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I regret hiring the day-of wedding coordinator that we hired. She sucked! We ended up having to tell her what to do and she still screwed up. I wish we had paid a bit more money and hired a better coordinator. She really missed details like having a plate and fork available when we cut the cake and also putting our seating cards in REVERSE alpha order. After 5+ years I'm still annoyed with her.

I regret being a fat hippo whale on my wedding day. I regret inviting dhs brother because I knew hewouldn't come anyway and now I'm still not over it.

But other than that it was perfect! I absolutely do not regret my vintage theme, pink dress and fancy men's shoes!

@Trailmix: I woke up in the middle of the night that night to use the bathroom and DH woke up and I started crying asking him if he was going to divorce me cause I was too drunk that we didn't have sex on our wedding night.

I remember your wedding on WB, despite the weather, it was still beautiful!

Not having one? Heh, we just got married the two of us at the courthouse due to immigration stuff (had to get married w/ in 90 days of his arrival in the country). I was never into wedding stuff really, so this seemed perfectly ok to me. Now, a year later, I really wish we had at least done something special! We don't even have any nice photos together!!

I wish I would have waited till after football season to get married. I set the date because I wanted a beautiful fall day, 10/30. Little did I know I scheduled it during one of the biggest games of the year huskers vs. mizzou & the time of the game was announced the week before our wedding. We had several guest change their rsvp others just didn't show. We had 250 rsvp & at best, including the bridal party & close family, we had 100 guest. Ended up putting the game on at or reception to keep our guests happy.

1) This is totally superficial but I regret putting so much padding in the bust of my dress!! Anyone who knows me realizes how fake it was, haha! The dress still would have been beautiful without it.
Now for the real regrets:
2) Not getting any pictures with my grandparents. I'm not really sure how this was overlooked because the photographer was my cousin. My grandmother was the one to bring it up to me after the wedding and I felt horrible
3) Not thanking my parents enough. Seriously. The day was such an emotional whirl wind, I knew if I stood up and made a speech I would have been a sobbing mess... but they really deserved it.

The only thing I regret is my cake. The lady we used is usually really good. (My sister and two of my friends had her do their cakes.) But my cake was kind of blah looking (much more boring than the picture I gave her for inspiration) and the layers were totally crooked. My flowers were gorgeous though and everything else turned out perfect, so I'm over it.

i wish we would have invited more people. we had a lot of people RSVP no, which i'm fine with, but we had like 10 no-shows!!! that pissed me off(one being my step-brother!!!!)
more family pictures. there are basically none of me and my family. also, individual bridesmaids pictures with me.

photographer, my mom took it upon herself to hirer the one that my sister's used without consulting me. I was not a fan, and we have never hung up wedding photos in our house due to the 1990s feel to the pictures. Biggest regret.

I am very specific about my regrets!!! We were young and very budget-oriented at our wedding, and we hadn't been to a lot of weddings yet because we were the first of our peers to get married. Since I've been to like 20 weddings since then I always see things that I wish I had thought of!

1) I wanted to keep my veil over my face for the whole ceremony until the very end before the kiss. For some reason everyone told me you're not supposed to do this, because pictures wouldn't come out well. For some reason I just listened to them. Since them almost every bride I've seen who wears a veil with a blusher keeps it over their face for the entire ceremony. WAH.

2) We just chose among the 5 choices of dinky little centerpieces the venue offered. I wish I would have upgraded to a bigger, prettier one. It was literally 5 white roses in a bud vase.

3) I would have hired a live band. Our DJ was awesome and people talked about him for years afterwards, but since then I've attended weddings with live bands and they were AWESOME.

4) I would have extended the reception an extra hour or two for an additional charge. We ended at 11pm and it felt so abrupt and sad. Luckily we had a rockin afterparty at the hotel.

I think that's it. I really really loved our wedding and so many other things came out even better than I expected!

@Smurfette: Apparently Asian guests do... =(

I regret not inviting some close friends from my childhood. I was very budget oriented and cut people that we hadn't spoken to in over 2 years. Other than that I loved my wedding =)

Overall I was really happy with how it turned out, but of course there are some little things I'd change: Better photographer (she was alright, but not great), slightly bigger venue, better decorations (I slacked). I just wish I would have been more decisive from the beginning. I tend to be really wishy-washy in general and I'd put of making a decision so long that I'd be stuck with a lesser choice.

I loved our wedding, but I wish we'd sprung for a professional photographer (we used a friend of a friend who was less professional than she said she was) and a better DJ (another frien of a friendi moonlighting - he played exactly what I didn't want him to and nothing we wanted. Actually an iPod setup would have been even better).

Oh and I wish we'd rented a dance floor. I thought the area was defined enough without it, but I don't think it was.

All these things would have cost more money though (except an iPod) and we paid for the wedding oursves with no debt so they're less regrets than "I wish we could have afforded to do these things."

I wish I'd had a smaller wedding. I spent a lot of time talking to random distant relatives I'd never met before, and didn't get to spend a lot of time with close friends and relatives, including some who had come from overseas.
I wish we had gotten married within 6mo of getting engaged. It was almost 2yrs bw engagement and wedding. It took over our lives during that time.
I wish I'd delegated more. I ended up getting interrupted a few times during the reception to pay the musicians, DJ, etc. I also forgot to arrange post-reception transportation for me and DH. Oops!
I wish I'd gotten married in my hometown instead of DH's, but it was cheaper this way.
That said, we had a great wedding and still get compliments on it. And our photos are TO DIE FOR. Some of the best $ I ever spent.

I definitely regret the photographer that we chose. She took some decent pictures, but now that I'm more into photography, I recognize that she was barely professional. She begged me to write her a good review online a few months later, and now she's out of business. I read the blog of the other photographer we were considering and I wish I went with her every time she posts a new wedding

The second thing I regret is changing my hairstyle last minute. I had a hair trial but the morning of the wedding I told my hairdresser I wanted something different. I was late getting ready because it took so long, and all the curls fell out before I even got to the church. Ugh.

No only regret is that I wish we had used a different bakery for our cake. Ours was perfectly adequate, just not as good as I would have wanted.

Other than that, nope! Our wedding was gorgeous and I loved pretty much everything.