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Ummm... well, the predicted weather forecast of 15 C turned out to actually be 38C, and I got some pretty bad heat sickness in my huge dress, and spent a good portion of the time we'd set out for photos puking in the bathroom....
and my bridesmaid stepped on my dress as we were walking to the ceremony and ripped it.
But other than that, everything I could control went swimmingly!
I got the wrong flowers: a bunch of white roses when roses where the only kind of flowers i explicitly did NOT want. My groom did not get his boutonniere at all.
It made me so sad and mad, but i swallowed and got married to the love of my life.
My organist played the wrong processional song for me. Talk about a miscommunication. I was PISSED for the first half of the ceremony!
ETA: oh, and when we came into the reception, I had written out the names for the MC of the bridal party, and I must have switched them at some point and forgotten to tell the MC, so 3 of the guys were announced wrong. sigh. (similar problem to the wrong procesisonal...bride-brain!)
The groomsman who was supposed to emcee didn't really know what he was supposed to say because DH didn't give anything to him ...grrr... It turned out okay, but it annoyed me at the time,lol.
Everything else was pretty perfect that I really cared about. His mom played her instrument during the service and it was a little gnarly, but I knew it would be so I didn't care.
My dad was supposed to sing and was too sick, so that was a bit disappointing but it was okay.
The other music was fantastic, though I wish the music in the reception space had been a bit louder.
These are all such minor things though, compared to the horror stories I've heard our wedding went smooth as silk.
my sister got the wrong flowers at her wedding. our rather, right flowers, but not set up the way they discussed w the mock-ups. she wanted to cry. but then got over it and enjoyed her wedding.
we got lucky with ours. There were 2 small details that went wrong, and only i would notice them. We had 3 kiddish cups - my moms, my MILs, and my Hubs from his bar-miztvah. We were suposed to pour from our parents, and drink from the bar-mitsvah one. Well, the wrong cups were all set up. And we were suppoed to have my grandfathers and my hubs' grandfaters tallis' hanging over us, and to be wrapped in my hubs - and that also got screwed up. eh. small details. nothing to worry about.
oh. and my sister in laws couldn't give their toasts bc they were too drunk.oh well :)
Our photographer didnt get a lot of the formal portraits that he should have, but we were running late too so not sure whose "fault" it is.
It poured and we had to have our ceremony inside and there were only seats for 40% of the people.
They screwed up the hor deurves passing and station tables. They were supposed to start at different times, but they didnt- which didnt correspond with our menus and timeline.
The DJ forgot to download the "nannie dance" which is his nannie dancing with all the males in the family, so he played the cake cutting song. Which would have OK, but the song he should have played is played at every wedding for her.
But really, it was OK. I barely noticed everything.
@SapphireSun: oh god being sick like that is my biggest fear!! kudos to you for sucking it up and not letting it ruin your day.
My DJ was awful. He oked the name and order of announcing people right before the entrance, and then still got it wrong, even though we had a printed list for him! he didn't announce some people at all. he started the toasts right after we walked in while everyone was standing... so awkward (and not the timing i requested). he played the wrong music at the wrong time, the whole night long ( like turning on a rap song when there were nuns walking across the dance floor lol). most of the songs i requested were played during dinner when you could barely hear instead of dancing:(. he got the events wrong too, made the evening really choppy and awkward, ugh.
my brother was mia for pictures, which actually made my MIL cry, poor thing. We'd get him to stay foor one and then he'd disapper again ugh.
And my cake was dried out with like no fruit in the fillng (which we paid extra for) and was lopsided :(.
All in all a good day though, those things just annoyed me.
We just had a few small hiccups:
1) The center unity candle had been placed upside down. When hubby and I went to light it with our tapers, we realized there was no wick and couldn't light it. It led to a funny photo op though!
2) We were going down to the beach to take photos after the ceremony but the only road down was closed so we had to walk down a path instead. It was less than ideal with everyone in dress-up clothes but we made it work. Myself and a few of the girls kicked off our heels along the way and the photographer caught a pic of hubby helping get my shoe back on.
3) DJ messed up a couple names when introducing the bridal party at the reception
4) During best man's speech, he was talking about when hubby and I started dating and he mistakenly said "Even from the beginning, we all just kind of knew they were going to do it"..."do it" meaning "end up getting married" but as you can guess, that's not what people thought so half the room snickered. He tried to back-up and explain but it was already one of those "what the heck did he just say" moments.
