I keep seeing brides posting about what went wrong during their wedding, I thought maybe if I started this thread it would ease some of their minds.
As each girl left down the isle one by one, I got more nervous. I was praying for them to take forever because I had worked myself up soo much, I was terrified to step out in front of everybody and show myself. Finally the music changed and I heard my step father say "It's time." I stepped out from my hiding place and took his arm, facing our guests, family, wedding party, and my husband to be. This is when the holding back the tears started. I was looking down just trying to remember to take one step at a time and breathe. There was a point where I looked at my husband and we locked eyes, it was beautiful. We got down the the end and the pastor said "Who gives this woman to be wed?"(I forgot the exact wording). Thankfully a bit of the nervousness was eased because my step father pulled out a piece of cardboard with the words "Her mother and I" out of his pocket. Everybody laughed and it made me feel a bit better. He placed my elbow in my lovely husbands arm and I began to walk up the steps. Because I had my flowers in one hand and my groom in my other, I forgot to lift my dress. I stepped on it, almost falling foward or ripping it. I was mortified but I stopped myself, took a deep breath, and continued slowly. Standing face to face with the man I was about to marry, I could see in his eyes how nervous he was but he was holding it together for me. I love him so much. I was still trying my hardest not to cry and it was causing my nose to run throughout the whole ceremony. I had an over the face veil and there was nothing I could do it clear it up without everybody in the whole church noticing, I just had to pray that nobody could tell. It didn't help trying to hold it in because as soon as his vows were said and I started mine, I lost it. It wasn't loud or ugly crying, now that I look back it was actually very beautiful. I couldn't speak a full sentence because I was so choked up. The pastor had to slow it down for me. This is when I heard my MOH and a couple of my bridesmaids behind me. At the time I thought they were laughing but they were crying too. And it was beautiful to see the best man try to hold it together. We had a candle ceremony and the song we picked was "A thousand years" by Christina Perri. The way our pastor did it, was to have us hold hands until after the song was over..Great choice for a song because it literally felt like a thousand years while we were up there looking into eachothers eyes. We would talk to each other a bit and we were laughing because of how the song fit to what was going on. I don't think we will ever be able to listen to that song again without laughing. He lifted my veil, kissed me, and we ran off to our hiding place and held eachother and cried. It was the most amazing day of my life and I love him more and more every day. Its only been a little over a week. What I'm trying to say, is spend your time thinking back to the day and replaying every joyus moment. It really does go by so fast.