that was located in the hotel). our family also loved our ceremony which was at city hall. they were the only people in attendance due to the limit on how many people can be there. our guests loved our centerpieces also. they were small wreaths (real ones) on charger plates with a hurricane candle holder in the center. we used the battery operated candles and the glow of the "flame" looked real through the frosted holders.
the candles weren't on yet in the second shot.
@BookGirrl: I've seen that picture of the curtains and flower backdrop on Pinterest a number of times! Obviously your guests weren't the only ones who thought it was lovely!
The vibe, activities and of course, our favors (they could make their own personalized camp t-shirt). I honestly don't even remember our vows...
@WillyNilly: I love that idea of a t-shirt! How cool! Could you post a picture of explain kind of what they did or how they personalized them?
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