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Crazy last-minute paranoid?

wandajune6wandajune6 member
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I'm getting married in 8 days. For some reason, I'm convinced that I must have left someone off the seating chart. I've checked it about 16 dozen times. I know it's right. But yet I'm still convinced that someone will show up and not have a seat.

I'm also fixated on the seating chart. I just need to print the damn escort cards already but I keep trying to rework a few tables. I'm making myself crazy.

What did you fixate on right before your wedding? What are you freaking out over now?
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  • sarawifenowsarawifenow member
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    I feel you on the seating chart! I keep checking and counting mine, too!

     

    However, my biggest fixation right now is over our timeline for the DJ. Not sure why because he is great.

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  • cupcait927cupcait927 member
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    The seating chart for my wedding caused me many sleepless nights and a couple of breakdowns, complete with tears. Poor H thought I was losing my mind at that point. I was so convinced that I was going to offend someone by where they were seated. I didn't stop worrying about it until we were actually at our reception, all seated for dinner, and realized it was not a big deal.

    My other fixation was the fact that I didn't make up any little centerpieces for our cocktail tables. I made myself crazy thinking that someone would notice that I didn't decorate them with anything more than table clothes and think that I was just the worst at planning a wedding. Got to my wedding - didn't even notice the damn tables in the room where we had cocktail hour. I'm pretty H is more happy than I am that the planning is over and I'm relatively normal again.

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  • mschristie123mschristie123 member
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    This wasn't my fixation, but it was my mom's...

    So we have this guy related to us by marriage somehow (now divorced) who my mom was really worried about crashing the wedding. I don't even really know this guy, and had no reason to worry so I didn't really give a fuck, but my mom was super concerned about it. We had mentioned to our DOC (just to appease my mom, not like I wanted them to really do anything about it).

    Anyway, during the cocktail hour, our DOC comes up to me all intense and pulls me aside. She's like, we have a man named XX here.. He doesn't have an escort card and we don't see him on the seating chart. Is this the person you were concerned about??

    It was actually one of our best friends! He was totally on the seating chart, and I showed it to her, but for some reason he didn't have a place card. I felt like such an ass for completely failing on the place card, but I was glad it happened to someone we love and who could laugh it off. (Oh- and the random potential crasher never did crash. So that was good).
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  • InkdancerInkdancer member
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    I realized the day before the wedding that I didn't have an escort card holder. Scrambled to make something with popsicle sticks, paper, and ribbon. It worked, but was not very elegant.
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  • princessleia22princessleia22 member
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    I didn't have to worry about a seating chart (YAY!), as we didn't have a sit down meal.  We had a buffet lunch with open seating before the ceremony (wedding was on a cruise ship, so plenty of seating available) then hors d'oeuvres at the reception.  I had to help my sister with her seating chart, so I've seen the stress it can cause and am so thankful I didn't have to deal with that one.

    But, I made my own bouquets.  I bought all the materials & flowers (fake) about 6-months before my wedding.  I played with them a little, but couldn't get them quite right, so I procrastinated on them.  For a couple weeks before the wedding I stressed about them and lost sleep over them, because I knew they weren't turning out quite right, but I still didn't want to work on them.  Finally, 2 days before I left for my wedding, I couldn't put it off anymore.  The majority of the flowers I bought came in pre-made bouquets, but I had wanted a mix different flowers, so I had planned to take them apart & use them to reassemble new bouquets with other flowers. So, after a few more hours of failed attempts at getting them perfect, I scraped the original design idea.  And I just went super simple and used the $10 premade bouquets as they were. And in the end, I decided that they were perfect, just like that.  So, the other $100 in materials and months of stress was a complete waste.

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  • jynxiiejynxiie member
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    My seating chart was really easy to be honest... All the circles I invited are pretty much groups of 8/9 so it worked perfectly.

    I'm panicked that I am forgetting a cost and I won't have that money since we're pretty much broke now.  Oh and I am worried I will have tons of no shows.
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  • wandajune6wandajune6 member
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    Inkdancer said:
    I realized the day before the wedding that I didn't have an escort card holder. Scrambled to make something with popsicle sticks, paper, and ribbon. It worked, but was not very elegant.
    Ummm... holders? Do I need those? Never thought of a holder for it!
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  • holyguacamole79holyguacamole79 member
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    My mom was freaking out about the "memory tree" of deceased family members. 8 days out, I was flipping out about getting the music lady at tee church to approve our programs (yes, she had to approve them. Ugh. ) You'll be great, @wandajune6‌!




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  • InkdancerInkdancer member
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    wandajune6 said:
    Inkdancer said:
    I realized the day before the wedding that I didn't have an escort card holder. Scrambled to make something with popsicle sticks, paper, and ribbon. It worked, but was not very elegant.
    Ummm... holders? Do I need those? Never thought of a holder for it!
    If they are actual paper cards, you probably want to display them in a way that isn't "pile of paper on a table".
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  • wandajune6wandajune6 member
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    Ohhhh. We're doing tent cards. Much easier, though a pain for formatting.
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  • InkdancerInkdancer member
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    Ah, then you'll be fine. Mine were not tents, so I had to put them in something.
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