Wedding; disaster or great?

Wedding - Should have gone here for the wedding
@CatEyes (2448)
United States
January 19, 2007 2:24pm CST
What was your wedding like; did it go as planned or did you have disaster after another happen? When I got married I invited 450 people, 500+ showed up, I made all of my flower arangements including mine (I just loved it), and had help with the food making process. I though it turned out well except for the fact that I had one of my hubbys uncles try to see me before I went down the isle and wanted to see a real live "virgin", EWWWW. My mother was supposed to sing in the wedding, but she was so nervous that she BROUGHT IN A PILL BOTTLE OF WHISKY into the brides room and offered it to every body and she wore white. Wow. Then I had my maid of honor burn the beegeebees out of me underneieth my arm whith a curling iron. wow again. Then I had my cake lady come up to me as I was just about to go down the isle say that she saved the cake, it's not leaning as much and she thinks she stopped the melting (how does a cake mealt? I heard as she left that the cake looked like a mardigra cake with the coloring it had and that almost made me flip, and they sd it was caving in!. So I walk down the ilse, thinking about this and I just start laughing,(many other small things happened too) and just wondered if this was a precurser to my married life, Naaa. Tell me your story, like to hear about it
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• United States
20 Jan 07
My wedding was not quite perfect but it was not bad. First off, we got married out doors, in the rain. Luckily we had a tent. It was 50 degrees and raining...in August!!! I was freezing! They say rain on your wedding day is good luck! The other thing was that it just happened to be the night of the Bristol night race for Nascar. Well, my new husband spent the whole night in the bar, with his friends, watching the race. The only song that he danced with me was our wedding song. I was lucky to get that. But we have been married 2 1/2 years and things are great. We will be celebrating our daughter's first birthday in April. I could not ask for better. I wish you all the luck!!!!!
• United States
20 Jan 07
We were married in a courthouse with only two witnesses. No disasters, and it turned out great, we have been married now for 40 yrs
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@marciascott (25529)
• United States
19 Jan 07
Ok. I don't mind you coping off my discussion. friend, were friends now. The day we got married it rasined all day. It would'nt stop, I thought were goinf to half to cancel Wedding, But It turn out to be Sunny and bright, aftet it rained wee went ahead wiht the wedding It was in my sisters back yard. And we been married going on 12 yrs. Aug. 5th.2207
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@CatEyes (2448)
• United States
20 Jan 07
I'm Sorry, I did not know I was coppying anyone disc. I was just talking about our wedding to a couple of friends who just got engaged. Theres is going to be sweet and simple, just the way they like it. Sometimes I wish I had done that.
@kathy77 (7486)
• Australia
20 Jan 07
Oh yes my wedding plans did go well we only invited a few people as we just could not afford more at the time, but we all enjoyed ourselves it was a lovely small wedding and everybody had a wonderful time and could talk more easily to other friends at our wedding.
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• Singapore
20 Jan 07
Oh, all my friends.. you all got what a nice wedding. I am still looking for my love one. God bless me..
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• United States
20 Jan 07
despite all the issues that ive had with my wedding i loved it just the same. wedding disasters i had a few of those! first i might not have had my dress in time due to alterations and what not, the maid of honors dress didnt match the bridesmaids dresses, one of the brides maid dress (1 week before the wedding) came back 3 sixes too big, no refunds, no ordering new dresses, we searched for seamstresses no on wanted to touch the material in the short amount of time, my godfather ( who was supposed to walk me down the asile) got arressted 1 week before the wedding so he wasnt there, we waited 7 years to get married just so that he could give me away, the centerpieces were coming undone whiule we set them up, the seating was all wrong, when we went to decorate the wedding consultant had to find more seating for the tables that he forgot to set up, the flowers didnt match anything i intended for them to, one of the groomsmen didnt get a tux in time he had to wear "casual clothes", the balloons popping on the way to the wedding, the day before the wedding whiole i was driving my husnbands realatives to the hotel my car overheated, the belt went and we had a flat tire, all the money was tied up into the wedding we didnt have anything saved. Our honeymoon money went to the photographer and dj, the money we recieved from our guests went to pay off my sister who frontd us the money for our rings. so we canceled outr trip to flordia and went camping and 2 days into our honeymoon we went and picked up our daughter and our nephew to camp with us. The waiter staff, emptied all the toasting cahmapnege BEFORE the toast, out of everyone that rsvp more than half of them didnt even show up, certain people we specified NOT to be there showed up half way through it. it was all one big disaster. but its done and overwit now weve waited 7 years for that day and we did it and we are togetrher now and thats all that matters.
