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Did anything go wrong at your wedding?

After I got back from getting my hair done the morning of, my mom was in the other hotel suite with my stepdad because he was dropping off my dress and he had picked up everybodys flowers. All of the sudden we here a banging on the door and my mom comes running in crying hysterically with my stepdad behind her, she's freaking out because of the awful job that the florist did. She paid a lot of money and the flowers really were horrific but boy was she crying. They were all so small, they were the wrong color blue, did I mention small? My bridesmaid boquets were no bigger than my hand. My aunts tried going to the store to speak with them but they were closed. When somebody finally got ahold of them, they basically said what you get is what you get. I wish I had pictures. Luckily, my step dad is a hero and he was able to go with one of my bridesmaids to save the day. They went to publix and showed them what the florist did, they were able to give us a bunch of stuff to help. We ended up having fake flowers and real flowers mixed together but I think they turned out beautiful. Did I mention the flowers weren't even in water or wrapped in wet cloth or anything? Just thrown in a cardboard box.

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  • I'm up now because I can't sleep due to thinking about my wedding day.  Whenever I think of my wedding day, I get so angry.  The funny part about it is that it was great- overall.  Maybe because I had made up my mind that nothing was going to ruin my day that I didn't allow myself to get mad and all that anger is coming to me now.  I wish I had a time machine to go back and tell the limo driver that he was dismissed- to just leave.  My MIL had hired him, and when he found out that we weren't leaving the chapel right away to go to the reception- that we had to take pictures first, he whined.  And whined again. and again.  I think he was doing it as just a favor for her, and I really could have done without. Both my bridesmaids looked like they were stuck in an English class all day.  Apparently, celebrating my big day with me was torture.  The background behind the cake was the kitchen doors and trash cans.  I almost threw a fit right then and there- in the middle of the reception- in front of everyone.  Luckily my DH saw the expression on my face and coaxed me.  We ate our cake and toasted our glasses, but those pictures will never see picture frames. That's just a few of the many things that day.   I have mixed feelings.  I would rate the day a complete success.  I am happily married, and was happy that day.  I have great pictures.  But when I lay down to go to sleep... I get angry thinking about all the little things people missed that were so obvious to me.  Honestly- having a hard time getting over it. 
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  • well, i haven't gotten married yet, but my sister's first wedding... where do i start?

    well, the dress almost wasn't ready in time. my mom was still stitching away at 8am the morning of.

    one of the bridesmaids arrived with a HUGE splotch on her dress. which was either make-up or mustard.

    one of the groomsmen hadn't bothered to try his suit on when he picked it up from the rental place and his pants were MILES too long. luckily we had plenty of needles and thread, so his wife could hem them for him.

    the florist's driver wanted to deliver ALL the flowers to the house, despite us having checked with the florist that they would deliver the BP's flowers to the house, the church flowers to the church, and the reception flowers to the reception. after what seemed like hours of arguing, the driver finally gave in and agreed to take the rest of the flowers to their destinations. 5 minutes after he leaves we notice there's only 2 small bouquets instead of 3. so my sister phones the florist, who says "sorry, we ran out of white roses, and we're about to close". at which point my sister had a total shitfit and screamed that the florist was in breach of contract and she was going to sue if they didn't deliver another small bouquet within half an hour. the 3rd bouquet arrived, was given to the MOH, and life resumed as normal.

    the groom and two of his groomsmen headed down to the church early just to make sure that everything was where it was supposed to be, only to find that the entire area is without power. no power = no organ = no processional. so my brother (the third groomsmen) grabbed his trumpet and headed to the church so there would at least be SOME music if the power didn't come back on in time. it did, and my brother was hugely thankful for that - he hates playing for family things.

    the priest devoted his entire homily to talking about how bad divorce is, knowing full-well that my parents are divorced, and generally making people feel uncomfortable.

    my dad's girlfriend (now wife) showed up wearing white. white with flowers, granted, but still white.

