QOTD 11/2

minionlover · November 2012

Now that the wedding is over, is there anything that you would have done differently?

mmmendi · November 2012

Actually wrote out a list for my photographer, and gave one to hubby. His running over to talk to friends he had not seen in over a year made it difficult to do all I wanted to do!

But it wasn't a huge issue, I wouldnt really change anything

brainybrunette · November 2012

I wouldn't have stayed at the hotel next to our venue. The hotel was nice but the staff was really rude (I know that I've written about my hotel issues on here before). Other than that, I have no regrets : )

achiduck · November 2012

I am so happy with how everything went, but I guess I wish we had another half hour or so for photos of FI and I and with the wedding party. There are a few WP photos I really wanted that we didn't have time for.

CFM102012 · November 2012

No, I don't think I'd change anything. I just want to be able to do it again. It was a perfect day and I just wish I could experience it again. I loved my dress (sad I can't wear it again), I loved the decorations and venue. The only thing I would change is something we don't have any control over, I'd make it a little bit warmer. My poor bridesmaids were really cold. I tried to keep them indoors as much as possible. Oh, actually there is something I would have done differently. I would make sure to get the church key from my mom so my BM's and I wouldn't have to eat lunch on the church porch waiting for her to get there. lol

achiduck · November 2012

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[QUOTE]No, I don't think I'd change anything.<strong> I just want to be able to do it again. It was a perfect day and I just wish I could experience it again. I loved my dress (sad I can't wear it again), I loved the decorations and venue.</strong> The only thing I would change is something we don't have any control over, I'd make it a little bit warmer. My poor bridesmaids were really cold. I tried to keep them indoors as much as possible. Oh, actually there is something I would have done differently. I would make sure to get the church key from my mom so my BM's and I wouldn't have to eat lunch on the church porch waiting for her to get there. lol
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I am majorly feeling you on this one. I wish I could do it all again and slow it down - by a lot. It all went by so fast and even so I was there, there are parts I don't remember very well simply because so much was going on at one time.

Oh, and I totally put my dress on last night and stood around in my bedroom while H was out. I wasn't sure if I was going to do a TTD shoot but I really want to now that it's all over. Except, not totally trash it.

ericaandtom2012 · November 2012

I would have made a more detailed list of photos for the photographer at the reception. We were planning to take pictures with H's extended family that was there, but we never communicated that to the photographer and it ended up not happening. Makes me a bit sad, especially since we don't see some of the cousins very often.

I also wish I had made more of an effort to figure out a receiving line. Table visits took far too long and delayed opening the dance floor.

kd1986 · November 2012

I think we would have had one person less on each side of the bridal party...I hate to say that, but I think I jumped the gun on asking one of my girls and things just werent the same by the time the wedding came!

lehc723 · November 2012

Hrm. I don't know. Yes and no. Yes to a lot of things now that I think about it, but if you'd asked me during or immediately after (or even a few days after) I'd have said no, so I think I'm overthinking things that don't matter, because I don't know what to do with all this time on my hands.

The things I've thought yes to: cake design, lighting (we had some overhead lighting on a little longer than I think they needed to be, I'm worried how it turned out in our pro photos), I wish I'd lost a little more weight, I wish we'd thought a little differently about some of our signage (stuff either ended up being wrong, like the stuff at the bar, OR some of it was too small to even notice), and we'd have rented space heaters (it got cold!).

catwine · November 2012

nope! i scheduled waaaay too much time for all the pictures but it was nice spending time alone with my husband, so i don't regret it. we actually did our pix at the college we met and it was nice walking aroudn reminicing.

mpjf1001 · November 2012

The day was perfect and i wouldnt change anything about that...in the end it all came together..

schnugglebug · November 2012

I would have explained more to the Ring bearer and Flowergirls where to go since we didn't have a rehersal and they got confused at the end of the aisle as there was a space to the front where DH was..

and well would have prefered no rain or hail during our outdoor ceremony, would have been nice to have the bubbles work not have been clogged by rain... and no recessional music as the DJ had to mad dash to cover up his equipment as it rained. and we finished the ceremony inside...

BUT that is minor things... the day went great... I ended up married to my best friend and could not be happier

aro1589 · November 2012

it was the most perfect day ever.

