Inspired by LoriKay: If you could do your wedding over again....

[caitycaity]

i wouldn't change a single thing!

 

[CamColt]

I would wear my hair up, instead of going with the big hair.

I would enjoy it more and not worry about the little things that went wrong. Everyone tells me how my wedding was the best wedding they have ever been to. It was so fun! While I did enjoy it, I think I stressed over minor details too much

Most of all, I would do it in Disney World! We had thought about it but I wanted all my friends there and knew they couldnt afford a trip. Looking back I should have had a small family wedding in WDW then a party when we got home.

 

[BrerMom]

Originally posted by Barb
First and foremost, I would never have my FIL be the photographer! What a huge mistake that was. We were short on funds and thought we could save money by asking him to take pictures. Ugh! I have the worst wedding album on the face of the earth.

At least you have pictures. Our photographer under-estimated how much film he'd need. He took pictures of the wedding and of DH's family after the wedding and ran out of film. I don't have any pictures of my side of the family.

I'm not sure I'd change anything else, though. It was fun!

 

[Dana49]

It's been 21 years and I wouldn't change a thing. I would marry the same lovely woman all over again.

 

[mtemm]

I would have lost weight and had a better bouquet.

 

[Pumbaa_]

If I was getting married today for the first time I would do it all different. I would get married at Disney in a small ceremony with close friends and immediate family only. I would relax and not worry about the small things.

Since that is not going to happen then I probably would not change much. Although, it would be nice if my maid of honor didn;t diappear into the parking lot with my DH friend and do the deed. That would have been nicer

I married at 18 to my best friend. He is still the love of my life all these years later. It will be our 20th anniversary this summer and I would not change that for the world.

 

[CJK]

Interesting thread! I loved our wedding! I'd only change a couple things. The first is the bridesmaid "saga"! I went through a lot of stress choosing our wedding party (my priorities were a bit wacky I guess!) and looking back 5yrs later, I'm not happy with my choices. Secondly........a couple of the speeches at the weddings were.......ahem........less than thrilling! I would've liked to have had a hook at my wedding to get people away from the microphone! Otherwise, it was the happiest day of our lives to date!

 

[MerryPoppins]

My in-laws maybe?

Seriously, I would change the arguement that DH and I had after the reception. I wanted to open our gifts at my parents house and the men were pushing him to take me and run. When we finally left (after I opened the gifts) we had a huge arguement in the car. I think it was mainly the stress of the wedding. Maybe a good cry is a good way to start a marriage. We did kiss and make up, and we've been married almost 19 years.

Oh, and we lost our plane tickets the next morning and almost missed our flight. We were young and very disorganized. But we found them in the pocket of a suitcase and everything turned out okay.

 

[Kteacher]

I wouldn't have let my future MIL and mother take over so easily- my mother picked out and bought my dress without me even seeing it- she had my younger sister try it on, then called me up and said " we got your dress!" My MIl made a stink about the guest list-it was invite everyone she was friendly or related to or invite no one. We couldn't afford to invite all her friends and relatives, so a lot of my parents friends and relatives couldn't be invited. In June we'll have been married 19 years, so I guess things turned out okay in the end

 

[Buz]

Originally posted by wvjules
Besides a different groom or not having the wedding at all?

Just checking to make sure DW, Mattsmom didn't post something similar. LOL

Buz

 

[Sheree Bobbins]

I wouldn't change a blessed thing. Truly!

 

[Chattyaholic]

Oh wow, where do I begin? First of all I would have changed the "night before." Maybe all of you will think I'm wrong on this, but my aunt and uncle came up from Texas for the wedding and brought a second cousin along. We lived in a small house, so didn't have a lot of extra sleeping space. My mom gave the second cousin my bed so I had to sleep on the floor. It just bothered me not to be able to sleep in my own bed on my last night at home...

Another thing I would have changed was the morning sickness. Yup, we were expecting our first child when we got married, but we didn't know that until two weeks before the wedding so we never felt like we "had" to get married or anything like that, but the morning sickness did put a damper on it and I asked my mom what I should do if I felt it coming on during the ceremony...she had no sympathy for me and just told me to pluck the flowers out of one of the urns and throw up in that!

I would have tried to find a replacement soloist. The girl we hired called the week before the wedding and said she didn't have a way to get home from college (4-5 hour drive) so would have to back out.

I wish the attitudes of my DH's family would have been different for the wedding. His side of the church was virtually empty because most of his relatives had been told not to come. His family was Mennonite and they didn't approve of me, since I was not Mennonite. In fact, the three ministers of the church tried to get DH to break up with me before we got married. His parents and sisters, thankfully, were not like that though. They gave us their full support, and he did have one aunt and uncle who came to the ceremony. One set of grandparents came to the reception, but wouldn't come to the ceremony....so sad....

And we would have had a nicer reception, in a nicer place....
But the important thing was that I had my groom, and we've been happily married going on 28 years!!! The marriage was more important than the wedding.

 

[bridgettesmom]

I would pick a different photographer...I hate my wedding pictures!!!....Everything else was perfect

 

[Mermaid02]

I loved my wedding, I really did.... for music at the ceremony we had a string trio- I came downt he aisle to Canon in D by Pachbel (it was so beautiful) and we left the church to Jesu by Bach.....

That being said, if I had to do it all over again, I would take the $$ and we would take our then 6 year old dd (yep we put the cart before the horse) and go to Disney World and get married. People could have come or not.....

 

[montessori]

I allowed my stepfather and his family to take over the whole wedding. It was a very nice outside wedding at his house. (My Mom divorced him shortly after our wedding.) Stepfather would not allow my Dad there.
We planned to renew our vows in our own backyard for our 25th anniversary, coming up in June.
All I wanted was for my Dad to be there with me, but he passed away last year.
I can't stand to think about walking down the aisle with my stepfather and I never look at our wedding pictures.

What a depressing post.

My extraordinary Dad: