I want wedding stories!!!!

[SunFloridaDisney]

Our wedding was April 26, 1980. We've made it 25 years!!

Big Catholic wedding, fun reception, no major mess ups, but I do have one story we always like to tell.

We were spending the night at a big hotel in town, then taking a limo service to the airport for a early morning flight. When we arrived at the hotel, pretty late after staying at the reception so long, I was REALLY tired. The place was pretty desserted when we registered at the front desk, but as soon as we walked over to the elevators, a convention must have just let out, because the place was swamped! I said something like oh no, my feet hurt.
Well, DH said he'd take care of it. He walked to the front of this huge group of people who were waiting for the elevators, in a loud voice, "Excuse me folks, but my wife and I just got married, and we're in a big hurry to get to our room!"

Suddenly, the crowd is cheering, and I'm literally being pushed to the front of the line, they shoved us on the next available elevator, everyone cheering and clapping and hooting for us!
Great memory.

We didn't have much money, so we spent our honeymoon in Florida at my grandparents house (they were gone - they had come to KY for the wedding, and stayed for a few weeks so their house was empty for us). We did spend one night at WDW, and this year to celebrate our 25th, we spent most of a week at the World again, with no kids.

 

[Monte Cristo]

Ok...here goes from the male point of view....

DW and I were married May 11, 2001. We were doing all of the planning ourselves trying to save money and all so it was a lot of work. The ceremony was in Narragansett RI at a gazebo next to the beach. It ended up being the first really beautiful day of the season, and all the people who were out walking along the sea wall stopped and watched us. We used our parent's friend's Cadi as our limo, parent's friend was the videographer...parent's friend was the DJ, parent's friend is a florist.....lot's of friends. The photographer was the daughter of a colleague of my father's. She worked for a professional wedding photog company and wanted to go out on her own.

The reception was just down the road, right on the beach at a town owned hall that had just been totally done over. It cost a whopping $250 for the night. Great deal and a GREAT setting.

DW made all the favors by hand which were little topiaries (sp?) with a little sea shell at the base. The largest hunk of money was spent on the dinner which was surf and turf. Very good food. Instead of a wedding cake, we had cup cakes that were made by a woman who had just graduated from culinary school. I made a cup cake stand that we put all of them on and our guests (+-100) each got to pick their own. We had a 10" cake that we did the ceremonial cut on. It was a really great idea and turned out great.

My wife is from the Dominican Republic and I am from the US, and it was awesome watching all of my relatives dancing to the dominican music with her relatives. Hilarious actually. For some reason, they like the music REALLY loud.

We danced to When You Say Nothing At All (Ronan Keating--Notting Hill Soundtrack).

We honeymooned at an all inclusive resort in Punta Cana, Dominican Republic. All in all it was a great day.

Bad Points: We forgot the wedding rings at the house so the ceremony was delayed 30 minutes while my father went and got them. The favors came with a seating card that told everyone where they were to sit. We forgot those in the trunk of the Cadi so during the cocktail hour, no one knew where they were sitting until we finally arrived. No big deal.

Great Points: Everything else. What I love is that everything we did for the wedding has a story to it. So we love to sit around and laugh about this and that. A good example....it was going to cost me $800 to rent dishes and glasses which I thought was ridiculous. So instead, I went to the local kitchen etc. and bought it all for under $700. DW even got to pick out a pattern that she liked. The only downside to this is that I now have service for 100+ sitting in my basement! If we drop a plate.....who cares I have 100 more downstairs!

We both love Disney and we have been there 8 times since we met in 1997 with 5 of them being DVC at Boardwalk. Best thing we could have done is buy DVC.

We now have a Dchild on the way in March...another profit center for Disney!

Thanks for bringing back the wedding memories with your post. DW will love reading this.

MC

 

[agotta]

DH & I met at WDW while working in the WDW College Program. So we really wanted to get married there, but decided it was a bit too expensive to pull off.

We got married on July 5th, 2003 at the Como Park Flower Conservatory in St. Paul, MN. We were surrounded in flowers with our closest family and friends. Only about 90 guests.

The big drama: My DH 2 groomsmen cancelled 2 weeks before the wedding! So we had our dad's step in. It ended up being very lovely. My sister was my Maid of Honor, and My best friend Lisa (aka Scoutsmom99) was my other bridesmaid.

My sister and friend sang - "Life is a Road" from Anastasia

Instead of rice, we had bubbles!

The reception was in a very elegant hall called The Minnesota Club.
Instead of cake - which I dislike, we had Tirramisu!
Every guest was given a bell to ring if they wanted us to kiss.
Every table was given a disposable camera - These are some of our best pictures!
All the centerpieces were flowers from Sams Club! What a Deal!
We had a Mickey & Minnie Cake Toper on the gift table.
We took pictures in our Mickey & Minnie Bride & Groom hats from WDW.
Our first dance was "Just the Way You Look Tonight"
And our last dance was "When You Wish Apon a Star"

We went to London & Paris for the Honeymoon!

We went to WDW for our 1 Year Anniversary!

Dh and I met on the CP too!! What year were you?

 

[Angelrose]

My wedding was.....strange. My family found out that my to be husband had been divorced. (A BIG no-no in Italian Catholic families) So everyone tried to talk me out of it. It didn't work. We decided to get married by a justice of the peace. My mom arrived at the office wearing navy blue. (Maybe she thought she was going to a funeral instead??) I had my girlfriend for maid of honor and DH best friend was his best man. As soon as we said our "I do's" I turned around to see my mom and dad already down the hall leaving. I had to look twice because I'd never seen them go that fast. LOL Oh well, the four of us had a nice brunch at a local pub. Then DH and I went to a movie, walked on the boardwalk in Atlantic City for a few hours and then went a speed boat ride. After that we just went back to his home. We had our honeymoon a month later because of work.

After 40 years, we are still crazy in love. Or maybe just plain crazy.

 

[kpm76]

DH and I were married September 25, 2004. We had a traditional Catholic ceremony at the chapel at Providence College (my alma mater) and our reception was at a country club not too far away. We had an absoutely beautiful day Our wedding party was large and all but 2 groomsmen (DH's fraternity brothers) were family members. We had the two cutest ring bearers ever, my godson who was 4 at the time and my nephew who was almost 3 and only made it 1/4 of the way down the aisle because in his words he didn't want to go any further because "there were alot of people and nobody knew his name." We still laugh about that. We had about 215 guests, mostly family and very close friends. DH and I took dance lessons and our first dance was "Fly Me to the Moon." It was awesome! DH and I have a very dear friend who is also a musician and sang our father/daughter and mother/son dance songs. It was truly special. I danced to "The Way You Look Tonight" with my dad and DH danced to "Danny Boy" with his mom. Not a dry eye in the room. I remember our wedding day vividly, maybe because it was only a year ago, but more likely because it was such a fun, stress free day for us. We had a blast and really enjoyed the moment. I am a planner and a perfectionist and there is not one thing I would change about our wedding day...it was perfect and the best part is I got a wonderful husband to keep forever We honeymooned in WDW and that too was super special....

 

[DisneyJen0504]

DH and I were married May 1, 2004. The happiest day ever!! We had a fairytale wedding! We got married in my hometown church. We had a beautiful traditional ceremony with our family and friends beside us. We had a bridal party of 10-only our siblings and closest friends. They were awesome-the perfect bridesmaids and groomsmen!! Our families ghet along great and had a blast!
We had our reception in a large reception site that is designed to look similiar to a castle. It was very elegant! We had about 250 guests!

