What was your best wedding decision?

Re: What was your best wedding decision?

• egeurts

  

  April 2013 edited April 2013

  My best decision was forfeiting my idea of a "dream venue" and "settling" for a nice banquet room in a restaurant near our home town. I NEVER thought I'd get married in our home town, but it was WAYYYYYY cheaper, and the space was really nice. Plus, it allowed us to get married in my husband's church (which I also never thought I'd do), but that meant a lot to him and his family. That was the epitome of "It's not my day, it's our day" type thinking.  So giving those sort of decision making choices to him was a big thing, but probably the best ones I made. It was huge emotionally, plus it saved us money and we still had an amazing wedding. 

  

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• BulgariHeart member

  

  April 2013

  Having an intimate non-beach DW at our most favourite resort. The second best decision was to rely on the venue for all other aspects of the wedding other than the ceremony (photo, video, catering, florist, décor, baker etc), as opposed to hiring outside vendors and having to coordinate them ourselves. We didn't exactly save by doing this but it made our lives so much easier. In retrospect it was a great decision, the venue and coordinators delivered beyond our expectations.

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• wittykitty14 member

  

  April 2013

  Linger I love your GIF!  It's cracking me up!
  
  It's hard for me to know, because we're still more than 2 months away, but I'll try to pick a couple:
  
  Getting married when we are.  Before we were engaged, we talked about getting married October 2016, because the timing was perfect.  But a lot of our plans got flip-flopped, and we realized that getting married this summer made a lot of sense.  We couldn't be happier with our choice to have a wedding this summer. 
  
  If I'm trying to narrow this down a bit, the other big one is our church.  FI and I are Catholic and doing the full mass, and are currently attending the church I've been to my whole life.  I like that church a lot, but we opted for my grandparents church in the next town over.  The priest there is a good family friend, which makes the wedding more special for us. He knew both my grandparents pretty well (his mom and my memere were good friends since high school), and was a great support to us when my pepere died just before this past Christmas.  My whole family is looking forward to having the wedding there. It'll be wonderful!

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• BostonGIrl4732 member

  

  April 2013

  So far, it was having over a year to plan the wedding.  FI and I have done all the planning ourselves and we both work full time jobs.  Because we waiting over a year, we've been able to save our money for what we want and I've been a lot less stressed because most of the time we were ahead of the curve.  FI is a CPA and was MIA during busy season, but it wasn't a big deal because we had time to prepare for it.  Now we're right on track, I'm not super stressed with planning, and we don't have to worry about not having money to pay our vendors.  Yay!

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• rachelm13 member

  

  April 2013

  Best decisions: not to go with a "traditional" dress, wearing it out that night, splurging on the higher end apps.... And... my second pair of shoes. 

  
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• harper0813 member

  

  April 2013

  So far, I'm really happy that I gave up having lighting done, renting tablecloths and having someone take down the ugly curtains at our venue to instead splurge on beautiful silver chairs. I'm spending a fifth of what I would have and I've actually warmed up to the curtains - I think they'll actually look beautiful with the chairs.

  
  

  And the venue itself is so ballin'. We get the WHOLE mansion for the WHOLE day. They provide candles, apothecary jars, all tablecloths/tables/dinnerware and valet parking for free. They'll make as many entree items as I like, and they'll customize any dish or make an entirely new dish if we want. They make homemade potato chips (which is my obsession). And they have awesome little phonebooths to make out in.

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• vanityink member

  

  April 2013

  Not getting special "getting ready" clothes. I was planning on just wearing some sweats I like anyway, but then I got food poisoning the night before the wedding and was barely functional. By the end of the night I was back in my comfy sweats (hair and makeup still done) just so I could say goodbye to everyone before collapsing. I think the look on the caterer's face when looking for me was hilarious since at that point the only thing "bridal" about me was I had left the tiara on.

  
  

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• MsYeck member

  

  April 2013

  Getting married in September but the best decision so far has been picking a football by-week. Get married on a football Saturday in Nebraska and all hell breaks loose.

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