When planning your wedding, didja ever just snap?

[Danvers]

Man. I am loving every minute of my wedding planning, but I am so tired and stressed from the little bits! I can't concentrate on one thing. My apartment is filled with all sorts of started wedding do dads, just haven't gotten to them.

Whew! Just needed to get that off of my chest

 

[Lisa F]

Two days before my wedding, I punched a hole through the wall in my parents' living room. My dad was SOOO mad at first, then he told me I was lucky I didn't hit a stud and break my hand, by the time of the wedding he was BRAGGING to all of his friends about his daughter "Rocky." I felt much better after I did that and had a good cry though .

 

[chadfromdallas]

Two days before my wedding, I punched a hole through the wall in my parents' living room. My dad was SOOO mad at first, then he told me I was lucky I didn't hit a stud and break my hand, by the time of the wedding he was BRAGGING to all of his friends about his daughter "Rocky." I felt much better after I did that and had a good cry though .

Note to self: Never argue with Miss Rocky on the Dis.

 

[Lisa loves Pooh]

I fired my step-mother on my wedding day. Does that count?


She made my veil and bought a one size fits all head piece. I commented before that it felt too big. She said it was one size fits all--in a very condescending, you don't know what you are talking about way. So we left it at that. Comes time to put it on at the hairdresser..my hair is all up...I looked like a dolphin jumping through a hoop---the gaps between the circle headpience and my head...were VERY noticable.

The hairdresser--cut it (the veil was removable, so that wasn't a problem)...and used floral wire to make it smaller.

I was so upset while all this was being worked...as they didn't know how to fix it...that I fired my stepmother (she wasn't there to learn about her termination ). After the Macguyver style fix...I was so afraid to tell her of what had to be done with the headpiece....like I'd get in trouble or something. She did notice later and was not happy. But I mean---hello....2 inch gaps on both sides of your head...does not a good wedding pic make!

I would have killed for all this "snapping" to happen days or weeks earlier..it made for one heck of a stressful morning!

Best wishes for your wedding--ENJOY the day!!!!!!!!! I cannot recommend that enough!

 

[Danvers]

At the moment, I am SO SICK of tying bows. It seems like I'm tying 5 million bows onto the bubbles, and the bows look horrible. ARRUUUGGHH!

 

[Amy]

You betcha! 2 days before our wedding, and I had this big screaming fit at DH - I was ready to cancel the whole thing! I was so stressed out from keeping track of all the details, I'd ask his opinion of something and he could never give me a straight answer, never make a decision on his own......you get the idea.

21 years later, and we're still married. I guess it was good I didn't cancel, huh?

 

[Amy]

Forgot to say - best wishes, Danvers! One day you'll look back on these days and laugh.

 

[goodeats]

I vividly remember bawling while sitting in my (then) dear fiance's lap over not being able to get everything done. I believe that particular breakdown was regarding the wedding flowers.

It was the best and worst year of my life and I'm so glad it's behind us!

 

[Danvers]

Forgot to say - best wishes, Danvers! One day you'll look back on these days and laugh.

I've been alright up until this last week. I went to bed at 10, and do you know around midnight I woke up, wondering where in the world I put the pre-marital class certificates??? I mean, I COULD have waited until morning to look for it, but nooooo. I couldn't get back to sleep until I got up and found them (in the folder where I thought they were).

I have half or partially started projects everywhere. I'm about ready to stomp these bubbles into the ground!!

My FI is supposed to be making the table cards and the big thank you cards for our engagement photos, but he can't seem to be bothered with them at the moment. Grr!

 

[DisneyAddict_M]

Yes. I slapped my then fiancee (now exh) across the face the night before the wedding. I'm eloping next time.

 

[Danvers]

Yes. I slapped my then fiancee (now exh) across the face the night before the wedding. I'm eloping next time.

 

[agotta]

Stress was my middle name. I lost like 20 lbs in the couple months leading up to the wedding. One month before the wedding, I decided I didn't like my wedding gown and returned it. The dress I actually wore on my wedding day was my 3rd! Good luck with the rest of planning, and just remember to breathe!

 

[Ava83]

I was never to big on the planning the wedding thing. DH and I did it together so we shared it all. I only freaked once and that was about 8 weeks before and over something my mom was pulling. I advised Corey he had better cancel it all and pack a bag cause we were eloping. I he had a talk with my mom and things settled down after that. We figured let the professionals do their job and we will be fine.

