Bests and Worsts!

Urchin9

What have been your bests and worsts of wedding planning thus far?

My bests:
All of my DIY projects that have turned out better than expected...and my dress. Oh how I LOVE LOVE my dress. I got such a good deal on that!

My worst:
SHOES! BLAH!
I've had such a hard time with shoes. When I first started wedding planning I bought beautiful shoes (pre pregnancy)and blinged them to perfection with swarovski crystals. Then a month ago I tried them on again and THEY DIDN'T FIT! My feet totally grew during pregnancy.

I luckily found a new pair of affordable shoes to wear that are the same height...but so sad the other shoes didnt work out!

Elizabeth80

Bests

My FI's involvement has been the perfect balance of offering his opinion and freedom for me to do what I like. We've been able to pay things up sooner then expected. Cheaper and cuter flowergirl dress. A friend is making our wedding cupcakes and has already completed our wedding flowers (we're doing silks). Honeymoon being paid for by FIL's. Great showers, awesome wedding party.

Worsts

Family and some friend drama. For some weddings are the perfect opp to bring out their inner crazy.

PopPow

Best's my dress. I love it, it's not a typical wedding dress, but it's beautiful, it's me and it was less than $60.00 before alterations. Thank you Ebay! The fact no one has said "why are you doing all this for a second marriage". I get "you so deserve this and more".

Worst is the fact no one is RSVPing with any sort of timely fashion. One week to go and I'm waiting on 30 people.

Ash61612

best: my dress, I love it so much. I fall in love with it a little more each time I put it on

Worst: drama with my FG mom and some family members and her being pulled from my wedding

rasp.berry

I answered this earlier this morning before all of the posts went screwy, but here goes again.

Best: Anticipation ofr the honeymoon!! 7 sweet nights and days with FI without kids in tow. He travels for work, so I haven't spent 7 nights in a row with him in ages and probably won't again for a while. Also, trying my dress on after all of the alterations were complete. Can't freakin wait to strap that baby on the morning of June 23rd

Worst: Money stresses. Not that there is not enough, just that I have a hard time spending more than $100 on ANYTHING (except rent, daycare, fixed expenses, etc). I just feel so weird spending so much money (to us) on one day of our lives and it actually stresses me out to see the savings account balance depleting as I pay off things for the wedding. I've had to resort to telling myself over and over "We've been together 8 years. We have had 2 children together. We've never been away from our children for more than 3 nights. WE DESERVE THIS." to make myself feel better. When I start feeling guilty, I say it in my head until I believe it lol.

brittneyh4

Best: My dress really tops it, especially since I'm slimming down so much and my curves really show now, I love it! Also my centerpieces. I had a hard time trying to come up with anything to dress it up a little, and I finally found a great idea that was relatively cheap (and I can sell everything off afterward, so that'll be nice).

Worst is definitely the money stress. We make okay money (not rich by any means, and we have a few big bills like the mortgage) and we've been getting by perfectly fine, but my savings account is dwindling.. and when that happens, I freak. I refuse to put something on a credit card that I can't go home and pay off (I get miles, so we do this a lot) but there have been some splurges that I REALLY want to do, but won't. I can't have debt from one day lol.

hose85

Bests: my dress, great deal super different and super awesome! how supportive my parents have been, my mom has a tendency to be very "motherly/smotherly" when it comes to her children but she has been SUPER awesome, offering to help but not overstepping in anyway and it's been such a blessing!

worsts: of course....MONEY!! and choosing our guest list. we had over 300 when we started and had to cut it down to 150. i think we spent more time on that then anything else. plus our DYI invites that we hand colored each one plus reply cards, put them all together and sealed up and sent and forgot to put stamps, major meltdown...

leighcd

Best: Knowing that my family is coming to my wedding. Some of my aunts, uncles, and cousins who are attending I have not seen in 15 years!  It will be a happy day with family!

Worst: Being disappointed at times.  Enough said. Trying not to dwell on those moments. 

mschoenf

Bests:  All of the support from my family, friends and FI!  They've been amazingly helpful!  I also love my dress, my cupcake cake (and the service from the bakery), and my seamstress! 

Worsts:  The service from the shop where my bridesmaids got their dresses, a few tiffs between the bridesmaids and flowers!  I still haven't gotten my flowers because I hate them so much:/

rachellola77

Best: Love my dress & sash. Really excited to wear it, they turned out beautiful. Still can't belive that I get to wear it for a whole day. Family, friends and FI support through the entire process. Knowing people are coming to share our day with us.

Worst: General anxiety about basically everything. It was the worst the few weeks when the photog I hired wasn't responding to emails & phone number I had for her was't working. Now that new photographer is hired things have calmed down. Guest list was a also a bit of an issue but now that rsvp's are coming in things are looking like they are going to be okay.

sunnylilme

Best: Planning has only been positive for my relationships with my parents and FI, oddly enough.  I hear that's unusual.  I am also excited about all my DIY details and just having a casual affair where I hope everyone will be comfortable and enjoy the day.  And opening RSVPs

Worst:  Losing our first location.  48 hours of panic.  But, it all worked out for the best and the new location is better than the last.

abtamboli

BEST: All my DIY items have turned out wonderfully! My FI has been extremely involved in all of the decisions being made for the wedding. My sapphire necklace and earrings my FI bought me for the wedding day!
WORST: Our original Officiant passed away from an auto accident and we are still searching for a replacement with less than 50 days til the wedding.

Nshivers

Best: our honeymoon which I'm so looking forward to!  We've traveled quite a bit, but have never been on the conitnent of Europe!
Worst: this whole RSVP process!!  ugh.

mricher1983

Best: Discovering how crafty I am. I am amazed at how much stuff I was able to make on my own. Let alone make jewelry for my BM's, my mom and my bracelet. It's made me realized I can DIY a lot of things and after the wedding I will start some home projects.

Worst: I've been very fortunate to not have any drama or bumps while planning. The only thing has been the expense, I'm amazed at how much it's costing us for the amount of guests and we're not even having an extravagant wedding. I liked that I had over a year to plan and gave me a lot of time to create stuff but i'm just ready to get the wedding over with at this point. I feel like it can't come sooner.