What day were you married on and did your wedding go as planned?

Question

If not, tell us what happened.

Answer 1

June 28, 2006, it was a wednesday...
yes, it went on great... everything was according to plan...

here's our wedding photos:
http://weddings.jaime.elizaga-photography.ph/c1069714.html

Answer 2

October 7th 2005. Wedding was beautiful, perfect! Reception the next day , not so hot. It was on the weekend that western Massachusetts sank 3 feet into the ground. Outdoor reception under what was SUPPOSED to be a waterproof tent with sides. Two feet of water later we cancelled the reception and called 225 guest and told them not to come. We only had to remortgage our house to pay for it, yup $25,000 down the drain. We donated the food that was already made to homeless shelters and kept enough for 50 people. Had our closest friends up and drank our faces off. I only lost it once, when my phone cut out I yelled "f*#$" threw it across the tent and had a yoga moment. I breathed, swallowed it and carried on.We are very happily married and now have great stories to tell our kids.
P.S. a second venue was not in the cards...we are out in the Boonies and after dropping a whole cart of cash....you get the picture!

Answer 3

We were married July 2, 2005 and it was perfect. Everything went as planned because we had planned so well.

We were really diligant about following wedding timelines and not leaving things to the last minute. For the day of the wedding, I made check lists in Word:

Things to take to the Wedding
Vendor Information (contact, time of arrival, and phone number)
Seating Chart (to show the florist where to put flowers)
Timeline (starting with arriving, all the way to leaving -- set a timeline for when and in what order things will happen)

I handed these sheets to my mom's best friend and I never looked back. She took care of everything because I had taken care of it and made lists and lists of information.

So, when the cake was late, I had no idea. She made the call and it was there. Plan well, stay organized, and find a friend to run the day of.

Answer 4

I had a civil wedding on a Friday and a church wedding on a Saturday. Friday went very well- except for one thing (if I didn't have my Dad's humour, I think I would have fainted)..... my Dad was wearing shorts and slippers. He did this to show me that a civil wedding was nothing. Way before the wedding he told me that what truly counts is a church wedding. Maybe he thought that we would change our minds about getting married in church....lol. My husband and I weren't allowed to spend the night together, yet. The following day we had a lot to do- first thing was to get my hair done and makeup. Apparently my aunt's call for an appointment was never written down by anyone. We sat there waiting... I finally burst into tears after one hour. The makeup artist applied makeup on my swollen face.... and eye makeup on my even more swollen eyes.

Answer 5

7/7/06. Most things went as planned, and most things that didn't just added to the joy of the occasion. (When asked who had the rings, the ring bearer yelled, "I do!") And the parents all got confused about when to walk doen the aisle, which I heard was comical. Didn't bother me; I think it just made the day more memorable. The reception place and dj let me down in some ways, though. The only thing that really bothered me was that the dj didn't play any of the songs I asked for, so that upset me and my husband. And some of my so-called closest friends didn't show, which is what made my wedding reception pretty miserable for me. If not for that, I would have had only one regret about my wedding - the DJ.

Answer 6

I was married on April 29, 2006. Everything pretty much went as planned. Always know, though, that five things are going to go wrong, no matter how much you try to plan for them. Here were my five:

1. The limo driver got lost on the way to the reception and made us 15 minutes late.

2. It rained. Not a lot, but it still rained.

3. The DJ couldn't pronounce people's names, though he did it all right on the phone a few days before.

4. Some people didn't show up for the reception, even though they had RSVP'd, and some people who didn't RSVP did show up after all.

5. Even though we instructed people to not bring children, kids still showed up. The people who followed the rules became upset, and we had parents coming up to us all night long and saying "Oh, I thought we couldn't bring children. That's why I left little Billy at home, though he would have loved to have been here."

Answer 7

I was married on April 13, 2002 and of course not exactly as planned, I don't know anyone's who went perfectly. I had two brides maids that were late to the actual wedding (making it 20 mintues late) and then another brides maid got lost going to the reception and wasn't there for the introductions. All and all it really doesn't matter how smoothly or not smootly it went. It was beautiful and the wedding means nothing, its just one day. It is the marriage that is important.

Answer 8

A Saturday and yes it went fine. A very small wedding and reception. My marriage has lasted longer than many of the big lavish ones. Aston K and Demi M got married on my anniversary, not gonna tell which one. It is a great date near the fall equinox.

Answer 9

12.31.06

Everything was great until we arrived at the reception and saw an empty long table where our friends should have been seated so they could be near us. I had to curse the woman in charge of the place because someone told them that they were not "dressed" enough to sit there. I had told her before the wedding that our friends would be sitting with us. We got to sit alone at a big long table for 20 people.

Answer 10

October 28, 2006......things did not go all as planned. The florist screwed up and instead of having the flowers ready at 8:30am, they were ready at 1:00pm. My parents were picking them up so they were late for the photographer. They showed up twenty minutes after he did, and they weren't even dressed yet! The red rose wreath I had gotten to hang in the church had been too saturated with water and wouldn't hang so we could never use it. So, basiucally...besides the florist my day was great!!

Answer 11

We were supposed to get married in May. The beginning of May we had a bad car accident. I had a skull fracture that resulted in me temporarily losing my sense of taste and smell. I also couldn`t walk for a couple of weeks. We re scheduled for June 29 and got married then. I was still recovering but managed to walk down the aisle. We had to rent a car to go on our honeymoon and I was terrified of driving. It went OK and we were married for 36 years when my husband died suddenly 3 years ago. Despite everything we had a wonderful marriage.