hi girls! i hope you guys find this question more interesting :o) i've been thinking a lot about my wedding lately...it hasn't been THAT long after all, we haven't even selected the album photos yet...but all this talk about proofs got me thinking about it all... SO my question:
what was the stupidest thing you obsessed over or worried about when it came to your wedding day? Was there a specific item, or some other little detail that in retrospect seems all but silly now? OR if not, what was the single most important detail of your wedding that you pulled off flawlessly? (ps - this isn't referring to heavy, emotional issues or vows or family-issues or anything like that... i'm thinking on a much smaller scale here
typically, i consider myself to be a pretty even-keeled person, pretty laid-back and positive. i don't know about you, but my wedding was an emotional whirlwind, but looking back, i sometimes caught myself fixated or concerned over something i perceived to be HUGE but in the end...didn't matter at all. the glaring example in my wedding was... petal cones. i spent weeks looking online for some before realizing i had no money left in the budget and had to DIY (once again) i simply HAD to have them!!!... so i made them. i spent HOURS making them from fancy, expensive patterned paper, silk ribbon and glue-on rhinestones. i burned myself COUNTLESS times on the hot glue, i even threw out some that weren't 'perfect'... they matched our colors, even coordinated with the background of the pictures in the cardbox i made... the day of the wedding, the house coordinator didn't realize that i didn't make more than just for the aisle seats and screwed up where to put them, guests did figure out that they were for after the ceremony, (from what i heard) some people tried to untie the (glued!!) ribbon thinking they were supposed to, and my some of my family came up and said 'I loved that you had white petal cones to match the white chairs and tent! it was so perfect'...and i'm thinking...'uhhh they were BLUE PAISLEY and white!'
and so sipping some champagne, totally glowing and utterly in love that night... i laughed to myself thinking, what a GOOBER i was. freaking out over stupid petal cones, no one cared and in the end, the most important part was that they held the beautiful petals for the recessional! i learned quite a few things and i'm grateful for that...and hey, they still looked cool! but in the end, the sunset, the incredible lightning storm... and the rainbows were so much better than anything i could have planned!
also, that aside, our wedding was just so very perfect that i couldn't complain if i tried! :o)
i look forward to hearing what you might have to share! :o) Happy MLK day!
MrsDtoBe09
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I guess it would have to be my DIY aisle runner that DH LEFT AT OUR HOUSE!!!!
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umm well i really really was concerned that my MOH was going to go into labor on the dance floor!! lol
she was 9months prego! lol she didnt it was all good!!
i obsessed over the weather a little because if the weather was bad, that meant my hair would be too! that was all good toO!
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I'd have to say the weather, & making sure a certain psycho-ex GF of DH's didnt try anything to crash the wedding like she had threatened a few months back. But to be honest. I felt my grandma watching over us that day - there is actually a picture taken where I honestly feel it's her spirit around me - no other pic has this white aura. But when I woke up & saw the sun shining - I knew she was there with us. Here is the pic:
I'd have to say the weather, & making sure a certain psycho-ex GF of DH's didnt try anything to crash the wedding like she had threatened a few months back. But to be honest. I felt my grandma watching over us that day - there is actually a picture taken where I honestly feel it's her spirit around me - no other pic has this white aura. But when I woke up & saw the sun shining - I knew she was there with us. Here is the pic:
that's so beautiful! before i even read your description i thought, wow, there's this glow about her in that pic! very sweet! :o)
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I freaked out the most about the weather, and I had just cause to, because it was absolutely disgusting out. The day before and the day after were gorgeous though...splendid. It really effed up my pictures. I'm so upset that I don't have any pictures of us walking out of the church, in the church courtyard, in front of Villa Lombardi's or in their gardens...because it was impossible to go outside without getting destroyed. Total monsoon conditions. We have some indoor posed pics, but I think if we would have been able to get some outdoors in natural light it would have been better. Sigh...can't do it over. Just sad about it. But the weather was really my only concern as the day quickly approached.
