Wedding Regrets

I'm finally starting to get over some regrets that I have from the wedding. They aren't such a big deal, but they mattered to me. I was talking about it with my mom and she said that it's understandable since I planeed this one day for 2 1/2 years and spent money for photos (which I know will be fabulous). Anyone have any wedding regrets? What are they?

Mine Are:
1. I wish I did a hair trial a lot sooner than a week before the big day because I was not happy with how my hair came out in pics. The style that I wanted couldn't be done, even though I did it the other day myself.

2. I wish I put my veil up higher too, I wanted that poofy look.

3. I wish I ddin't feel so obligated to schmooz with people, I feel like 75% of the day evening was feeling like I was being pulled in a million directions

4. I wish I hung out with my bridal party more. If anything, they were the people that I WANTED to 'schmooz' with.

5. My DJ was satisfactory. I feel like they were just not as great as they claim to be. The speakers were vibrating, AFTER I told him please do not play the music too loud. They weren't cheap either.

6. This one goes for my mom too. With all the excitement and confusion, do you know that either of us didn't even think to check how our hair looked?????? I was so mad at how stragly my hair looked in pics by the middle of the evening. Why didn't I think to brush out my hair when I was powdering my skin and re-applying my lipstick.

How about you girls? I know these are little things, but they just bothered me. I'm actually going to plan a TTD with my photographer so I can redo my hair and veil in the way that I wanted to look.

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I regret not having an engagement party, bridal shower or bachelorette party. You'd think in the two years we were engaged it would have happened but everyone was all over the place and the first words out of my moms mouth when I told her I was engaged was 'I am not paying for anything.'

I wish I did things with my BP which also goes with parties. I did not see them once the year before my wedding until that day exception of my step sister and sister but the other two I didn't.

I wish I what I knew now I knew then I have come up with other ideas since I have been married like different favors ect.

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Awwwwwww! I'm sorry that you didn't have a shower or bachelorette party... Those are not little things either.

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I wish I got video, it wasnt in the budget. The day went so fast and I feel like I missed so much

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I wish my DJ played the correct versions of my entrance song and first dance songs. I guess I should have burned a CD for them?

I wish I didn't order my cake through the house vendor. I hated it.

I wish I would have had the time to eat at cocktail hour and my dinner

Other than that it was a great day and pretty smoothe.

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1. I wish I wouldve had a DOC. Things wouldve ran much more smoothly, and I wouldnt have had to keep running to yell at my BM about having guests running into the bridal suite to use the bathroom, and the door being left WIDE OPEN the entire night.

2. I wish I wouldve chosen a different hair style. By the end of the night, my curls were limp

3. I wish I wouldve EATEN!!!!!! DH and I had a bunch of CH food because our BA brought us is 3 huge platers full of food. Other than that, and cake, thats the only things I ate the entire night.

4. I wish I wouldve had a photo booth

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I wish I knew as much as I know now about weddings :)

I would have eaten and not had to order dominos to our hotel

I wish I would have gotten different shoes when I realized a week before the wedding I hated them.

I wish I could have gotten a pic of me and my sister.

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I wish we had a videographer...not in the budget. BUT, my sister's boyfriend did videotape parts of the ceremony on the flip, so we have something

I wish we had a little more time between the Church and CH for pictures with the families at the Church

I wish I had asked about the leftover food after the reception....they boxed it all up and then never told anyone, so no one took it for us!

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I wish I would have gotten a different DJ.

I wish I would have gotten to all of my tables at the reception.

I wish I would have been more assertive with my photographer.

I wish I would have taken some medicine the week before my wedding because I woke up sick and miserable the day of.

I wish I would have eaten more!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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I wish my DJ put our gobo and that one of the owners were there to take care of it.

I wish I didn't spend so much on a cake that had to be fixed and wasn't there the whole time.

I wish I didn't take the meds for my migraines because I gained so much weight before the wedding.

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I wish I would have gone with a more well known 'wedding' DJ since ours messed up a few important songs

I wish I had even seen the food at our CH. We came to CH to enjoy the food but spent so much time talking to people that we didn't even make it over to where the food was.

I wish I would have hung out more with my friends and close family. Other than my father/daughter dance, I don't think I talked to my dad the entire reception!

