Name all the trials/tribulations and mishaps regarding wedding and wedding planning

I thought this would be a good way for current brides to be to see the wierd things we had to overcome so when things go wrong (ooh and they will) they will see it happens to everyone.
At the time each one of these made me flip out about the wedding...now I think they are just funny (except the death ones of course) and make for some great stories and laughter.

I'll start...here are the curve balls that were thrown our way.

I ordered my wedding dress from Bridal reflections in Carle Place (remember that I live in Florida). They called me to tell me that the dress came in...but it was the wrong dress! I ordered an ivory dress with gold threading (ivory and gold ended up being my color scheme for everything but flowers). Like a bride I started flipping out and crying on the phone. The woman was completley insensitive she even went on to tell me that I should 'pop' in and look at the dress, that I might be pleasently surprised....umm hello?? Did you look at what area code you just dialed? I don't think area code 407 is local, also if you look at any and all of my information from my order sheet you will see my address is Orlando! I pretty much told them to shove it and ordered a new dress down here in Florida. The kicker was that I had paid for the dress in full and they were not going to give me a refund of ANY money. Situtations like this, it REALLY helps that your sister is a lawyer and can tell you exactly what to say to scare the crap out of a business.

Hubby's brother-in-law and one of our groomsmen passed away about six months before the wedding.

Hubby's grandmother passes away a week after brother-in-law

Hubby's grandfather hit his head after the RD and had to get stiches and could not make the wedding.

The bridesmaid dress tops came in the wrong color and I did not see them until about a week before the wedding so there was nothing we could do about it.

My grandmother was late getting to the wedding..most weddings start late because the bride is late getting ready. In our case we were all lined up to start walking down when my mother turned to me and was like...ummm we can't start the wedding! Your grandmother isn't here yet and either is your uncle who is walking her down the processional.

The hotel gave away our bridal suite the night of the wedding. We learned months later while we were having dinner, that some of our very good friends that flew up from Florida actually got it instead of us.

The airlines gave our seats away when we were heading to the honeymoon.

The hotel couldn't find our reservation when we got to the honeymoon.

That's all I can think about for now. Can't wait to hear about yours!

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wow im sorry to hear all those things happned but your proof you can live through it. okay lets see here is mine although there not as bad as yours


when i went to view my dress my name was on the big but its wasnt my dress. after almost passing out they said casually oh we fired someone the other day and she wanted to get back ay us so she switched all the dresses yours must be here so where lol. after 2 hours they found it. whew..


We ordered bridesmaid dresses only to be told that they were not makinmg that line anymore. we couldnt find dresses they wanted because we were looking for all velvet finally we ordered ready made dresses off the computer and they looked great

my d.j didnt bring half the songs that he was supposed to. he messed up my moms last name my new last name and my in laws last name as well.

my bridal coat was finished the day before the wedding i almost didnbt have it.

the shoes for the girls and my mom were dyed opposite lol so i had 5 pairs of cranberry shoes and 1 deep purple momw as wearing cranberry not the girls

my bouquet fell apart at the church. my bridesmaid bouquets were wrong

there are a few more but there just not important anymore lol

the important thing is that you get through the lil things at the point of your big dday you have to roll with the punches

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I think this is a cute idea. It is a cute way to say - things will and do happen on your wedding day and how you can laugh at it. I do laugh at some things and I do hold grudes on some but all in all I had a wonderufl wedding and wouldn't change a thing about the day! I would do it all over again!

I went into my wedding day - saying things are bound to happen and didn't let anything upset or bother me at all that day.

Let me think of issues I had....

-The shuttle bus showed up 15-30 mins late to the hotel and therefore a lot my guests were confused and late for the cocktail hour. I had given someone at the hotel a contact number for the bus company - just in case but it proved not to help. The driver could not drive and had difficulties gtting out of the parking lot and a guest got out and had to direct him. I heard guests were joking writing Help me on the window steam. I totally laugh at in now - it annoyed me that day.

-Three times people stepped on my train and because of the delicate material of my dress it would rip and the buttons for the train would go flying. I would have to go back and sow them on and it felt like an eternity each time. finally the third time I rubber banded the train to my arm like a little carry loop - it was funny.

-My garters hadn't showed up as of the day of. My mom ordered them for me (I had a special Jets one for DH) and had been fighting with them for days because she hadn't rec'd them and supposedly they were suppose to come Fed Ex the day before. Of course they didn't and my aunt went out driving all over to find a store that sold some. I had no clue they were missing. Suddenly as I was taking pictures, the Fed Ex truck pulle dup and I was clued in to what was going on.

-The morning of my wedding, I woke up to rain. I planned this would happen so I was prepared - but it wound up clearing up so it wasn't bad at all. But it had rained the whole day before so it wiped out me taking pictures at a nearby park - it would have been too muddy.

-DJ had colored lights not the white lights I wanted and paid for. DH and I were against colored lights for some reason. We didn't even realize until half way thru the reception and it cracked us up.

-The cake fell off the fork when I was feeding DH during the cake ceremony. I hit his teeth with the fork and it fell off the fork - SH and his family thinks I did this on purpose because I kept taunting him before the wedding saying I wanted to lightly smuch it on his nose...it really was an accident. DH is bitter about this one.