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Definitley the weather....I stressed it for weeks and it turned out to be a gorgeous day!
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as vain as it sounds..i was worried about how i would look..im not a girly girl..never wear dresses ormake up so for this one day i just wanted to look like a girl
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Posted by gina409
as vain as it sounds..i was worried about how i would look..im not a girly girl..never wear dresses ormake up so for this one day i just wanted to look like a girl
Well mission accomplished! You not only looked like a girl you looked like a gorgeous bride!
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Def the weather... even the morning of the wedding the first thing I did was check weather.com. Luckily the thunderstorms we were supposed to have at the worst time possible stayed away and we had a beautiful day!
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I stressed over my dress straps. Should I wear them or tuck them in for pics? will they hold my girls up? will they cut in and make marks on my shoulders? will they be secure while dancing? UGHHHH I had them cut/sewn by 3 different dry cleaners, a bridal salon, and my BFF the morning of my wedding. I was crazed for nothing. If I want a strapless look for my dress now, I just photoshop the straps off and save it!
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Posted by GT143EA
Posted by gina409
as vain as it sounds..i was worried about how i would look..im not a girly girl..never wear dresses ormake up so for this one day i just wanted to look like a girl
Well mission accomplished! You not only looked like a girl you looked like a gorgeous bride!
ahh that 50 bucks i gave u really paid off
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Posted by GT143EA
Posted by gina409
as vain as it sounds..i was worried about how i would look..im not a girly girl..never wear dresses ormake up so for this one day i just wanted to look like a girl
Well mission accomplished! You not only looked like a girl you looked like a gorgeous bride!
you took the words out of my mouth :o)
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great answers so far... a lot of weather worries!! it was strange, that was one thing i really didn't even think about... then again, i was too busy freaking out of stupid crap like my petal cones! keep them coming ladies! :o)
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Posted by gina409
Posted by GT143EA
Posted by gina409
as vain as it sounds..i was worried about how i would look..im not a girly girl..never wear dresses ormake up so for this one day i just wanted to look like a girl
Well mission accomplished! You not only looked like a girl you looked like a gorgeous bride!
ahh that 50 bucks i gave u really paid off
You are terrible!
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I was soooooooo annoyed (on a very small scale) that people kept trying to give us envelopes. I actually said 'THERE'S A BOX OVER THERE TO PUT THEM IN!!!!' and was all annoyed about it! LOL. I shouldn't have been... I should've been thanking them for their presents, but I didn't want to be carrying them and that's why there was a card box.
That's really the only thing I stressed about on the day of our wedding as it was going on. It wasn't even something I was stressing in advance -- it was just something that annoyed me during the wedding itself. Especially when a friend who was an '07 bride (who told me about LIW, actually, in the first place) was one of the people trying to hand me a card when I didn't want to be bothered. I wish I had designated someone to take the cards from me and put them in the card box.
How silly!
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Thing I obsessed over was rolling the menus, wrapping the favors and punching the fans, I was so upset that they were not perfect. I kept redoing ones that were perfectly fine.
The thing we pulled off... lighting... it was all us and it was AMAZING. Oh and the placecard sand-dollars.
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Weather and our count.
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The one thing I stressed about was my dress-once my fittings started this had went away though..I realized I had the perfect dress for me.
BUT
Originally I bought a Monique Lhuillier ballgown-it was like the one the Barbie wears....well 12 weeks later I change my mind and re-select and picked....
A PINK GOWN!!
Which is 100% me...but I will tell you that from January-end of July I had so much anxiety if my dress would be too much, or if I would hate it.
Once I saw it for the first time in the pink (for my fitting) I was in love
BUT
I would tell any bride to be to get her dress as late as possible so they don't agonize over if they chose the right dress for months and months. Seriously I should have waited.
As for stress leading into the day of-I didn't stress about anything. I was the calmest bride of all time. I slept for 9 hours the night before the wedding AND worked out for an hour the morning of.
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Probably seating arrangments.....trying to make everyone happy and being upset that that is impossible!