Some details----
Wore a traditional princess gown, tiara and veil-cinderella wannabe!
Our colors were periwinkle and silver
Had fairytale castle invitations and programs
Tulle with white lights strung from the ceiling-so amazing!
Bubbles were blown when we departed the church doors
Beautiful weather-sunshine and in the 70s!
Weshowed a slideshow video on large screen before our entrance to the Reception of baby pics as well as dating pics-the whole room was in tears
Traveled in limos-one large one for bridal party, smaller one for parents
Had a really great DJ-danced the night away!!! Our reception went til 1am because everyone was having so much fun!
Our song was At Last-Celine Dion
My sister (moh) and BIL (bm) gave the best toasts-everyone cried!
Had a huge cocktail hour and a ridiculous amount of food during reception-open bar all night.
Cake was awesome-so yummy-we didnt smash eachother though-just not our thing!
MOH caught the bouquet and BM caught the garter-hmmmmmmm...
Everyone stayed at the nearby hotel we provided shuttles to and the next morning we all had a big breakfast with our closest family and friends
Honeymooned for 8 days in Punta Cana, DR at Secrets Resort (amazing) followed by 6 more days in WDW!!!!! It was the best trip ever!!

No horror stories or anything bad! We had a perfect day from start to finish!! Would do it all over again if we could!!

 

[Stitchfans]

DH and I were married a week before Christmas. (Dec 18th) I had planned it thinking the church would be decorated for Christmas. Well they decided to decorate right after the ceremony.

Any way, our flower girl decided to torch the alter with her mother's wedding card by holding it over a candle while everyone was pre occupied taking pictures. Happy to say the only thing ruined was a corner of the card she was caught in time before any serious damage was done. DHs nephew the ring bearer at the last minute got stage fright, so our friend's daughter, the alter torcher literally dragged the poor boy down the aile. (sp)

We have none of this on tape since DHs BIL who promised to tape the wedding just set it up a tri pod with the camera so we ended up with our profile throughout the entire ceremony. It was lovely the last 10 minutes of an empty alter, but at least there was organ music being played.

Happy to say we did get some lovely pictures, and some fond memories.

 

[denisem]

Probably the most memorable thing from my 1st wedding in '81 was Chrissy, the best man's date. Chrissy was a "flower child" from the late 60's and the female version of Rev. Jim from Taxi...

We had a late afternoon summer garden wedding. The attached reception hall offered large picture windows overlooking a small lake with a beautiful sunset lighting the room. Chrissy was fascinated by the view.

Unfortunately, she was wearing a white gauze dress with no underwear.

No one else noticed the sunset.

 

[parrothead365]

Ok here goes...

Preacher was late...he was coming from a funneral. Photographer was wearing a Hawaiian shirt and cords...with his size 44 fruit of the looms hanging out( I know the size because they were insideout). We got somebody else's cake...piano player turned out to be a lounge lizzard...the beautiful room we rented for the reception had recently been repainted a weird green color..the honeymoon cruise turned out to be a Conway Twitty Fan Club cruise and I saw things that cannot be posted on these boards. But ya know my DW and I will be married 19 years in less than a month so I guess everything turned out perfect

 

[poohbear1029]

Which wedding would you like to hear about??

My first wedding was my "fairytale wedding." Big dress, big cake, the works. It was absolutely beautiful. We were married in August in a small chapel without air conditioning. I had long lace sleeves and sweated through my make up. We had a Sunday afternoon buffet and a disc jockey. 4 1/2 years later, kaput.

My second wedding. I knew my husband for 3 days when we decided to elope. We drove from Albuquerque New Mexico to Las Vegas Nevada on a Friday night. I borrowed a dress from a friend. He bought me roses from a roadside vendor on our way to the chapel. We were married by a woman who was all of 3 feet tall. We then drove all the way to Los Angeles because he wanted to kiss me in the surf of the Pacific ocean. We were back in Albuquerque Monday morning just in time for me to get to work. It was the most romantic, craziest thing I've ever done. He was killed by a drunk driver a short time later.

