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There are a few things I would change if I had it to do again, but I wouldn't want the stress of planning a wedding again. I'd love to relive it though!
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There are several things I would change. I want to do a vow renewal for our 10th anniversary in a few years. I'll wear a version of the dress I wanted and have it in the location I wanted at the time I wanted.
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I used a lot of etsy vendors, so I love how personalized things like the cake topper were. I would've used a different etsy seller for the invitations because she sent me smeared invites. Other than that, I loved the actual wedding day. I would totally change the honeymoon. The cruise was lame!
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i only wish i could go back and have that day all over again. despite everything that's happened since & everything that went wrong that day, seriously, so much went wrong, it was still the happiest day of my life thus far.
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For a variety of reasons, we only had immediate family at our wedding. I have often wished we could re-do it and somehow find a way to celebrate with all our friends and extended family.
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@mrs. bird:
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Nope, ours turned out pretty well. We had immediate family (about 15 people total) join us in HI. We want to go back to HI to see some more of the islands though.
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Yes and no. No because it was awesome, despite everything that went wrong on the day. But yes because seriously, we would have a house by now if we hadn't dropped so much money on ONE DAY! I loved our wedding though, it rocked.
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I wish I could just change a few things, if I knew then what I know now...
@mrs. wagon: Agree about extending the reception!
@redsmarties: Same here. I'm sad that my dress is my biggest regret.
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No. It was a great day. I loved my dress too. I didn't hear about the drama until afterwards. I'm glad that they left me out of the loop on it.
If anything, the wedding gave me a good primer on my MIL's behavior. It was more subtle before the wedding, then more evident during the planning/wedding process. It appeared again with LO's birth.
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@mrs. bird: awww
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I loved our wedding! The only thing I would re-do is our photographers' timeline. We paid them for 8 hours of coverage. She started while I was getting ready, even though I told her I really didn't want to. So now I have photos of me in Spanx, but not of me and my husband leaving our reception. Boo.
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I loved our wedding, and am really glad we didn't blow an absolute fortune on it, but I would have picked a different dress. I didn't want to spend much more than $600 on a dress, even though I could have afforded to go higher than that, and then suffered major dress regret afterwards. Everything else was perfect though and like others have said, I would never want to go through the stress of planning it again!
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Our caterer went bankrupt a few weeks before the wedding so we had to choose between canceling or adding 50% to our budget (he also vanished with the $$ for the rentals). Our families pushed us to pay up, and we had a great time, but it hurt our savings for a down payment. I'm still torn about what the right answer was a year later.
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Nope. We got married at city hall and that's exactly what we both wanted!
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I would just to relive it! I loved our wedding day- I wouldn't change a thing!
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I wish I would have enjoyed the ceremony more instead of feeling awkward that so many people were watching a private moment.
I also wish I had taken weight loss more seriously before the wedding so I was more confident in my appearance.
I would have loved to elope, and id still like to do that someday.
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No way! It was just the two of us and it was perfect. I would love to re-live it though!
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If I could change anything about it I'd have scaled a lot of things way back! But I don't really miss the whole wedding planning phase of life, this one is so much more interesting!
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Yes. I hated my wedding dress. My mom's friend made it and in the end she didn't make it exactly as I asked. Unfortunately she waited until the last minute to finish it so even though I didn't really like it, I couldn't change my mind. It was fine the day of but now when I look at pictures I only think about how I hate the way the dress looks.
Part of me wishes we had just done a destination wedding on a beach some where. I really enjoyed the party we had, but I think I would have enjoyed the vacation even more looking back at it. And we probably would have spent less money and energy on it in the end.
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@Mrs. Pen: Awww
hope you get the wedding renewal vows of your dreams! You'll be a seasoned nurse by then and more income to work with. We were very lucky! Our restaurant we chose for the reception were in the red financially and we had no idea. We booked this venue a year earlier. Our wedding celebration was the last one that took place there (400 guests). They filed bankruptcy and the business closed a week later. We were so lucky to have dodged that bullet.
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Nope, I loved it!!
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I would redo my dress, photographer (FOR SURE) and location. I still wish I had a beach wedding, it was feasible at the time, but man I wanted it. I told DH I wanted a vow renewal so I could finally get my beach wedding. Even if it was just us and the kids.
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@Kimberlybee: yeah we haven't decided what year to do it... . I will graduate in three years, so that puts us at 7 years married already! Maybe it would work out for 10.
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Nope, our wedding was pretty close to perfect. The only thing I would do differently is hire a different DJ, but even that wasn't really a problem.
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@debbiei8: my dad tried to convince us to elope - get married on a cruise or quiet island... and I kinda wish we had taken his advice and then done a small family reception at home. Would have been cheaper and instead of spending thousands on the wedding day, we could have had a honeymoon. We didn't get a honeymoon because we couldn't afford both.
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@Bookish: that's how I feel. Planning and the mood around it was not fun.
If anything I would have waited longer to just be in our relationship and come to terms that my dream wedding was not going to be reality. Then plan a wedding that even though wasn't what I wanted that I cared more about.
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i really loved our wedding ... but knowing what I know now ... I would definitely want to try to scale down if I could do it all over again. We both feel like we could have still had an amazing wedding but spend a lot less money. But all in all, I loved my wedding.
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I'm OCD so there are things I'd definitely change to make it more "perfect" looking back. And also w/ hindsight, I would've changed our officiant.
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I thought of one thing I would maybe change. I would maybe change our invitation suite. We bought it at Target, printed it ourselves, etc. I would have liked to have spent a little more on it. They still turned out fantastic and look great almost 5 years later.
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Yes - I would redo it in a second. It wasn't my wedding, it was my mother's. We had enough money saved for the wedding that we wanted, but my mom wanted this big elaborate wedding with over 400 guests. It just made things incredibly stressful and I didn't enjoy our day very much. There also wasn't really much that I wanted at the wedding except for the fact that I wore my mom's dress. I've wanted to do that ever since I saw it, and it was everything I wanted it to be. My mom wanted me to get my own...it was the one thing I put my foot down on.
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Nope! Guests clearly had an awesome time since the cops came and shut it down. I absolutely LOVED LOVED LOVED my wedding bouquet. I scoffed at the thought of paying the big bucks to preserve it, but when the florist brought me bouquet. OMG. I was in love. Too bad someone jacked it during the reception.
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I wish we didn't do it. We spent a lot of money and it was really nice and everyone had a great time but I wished we used that money for a house/apartment
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Just my bouquet!
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In the end, no, I LOVED my wedding.
It was before Pinterest though, so for a while I was a little sad that I didn't get to 'Pinterest' my wedding, but now I'm glad I didn't have it around! It was totally US without any extra fluff.
But, if I did have to go back and do it all over again with my same knowledge, I would totally do a destination wedding with just our family and bestest friends. That sounds like it would have been perfect for us
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Just my dress! Strapless isn't for everyone....
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Just my cake! I ended up going the cheap route with a Chinatown bakery cake and it was nothing like what I wanted.
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I loved everything about my wedding and the planning up to it. I just wish I could relive the magic again
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I would do it much smaller, and we didn't even have a large wedding!
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No way! There were definitely things that didn't go well, but I wouldn't want to go through it all again. I didn't have the "this is magical" feeling. In fact, if my husband tried to sneak me away after the champagne toast, I would have been game! I really wanted to be with just him.
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