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I wish I called about my limos that day... Mine was late and a 'newer' version that looked like $ht to me

I wish I took pics at every table. We only got a full table pic with one...

I wish I spent more time with my friends. I hung out with them but many left when the wedding ended and I never got to really talk with them...

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1. I wish I had gotten video for the ceremony. I can't remember a single minute of it and you can only garner so much from photos. I'm glad we didn't have video for the reception though- it wasn't missed.

2. I wish I had taken a photo with my grandmother. She wasn't at my house when I was getting ready (weird, I know ) because she didn't want to take the partybus with us and wanted to go on the Coach bus with some other family members.

3. I wish I had gotten more family photos with my side of the family. We ducked out for 20 minutes to take photos with DH's family from Ireland, but didn't do the same with my family and I was a little bummed. I just didn't think of it on the day.

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Posted by IrishAli

I wish I had asked about the leftover food after the reception....they boxed it all up and then never told anyone, so no one took it for us!

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Same here! My MIL took home the leftovers and I didn't get to eat any.

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1. I wish we got a second photographer, even for a few hours, to take pics of my husband and his groomsmen before the ceremony...BUT on the flip side, one of his groomsmens wives is an amateaur photographer so she got some great shots!!

2. I wish we didn't HAVE to go to all the tables to say hello to people (my Italian family gets 'upset' when you don't say hello to them) becasue that took FOREVER!! I missed some awesome dancing music (that I personally selected)!

Without seeing our proofs, those are my only 2 regrets!

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1. I wish I knew about the LIW chat area before booking my reception hall - I most likely would not have booked it now looking back w/ all the stupid crap I had to deal w/. Would have asked for more recommendations on other halls and also what questions to ask the hall.

But reality was, we wanted a Saturday night wedding with a maximum of 70 people in a room w/ no carpets under a budget constraint. So there we were.

2. I would have gone w/ a different bakery - and if not that, I should have went the day before to take a look at how the cake looked. I hated the cake.

That's it I loved every moment of it.

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I regret not looking into more limo companies

I regret getting a little too hammered before the reception

I regret taking pictures at the church - it wasn't imperative for me or DH to do it, the thatched cottage had plenty of nice places for us to take pictures.

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I regret not researching DJs before booking the first one we met... He messed up mine and DHs names in addition to other names of our BP. In addition to announcing that I was going to dance with my father (whom has never been a part of my life since i was 18 mths old)

I regret not trying to find most of my BP all night.. i feel like i didnt see most of them AT ALL once the reception started.

I regret not giving my photog a must take photolist. She got some amazing shots, but there are plenty that i really wanted that we missed like a pic of both sides of our families together or the pic of me walking down the aisle with my mom and grandma from the back so you could see my train and veil

Other than that everything was perfect!

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i have to say when i first saw my proofs, i was dissapointed because they weren't as photojournalistic as i would have wanted and after seeing so many girls post some of their shots, i was upset that i didn't get thos ekinds of pictures.

However, alot of LIW NW's put this into perspective for me. I put all my pictures into piles, into no, maybe and yes. the ones that made it into my yes pile were way more than my no or maybe and all in all, we got some gorgeous pics so i couldn't be happier with them now.

something i wish i could change - my dad is not smiling in any of my wedding pictures. he did this at my sister's wedding too. not because he didn't want to, but because he thought that down the road, pictures with a serious face would look better than smiling faces. my mother was so upset about this with him

also, i had a cathedral veil on at the church and when my dad was about to return to his seat, he stepped on my veil, i almost fell backwards and then my mom ran up to the altar after everyone told her not to to put the veil back on.
it was chaos for like the longest 3 minutes of my life

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Posted by Moonmist09

also, i had a cathedral veil on at the church and when my dad was about to return to his seat, he stepped on my veil, i almost fell backwards and then my mom ran up to the altar after everyone told her not to to put the veil back on.
it was chaos for like the longest 3 minutes of my life

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My dad stepped on my dress when were were walking down the aisle because the photographer stepped in front of him to take pictures!

On the video that my sister's boyfriend took, you can see me turn to my mom and go 'he just stepped on my dress!'