We got our professional proofs back today and all I want to do is cry and scream and maybe punch a few of the GM where the sun don't shine.
I'll start by saying that I'm really upset with the way I look in the photos. There's nothing anyone can say to make me feel better about it which sucks. My body looks fine but my arms, neck, face and hair look terrible. I'm also barely smiling in any of the photos, barely a smirk. I'm so confused why did my face feel like I had been smiling for hours when we were finished? I want to vomit right now. There's very few photos of my husband and I that I would be willing to show anyone and they are mostly of me turned away from the camera : ( That's something that I just have to deal with and have a good cry over.
As I moved through the photos we got to the GM and the getting ready photos are of them taking shots, swigging from bottles and carrying fifths. I'm so pissed. A few of them were visibly shiiit faced during the ceremony even though they were told multiple times by multiple people including my aunt, my mom, my husband, some bridesmaids and myself to quit drinking. Not only are they drinking heavily in these photos like it's a frat party they are making extremely crude gestures and posing for lots of photos like that.
I really wish that I had someone monitoring them and confiscating alcohol. I also wish I would've had someone with us as we took group photos to kind of direct things. For example all the guys had their jackets off for many of the photos and they looked so sloppy with their shirts un tucked or half tucked in. In the photos where they had their jackets on the drunkest guy of course didn't have his on. I obviously wasn't paying attention because I didn't notice as things were happening. The guys also only took about 2 nice photos together and that was it. All the rest were of them making vile and crude gestures with each other. I can't use any of the photos. I wish I had asked an aunt or someone to be there to put people in check because when I yelled for them to take some normal ones they took 1 and then moved on. The best man insisted on being in every single photo as well. He's an attention whore and he has crossed the line from me thinking he's just annoying to me not wanting to be around him anymore. He ruined so many pictures of me and my girls and he also just HAD to jump into photos of my husband and I.
When we were lining up for the ceremony all the guys were told to remove their sunglasses. They all did but 2 of them put theirs back on as they walked out to go down the aisle. Of course I didn't notice at the time but looking at the photos I'm pissed. The bridesmaids kept trying to gesture for them to take them off but they didn't listen.
I should've told the photographer that I didn't want any photos of the stupid dog that my husbands sister brought. There were no dogs allowed at the wedding but my husband told his sister that she could bring hers (I found this out the day before the wedding he said he was sorry). I told her that the dog couldn't come because I told my mom that she couldn't bring her dog and that it's not fair. She told me that she already talked to my mom about it and she said it was OK (I found out later she was lying). Then, she went on to tell me that the dog is a service dog and I couldn't tell her no. EFF THAT! She has told me before that she only got the dog licensed as a service dog so that she could bring him with her wherever she wants without questions even though she doesn't need a service dog. I guess I wouldn't be so mad about this if I didn't go through my photos to see 20+ god damn pictures of the stupid dog.
disclaimer - I love dogs just not at our wedding.
For our sparkler exit the best man once again had to steal the lime light. That effer stood so far into the aisle of sparklers that he almost looks like he's walking with us. He also looks like he climbed out of a gutter holding a bottle of liquor. I'm so mad at him. His suit (or what's left of it because he tore his sleeves off) is drenched in alcohol, he's sweaty, his eyes are barely open and he's holding in plain site a fifth of liquor. Mind you we didn't serve liquor only beer and wine. Him and some of his a hole friends were carrying around bottles of liquor all night in plain sight. I don't get it. I wish they had been confiscated because that's rude to the other guests who weren't offered liquor and it's rude to my parents who hosted.
Ugh. I must sound like a bridezilla. I was so looking forward to these photos and I thought I was going to laugh and smile through them. Sure, I expected there to be some poor ones but it's not just a few or even a dozen it's a really good chunk.
anyhoo, I'm just raging and venting right now. I had a really good time at our wedding and it really was amazing even though this post makes it sound like an awful time. I just needed to let it all out so I can get over it and move on to focusing on all the good things.