My 3rd wedding was wonderful!! We were married in a Mexican restaurant decked out for the Day of the Dead festivities. I wore a peach and cream dress with lace boots. 15 of our closest family and friends attended. We danced to taped music. My dh ended up wearing my headpiece (My favorite picture from that day) The buttercream flowers slid off the cake slowly as we ate lunch. My mom and dad surprised us with a limo that day. 5 years later we had a handfasting ceremony on a beautiful October afternoon. Everyone dressed in midevial garb and we ate food that my dh prepared and drank homemade wine. We celebrated our 11th wedding anniversary this past October 29th.

We have the same anniversary date, and it has been 11 years for us too!

 

[smilie]

DH and I were married April 12, 2003 in SC. It was beautiful weather, flowers were blooming and love was in the air (no really, I'm not kidding). It was a perfect day. We were married at our local church. Only one comical thing happened during the ceremony-think "rings" and Princess Bride Our reception was at his parents house. They had a beautiful yard with enormous amounts of blooming flowers/bushes. Great for pictures. We had LOTS of food-just the way I like it. Everything went great until we left for our honeymoon and my DH drove into a guard rail.

 

[LynnTH]

Ok - Lets see. We were married on March 18, 2005. So 10+ years for us so far. We had a few mishaps take place. We had 300 people in attendance.

1st of all my Maid of Honor (who was my cousin and also my hair dresser) Ends up in the hospital a few days before the wedding. She was released the day before so one of her co-workers ended up doing my hair. She was still pretty weak (and on lots of medication) so we had a chair up front by the alter just in case she needed it. Well, she made it through the ceremony but the Bestman (BIL) did not. He walked into the back section (where the pastors go) during the ceremony just before he fainted.

My Flower Girl refused to walk down the aisle (she was not feeling well either).

We have a long aisle in our church and when it was my time to walk down the aisle I sort of jumped the gun and started to proceed down the aisle before my song was playing. Well, the congregation did not know what to do so they stood, sat, stood - my husband said it kind of looked like everone was doing the wave. I didn't notice as I was just concentrating on getting to the alter as fast as I could.

Then at the the ceremony my husband tries to drag one of his friends out for the garter toss and slips and falls. So, when we get back to the hotel hubby decides to go to the hospital ( I had already taken down my hair by that time with a zillion bobby pins and I looked like the bride of frankenstein) Well, he had sprained his wrist. Good thing we weren't leaving for our honeymoon til the following week.

I think that's about all. But we took it all with a grain of salt expecting things were going to happen and whatever did - oh well.

 

[Shugardrawers]

Oh, here's a recap of my first wedding.

Parents said it was time to get married and picked the groom by pressuring my ex Dh (whom I'd been dating only a few months) into proposing. Mother sent me to a bridal shops bankruptcy sale where the pickings were EXTREMELY slim for a large size woman like I was at the time. As in NO pickins. I had to find the biggest dress and take it to be made bigger. I hated it. Mom chose the type of wedding, place, food, invitations, guest list, flowers...you get the picture. She even bought the nightie I was to wear on the wedding night and booked and paid for a suite at a hotel. I got to pick out my shoes and hat I wore.

When we went to get the marriage license, Dh was in a foul mood. I tried to give him a way out, praying he'd take it. He just said that he'd promised to marry me and he would. Promised whom? My parents?? I was too intimidated and under my mother's thumb to back out on my own. I'd have given my right arm to be dumped

When I came down the aisle, no one NO ONE stood. Except my mother. The minister screwed up the timing and we didn't get the wedding song in and when asked if took this woman Dh hesitated for about 10 seconds (but let me tell you it seemed like 10 minutes). He later said it was a joke. Funny, no one was laughing. My ring was lost in the grass and it took forever to find it. During the cake cutting, a breeze blew the ceramic bride and groom off the cake and they shattered in a million pieces to an audible gasp from the guests. Dh insisted on a keg although out of respect for my grandparents beliefs I asked him to wait until they had left to tap it. They planned to leave about 30 into the reception. I was furious and mortified to start down the aisle and realize that 3/4 of the guests had sat down with a glass of beer. Including those sitting next to my grandmother. This was an outdoor wedding with reception right there by the way. Do you sense an alcohol problem here? Sure wish I had.