    two weeks before the wedding my dad threw a hissy fit about not being allowed to have his girlfriend at the main table with him. a family meeting was involved, which resulted in my mom and me being uninvited. there was a HUGE blowout, insults were hurled, diamonds were taken back... eventually my mom said "whatever, let them sit at the main table, i'll sit with my parents" and everything went back to normal.

    until we actually got to the reception - the venue had made the main table too small, and had to scramble to extend it so that my dad and his girlfriend could sit there. by which time he's decided they'd rather go and sit with my aunt and uncle at another table. and the seating chart, which my sister had spent months agonizing over, was MIA. my dad dropped it off at the reception before going to the church, while we were at the ceremony, the venue had a change of shifts and the day manager didn't give the instructions to the night manager. so no one knew where to sit or what to do, and everyone was asking me, and i had no clue what to tell them.

    it was drama central. the marriage was drama central too, and they got divorced after 3 years.

    oh, and 6 weeks before the wedding, we were in an accident in my mom's car (a truck rammed into us in our own driveway!) and we ended up being without a car on the day of the wedding because the panelbeaters screwed up.
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  • After getting ready, we were heading out for photos of me and my MOH offered to carry my train.  She stepped on my dress and it ripped.  Luckily, the seam was hidden under a drop of fabric.  She ran back to the hotel for safety pins and we hid the pin under the drop of fabric, so you couldn't tell.  We then got to the site and realized we had forgotten the flowers in the fridge.  She offered to run back to grab them (about 2 blocks away, but she was running heels in hot weather).  She was amazing

  • My first wedding, many things went wrong. My mom insisted I cover up a tattoo on my shoulder. The coverup my makeup artist used got all over my veil. I also wasn't happy with my makeup even though we did two trials. I looked way too done up and my lipstick was weird and blotchy. I was able to fix that myself though. 
    I didn't realize this until I saw this pictures - the entire first dance, I had the back of my dress hanging over my arm. It looked ridiculous and no one fixed it for me. 
    Someone spilled a drink all over me. 
    My mom forgot my overnight night bag. I went home the next day in my wedding dress. 
    Two of my bridesmaids got into an argument. 

    I know there's more. This was ten years ago, so it's hard to remember. Oh, my groom spent most of the reception outside smoking pot. He then got us kicked out of our HM suite during the afterparty (I was in the hotel bar, he went to the room to smoke with his friends). Classy. It's no wonder the marriage didn't last :-P
  • One of the catering staff bumped the light switch and it went from dim mood lighting to full on florescent day light. They couldn't figure out how to fix it and kept flicking the lights on and off. I was pissed for a hot minute, but there was nothing I could do, so I just kept dancing. :)
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  • My first wedding had a tornado - no joke. They evacuated 4 o'clock mass into my reception space and held mass. A random kid stick his hand in the cake and his mom didn't even apologize. Everyone kept asking me if they could stay for the wedding. Tornado passes. They stood at the doors to do the offertory collection so no one wanted to leave. Other less interesting problems.

    My sister's wedding someone got stuck in the elevator. 4 firetrucks, the heavy rescue unit, hook & ladder truck and fire chief's car all came. Awesome pics tho :)