@CatEyes (2448)
• United States
17 Feb 07
OK, You beat me :)
• United States
19 Jan 07
We had a small private wedding at the park where we spend alot of time. Just a minister, us, and a couple who witnessed for us. Our families had a fit, but it was what we wanted. We had a nice reception that weekend for friends and family. On the down side, it stormed like crazy, we had to go under a pavillion, and when we got home, the house got struck by lighting, burnt out my whole computer system and the telephone lines. So mine was good and bad.
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@CatEyes (2448)
• United States
20 Jan 07
Sounds like mine, I should have gone with a smaller wedding though.
@not4me (1711)
• United States
20 Jan 07
I had a wedding that we could afford. We went to the courthouse and he have been happy and debt-free ever since. We honeymooned in our new house and used the money that we would have spent on a honeymoon and had a pool put in our backyard. So our wedding was perfect!
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• United States
20 Jan 07
we had a small outside wedding everything went ok with the wedding except for a minor thing the wedding cake my husbands grandma made we told her we wanted a white cake with green flowers on it she was fine with it but she decided that she liked butter frosting better so she made the cake when it arrived at my house the frosting was yellow and it was not white i was upset but she did not see a problem with it.i did not say anything to her but i wanted things to be perfect and that cake just stuck out like a sore thumb but i could not change it it was to late.on top of that we were in the middle of taking are vows and people noticed that you could see the outline of my underwear that i was unaware of it was pretty embarassing to have people talk about your underwear while you are tring to take vows.everything else was okay and went great.
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• United States
19 Jan 07
My wedding turned out ok. Of course, I did all the planning myself. I even went to the tux place with the guys and picked out their tuxes. My husband was stationed in California and I was in Pennsylvania. So we had to get his measurements sent from Ca to the tux place and hope that it worked. Then I just kept praying that the Navy decided the he could still keep his leave so he could make it home for the wedding. I was a tad stressed but everything worked out fine!
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@CatEyes (2448)
• United States
20 Jan 07
Yea, I planned mine myself too, and was happy with most of it, just some parts kinds got weird. I also paid mine.
@Bev1986 (1425)
• United States
19 Jan 07
My wedding actually went off great. No problems at all. However, the honeymoon was a different story! We left for our honeymoon the morning following the wedding and our car broke down about an hour away.... it was eating oil! We had to stop every hour, let the car cool off and put in 4 quarts of oil! It was supposed to be a 6 hour drive, but it took us about 10. Then, when we got there, we took it to a shop and had to rent a car. The car took the whole week to be fixed and it cost us an arm and a leg that we didn't have!
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• Italy
20 Jan 07
my wedding?? mmmh I think that when i will marry, I want a big party, and in the garden, I want a Kebab ahahahhaa I like Kebab!! do you like it??
@babystar1 (4233)
• United States
20 Jan 07
My wedding was great. We had about 400 people invited, and most of them all came.We had a dinner and a band in the afternoon,and everyone danced.We also had a supper and after supper we had another band that played untill 12:00pm. we all had a great time.
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@Shelite (212)
• Canada
20 Jan 07
Diaster here. Got into a fight with sil the night before over decorating and all his family hated me my entire wedding day. It was horrible. But we're all ok now...I just wish I could do that day over again. :(
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• Melbourne, Florida
20 Jan 07
My first wedding was a church wedding. Everything went off without a hitch. But I'm not a very picky person, and anything that went wrong, I just rolled with the punches. Like, my shoe got caught in my wedding dress halfway down the isle and I couldn't take another step, my dad just picked me up by his side and carried me the rest of the way down the isle and handed me to Jimmy and said, "here ya go, she's all yours." My second wedding we just went to the justice of the peace. Wam Bam Thank you ma'am. I was never nervous or anxious about either, however the few times I've been a bridesmaid (or maid of honor) I was a complete basket case. I guess I always have been more concerned for the happiness of others over myself.