I wish we had time/money to have done the candy apple favors but we ran out of both. oh well. not losing sleep over it.

I wish we could have danced with our guests ALL NIGHT. It was such an amazing night

hllokttygirl · November 2012

I defintely wouldve had a videographer. It was a lot of money, but now I kind of regret not spending the extra in order to capture the day. It flew by sooo quickly.

pzavecz · November 2012

Overall, there isn't much I regret. I loved my wedding and wish I could relive that day over and over again! It was sooo much fun!

There are a couple of things I wish I had done differently now that I think about it.

-Like achiduck, I wish we had more time for pics. We were running a little late with makeup/hair so we ended up doing our first look and heading to the venue a little late. There wasn't a lot of buffer time built in to the timeline so being late cut into our photography time. Our photographers did a great job working efficientyly and getting as many photos as possible despite the shorted photo time. Unfortunately, there was not enough time to do individual pics with each of our BP members. It was a bummer but not the end of the world.

-I regret inviting my cousin (who I had never met) and her family of 6. I only invited because my mom wanted me to invite her and it was easier to just invite her rather than cause drama. Well turns out she didn't RSVP so my mom called her to get an RSVP from her. She RSVPed for her and her entire family and then no-showed on the day of the wedding - which left an entire table empty. No explanation from her. My mom ended up calling her later to make sure she was ok and nothing bad happened and her excuse was that her son had a game and she didn't have money. Um, for real?! You didn't know this before?! My mom was pissed about it and incredibly embarrassed. I wish I never invited her....

-Lastly, I wish I had talked to my mom earlier about how I felt about her not being as involved with the wedding as I wanted her to. She really didn't seem to be interested with helping me with the wedding at all, so I never talked to her about it and I was extremely hurt by this. I felt abandoned by my mom. I finally told her how I felt about 3 weeks before the wedding and my mom had no idea that's how I felt and she felt horrible. She didn't help with anything because she thought I didn't want the help since I never talked to her about it...so there was some miscommunication between us. She felt absolutely terrible about it and she actually cried she was so upset. I wish I had just talked to her earlier so we could have shared in the wedding planning experience. Now, that it's all over, I am upset that I will never get to experience that with her....

Sorry this was longer than I intended but don't get me wrong, I loved my wedding...these were just some things I thought of after the fact...

xxjen015 · November 2012

I wish I would have had longer to stay and dance with my guests. My day was perfect, and I couldn't have asked for a better time. I wish we had brought up some extra lighting for the cake and buffet line, but we accomodated. I also wish we'd gotten some more pictures. During our first look, some of our bridal party was on the porch, and I wish it had just been us outside (they were a good 75 feet away, but still). I also wish we had gotten more pics of the two of us (I haven't seen all of them, but we did all before the ceremony, and we didn't kiss until the ceremony). I don't like a lot of kissing shots, I feel strange looking at them, but I wish we had a few.

magpie87 · November 2012

There are a few things that I wish we would have remembered [cake topper, memory table candle, toasting flutes, Thank You sign for pictures], our DJ wasn't the greatest [he had some issues with getting some of our songs to play and he wasn't very good at getting everyone's attention for announcements], I found out later that the bartender had refused to make H a rum and coke with his specific rum [found out after we paid the bill and tipped her. Definitely wouldn't have given her extra had I known this] and I wish we would have been able to visit with all of our guests, but we were being pulled in 50 different directions all night. Overall, though, these things are minor, and at the end of the day, I was married to my best friend. Still, it would be nice to get to do it again!

mana8503 · November 2012

I wouldn't change anything! Just slow it down like others said. Everything went as planned, everyone tells me how great it was.

Maybe not peed before father/daughter dance... my crinoline wasn't the same the rest of the night.

ReyesToy · November 2012

I was totally against having a videographer because I didn't want our wedding to feel like a spectator sport. I wanted it to feel intimate...it did, but now I wish I had a videographer because I feel like I missed a lot of the details.

I was so nervous walking up the aisle that all I could hear was my breathing beneath my veil...I felt like Darth Vader. I didn't even hear the harp music which everyone said sounded beautiful! :P

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