    My second wedding - nothing as dramatic but the venue and my coordinator was a disaster. We couldn't find him for hours until we went outside for the fireworks and our balcony was full of people and we found him sitting at a table drinking with a woman on his lap! They release 2 tables without replenishing the buffet, kids meals 45 mins late, put out tip jars despite our request not to, didn't vacuum so I was standing next to green beans and other remnants of lunch the day before on the carpet during our ceremony, other random stupid stuff that should not have been an issue. Funny thing was earlier in the day when my bouquet arrived with the wrong color ribbon I told everyone "whew, glad we got that out of the way, now we know what's not going to go as planned!" I'm so naive! The venue did refund a chunk of money and apologize.
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  • My flowers were a hot mess. The centerpieces were perfect and the pieces I had made for the Arbor were nice. Nothing else was right. My DOC called the florist and told her I was unhappy, but she was on her way to a play her daughter was in, so I was SOL. I wrote a mediocre review recently (3/5 stars, which I think was pretty generous) and the florist emailed me in response. She addressed me as Jennifer, which isn't my name. I'm dying to see pictures because I'm terrified my teeny tiny bouquet just made me look heavier than I am (seriously, it was so small it looked like a toy - and I'm a plus sized lady I needed a decent sized bouquet).
  • Mine were pretty minor. I had asked the centepiece on the head table, be short so that H and I could see over it. When we got there, a huge (albeit gorgeous) centerpeice was on the table. We had to swivel around all tonight to see whoever was giving a toast. I also wore a tulle ballgown. Which was really hard to bussel. It kept falling out. So my wedding planner literally cut off the tulle train so I could get back to dancing.
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  • The bridal shop didn't put the straps to my dress in the bag when they gave me the dress.  I didn't realize until the morning of the wedding.  And I called, very calm, and the lady said she would look for them.  I replied I was getting married today and they needed to be found quickly.  She then LAUGHED at me!  "Oh, your getting married today!  Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha!"  They found the straps and my mom went to pick them up, she was very vocal about her disappointment, right in front of another bride & her mom looking at dresses.

    The worst distaster was for an ex-friend's wedding.  Before we arrived at the POB's house, the florist came to drop the bouquets off.  Apparently they weren't up to snuff and were sent back.  However, the florist was a 30 minute one way drive from the POB's house.  So we are all ready to go and still no flowers.  We all get in the trolley and drive to the church, on time.  MOB, who is total momzilla to the 10th degree, refuses for the wedding to start until these flowers arrive.  We wait for 45 minutes on the trolley outside the church in basic silence.  FOB comes in and says the priest needs us to start because people will be coming for confession during the wedding.  MOB yells, "CONFESSION CAN WAIT!"  Another 10 minutes and FOB comes back to say that if we don't start immediately, the priest won't perform the wedding period.  So we get off the trolley and line up.  As the first BM is taking a step, the florist bursts in!  I grab that BM and she takes a bouquet, with pins still in it and walks down the aisle.

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    My flowers were a hot mess. The centerpieces were perfect and the pieces I had made for the Arbor were nice. Nothing else was right. My DOC called the florist and told her I was unhappy, but she was on her way to a play her daughter was in, so I was SOL. I wrote a mediocre review recently (3/5 stars, which I think was pretty generous) and the florist emailed me in response. She addressed me as Jennifer, which isn't my name. I'm dying to see pictures because I'm terrified my teeny tiny bouquet just made me look heavier than I am (seriously, it was so small it looked like a toy - and I'm a plus sized lady I needed a decent sized bouquet).
    This is why I'm glad I told my florist I want a BIG bouquet. lol Sorry you had to go through this.
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  • The bridal shop didn't put the straps to my dress in the bag when they gave me the dress.  I didn't realize until the morning of the wedding.  And I called, very calm, and the lady said she would look for them.  I replied I was getting married today and they needed to be found quickly.  She then LAUGHED at me!  "Oh, your getting married today!  Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha!"  They found the straps and my mom went to pick them up, she was very vocal about her disappointment, right in front of another bride & her mom looking at dresses.

    The worst distaster was for an ex-friend's wedding.  Before we arrived at the POB's house, the florist came to drop the bouquets off.  Apparently they weren't up to snuff and were sent back.  However, the florist was a 30 minute one way drive from the POB's house.  So we are all ready to go and still no flowers.  We all get in the trolley and drive to the church, on time.  MOB, who is total momzilla to the 10th degree, refuses for the wedding to start until these flowers arrive.  We wait for 45 minutes on the trolley outside the church in basic silence.  FOB comes in and says the priest needs us to start because people will be coming for confession during the wedding.  MOB yells, "CONFESSION CAN WAIT!"  Another 10 minutes and FOB comes back to say that if we don't start immediately, the priest won't perform the wedding period.  So we get off the trolley and line up.  As the first BM is taking a step, the florist bursts in!  I grab that BM and she takes a bouquet, with pins still in it and walks down the aisle.