-We had three deaths in the family the month before our wedding. One was DH's grandmother which effected him big time. It actually happened on the day we were taking our engagment pictures and getting our marriage license. DH still wanted to go thru with the plans being the wake wasn't until the next day but it was very tuff for both of us.

-I had a lot of issues I can't talk about on the public forum during my planning with family. Those were the worst and I still hold very, very bitter feelings for what I felt was done to me that I did not at all deserve. The day of I wouldn't let those things bother me - I said and di anythign I wanted and didn't care what otheres had to say!!!

-The night before my wedding DH and I had a big fight due to someone who caused many of the issues above. I was hysterical and I was so upset the night before my wedding had to be that way. Also my eyes were super swollen from crying and I had to ice them all night in hopes they would be fine for the wedding day. I woke up a little puffy but it quickly went away.

-The night before my wedding, I went to get a mani/pedi and got locked out in the cold in flip flops for over 2 hours. Dh went to the gym and I had no keys to the apartment, no cell phone, etc. I lost valueable time and was so cold!

-Our reader didn't show up in time so we had to find someone else. DH was freaking out in the church and no one wanted to tell me in the limo. I found out and thought it was hysterical - it was just typical of the person. I had a copy of the reading with me and said just pick anyone.

-DH forgot his shoes for his tux. He went to his parents house in SI the night before - an hour from where we lived. He didn't realize until like the day of the wedding when he was getting dressed and freaked - he only had sneakers with him. He called tux stores all over SI and no one had any for him. I was already gone from our apartment. Thank goodness he got in touch with my little brother who had to borrow someone's car (he had given his to his date since he was in the bridal party) and my brother retrieved them. My brother had to rush like a maniac since he hadn't even showered yet but it was all good.

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My videographer showed up late to my house and was rushing off to get to the church. (Meanwhile, he was supposed to have two other people at the church already). Although the video came out ok, it was not what I wanted plus I overpaid.

Other than this, everything ran pretty smoothly.

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Thanks for sharing this!! I am sorry about the deaths in your family. However with some of the other stuff it does help to put everything in perspective. I'm getting married in about 2 1/2 weeks so your posts are helping!!

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It rained on my wedding day!!

I forgot my cake topper

My husband was late to the church. The priest told him to be there a 1/2 hour before. He showed up 5 Min before!!

I forgot my photos & veil when leaving my house. then realized I grabbed my car keys w/out my house keys on them!! So, I dropped up our son @ the hotel that my husband & his family were staying at. Had my SIL bring down my house keys. Gave them to my sister who had a different car & told them to run back to my house & get my veil. My sister brought the blusher NOT my veil!! After getting our hair done my sister said they were running to Macy's to see if they can find shawls becuase it was cold. Not 5 min later I realized THEY HAD MY HOUSE KEYS!!! I drive to Macy's & I can't find there car. So I drive home thinking they must be at my house. No they weren't there but, my make-up lady was!!! About 1/2 hour to 45 min later my 2 sisters & niece show up w/ starbucks in there hands laughing. I was beyond ticked!!
(I just found out about a month ago that my one sister the MOH had to buy shoes THAT DAY. She never went to buy them!! MORON!!! )

Other than that it was one of the best days of my life!!

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Let's see....Nothing Major

My baby nephew sh*t all over me the morning of the wedding. It was so funny and everyone said it was good luck

I woke up sniffling that morning and for some stupid reason I took a Claritin D (which I had never taken before) and it sent me for a loop!!! I was in a fog for the first half of the day.

I was a few minutes late for my hair and makeup and found out that my make-up girl had a virus and wouldn't be in. The times were messed up and I had to wait around for the back-up girl to do my make-up which made me late for the photographer. My make-up ended up looking beautiful though.

The tux place messed up almost all of the tuxes (which were all easily fixed) EXCEPT they forgot to give my father his tie......he didn't realize this until he was getting ready for the wedding.....he ended up having to wear the photographers tie for a little while until they brought the right one (they didn't tell me this until everything was fixed)

The cake had the wrong cake topper on it...this just made me laugh.

THE WEATHER!!!! It was soooooooooo foggy that day (but never rained). One of the reasons we booked John Anthonys was for the fabulous view of the water....well, we couldn't even SEE the water, that's how foggy it was!!!! we were worried about the pictures but they ended up looking pretty cool with a blue background. The water view would have been nicer though:(

I'm sure I'll think of more.....

Overall, it truly was the most perfect day!!

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WOW! I thought I had it bad! I just so sorry everyone's day couldn't have just been perfect!

for mine...

I went to get my hair done with my MOH and instead of letting me do my hair first, she got hers done first and I was frantic while they were doing mine b/c time was running tight!

During getting my hair done my aunt was getting frantic b/c we were taking so long which made me constantly feel like I wanted to pee on myself!

When we got to back to Brooklyn to my aunts house we got into a tiff b/c I told her chill out! I started crying.

When I went into the bathroom to fix my makeup I couldn't get in the mirror b/c everyone else was in the mirror.

We forgot my ring pillow.

2 girls in my bridal party and one of my sisters just stood there in the room where we were taking pictures and they didn't speak to me the whole time, they just stared!

One girl who I thought was my friend and wa very supportive during the planning stages did not show up to the wedding - we no longer speak!

Overall everything else went really well and we had a ball!