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For the married ladies: "I wish....

dawnmhaydendawnmhayden member
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in Maryland-Baltimore
Hi girls!  I saw this on another board and thought it was a great idea!

Since there are quite a few married ladies on this board, I was hoping to pick your brains.  Just wondering... what one piece of advice you would give to someone planning their wedding.  I'm not talking "I wish I had taken it all in more."  I mean specifics like: "I wish I hadn't spent $200 on cocktail napkins becuase no one noticed and I have a ton leftover." or "I wish I hadn't spent so much time doing a photo guestbook because people only used 2 out of 20 pages to sign."

What would you have done differently? What would have not stressed so much about or spent so much time/money/energy on?

Thanks!
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  • smange10.10smange10.10
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    edited December 2011
    I wish...
    ...I had taken more time to enjoy our engagement - we got engaged and that night I started the wedding planning, I was so excited.  I wish I had let it soak in a little more and had taken time to ourselves.
    ...I had cut down my must-play list for our DJ.  As unimportant as this sounds, there were songs that were more important to us than others but because I had made the list too long some weren't played.  I was bummed.
    ...I didn't spend the money on a string trio for the ceremony (and cocktail hour) and just had our DJ play music.  The trio was fantastic, but not worth the extra money.
    ...I knew what happened to my bouquet at the end of the night.  It disappeared and I never saw it again.  I'm still upset about that....I LOVED my bouquet.
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  • strawberrycrzstrawberrycrz member
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    edited December 2011

    smange - It's funny that you wish you'd taken more time to enjoy your engagement.  We were engaged for almost a year before we started planning, and we will be planning for a little over a year before we get married.  I kinda wish we didn't wait so long.  I think the main reason is that we have our honeymoon booked now, and I can't wait to be there! 

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  • smange10.10smange10.10
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    edited December 2011
    I wish we waiting like a month or so to enjoy the engagement.  Or even a week.  I got on the phone with venues and everything the next day.  I didn't let it all soak in.  We got engaged in the beginning of November and knew we wanted an October wedding, so we didn't have a TON of time...but even still.  I don't think a week or two would have killed me.
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  • dawnmhaydendawnmhayden member
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    edited December 2011
    I can see that-we did the same thing-I think we started talking about dates and venues  the day after we got engaged :-( 

    I'm sorry about your bouquet!  That's odd...
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