    Oh you. I think I had a dream about this wedding. Though in it, I was the bride. soooo pissed that my flowers didn't arrive and the florist comes in last minute and the priest flips. fun fun wedding nightmares. I'm so sorry someone actually had to live through it though :(
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  • DH called me a bridezilla during the reception. I was trying to eat my food and people wouldn't stop talking to us or taking pictures of us and I got upset. I just wanted to eat my dinner dammit!!

    We were both sooooo hungry (and both get really cranky when hungry).

    We stepped into another room away from the guests and verbally duked it out.

    It's funny, in retrospect. At the time it was horrible!!
  • We did doughnuts instead of cake, but the bakery screwed up my order and gave us all plain glazed doughnuts instead of an assortment.  Wasn't a huge deal, I was so busy the day of that it didn't bother me too much.  I did call and demand a refund though, which I received.  

    I realized afterwards that we didn't really get all the pictures we wanted.  We meant to do pics in the park right after the ceremony before going to the reception, but apparently FI didn't inform our driver of that, so we had to hurriedly finish pictures before rushing off to get in the Rolls.  We got all the bridal party pictures, but didn't get any with our parents so we decided just to do those once we got to the reception.  Things ended up being so crazy there with trying to get around to actually visiting with all our guests that we never got around to taking pictures with FI's family.  I have some with just me and my parents, but none with his side or us together with our parents. I'm disappointed because I really wanted to give them all photo albums, but now I feel bad that we didn't get pictures with them.


  • The bridal shop didn't put the straps to my dress in the bag when they gave me the dress.  I didn't realize until the morning of the wedding.  And I called, very calm, and the lady said she would look for them.  I replied I was getting married today and they needed to be found quickly.  She then LAUGHED at me!  "Oh, your getting married today!  Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha!"  They found the straps and my mom went to pick them up, she was very vocal about her disappointment, right in front of another bride & her mom looking at dresses.

    The worst distaster was for an ex-friend's wedding.  Before we arrived at the POB's house, the florist came to drop the bouquets off.  Apparently they weren't up to snuff and were sent back.  However, the florist was a 30 minute one way drive from the POB's house.  So we are all ready to go and still no flowers.  We all get in the trolley and drive to the church, on time.  MOB, who is total momzilla to the 10th degree, refuses for the wedding to start until these flowers arrive.  We wait for 45 minutes on the trolley outside the church in basic silence.  FOB comes in and says the priest needs us to start because people will be coming for confession during the wedding.  MOB yells, "CONFESSION CAN WAIT!"  Another 10 minutes and FOB comes back to say that if we don't start immediately, the priest won't perform the wedding period.  So we get off the trolley and line up.  As the first BM is taking a step, the florist bursts in!  I grab that BM and she takes a bouquet, with pins still in it and walks down the aisle.

    Oh you. I think I had a dream about this wedding. Though in it, I was the bride. soooo pissed that my flowers didn't arrive and the florist comes in last minute and the priest flips. fun fun wedding nightmares. I'm so sorry someone actually had to live through it though :(

    The way I look at this is if your flowers arrive and they aren't perfect, its not the end of the world.  A wedding day disatster is if the G doesn't show up or there is a car accident that prevents POG or POB from attending their kids wedding.  So when the MOB sent the flowers back, it was totally on her and she held up the ceremony.  She almost prevented her daughter from getting married.  Her daughter even stated that we can get married without the flowers and her mom said no! 

    Now, if your contract states x and you get y, there is a place to complain.  But do it after the wedding.  You can try resolving your issue with the vendor first or move onto small claims court if you are not satisfied.