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• Philippines
20 Jan 07
I like to remember my wedding day as one of the most memorable day of my life. We planned it 6 mos before the wedding and i went into the details. And as a future bride, i don't want to get bothered on the wedding day itself to think of problems that might come up so i hired a Wedding Coordinator. The wedding itself turned out great except for an incident with my Wedding Coordinator and the Florist. Because the Florist didn't do what he was supposed to do, my Wedding Coordinator argued with him which resulted to angry shouting over the phone. Good thing that they did that before the actual wedding ceremony itself. Overall, i can still look back and say that it's still one of the most memorable day of my life : ) Sharing it with the one person that matters most to me, my husband.
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@nmw2005 (1197)
• United States
20 Jan 07
We were suppoed to get married in september, but becasue my husband is military and was being shipped to Asia, we had to be married before he left, so we pushed the ceremony to April. He came back in September and we had the ceremony and reception. Some pople knew we were already married, some didn't....imagine the conversations that went on :) Anyway, The video guy was really late, which made everything start late. They played the wrong song as I was walking down the aisle and the wedding cake was totally wrong and the flowers were not the correct color. We had a 2nd ceremony in Italy and I wound up really sick all during our honeymoom. It has been a few years and my husband and I laugh about it now. A wedding is a day, a marriage is a lifetime.
• United States
20 Jan 07
Well, I had a 7 year old and a 9 year old lighting candles. Both were really responsible kids and did an amazing job. We didn't know that one of the things they were using to light candles was broke though. The wick fell out of the end once the kid got to the candles on the stage. The fire hit the tull and spread everywhere. I heard people gasping and I leaned forward to look. My friends didn't want me to see so they blocked my view. All I saw were 4 adults on the stage stomping at the fire. It was a pretty small fire because you can't tell much in the video. I was kind of sad because that would have been great to send in to America's Funniest Home Videos.
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@kareng (55066)
• United States
20 Jan 07
I had everything pretty much mapped out for our wedding, the date was set and my grandmother was diagnosed with cancer. My mom was able to go dress shopping with me but that was it. I did all the other planning and arrangements. I made all the boquets for the bridesmaids and my bouquet. They turned out quite well and I got lots of compliments on them. My grandmother passed away the week BEFORE our wedding so which really put a damper on things. I couldn't cancel because invitations were already mailed so we went on with the wedding. We had a special prayer said for my grandmother and I viewed it as she wouldn't want me to cancel or postpone my wedding. I knew she was very sick and was planning on her attending but she was at the point to where she couldn't get out of bed. This way I figured she had the best seat in the house! The big surprise for us was that we didn't want any singing. Just organ music. Well our moms both wanted singing and went behind our backs and hired a group to sing while guests were arriving and being seated. We both fell out with the reds with that but what could we do at that point? Nothing. Turned out the laugh was on our mothers cause the group they hired were all lesbians.
• China
20 Jan 07
^_^...that is somewhat interesting.. I am not married now. But I wish I will have a great wedding..
@Johnna_S (17)
• United States
20 Jan 07
My wedding day looking back seems like a big old red flag to turn and run back down the aisle. It rained and rained and rained. My hair looked nothing like the picture or my description. The minister was replaced by a man who looked like he should of been on the Munsters. The groom's parents got pissed about something and called and said they weren't coming. The best man lost his tie. The reception hall neglected to put the keg on ice. My cake was way way way smaller than I expected. My husband stayed up and partied with his friends and I went to be alone. Sounds like something out of a bad comedy movie doesnt it?
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@CatEyes (2448)
• United States
17 Feb 07
No, just like life though. :)
• United States
20 Jan 07
My wedding was great. There were definately some mishaps and mess-ups, but things happen. We had been planning this huge wedding for a year and a half and it was finally here. The first thing that happened was that the girl who was doing my hair made me an hour late to the church. I was supposed to be there so that we could take the pictures with me in them and then I wouldn't have had to worry about them after the wedding. The reason for this was so that my husband and I's pictures would be the only pictures after the wedding. Well, since I was so late they decided after I got my dress on that we weren't going to take the pictures. Well, by that time I had to go to the bathroom so we took the entire dress off and I ran to the bathroom and then had to get my dress back on. Keeping in mind, my dress was huge with a thirteen foot train on the back. After the wedding we went to a short reception, you know, the normal cake and punch and then went to finish the pictures. As soon as we were done with pictures we got in the limo to leave. This was in late May so it was a nice day, but getting warm. So was the limo! We kept asking if it would cool down and we kept getting the, "it should cool down anytime now." It never did. We arrived at our party and besides the fact that my dress made me sweat, so did the limo. It was insane. After that everything went smoothly and by the time the party was over, we were ready for our condo!