Afterwards we headed to the hotel. I had just changed out of my gown and into my nightie when there was a knock at the door. It was Dh's friends with a couple of kegs of beer. He let them in while I fumed, feeling helpless. I was 24 at the time and not one to speak up then. I went to bed a little while later and cried myself to sleep while they all partied on in the next room. I awoke the next morning to find my new husband asleep on the pull out sofa in the living room of our suite with another woman. There was were 4 people I barely knew in the bed with me and on the floor lay Dh's best friend wearing my wedding gown. He was twice my size and had ripped it to shreds and thrown up on it. I couldn't wake Dh and didn't know where the truck keys were to fetch my change of clothes. I finally called a cab and went home. Dh showed up late that night. That's right folks, he went partying with his friends and without inviting, or even telling his new bride. Two years later the marriage was well past dead. Suprised?

 

[vetrik]

I got married May 22, 2004.

The weather was horrible - although I had no control over it, it's the one thing I wish I could change. Other than that, it was a dream day. We got married at Old Sturbridge Village in Massachusetts (I spent a lot of my childhood summers there - it has special meaning for me). It's an historic 1830s village. We got married in the meeting house, and had the reception in the Tavern there. We had a horse-drawn carryall the bring all the guests up to the ceremony and then around to the reception, and a horse drawn buggy to bring me to the ceremony, and take me and DH for a ride to the reception after. We had about 75 guests, very close friends and family. The Tavern was lit by candlelit centerpieces, and there were roaring fires in the reception room and the room where the cocktail hour was held (since it was so cold in late May!). It was the best night of my life so far.

There was a lot of drama before the wedding though. Probably the worst was DH's 21 year old cousin unexpectedly passing away 1 month to the day before the wedding. It was very rough for his family. The other bad thing was our photographer getting arrested 3 months before the wedding for holding up a woman at knifepoint at an ATM, and robbing a pizza shop in a ski mask with a machete. Apparently, he did it to support his major cocaine and alcohol addictions. Eventually, he sawed off his electronic ankle bracelet and fled the state while out on bail. He was found, pled guilty, and is now serving his time in jail. That was too much drama for me!

 

[kelleigh1]

I've basically got two stories...because the wedding was in June and the reception was in July.

We were married June 5, 2004 (06.05.04 - yes, we did that on purpose) at Sandals Ocho Rios in Jamaica. We had wanted it to be just the two of us, but his mother wanted to see her only child get married, so we gave in and agreed that they could join us. We flew down on Memorial Day, and they flew in on Friday so we had 5 days to ourselves. The wedding was on Saturday.

The resort provided the officiant. I wrote the ceremony and brought a cd with my chosen music. They also provided a small reception after with hors d'oeuvres and cake. We paid for the photographer and videographer. They also had a special wedding night dinner for us.

First, a little recap of the day. Being Jamaica in June...it was HOT! The morning of the wedding, we'd scheduled a couples massage - very nice! Then I had a makeup appointment for shortly before the ceremony. They asked me 3 times if I was sure I didn't want my hair done too. I said "No, I'm doing it myself." I don't think they believed me.

Anyway, after our massages, we went back to the room and discovered that there was a helicopter hovering over the resort, just off our balcony. They'd been filming the resort all week. I just looked at my husband and said "they'd better not be hovering over us during the ceremony." Thankfully, they did soon disappear.

When it was time to get ready for the ceremony, hubby was to go to his parents room and his mother was coming to our room to help me get into my dress. We thought that his father would then go down to the beach with him to wait for everything to start. Nope. His father decided he just wanted to lie on the bed and told his mother and I to call him when we left our room and were on the way. So my husband had to stand down on the beach with just the officiant.

