Just returned from Charleston (where it was nice and warm) to Chicago (where it's freezing cold and they're still cleaning up from a flood) and I must say..... I'm not ready to be back.
I AM, however, very ready to show off my new wedding ring and tell everyone in a 200 mile radius that I'm a newlywed!
The wedding had a lot of bumps in the road before we even got to Savannah, and that pretty much continued all the way through our trip. Our coordinator turned out to be a total d-bag. I paid extra for airbrush makeup, and got regular makeup. He said she'd be there at 8:30. I told him that was too late, that I wanted to be done by 9 so we could do first look pics. He said OK, she'd be there at 7. She showed up at 8:15. Needless to say, we had to skip the first look pics and our first look was in the elevator on the way down. We were 45 minutes late for our own wedding. The officiant stumbled and stuttered through his own ceremony and I later found out there was no "seating of the mothers" so there were guests in the prime seats. Our guests were supposed to be taken on a trolley tour of Savannah after the ceremony, but they basically only got a ride around town, even though I paid for a narrated tour. Needless to say, the coordinator and I have a lot to talk about this week. Of course, it rained and I ended up spraining my knee getting into the carriage when I tripped on the hem of my dress, making the rest of our honeymoon quite painful. Oh, and Mother Nature gave me a LOVELY wedding gift 2 days before the wedding. Wench.
However, the carriage ride was very romantic, the food was phenomenal, our guests can't stop raving about how much they fell in love with Savannah, and the photos we took were some of the most beautiful ones I've ever seen! Not to mention I'm now married to the love of my life. So while I can sit here and complain about a million things that went wrong, the things that went right far outweigh them if you look at it from a "value of the memory" standpoint.
So for those of you who have yet to make that trip down the aisle.... have it in your mind that things WILL go wrong. But remind yourself that so many more things will go right, and just move past it and keep enjoying your day. After all, you will only get 1 chance to relive that day and you don't want to spend it sulking over things that you can't control.
58 invited
| 17 love destination weddings
20 can't make it
| 21 don't know what to do with a RSVP card
RSVP Deadline: March 8th