  • My ILs have a really hard time dealing with the fact that their kids are independent adults now.  My MIL thinks she's "silly" and that it's "cute."  At our rehearsal she grabbed my then FI in big bear hug and dragged him around saying "Don't do this to me Mikey!!!  Don't leave me!!!"  In general we get along but she has weird outbursts and happened to have that one at the rehearsal in front of my dad and our bridal party.

    The day of the wedding we had minor issues.  The flower girls pomanders fell apart almost immediately.  My H called my dad to say that the bouts weren't at the church but they were there he just hadn't really looked.  I didn't get a pic of just my mom and I, and she's still upset about it.  My bustle kept falling out at the reception.  We had a candy buffet in our wedding colors, green and pink, and one of the boxes of jordan almonds ended up being blue instead of pink.  Our disc with all of our wedding pictures got lost in the mail.  Luckily, my photographer resent it and we should get it today.
  • I stepped on a piece of glass at my reception and had to go to the ER to get 3 stitches (in my wedding gown). Luckily it was 15 min before the end of the reception.  Make sure you bring comfortable shoes to change into when your feet start killing you after 10 hours of standing/dancing!
  • Let's see; the night before the wedding, we realize his grandmother left her dress at her house 3+ hours away.  So, in a 2 hour gap prior to the football game our kids were performing in, I had to help dress his 80 year old grandmother.  Nothing like seeing Nanny half naked, and hearing her utter the phrase "Girl, this shirt isn't gonna work.  I've got titties!"  I almost died laughing...and of mortification.  And I told (now) DH he owed me.  BIG TIME!!

    The morning of the wedding, I'm at the hair stylist when he calls to tell me that his tuxedo pants, which were fine when he tried them on at the tux shop, were now broken.  Thankfully, my parents were already on the road, and had a pair of suspenders (Christmas ones!  LOL) that he wore under his vest.

    My mom, sis (BM) and my best friend (MOH) are in the limo about 10 minutes from my sister's house when we realize the bin with ALL of our flowers are at my sister's house which we'd left.  We're in an area with spotty cell reception trying like mad to call my sister's boyfriend to ask him to turn around and get the bin and haul ass to beat us to the chapel.  But, just in case, I have to ask my limo driver to turn around on a 2-lane winding country road to turn the stretch limo around.  He was a saint, and did so.  Then turned it around again once we got a hold of her boyfriend who turned around to grab the bin,.

    But, the capper?

    With about 45 minutes before the limo's arrival, and about an hour before I should be getting in to my gown, my best friend (MOH) calls.  She's been in a car accident about 5 minutes from my sister's house.  Her truck will no longer start.  She's totaled the other vehicle.  THANKFULLY her son wasn't with her.  But, she, understandably, was in hysterics.  Which caused me to panic.

    Nothing like answering the phone to hear your best friend say "I just hit a woman."

    SOMEHOW, my bestie of 25+ years managed to pull herself together once my sister's boyfriend picked her up from the accident scene, get to my sister's house, put on her make-up and her dress and stand beside me for my wedding.