The oddest thing though I had a dream that Corey forgot the wedding license...I even told him about it..and guess what he forgot the wedding license.. we had to go pick it up during the reception thank goodness we lived 2 miles from where the reception was.

Congrats on your upcoming wedding!

 

[Regina]

My DD is getting married in November. She's had a few "moments" and I expect a huge blowup before long.

My defining moment came two weeks before my wedding. Our priest called to say that my photographer was not permitted in his church. I don't think he anticipated a screaming, hysterical bride to start yelling "I WANT PICTURES, I WANT PICTURES!!!"

Needless to say, whatever my photog did that offended this priest was "forgiven".

 

[Twinkles6892]

My DD is getting married in November. She's had a few "moments" and I expect a huge blowup before long.

My defining moment came two weeks before my wedding. Our priest called to say that my photographer was not permitted in his church. I don't think he anticipated a screaming, hysterical bride to start yelling "I WANT PICTURES, I WANT PICTURES!!!"

Needless to say, whatever my photog did that offended this priest was "forgiven".

Well, what did he expect? "Ok, I just wont have any pictures. You win." I would have snapped too

When I get married, I will be so unstressed, I've had this thing planned since I was 4! I'm walking down the aisle to Canon in D. I sure hope DH doesn't have an opinions

 

[bigbabyblues]

Sure did! Our wedding was set for July 19, and by the third week of February I was about to strangle everyone. DH and I weren't getting along, and all the family (both sides) was driving me nuts! That Sunday in Feb, DH dropped me off at work, and I looked at him and said "Forget it. I'm not doing this, this wedding is ruining my life", blah, blah, blah. He asked if I didn't want to marry him, or if it was just all the wedding nonsense, and it was just the wedding stuff. We decided to get married on March 14 with what we had, the way WE wanted it, and the heck with anyone else. Our wedding was small, but it was what WE wanted, and we're happy.

 

[hugsquared]

Love finding out I wasn't the only bridezilla around. About a month before mine, I uninvited my DSis's boyfriend (all he did was grope her and stick his tongue down her throad-yuckyuckyuck) She was my maid-of-honor. When she protested, I told her I had 7, yes, count them, 7 brides maids and she could easily be replaced. I felt really bad about that later but never felt guilty that the perv didn't come. I also had a huge blow out with my now ex...offered to cram the diamond ring so far up his behind he could taste the metal-he declined by the way. I should have known that most of my stress came from not really wanting to marry him but not knowing how to get out of it. My DH and I got married at the JP, I wore a black dress (it was winter and I really couldn't find much else) and it was stress free. And we've been happily together for almost 7 years.
Good luck to you, and as someone else said...breathe.

 

[Pooh Crew]

Oh, yes! I can honestly say that hard feelings over pre-wedding issues contributed to the early demise of my first marriage. My SIL's were awful to me and my dh and mother were at each other's throats constantly. I never really forgave any of them. We were divorced within a year.

to you.

 

[Just2554]

Oh the wedding horror stories lol. Well I'm not that far yet - my boyfriend and I aren't even planning on getting engaged until next year (when we're both 20 heading for 21) and we have no intentions of getting married until we've both finished school.

It's funny though, because I already gave him the whole speech about what I am not going to tolerate. I don't like being told how things should be done and that I have to do them a certain way and since it's my wedding, I'm not going to listen to any of it. There's not going to be any religion complaints (his family is hardcore catholic but he could care less and my family could care less and I'm hardcore atheist lol) and I'm not going to listen to judgements on anything else either. I told him that if I start to get worked up and stressed out then we're going to forget planning a whole wedding, elope, and take a fantastic honeymoon somewhere.

Lots of good luck to you though. Just remember, it's your day and you should be happy. Don't let anyone tell you what to do and don't let them get to you. Enjoy yourself.

 

[heart4pooh]

My friend at work just got married the weekend before last. It was the saturday after Ophelia came through. On top of being worried about the appearance of the country club and if it had electricity, the night of the rehearsal the preacher was a no show. She didn't get up with him until 10 pm. He had just got back from Mississippi helping with the Katrina relief and said he was real tired and had to be an hour away the morning of the wedding. He said he'd TRY to be there!! Her jar dropped. She couldn't relax until she saw him pull into the parking lot.