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So what all went wrong (if anything) on your wedding day?

You follow the guides. You keep track of every detail. You confirm everything... Still it seems the wedding day has a snafu or two... and some are full on car crashes. I'm sure there are a few that go off perfectly. Mine did not! :-)

In the end, I still married the man of my dreams and that's all that matters... but it's still frustrating to see things that I worked so hard to plan fall apart. So here's my list:

Had to fire my PA a couple of days before the wedding. She showed up at the groom's dinner and caused drama. Boo. You're fired.

My day started off late. My alarm clock didn't go off! I was 30 minutes behind schedule from the get go. Not a good feeling.

MoH who was supposed to help me with the set up of my photo booth bailed on me. Had to call in reinforcements. Boo. You're fired too.

Forgot my fiance's gift at home. Had to send someone home to get it out of my UNDERWEAR drawer!

The sand for our sand ceremony didn't fit in the jar. I measured it twice before the day of! WTH.

Reception was beautiful - but decorator forgot the centerpieces.

My cake was beautiful (or so I hear) for about 10 minutes. Bakery didn't put dowels in it to hold it up.. so it was the leaning tower from the get go. Our photographer got a picture before it had to be taken apart - but I never saw my cake in one piece. We also didn't get to do eating the cake photos - they cut the cake too soon.

No one could hear the dinner music I painstakingly picked out. Poor sound system. Boo.

The best man (grooms brother) made very embarrassing sexual remarks about my husband. Most people thought it was funny. We thought it was tacky. I just wanted some class.

DJ didn't play most of my requested music.. we would have had more people dancing if he had.

Bar didn't shut down the open bar when they were supposed to. Cost us an additional $500 we weren't counting on.

That's about it though. The day was fun and enjoyable in spite of those things. And I still have my wonderful husband's shoulder to beat my head against in frustration.

How about you? Any disasters in your wedding day? Or someone else's you know?

Yikes, I'm sorry all of that happened. But, you're right--in the end you married the man of your dreams--woooo!

For us, luckily not a whole bunch went wrong. If anything, the rehearsal was where we thought things were going to crumble (we were almost an hour late--just my husband and I--everyone else was on time!). The only other minute detail that went wrong was the fact that our decorator told us she'd lend us a card box, but didn't have one.. so we just borrowed something from the venue.

Oh! And the glow stick send-off I wanted to do--no one read the sign I had made, so everyone wore the glowsticks on the dance floor. I thought I'd be upset, but it worked out in the end.. instead of leaving at 11pm, we shut the place down at 1:30am (1/2 an hour after we were supposed to), and our photographer got some great shots of us with the blue moon, etc..

We had our fare share of blunders on our day too. I think its par for the course. It's what makes it unique.
We battled Tropical Storm Beryl the day of the wedding. So atleast a fourth of our guests didnt' come. But I was counting on that and the numbers worked out well. I forgot to bring the cd player to play our ceremony music - my mom had to run to Walmart to buy one. Our DOC sucked too, but I didnt' find out until she left right before the ceremony began. Then she screwed up our introductions at the reception. The food wasn't as good as I'd hoped, plus the caterer didn't cover the food and be people were eating dinner during the happy hour. She also forgot to bring ice. I forgot to pack the steam iron so my dress and table linens were wrinkled. The linens had perfect creases and no one noticed. My dress just wasnt as fluffy as it could have been. I still got tons of compliments. I left the reception site before it was 100% complete, so the head tables weren't exactly as I'd like them and none of the candles were lit.
But those are little things compared to the beautiful day we had. I'm really happy with our day, even with the blunders.

Ok my turn to vent...my husband's cousin and her husband had an all out brawl the night before the wedding. Nothing physical but lets just say she was drunk started belittling him and he basically told all of their issues, problems and business. He made it known they have been married only for the kids...8 years and counting...then the day of the wedding, she got pissed at me for not making my day all about her fight from the night before. She was supposed to do my make up and even told me not to bring any with me because she had my color and will take care of everything, well me being who I am and not depending on anyone, I still brought my own, just in case. And when i called to her room she told me not to come there shell come to my room, which she didnt make it until 10 minutesbefore walking to the ceremony site...mind you I called her two hours prior, but she was able to do another lady's make up. She came to my room with a real jacked up attitude, basically ready to start a fight by assuming that I was gonna say something about her not doing my make up, instead when she came in the room, she said something smart I just smiled, gave her a hug and told her I loved her and kept it moving...all of the pictures shes in shes not smiling on purpose, just really childish and it was like she was doing it on purpose. She managed to apologized to my husband and their cousin but she didnt say anything to me. I really thought we were better than that. She didnt want to take pictures, afterwards she disappeared, changed clothes and came to the reception dinner with some shorts and t shirt while everyone still had their wedding attire on...still I never gave in to her pettiness I kept on smiling and enjoyed myself and I think that pissed her off more, but she got stunged by a bee at the reception table and basically got mad because no one really made a big deal not even her husband. When we made it back home she still had an attitude so its safe to say that we are not talking I still dont know why she took it out on me, but oh well, she has to deal with being unhappy, not me. It sucks and it hurted to see her act like this but Im glad I seen this side of her now than later down the line.

It's sad when people can't put things aside for the day, MZ.. sounds like you took the high road though. Like you said, she has to deal with being unhappy - just a shame it had to shadow your day of celebration like that.

My PA and I still haven't talked since the wedding... She didn't show up at all on the wedding day, which hurts. She's my cousin and we've always been very close (Like sisters) and have gone from talking every day to not talking at all.