I don't want to drive my husband up the wall with this, and though it's something he and my siblings and some friends I talked to said was perfectly ok, I have to vent. I feel like we did something completely wrong.
There was so much poking and prodding I had to do with my husband for us to greet tables because we actually took the time to sit down at our sweetheart table to enjoy our meal. His brother told us that we looked like a couple of wedding cake toppers because we were just sitting there, but honestly I had had a stressful morning already with my hair/makeup person being late, I needed a second to breathe, plus my husband said to make sure we sat down and actually ate.
I regret this decision now, because what ended up happening was that our reception kind of took on it's own life. My mother-in-law and basically his entire side of the family are such the outgoing, parting type, which I never realized, she started dancing right at the beginning of dinner, even though the music was light-hearted kinda slow dinner music. From that point on, it was hard to go from table to table because no one was ever at seated at their table from the time that dinner even started.
I had continued to freak out and stress out about how rude this was. I still do. I feel so horrible. I felt rushed because the photographer let me know that her time was almost up and my events spilled into after she was gone, my wedding coordinator who had been great up until that, I felt so disappointed because she had reassured me about doing the the table greetings and moving right along, but we never even officially got to start to do that with her because I couldn't find her at some moments. when I finally had some free time in between, some of the guests started leaving early, so i couldn't even get to their table.
We both had plenty of people who yes started coming up to us to say hi, but my husband and I were almost never together at the same time, besides for the usual wedding events. I just sit here wondering if there was anyone that felt slighted or that we were being rude. But I continually keep hearing from everyone that I should be happy that everyone was having a great time (that's all I keep hearing) and that they were so happy to see us happy. But the little voice in the back of my head has this regret. My parents even said I should have gone from table to table (which I tried to do with my H), but we didn't even get to see everyone.
I don't know what else to think about it...it just makes me so anxious....