All in all though, nothing that really affected the day but that did lead to some pretty great, unplanned photos.
My officiant was 45 minutes late and, when we wanted some of the money back since she cost us A LOT, she wrote us a horrible letter telling us we were going to Hell, getting a divorce, and brought my stillborn baby into it too. I really wish my husband hadn't thrown it away, because I wanted to blast the internet with it.
My appointments ran late at the salon, and there was extremely heavy holiday-weekend traffic during the normally 1.5 hour trip from the salon to our venue. I arrived much later than planned, so we didn't get to take most of the pics I wanted before the ceremony.
Also, because our ceremony was so long (more than an hour), we ended up with a shortened timeframe for the rest of the evening. We ended up taking pics during the hors d'oeuvres hour and during the reception. Because of this, and the fact that I took so much time getting out of -- and put back into -- my gown twice to use the restroom, the only things DH and I were able to do at our own reception were to be introduced, have our first dance, eat our dinner, dance with our respective opposite-sex parents and cut our cake. After that, we were outside for the entire rest of the reception having pics taken. Therefore, we never had a chance to go around and greet the majority of our guests or interact with them or dance with them, so I truly felt as if I had missed my own wedding reception. (And, the sad part is, in all of the confusion, I didn't end up with one single pic of myself with just my bridesmaids, or all of my bridesmaids together, and we didn't end up with a single pic of just us with DH's children. I was crushed.)
ETA: I should note that everyone else had a fabulous time at our wedding! They just raved and raved about how beautiful everything was, what a platinum wedding we had, how great our food was, how I was the most radiant bride, and how much fun they had! I just wish we had been there! lol
One of my BM's got up and made a speech (she wasn't asked to make a toast/speech) and it was a serious roast. I have never been so embarassed and I am really hoping that it reflected badly on her, not me.
We haven't really spoken much since and it has been a month now...
Nothing too bad happened at ours. The venue broke one of our toasting flutes, but they offered to replace it after the wedding and I got to use my parents' from their weddings, which was actually kind of nice.
My first wedding was about 15 years ago. So many things went wrong.
right after we sent out the invitations with directions to the ceremony and hall they did work on the express way and put in in a new exit ramp, making the directions incorrect.
a week before the wedding we had a huge storm that ripped the sign off the hall. They had to put a big hand lettered banner up on the front of the building
my inlaws were 30 mins late and they lived (no joke) a minute away. Their backyard touches the church parking lot
Well, "here comes the bride" song start to play as my brides maid started walking down the aisle!!! LOL I kinda freaked for a second but than realized it was almost time for me to walk! LOL I forgot about it until a few days later.
Our DH was awful! I caught him putting on his suit in the parking lot! yup, he was in his boxers!!! this was when guests were arriving, yup, he was late too. And he is the brilliant one who turned on here comes the bride on the brides maid. He was a JA and would never recommend him...
**Alert, mood killer****A really bad thing that happened a few days before my wedding is that my grandmother (dad's mom) passed away :( A lot of that side of my family could not attend due to this. But my dad was able to walk me down the aisle. However, it made it difficult to celebrate... and we spent the entire day after our wedding at the funeral and things. :(
Oh, I put the wrong address on the inviations! LOL. However, the map had the correct address. TALK ABOUT AWFUL
oh! And my bridal party (the clean up crew) threw away our wedding cake!!!!!!!!!!!!! YUP-- threw it away! I WAS pissed!! I am still pissed about it...
I stayed calm with them but I was very, very, very upset. That is expensive and yummy! What a waste.
Oh lord, in the middle of the reception, the DJ's equipment stopped working. Everyone was all worried that I was going to freak out, but he was being our DJ for free as a favor to me (family friend), so really how upset could I be that my FREE DJ was having technical difficulties? One of the groomsmen actually had a kickass dance playlist on his iphone, so we just plugged that in and danced the rest of the night away.
My husband's brother was giving his toast and it just went onnnn and onnnn for like 10 minutes of rambling. He obviously wasn't prepared and at some point was babbling about the bachelor party and strip clubs. It was SO HARD to keep a smile plastered on my face. Looking back, it's kind of funny.
