Wedding Stress......

[DMickey28]

I am stressing out big time....

I haven't been on here in a while because I have been so busy with all this wedding planning. We leave for the cruise two weeks from tomorrow!!!

I came by for a breather and say hi...

Feel free to share you wedding stress stories!!!

 

[caitycaity]

i used to have nightmares about what would go wrong at the wedding and reception. one involved my sister eating hunks out of the wedding cake!

 

[QJ411]

Congrats on your wedding!

Don't be so stressed out (I know, easier said than done!)...we were pretty stressd out during the planning as well, but it's ALL WORTH it. We had a wonderful and memorable wedding, if we can do it all over again, I'd do it in a heartbeat.

Have fun and take a moment to breathe it all in and enjoy it!

 

[Crankyshank]

I was over 1000 miles away from where my wedding was being held. My Mother and Grandmother did quite a bit of the financing, leg work, and local stuff and they fought constantly.

The worst part was when they would call me and stress me out about the petty thing they would fight over. The most stress was when my Grandmother insisted my cousin, who I met maybe twice, would be the flower girl. she didn't talk to me or my Mother for 2 months because we both said no.

 

[QJ411]

Oh...almost forgot DH and I had our wedding in NJ while his family still lived in NYC..MIL/SIL (in my bridal party)/FIL along w/ DH's aunt and cousin were almost 1 hr. late to our wedding...so...we were a bit...delayed.

 

[mt2]

The Limo that was to pick myself and my attendents was late 30 minutes. He called me from the church wondering where I was. When he got to the house all was well. Sort of.

We were following the groom to the church. We had to drive around the block a few times until he went inside.

I also forgot my earrings on the bathroom vanity at home.

These were the funny moments. There are others that aren't so funny.

mt2

 

[Desiree]

I totally feel your pain! I'm knee deep in invitations, flowers and shower planning. Is it too late to elope?!?!

Best of luck to you. Anyone who can survive wedding planning can surely survive anything!!!

Good luck and Congrats again!

 

[mickeyboat]

Just think, it will all be over soon!

I also planned my wedding long distance. We had a ton of snafus including the price of the hall suddenly doubling from the time we signed the contract, fighting with my mom over gifts for out of town guests and my father wanting us to leave the reception in a hot air balloon. Come on - there is only a limited supply of money!

But we had a wonderful time and some great memories.

If we had to do it over again, I think we would have chosen some sort of destination wedding.

Hope you have a wonderful time! Good luck!

Denae

 

[denisem]

Traditional weddings are always stressful. My older-but-cynical side tells me it's merely training for "real life" afterwards

Trust me, it'll go fine: just don't sweat the small stuff.

If anything DOES go wrong, it'll be fodder for future message board threads! (I.E., my best man's date wore a white gauze dress without underwear during a summer afternoon wedding).

Denise < --- much preferred her 2nd wedding: 10 minute ceremony in jeans, off to an Alaskan cruise en suite.

 

[Fire14]

I got married 5 hours from my house near my parents house. I had gone up a couple days early to do some last minute stuff.
First my MOH flies in night before wedding and still needs to get dress fitted ( that was one fast 45 min drive from airport to dress shop).

Than day of wedding DH to be gets off Elevator at hotel and first words out of his mouth that I hear are MY CAR BLEW UP!!!!!!!!! Talk about Stress 4 hrs before your wedding.

 

[flaps]

congrats & best wishes

the only "wedding stress" I felt was the day my Mom decided to "nag" me .........I was so ticked that day that if having a church ceremony with friends and family present wasn't so important to us, I'd have just up and eloped and that would have been that

 

[The Duchess]

We were married in my hometown, but DH was unwilling to leave his dogs in a local kennel, so we had to drive THREE hours in a Jeep Wrangler...us, two large dogs (a lab and a shephard AND our luggage...to Vermont, leave the dogs in a kennel that was near DH's brother, then drive BACK to Logan Airport in Boston to catch our 7pm flight to WDW. Plus it was POURING RAIN.

 

[ahutton]

Not that this helps... But know that it is very possible, even likely that something will go wrong. You won't know what until it happens, but don't worry. Whatever it is, it can be fixed, one way or another. Nobody there except you and those who helped you plan have any remote idea of what you planned or what is supposed to happen. Even those who helped probably don't know all the details that were discussed for various things. We had a WDW wedding. It was not perfect, but at the same time it was. Our EM (wedding planner/coordinator) apparently didn't get the message to the transportation department that the bus schedule skipped OKW resort. That is where my Mom and Grandparents were waiting. Nobody could figure out where they were, and Mom was not happy. Our wedding was a bit late and the wonderful DVC people drove Mom and GPs over. The DJ played all the songs I had ask they not play (because they make my weepy), and played songs we wanted to dance to during dinner. No big deal, we danced to other songs (they did get the first dance songs right - that was all I really was worried about).

Anyhow, it is like not knowing what you forgot to pack until you realize it, then you decide how to handle it and move forward. Just remember to ENJOY yourself!

 

[leighe]

I was a crazy girl the day I got married! I'm normally really laid back and so I hadn't anticipated being nervous or anything. I wasn't nervous - just crazy. I was getting my hair fixed that morning and I was just sitting there crying and my mom asked me what was the matter and I kept saying, "Why is he (the stylist) pulling my hair? He's pulling it on purpose!" He totally wasn't. Then I decided that I HAD to have a cheese coney from Sonic. It was 9:30am and they didn't open until 11am - I was in tears again! What was wrong with me?!?!?! I felt like the whole world was conspiring to keep me from having anything I wanted. What a brat! I got over it pretty quickly and was fine the rest of the day. I guess I was just more stressed than I realized.

Oh - the day after the wedding I woke up at 5 in the morning crying because I "wasn't the bride anymore."

 

[kimbac3]

I'm helping my neice plan her wedding and I'm in charge of all the food and all the flowers and the decorating. I keep having nightmares of food not there or I'm still making bouquets on the way to the wedding!

It's not even my wedding!! Been there done that 13 yrs ago. We had a great day and nothing major went wrong (if it did I wasn't told about it!)

Kimba