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Ok that's funny...the only thing that got misplaced were the van drivers who were supposed to pick up my bridesmaids from the condo and take them to the wedding. It was all sorted out in the end, but still...frustrating.
Oh...and the little pieces of driftwood that I had for all of the centerpieces. In the end, they had to be used to hold down the menu cards since it was so windy.
I'm sure other things that I wasn't aware of were misplaced, but the only big thing that I can remember was the lighters I had bought for the servers to light the candles at the reception. I still hear about (the servers were all friends) how they had to use one guy's cigarette lighter to light ALL the little candles on the tables... it took two guys to do it- one to hold the tea candle (they were in little votives and they couldn't reach the lighter down to them) and one to actually light it! I guess it made for some memories!
All of the lemons, limes, and cherries for the bar! They sat in a back room all night... and we served coronas without limes (shudder!).
This didn't technically get lost/misplaced/left behind, but destroyed, so I thought maybe it would qualify. We made our wedding cake by ourselves. It was a simple, three tier cake, just something for us to cut into. It made it from my house (where I made it), to the church, to a friend's house, to the reception hall, moved around 4 times while in the reception hall, back to a friend's house, and on the way into my house carrying what was left of it, I dropped it. It made a total of 9 moves just fine and I dropped it 5 feet from the door of my own fricken' house! We still laugh about it, like when my husband says, "On our first year anniversary we'll eat our........... wait, no, I guess we won't." I'm going to have to recreate our wedding cake on our anniversary so that we can have a taste! :)
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Don't even get me started on how the catering staff cleared the dining room (I'm pretty sure the only thing they left behind was the centerpieces) at 8:30 when we paid for the room until midnight. People had left cake, dessert, drinks, paper products, all kinds of stuff behind while they sent us off, and apparently the staff didn't have the brains to check with the bride or the bride's mom to find out if the event was over. They threw away all of the menu's, place cards, etc, and I only have copies because I asked my MOH to gather everything from our sweetheart table up and send it upstairs earlier that night.
Also, we paid for valet services for special guests, and apparently the valet guys made my grandparents pay, and these were the grandparents that caused us to pay for valent for people in the first place (we knew they would complain to my dad about paying so much to park their car for a few hours, which was $16 for about 4 hours, btw)
I wouldn't say lost, more like probably stolen...our table numbers. We had images of each of us at the age corresponding with the table # (e.g. Table 1, us at 1). We wanted to keep them, but I guess some people decided to take them, we've asked around and it's still a mystery.
My jeans! It is so strange-- I took them off when I changed into my bridal outfit and never saw them again after that. I asked *everyone* too because they were my favorite pair.
Great post! I did not realize that weddings are like a black hole for stuff! After all the stress and running around, etc., so much stuff disappears. I personally lost:
-my friend's pretty hairpins (SORRY!!)
-a bracelet
-a pair of underwear
AND, our DJ has a couple more CDs for his collection now, as well as a bunch of personalized flip flops that were left over... we forgot to ask for them and he "forgot" to give them back.
This is a great post! We didn't lose anything, although only because of our wonderful venue staff. My mom, who supervised the gathering of everything to take home, kept insisting that various things didn't belong to us just because she hadn't seen them before. (She had some particular ideas about decor and such, and so some friends of mine chipped in to help DIY some wreaths and silk arrangements for the alter area and brought them to the venue for me.) My sister knew they were ours, and kept trying to put them in the car, but my mom kept trying to give them back to the venue! We picked them up the next week - they had locked them all in a back office and kept them for us. It was too funny.
in the realm of sorta lost would be the music for the indoor part of our venue during the reception - one of my bridesmaids was supposed to plug my iPod into their indoor sound system to give people something to listen to while they ate and she forgot. We never noticed until the end of the day because we were outside, where we did have music.
I also lost my favorite bra - I'm still convinced one of my bridesmaids has it since we were all getting ready in the same room, but no idea which one!
Hahah, love your story about the bird leg! I lost my earring. Good thing I only paid $6 for the pair. I bet if they were nice earrings I would have kept better track of them though! I think I lost it in the hotel room that night.
My red satin Nine West Jojus D'orsay heels. I get wistful everytime I think about those shoes. Those shoes were hot! One of the best purchase recommendations that I got from Weddingbee. I like to imagine that some housekeeper in Rome is probably using them while she dusts. Then it's cool and I don't miss them that much.
I lost my camera : ( Last time I remember having it was at my RD and since then *poof*
My advice to future brides is clear out your purse of anything you don't want to lose! And there was no need for me to ahve my camera, almost everyone else had one and we got plenty of candids from friends and family.
Wonderful hubby bought me a new red camera for Christmas though, so all is well.