    Soooo...yeah...we had some hiccups.  :|  And these are just the hiccups in the 24 hours leading up to our wedding.  ;)
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    dem068 said:
    I stepped on a piece of glass at my reception and had to go to the ER to get 3 stitches (in my wedding gown). Luckily it was 15 min before the end of the reception.  Make sure you bring comfortable shoes to change into when your feet start killing you after 10 hours of standing/dancing!
    OMG! I remember that photo of you in the ER! That was crazy! (on our month board, but you still looked awesome :-D)
    Who was it that had the baker break her arm and the hairdresser had an issue...the poor gal had all sorts of pre wedding go wrongs :( I think it ll panned out in the end tho!
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    dem068 said:
    I stepped on a piece of glass at my reception and had to go to the ER to get 3 stitches (in my wedding gown). Luckily it was 15 min before the end of the reception.  Make sure you bring comfortable shoes to change into when your feet start killing you after 10 hours of standing/dancing!
    OMG! I remember that photo of you in the ER! That was crazy! (on our month board, but you still looked awesome :-D)
    Who was it that had the baker break her arm and the hairdresser had an issue...the poor gal had all sorts of pre wedding go wrongs :( I think it ll panned out in the end tho!
    Thanks!  I certainly wasn't amused at the time, but now it is a funny story.  We were just looking at our wedding pictures this past weekend and my dad said "If I could do it over, I would have put you in a chair and elevated your foot for the last 15 min, then gone to the hospital, so we didn't miss the end of the party, and you could have just danced in the chair".  (he was kind of kidding/kind of not - my dad, husband and I were all very sad that we missed "shout", it looked like an awesome last song from the pics.)
  • Yeah a couple of my male friends from high school slid into the church as I was lining up for the walk, but that wasn't a big deal.  My priest was thrown from a horse and ended up with 8 broken ribs and a bruised lung a little less than a month out from our wedding, but luckily ended up recovered enough to perform the ceremony.  My mom forgot her dress was strapless so she ended up making a quick trip to the mall less than an hour before I was supposed to walk down the aisle.  My hair fell down almost immediately when I got to the reception.  I really don't care about all that stuff though because the actual getting married part went perfectly and I couldn't have been happier with it.
  • Thankfully the day of our wedding went fairly smoothly, we just had a few hiccups. The makeup artist and hairstylist got the time wrong so they showed up late, but they brought help so in the end it wasn't problem. Everyone was still done in time and we had extra time to eat and relax.

    During dinner the DJ came over to H and I to let us know that the recording of our first dance song we gave him wasn't working so we had to come up with a new song on the spot. Neither of us like the 'classic' first dance songs so we struggled to find something we like and that he had in his library (we had to use cell phones to look up songs because we couldn't think of anything...got a few weird looks for that one).

    We went to cut our cake only to realize we had forgotten to bring a knife so we had an awkward moment while someone went running to the kitchen to grab one. Silly thing is my mother and I had a discussion the week before about whether I should go out and spend money on a knife or if she had one I could borrow.

    One of our guests projectile vomitted all over the men's washroom. H and I didn't find out about it until almost the end of the night but the staff at the site refused to clean it up. We just told everyone to use the women's washroom. I still need to contact the venue about that one...

    The big thing happened the night before. As we were driving to our rehersal we were hit by a semi. We were very lucky because neither of us were injured, just kinda shaken. And amazingly the car was still drivable. Which was awesome because we drove to the mountains for our honeymoon.

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  • I complained to my venue about the stuff that went badly and we got free stuff :)
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    Lets see...

    Less than a week before the wedding, a huge flood wiped out the town I was going to get married in. All 3 roads leading in were destroyed and my venue was hit by a mudslide. I lost all my vendors, besides my DJ who was located in the city.

    Found everything to make a wedding happen in the 4 days leading up and somehow it worked out great!

    Day of, I walked into outrceremony/reception site with only the reception set up (they were to flip the room after). For some reason they set the ceremony up outside. Luckily it was a few hours before the start time.

    The florist we were able to get didn't get the bouquets right, luckily another easy fix.

    My photographer was the worst. She didn't have any of my notes I had emailed her, she was rushing us and not getting the shots I had wanted. The final pictures look cellphone quality and though I have 20 pictures of H and I's wedding bands, I have only 2 photos of my mom and me, neither are frame worthy.

    Brides beware, photographers are something to really put the time and money into.

    All in all though and beautiful day and I wouldn't change anything (well I still dream of the wedding that I planned for 18 months and didn't get to have)
  • I just have funny stories.