While MIL and I were getting ready, we hear this noise outside the room. Thinking it's the wedding planner, I open the door. Nope. It's the maintenance guys fixing our air conditioner. The unit was right above the door to our room, so there was no getting out of the room while they were there. Thankfully, they finished quickly and were gone. And so was the drip!!

The wedding planner arrives and we head down to the beach. The ceremony went smoothly and then we signed the marriage certificate and posed for some photos. Then it was time to head up to the reception area. But where is FIL? Oh, he had to run into the bar to grab a drink. UGH!!

The reception was nice. We had our first dance and then cut the cake. Then we all sat down to have a little snack. The videographer asked FIL to make a toast, which was fine. Then he asks MIL. She stands up and says "I'm not very good at this. I never know what to say. I want to be a grandmother so don't make me wait too long." :shock:

If I wasn't sitting down, I might have fallen over. We'd been married all of 20 minutes and she's already talking kids. We finish the little reception and it's off for more photos. IL's went back to the room.

Then it's time for dinner. We meet up and go to the restaurant. Now we'd already told them that we didn't want the pre-selected wedding menu. Since it was the Italian restaurant, we really wanted Italian - not prime-rib and baked Alaska. But they apparently forgot to tell the restaurant. Thankfully our waiter said it was no problem. We do have copies of the pre-selected menu with our names and wedding date on them. And would you believe, they misspelled hubbies name? His name is Michael. FIL hasn't even sat down and he's whipping off his tie saying "I didn't know I didn't have to wear this. Why didn't someone tell me that I didn't need the tie?" We didn't point out that we had told him dress pants and shirt only. No jacket or tie required, but whatever. He was mad because this was the only restaurant that didn't allow shorts and beachwear at the resort.

So we peruse the menu. Meanwhile, they poured us champagne. Hubby and I start discussing what we'd like and MIL says "are you guys really hungry?". And so we said that yes, we actually were pretty hungry but we weren't going over the top, just talking about an appetizer to share, salad and main course. The pre-selected menu had appetizer, soup, salad, entree and dessert. We figured it was paid for so we were going to get our moneys worth. So she starts in on how she just wasn't hungry. The waiter comes over and we give him our order. He goes to MIL and she tells him how she's just not really hungry and it must be all the sun she got that day. I think she mentioned 3 times that she wasn't hungry. Finally the waiter said "so do you not want anything?" She ordered a salad - which remained untouched in front of her for the entire meal. Then the waiter gets to FIL. He decides he wants the pick-a-pasta, but with garlic and butter...no sauce. The waiter says "no problem" and yet MIL is still leaning over him saying "you choose from these". It took 10 minutes to order angel hair with garlic and butter. (Yep...stupid me for telling the Wedding Planner that it would be 4 for dinner. Should have said just us.)

We got through dinner and got dessert to bring back to our room. I'd had enough. We couldn't get out of our wedding attire fast enough. The resort had given us t-shirts that said Just and Married on the back, so we changed into those as soon as we returned to the room. Then we headed off to the stage area for that nights' event. We were just glad to be away from the IL's. I'd do it all over again - yet leave the IL's at home.

The reception...what a fiasco. The cliff notes version. This was the IL's idea. They said they wanted to do this for us, yet they fought us on everything we said that we wanted from the centerpieces to the menu. Hubby was at the point where he was going to tell his parents to have fun at their party. We wouldn't be there. But they finally gave us some leeway on the menu and despite their insistance that nobody would eat the baked scrod...it was the first thing to go. (We had a buffet with 7 different entree choices. Being from New England, I wanted at least 1 fish dish.) When we arrived, MIL was already on her 3rd drink and she only last about another hour before she disappeared to the ladies room and passed out. And meanwhile, her best friend proceeded to bad mouth my parents and my family to my high school friends. And she was totally sober.

 

[SetzKitten]

I got married two weeks ago at Disneyworld. We were supposed to be married on Monday, but Hurricane Wilma doused that. We got married on Tuesday instead. Only two of our guests showed up. It was still the best day of my life.