I also misplaced my ipod transmitter for the car, but found it (in the car, duh!) about 6 weeks after the wedding (other people had been driving my car and moved it)
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Let's see, I have a few things that were messed up along with things being lost. While our cake lady was transporting our cake she almost got into a car accident and slammed on the brakes. The wedding cake went sliding and got a little messed up. One of the two cop car grooms cakes was totaled and was sadly lost to us. Our reverend was "lost" for awhile, he was supposed to show up before 4:30 pm for our 5 pm ceremony and finally showed up at 4:55! I was freaking out so bad because we couldn't get a hold of him. A package of 2,000 rose petals that were supposed to line the bridge along with candles were left behind at home, which was about 30 minutes away. Our crystal initial cake topper mysteriously disappeared after the cutting of the cake and still has not been found.
Our entrance song. 
We even worked with our DJ to have them mix two songs that had an exciting beat but also had a couple songs that meant something to us. Something happened and the DJ couldn't get the song to play over the speakers. Bummer, but of all things to go wrong, I think that's the thing I would have cared least about.
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Our ceremony was kinda lost...we had an outdoor ceremony in one of the side gardens at our venue and we decided against miking ourselves so only half of our guests heard the ceremony. We felt kinda bad so my husband summarized our vows during his speech at dinner.
Not at my wedding, but my DH lost his camera at my sister's wedding. We're pretty sure it was one of the waiters.
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We bought 5 large golf umbrellas for photos. Had to use them, left them in the venue with the rest of our things overnight (we were allowed to pick up all the decorations, centrepieces, etc the next day), never saw them again. We also had about 10 potted orchids that never made it back to the house, which is strange because all the other flowers were still there. I'm still mad about those umbrellas, though, I really liked them.
How on earth did you lose your underwear?!?! That is crackin me up!!
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We forgot our unity candle at the church.
Also, my husband lost his good sense, because he didn't remember it would be best to say sober for the wedding night. Let's say puking on the bathroom floor -kind of "lost".
We lost two red envelopes that had cash inside :( These were wedding gifts and we put them in the bowl aside at our table. Not sure if the cleaning crew thought it was trash and just threw it away. Pooof. Bye bye $200. I'm still sad about it.
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This is such a funny topic because for us, our entire wedding portrait -- frame and all -- went missing! The large picture collage that was set up in the front of the wedding and also the front of the reception went missing.
People remembered seeing it but after a certain point it just disappeared! I was bummed about it until one of my bridesmaids decided to buy us the same frame/picture collage from our photographer for a late wedding gift. Awesome!
We always joke that a bitter person took the framed picture to act out in a rage because we got married. LOL
my husband forgot his wedding band. thank goodness i was not in a stressed out mood that day. i thought about it for a second, couldn't believe that he did that, then said oh well...one of his groomsmen let him borrow his ring...
My Veil! I took it off after the ceremony and pictures so that I wouldn't have to wear it during the reception. I think one of my bridesmaids took it out of my hair, and then I walked away to put my hair flowers in. The veil has been missing ever since. Thank heavens it was only an $80 veil...not a $350 like the one I originally picked out!
Someone came up to me to ask where the bottles of cider were. 
They later showed up so I don't know what happened...
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OMG...one of the bridesmaids lost the keys to my car (the car we would be driving home). So of course the bridal party and friends spent all that time decorating our car, but they had my spare key which sadly only unlocks the car but does not start the engine. No one knew this though. They thought they had messed up something with the car and it wouldn't start. After they put gas in it and messed with it, we finally came out and were ready to leave but we couldn't start the car. Even I didn't realize that they only had the spare key so my DH was not happy at all. We ended up driving his parents car home and his uncle got to drive the nice Just Married car by himself after they finally found the other set of keys. :o)
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:( I lost my grandmother's handkerchief that caught all my tears on our wedding day. I had it on the table because I used it during speeches at the reception, but by the end of the night it was gone. I think the wait staff took it away thinking it was a napkin. :(
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In the spirit of laughter I thought this would be a fun thread to start!
For my wedding reception, I had made a bird cage card box and put a small bird on the top for decoration. I wired the bird's legs onto the cage so it wouldn't fall off, but at some point in transportation the bird came off the legs. My wedding planner couldn't find the bird, or maybe she didn't know what it went to. She left the legs, mangled and detached, wired to the top of the card box! It looked like I tore the legs off some poor bird and stuck them on a bird cage. It was so morbid, yet completely hilarious when I saw it on my way out at the end of the night. I was mortified but couldn't stop laughing! I can only hope none of our guests noticed the amputated bird legs.
So...What got lost/misplaced/left behind at your wedding?
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