    DH is in the Navy.  He wore his dress blues for the wedding which was held in the base chapel and the reception was at one of the base banquet facilities.  After the ceremony we took some photos outside of the church.  When we came back in someone noticed some dirt on the floor and pointed it out to me so I wouldn't drag the dress through it.  Then they realized the dirt was on DH's shoe.  When they tried to get the dirt off of the shoe they realized it wasn't dirt.  The shoes were over 10 years old and the heal had disintegrated.  Fortunately, the uniform shop was right across the parking lot from the chapel.  We drove over and I waited in the car while he went shoe shopping.  The lady getting in the car next to ours had quite the surprised look on her face when she saw the bride sitting next to her.  Meanwhile DH had grabbed a pair of shoes in his size and when he got to the register he told everyone in line that he had just gotten married and was on the way to his reception when his shoe fell apart.  The entire line took a step backwards and let him pay.  

    My best friend got married at an old house that was turned into a event venue.  After we got dressed we attempted to leave the room and discovered the door was stuck, trapping the bride and most of the bridal party.  They were unable to open the door from the hallway.  Fortunately we were on the 1st floor.  The officiant climbed through the window and dismantled the door knob so we could get out of the room.  
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  • The other thing that happened on my wedding day... After we had our hair done, we stopped at my favorite deli to pick up sandwiches for lunch.  The deli has a tiny little parking lot (like 6 spaces) and it's on a slight incline.  I'm in my MOH's car and we're trying to pull into traffic.  This huge truck backs into her because he couldn't see her normal sized car due to the incline of the parking lot.  Thankfully her car was just dented, but she'd never been in any kind of accident before, so she was kind of shaken up.  She did good though -- and luckily, it was just a minor dent.
  • I feel bad saying everything was perfect.  We had hiccups but they were minor and/or funny:

    1) husband and I were going to take a fun picture with golf clubs at the reception (it was on a golf course).  We specifically bought black and white putters for this (and even had a gold ball with our names &date on it). I had them in my hand leaving the hotel room and somehow managed to put them down and left them.  We were bummed, but really no big deal at the end of the day.

    2) my ring bearer (nephew) got nervous half way down the aisle and just turned around and sat in the middle of the aisle.  My mom had to get him.

    3) my flower girl was the opposite--she was a AW, lol.  She went down by herself (she was not even 2--her mom was a BM right before her just in case she did not want to walk).  She got to her mom at the end of the aisle and ran back up the aisle to do it again, lol. So my friend ran after her and picked her up so walk with her, then passed her off to grandma to sit for the rest of the ceremony.  That was the moment I started to get a little overwhelmed, so seeing that totally made me laugh and relax.

    4) we had two guests bring +1's that they did not RSVP for... I was mad for 30 seconds and then said let it go, more the merrier.  The venue handled it (never even mentioned it to me or H) and we were not charged for the extra people, so whatever.
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  • Oh, and there was one other thing that drove me nuts at my sister's wedding.

    One of her BMs (the same one with the giant stain on her dress) had RSVPd for 7 people (her entire family, including 3 year old half-brother - they'd been invited) - not one of them stayed past the couple's entrance. They just disappeared. No "Sorry, the kid's not feeling well so we'd better take him home, but congratulations and thanks for inviting us", just disappear, leaving a whole table paid for and empty. Luckily it was a buffet and the other guests more than made up for any losses there might have been on the food!
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  • There's a blog called iguessido.com [link] that I love. Readers send in their "I guess I do" moments (wedding mishaps) and the blogger posts them, in addition to other wedding stuff. There are some hilarious stories on there!

     

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  • imageAt my first wedding, I lost the marriage certificate and had my bridal party and myself searching everywhere for it. Turns out I left it at the reception venue earlier that morning when I was there decorating. Luckily my cousin found it. Because of this my wedding was 15 minutes late, and the Priest refused to marry us without it, so thank God we found it.

    During the ceremony, I wore these 6.5 inch clear stripper heels because I'm so short...I definitely tripped on them and fell during the ceremony, which was alright because I'm so clumsy anyway, it was totally expected and no one thought anything of it :)
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