Photo-wise, we were taking our pictures before the ceremony and we wanted to get some shots across the street in front of this industrial-type building. Some truck trying to turn wasn't paying attention to us crossing the street (we had the right of way!) and slammed on his brakes and honked at us while we were crossing. There IS however an awesome photo to commemorate this:
several things went wrong during our wedding:
1) our ring bearer has developmental delays (that we were unaware of when we asked his mom if he'd do it) and went down the aisle with an iphone (he was playing a game) instead of a ring bearer pillow
2) my MOH was helping put some last min stuff in her car before heading to the reception. when it was time to announce her name she wasn't there yet and everyone said we'd have to skip her. the dj said "and now Mr. & Mrs. Mathew Wolfe!" and my MOH bolted down the hallway and ran inside. the dj quickly had to say "oh i mean, MOH sarah!" and then had to re-announce us. needless to say, it was pretty funny
3) we started dancing and a friend stepped on the back part of my dress (it was bustled but still hung just a tad down) and broke the bustle on one side. i spent a good 15 mins trying to get someone to get me a safety pin (there were tons in my car but we didn't take my car!). then, later on, the safety pin broke/got lost!
4) the cake decorator put the cakes on the wrong tables. we had 2 different tables for each cake. so the table that had the grooms cake had my cake topper underneath and our cake cutting knives/forks. it was a little bit of a mishap, but we put the topper on and sliced open the cakes!
5) we were going to have this huge candleabra on our sweetheart table. our decorator lit it and then found out from our venue that it was a fire hazard and we had to blow it out. needless to say, we had to take a few pictures and then quickly blow out the candles.
all in all though, it was a wonderful day and i wouldn't change anything. it gives our wedding character and some fun stories to tell!
We had a few things go wrong during our Wedding, most of them involving the officant. First he showed up 30 min late, then he proceeded to not read most of our ceremony (while holding it in is hands the whole time), went off on a tangent about 2 year olds, spurred by our Love is Kind reading, and did the jimbert daughter of, DH son of which we weren't expecting and since my Bio-mom was not there and it definitely got some gasps. But at least he got the vows right and there are some hilarious pics of DH glaring at him in the ceremony.
With him being late it put everything off schedule, which was totally fustrating and cost us extra money for servers (which I was totally cool with paying for cause they were great) and missed some of the formal photographs (coupled with the fact that no one printed the list of formals we made and I had to gather everyone for the the pictures).
I'm also in the same situation as daniellealys, DH's Grandfather passed away 4 days before our Wedding. His family was great and pushed the funeral up do it the day before our wedding, which was nice because it also meant we would be in town for it because we travelled home for our wedding. It also threw us for a loop because DH is named after his GP, imagine being at you or SO's funeral the day before your wedding, it was really strange.
It's been a little hard to overlook the bad things, but it's getting better as time goes by, but like I say, Life is nothing but an adventure!
My DH's cousin's wedding (fairy and Celtic and motorcycle themed...oh god) they used a tape player for the ceremony music which kept skipping and the officiant got the bride's name completely wrong twice. Super fail... lol
I know that these things were definitely not funny when they were happening, but this thread is hilarious.
Our mic went out, so our Best Man (BIL) ended up having to basically yell and tell everyone to "Please turn their attn to the dance floor for the couple's first dance" because our coordinator BAILED on us after the ceremony was over. She never even said she was leaving!
Also, the recessional music didn't start until DH & I were halfway back down the aisle. Meh.
Oh, and since the mic went out, no one heard my vows to DH because I was emotional and therefore not very loud. :/ Oh well, the person who needed to hear them most heard them. :)
Another snafu was that our pastor pronounced our last name wrong when announcing us. We just had to giggle. We'd gone to 3 premarital counseling sessions, he's the pastor at our church, but in the midst of all the craziness just said it as it reads. Lol, oops.
None of it was terrible or ruined our day, just some random "shit!" moments.
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When I was a BM at my cousin's wedding, the florist delivered flowers to her door. When we observed the flowers, we noticed they were beginning to brown! It was only about 10am in the morning, and the ceremony began at 2pm. By the time we got to the church, they looked horrible. The bride was quite upset, but she tried to forget about it and enjoy the rest of her day, rather than worry over a few flowers.