anyone have any wedding day regrets??

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Posted by missliss

I regret not eating the week of my wedding. In combination with that, I regret letting my mother take my dress home to her house (we don't live close by). I lost enough weight just in the week of my wedding that my dress was loose and it was at my mom's house beginning the weekend before. If I had it all week, at least close by, i could have tried it on Thurs night and ran it in to the seamstress to be taken in more on Friday morning (the day before the wedding). It looks loose in all my pictures and it upsets me.

I also regret not reapplying my lipgloss. And my cousin mentioned it to me too right before we cut the cake and I was like, whatever it's fine. It wasn't and I wish I listened.

I regret not dancing at all with DH's little brother. I have no idea where he was all night, but I didn't dance with him at all and I wish I did. I danced the ENTIRE night and I know he was dancing too, somehow we just were never near each other I guess.

I regret trying to be a control freak when it came to pictures. My photographer was truly amazing and I had my must take list all printed out, but I grabbed it from his asst and tried to run the show myself. I should have just let them handle it, but the GMs started to piss me off cause they were biitching (also regret letting them get to me though I'm mad no one told them to knock it off) so I took over and rushed through it and as a result I have ZERO, YES ZERO pictures of me, my DH and his family. I have pictures of DH with his family, but none of us as a couple with his family. I'm still mortified to this day that this happened and I have no Mr & Mrs and his family shots for his mom's album. I also have no shots of just me and my mother. I try not to think about it.

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Alissa,

That reminds me of some of my regrets. I wish I had more control of some of my photos. Don't get me wrong I loved my photgrapher and his work but there were a few things I wish I intervened with and asked for. I dont have any portrait pics with my MOH (alone) which is my sister or any with my SIL's. Dh doesnt have any with the BM either. I was overwhelmed at one point with certain people that I just said ok and rushed through them as well. My MOH saw the proofs and didnt notice (thank god) I didn't bring it to her attention either.

Yes, the Lip Gloss reapplication! I totally hate that half my pics I dont have any lip gloss on. I thought I was the only one who did that!!!

I regret not eating more at cocktail hour, because all my guests cant' stop raving about it..haha.

And I regret not enforcing the must take picture list on my photographer. I gave him one and he told me it was too long and that I should trust him...well I did, and that was not a good decision. He missed a bunch of pics. All in all mly album is beautiful.

A photo list is a good idea! I never thought of that. Fh has mentioned it. I am going to take every single one of these into consideration...One thing I want is to not take my veil off till after the cake cutting..I want to make sure it's on for all my photos being done!!!

So funny this thread is up because I had my mom over for dinner last night and my regrets were all I can talk about! All she can say was that its over and everyone still talks about how beautiful everything was, too bad I can't feel the same! I really regret not being a bridezilla at all, I was so intent on being calm and cool that it must have given certain vendors the impression that they didn't have to pay attention to detail-which I am very big on!

Here is my list:

LIPGLOSS- As of now I really only have some pro photojournalist pictures, but for the cake cutting I noticed it wasn't reapplied.

I had a MUST TAKE PHOTO LIST-but my main photographer so kindly stated that she would take a look them, but she doesn't copy someone else's work so I never gave it to her. I didn't think to give them to my photojournalist because he wasn't hired for posed pics.

I didn't look at my cake or my room AFTER it was completed so again things were wrong. I really wanted to see the outdoor CH, but the only way to see it without guests, who were starting to arrive, seeing me was by walking through our room which was STILL being set up!
Flowers were placed on our cake, which I didn't want and never mentioned on having them yet, they were all over.
My CPs weren't completed, they were supposed to have more crystals hanging and the florist never put the votives on them to be lit, so they have wire hanging from them without votives-which for me and DH would have created a different ambiance to the entire reception.

Lastly, I regret letting the limo drivers tell me how much time it would take to get to our outdoor picture location and how much traffic there would be, when in fact there was NONE! It's funny, that I can laugh and be sad at it now, but I have a photojournalist photo of our Rolls Royce on the parkway, and there is pretty much no other cars in the picture- SOME TRAFFIC!

Now if I can only get DH to want to take day after pics, I can resolve some of my regrets!

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Posted by Jenn04

Girls - My photographer said she would still shoot anything she missed at our wedding (ie program, card box, etc.) I am going to take her up on this!

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That was nice of them, I was thinking of taking a non pro pic of my dress label and just giving it to her too add because I am certain there isn't one.
Thanks for posting!

Ok here is my list! But I do want to say...on my actual day..I didnt think of any of these things...it just flowed! But now I am nit-picking it apart!

1 - Not starting dancing right away. The matire d' said they needed to take dinner orders right after our first dance and they were going to seat everyone. Then the band suggested we start dancing and well we didnt and now I wish we did!

2 - Not wearing a darker lipstick. I wanted to wear a darker one that showed up better and no one liked it. But the one I bought barely showed at all..ughh

3 - Should have tried a long line bra with my dress...I think it would have given me better support and I just never looked into it and wore a regular bra. My dress was loose and I had to put my halter strap on...which I didnt love.

4 - Changing earrings...should have just kept the big ones on..but they were heavy!

5 - Should have bought the sparkly bracelet instead of the one I got. The one I got is nice but looks so blah.

6 - Must take pictures....forgot a list and many things went unnoticed. I am going to have my photographer shoot them in her studio.

7 - Being alittle rushed in the morning and cranky and my dad was trying to hug me and I was so irritable.

8 - Leaving and losing my veil at the RH

9 - Not getting all the sand out of my shoes before the ceremony...ouch!

im so glad everyone liked this thread and also glad that i was not alone with little day of regrets!!

i also forgot to add my BIGGEST one...the other thing that will haunt me besides my head piece in my pics forever.. is NOT BUSTLING MY DRESS BEFORE 1st DANCE!! What i huge mistake!!!! you see my slip in all my pics.. i blame everyone including myself for this one!!! from now on i vow if im ever in a bridal party.. i will MAKE SURE THE BRIDES SLIP NEVER SHOWS!!!! it looks so bad in pics!