 

[Ava83]

Corey and I got married 10/30/99 (6 years ago) we had a church service then took a trolley to the reception at a country club.

to be honest I felt married before we got actually married. I hated planning (thank goodness Corey was involved)

Anyway our service was lovely, all you see is us laughing during the service. (we just cried going up the aisle)

Took our big blue trolley and realized hey no wedding certificate to sign, so Corey ran back to the apt (about 1 mile from the reception) and got back real quick. Had a real nice buffet, the doors open cause the weather was PERFECT.

No Cake smashing, we danced to "keeper of the stars"

 

[clarabelle]

My DH's groomsman and sister decided my wedding was the perfect time to play lots of jokes.
I won't go into all of them -but the car was sooo over the top decorated it was never quite the same. The minister said it was the worse he had ever seen.
I had worked so hard on planning the wedding that I was heartbroken. They all thought I was a bad sport because I didn't want condoms on my cake table.

But It is a great marriage and I would do it over again. (I think I would elope)I have to remind myself its the marriage not the wedding.
My SIL and I are still not very close

Sugardrawers -your story was so sad. I am glad you got rid of him.

 

[ead79]

My husband and I were married on December 13, 2003 at Walt Disney World.

Our ceremony was at the Wedding Pavilion, then we moved over to the Italy Isola at Epcot for our Illuminations pre-reception, followed by our reception at the American Adventure Rotunda. We had 78 guests, most from here in Georgia and some from Florida as well as a few other states.

Since it was in December, we had a Christmas theme. I carried deep red “Black Magic” roses with hypericum berries and holly leaves. My bridesmaids wore deep red dresses and carried white roses with hypericum berries and holly leaves. Our wedding cake had a Christmas theme and was all white with a white chocolate castle cake topper.

Our first dance was to “Unchained Melody” by the Righteous Brothers and our last dance was to “Promise” from Illuminations.

We had a wonderful time, though it was stressful at the same time. We hope to have a WDW vow renewal one day so we can get the experience minus the stress and with a smaller guest list so it’s more intimate. I’m hoping for one for our 10th anniversary.

Our only real drama was after the wedding. When we arrived at the Grand Floridian at about 1:45 am, I realized that I didn’t have my purse that had our room keys in it with me. So we go to the front desk and they cut us new keys. Thankfully they didn’t ask for ID, which was good because I didn’t have that either. Well, our room was in this secluded area of the 2nd floor. To get there you have to take an elevator to the third floor, then walk down a hallway to another elevator that you take to the 2nd floor, then walk down a hallway to our room. Needless to say this process wasn’t quick, LOL. Let’s just say the keys didn’t work, and it took us 3 trips back to the front desk to get into the room. Finally they sent us with a bellman who let us in with his master key. While driving us to the back entrance on the golf cart he told us that this is how they escort their intoxicated guests. Thanks buddy—we’re not drunk, just locked out!

 

[goofyforlife]

The bad----

4 weeks before the wedding...My seamstress who was supposed to alter my dress says that what I wanted to do can't be done..... Davids Bridal saved the day on that one though..... (dress and alterations within two weeks)

It poured the night of our rehersal dinner which was supposed to be a picnic....luckily we got into a back room at a restaurant and my DH's parents paid for it....

Almost lost my DD day of the wedding.... I took her to dance class and she wandered out the door before I picked her up.....Luckily someone saw her down the street and took her back. She was 3.

My hairdresser/make up person didn't show up.... (I was getting ready by myself and none of my family would come to help) finally someone showed up and I took off in search of a stylist.... Went into the local salon in tears....They fixed me up and had me ready in about a half hour.....

It rained that day..... but my photographer found ways to get some outdoor pics by using an umbrella that didn't show in the photos

My pastor had an emergency to get to so there wasn't time to do parent introduction to get us in the hall.....

the good-----

we got married still together after 9 years.....