Any regrets about your wedding day, ceremony, reception?

Answer 1

No. I had a small wedding, ceremony, and a dinner with friends instead of reception. I prefer to spend my money on things that will last and not big fancy ceremonies so I had no regrets.

Answer 2

I regret not making a photography schedule of poses to keep everyone on track. Before and after the wedding, it's difficult to keep everyone together and on schedule. We didn't want to keep our guests waiting long at the reception so of course we took as many pictures as possible before the wedding. The photographs before the wedding went ok. But after the wedding, many family members headed straight for the reception site (which was at the same location as the ceremony). So, it was difficult at times rounding everyone up. They went fine but the pictures took MUCH longer than we ever thought. By the time we got up to the reception site, some of the guests had left! The pictures took over an hour and a half!!! It was the ONE THING WE DIDN'T WANT TO HAPPEN.

Answer 3

Yes, I regret choosing someone for my hair and makeup that did not give me a trial run! I would have liked to have known what I was going to look like. This person also literally made me late to my own wedding-something I regret, although my bridesmaid did the screaming at her for me.

I also regret not sending out invitations, or at least spreading the word sooner, for everyone to attend the party we had the night before the wedding. My aunt and uncle made ticket reservations for that night to a show, and I wish they could have attended our party instead-this I regret because I love them so much, and wanted them to share in the fun.

No regrets about the ceremony or reception though-these were perfect, and the marriage itself is FANTASTIC.

Answer 4

I regret getting as big of a reception place that I did - I made allowances for over 120 people - and I dont think 70 even showed up.... including the family and the wedding party.

I had a morning wedding - and had I known people in Southern California were such anti-morning people... I simply would have planned for less guests and bought less food, etc.

Answer 5

As the mother of the bride, I regret not knowing exactly how my daughter wanted the back of her dress laced up (she was 1 hour late from hair and make-up so the bridesmaids got dressed on their own and I dressed the bride so that everyone would be ready on time). I regret not having pictures taken of the food tables at the mini-reception we had immediately following the ceremony - never saw the berries and cream, never saw the punch fountain, never saw the bone china tea cups and silver tea service or the plates of shortbread and lemon curd squares and have no pictures - heard it was lovely, though. We had violin and piano for the ceremony, violin and piano for the mini-reception, and string quartet for the dinner reception. I am sorry we did not ask the string quartet at the dinner reception to play a piece right through while we all listened to them after dinner, they really were excellent and deserved a round of applause from our guests. I wish that I had visited every table of guests at the reception (both the groom's guests and ours) and greeted everyone and thanked them for coming. I am glad that I asked the country Club to make punch bowl out of ice - that was such a surprise for our daughter. I am glad that I had an activity table set up for the 6 children aged 3 -9 that were guests at the wedding. I made up "Busy Bags" for each of them and had a helium baloon tied to each chair at the activity table; the parents were thrilled. I also rented 3 boxes of Kin-Ex (a building toy) and even some of the adults went over and played with that. I am glad that the Country Club offered a "package" that included table decorations, wedding cake, fruit punch for arriving guests, plate of sandwiches and bottled juice and water for the musicians, bottomless coffee and tea - less for us to arrange. After all was said and done, it was a wonderful day.

Answer 6

I really didn't have many regrets. We stayed in budget, didn't go overboard, and the reception hall looked exactly as I wanted. Bright and bold, tropical and Caribbean.

We were running a little behind, so I was unable to get many pictures by myself for a bridal portrait. However my pictures were so great I didn't care.

My only regrets are small little things. We didn't prep the dj well enough for the announcements of the entrances, cake cutting, etc. I did several of them myself. I didn't put the centerpiece flowers in warm water so they didn't open as much as they should have. I did the arrangements myself. And I have two real "regrets". One was that my florist did not listen or use my pictures at all. I loved my bridesmaids, but mine was nothing like the picture I brought him and I hated it. He used yellow instead of coral. And the other one was that my stomach was so twisted that I didn't get any of the food at all. No one packed us a "snack pack" to take back to the hotel, so I have no idea if my food was good at all.

Now the ceremony is different. My pastor was stumbling. He was trying to say Do You Joseph Philip, take this woman...but instead he said Do you Joseph take thee Philip (the name of the best man)...everyone cracked up and the pastor stopped and was like "what did I just say?" Then my MOH held on to my train and followed me up the aisle when we left, stranding the best man at the alter. But those are just funny things that I laugh at.

But everything was so wonderful and perfect. Lots of dancing, lots of space, the cake was gorgeous.

Answer 7

The only thing I regret is that my husband and I had a huge fight the morning of our evening wedding. Of course, we had made up by the time of the ceremony, but it just put such a blot on the day. Please, even though you are stressed, be kind to each other that day!

Answer 8

This one thing I regret is that I didnt get any of my cake!:( Besides the itey bitey bite for the pictures.
We took SOOO long to take pictures I didnt even get to be in the reception for long at all. I am glad to have all the great pics, but sad that it took out of my reception time.

Answer 9

I regret giving certain relatives too much say in the wedding. I strongly suggest that you do what you can to pay for most of the wedding yourself. If you pay for everything, you and your fiance can decide what you want to do instead of feeling obligated to do things for anyone else.

Answer 10

The undesirable element some band is that stay song is all enveloping and one volume - LOUD. I continuously hated going to a marriage and not being waiting to talk to different visitors through fact the band replaced into so loud. i like DJ's plenty extra acceptable, while you're selecting between the two.. We in simple terms made a playlist on our laptop in Itunes and performed it on some super audio device we rented...and then people saved going over and dragging songs they had to take heed to into the playlist. i replaced into nervous approximately it understanding, even though it replaced into super. The dancing did not end for 3 hours through fact actual everyone have been given to take heed to what they needed, and the song performed continuously.