Post by lasagnasshole on Jul 29, 2014 15:17:13 GMT -5
Didn't I just ask this question like two weeks ago? LOL.
BRUNCH RECEPTION! Waffle bar. Omelet bar. Mimosas everywhere. Baskets of bacon for the centerpieces.
My dream is that we could afford to fly our close friends and family out for our 10th anniversary and have a giant brunch party. AW-y? Yes. Delicious? FUCK YES.
Post by gibbinator on Jul 29, 2014 15:20:24 GMT -5
I'd buy/make a different dress that fit me properly. I'd also have confirmed that the priest knew the right readings, as opposed to getting my sil to read the text about wives being subservient (aka, the reading that was on the opposite page of the book from the one we chose.) that was a bit of a shock to hear.
We wouldn't have spent so much time taking pictures during the reception. My H wanted pictures of us in the valley at a location called the River Cabin. It's at the bottom of the ski hill from the resort where we were married. It took forever and everyone was done eating when we came back up. No big deal for the guests, but we agreed after that it was too long.
Didn't I just ask this question like two weeks ago? LOL.
BRUNCH RECEPTION! Waffle bar. Omelet bar. Mimosas everywhere. Baskets of bacon for the centerpieces.
My dream is that we could afford to fly our close friends and family out for our 10th anniversary and have a giant brunch party. AW-y? Yes. Delicious? FUCK YES.
Sorry, I missed it!
Oh, no worries. As you can tell, I really like talking about my hypothetical brunch wedding do-over.
I'm going to a brunch wedding this fall with a PIE BAR. I'll say that again: A BAR WITH MULTIPLE KINDS OF PIE.
Post by jillboston on Jul 29, 2014 15:21:44 GMT -5
Well... My DH still laughs at me when I bring this up. Other than the slightly spitting rain which moved the ceremony from a patio above Lake George into the reception room.. They asked what I wanted - colors, ice sculptures (it was part of the package - I really didn't care) I walked in to see a green back lit ice swan on the table. Not happy w/ that. We also had all the music picked out for the DJ - and had a slow version of Thunder Road with just Bruce on the piano lined up. Nope - our friendly DJ went ahead and put in the non-danceable album version. GRRR.. other than that - nothing.
Post by sometimesrunner on Jul 29, 2014 15:21:49 GMT -5
I'd buy a dress from J Crew and have a super tiny wedding. H would push for Kauai, but I'd be happy having it local and then having an obscenely long HM.
I was pretty lucky. I wouldn't change anything except I freaked out a few times over dumb things. For example, it seemed like my husband's family had so many more people. I asked him why we were inviting a few people... and they ended up being way closer to us than many relatives that I only see once in a decade.
That is something that I might change, now that I think about it. My mom's the youngest of 9 kids, but I probably could've cut family members without any negative consequences. I know that my ILs wanted a lot of people at the wedding because of my husband's health problems. It was a miracle he even made it from childhood to the altar.
What was your biggest wedding freakout? I know mine was when "open church" was brought up, like I thought my MIL was going to have it in the church bulletin about our wedding, hinting that anyone from our church was invited. (Dh had attended the church from childhood.) I had awful images of older people from our church coming in andtaking seats from my side. It didn't end up being in the bulletin.
I'd probably spend more time looking for a different dress. I bought mine two months before the wedding because I had second thoughts on the first dress I bought.
And maybe I'd just have a small wedding with just immediate family and very close friends. Hurt feelings be damned.
Post by hainesherway on Jul 29, 2014 15:36:21 GMT -5
I wouldn't have gotten married at all the first time. For my current marriage, I wouldn't change a thing about the wedding. It was family and closest friends only (16 people).
Post by lurknomore on Jul 29, 2014 15:49:16 GMT -5
I would have been on time. DH and I were 25 minutes late b'c we were doing pictures, to which I was late b'c of my damn makeup lady. And I still didn't get any pics with his family. Not one.
I would have chosen another photographer - one who didn't take on so much work (as in 70+ weddings a year). Ours was burned out by the time our wedding came around, and she was impossible to get a hold of before and after the event.
Our photos were fine, but they weren't to the high standard she had established for herself. She also missed a lot of things because due to her communication issues, we didn't have a chance to brief her before the event.
Didn't I just ask this question like two weeks ago? LOL.
BRUNCH RECEPTION! Waffle bar. Omelet bar. Mimosas everywhere. Baskets of bacon for the centerpieces.
My dream is that we could afford to fly our close friends and family out for our 10th anniversary and have a giant brunch party. AW-y? Yes. Delicious? FUCK YES.
Post by purplecow0206 on Jul 29, 2014 15:57:29 GMT -5
I kind of wish we recorded the ceremony. Everything went by so fast, I wish I had a video to watch once in a while. It wouldn't have to be a videographer, just set up a camera in the back on a tripod and have someone hit record.
I also would have sprung for an actual wedding photographer, instead of hiring H's friend who had never done a wedding. A bunch of the reception shots are all blurry/funky looking because of the camera settings she was using. There were a few that looked cool from it, but a lot were unusable.
My mom told me to get married at home on the water and my dad said to use the money for a dp, but no, I wanted my day. Sigh.
My mom told me to have our reception in the dingy church basement. "We can hire people to decorate and make it look nice!" (Which meant, "I'll order a bunch of tacky crap from Oriental Trading and be in charge of the whole thing." I'm really glad I had grown a pair of balls by then ... 20 Year-Old Me would have said yes out of fear that she'd get mad at me.)
Post by hopenotlost on Jul 29, 2014 16:20:39 GMT -5
I would have the reception at the lake or possibly at the winery in town (which didn't exist when we got married).
I would wear a strapless dress.
I would take a pic with my mom because then maybe she would stfu about it (seriously, it's been six years).
I wouldn't have wasted my money sending RSVP cards with the invitations, since some people who RSVP'd that they would be there didn't show up, and lots of people who didn't RSVP at all did show up. I would have also had it catered rather than bought the food ourselves and had high school girls get it set up. Less of a headache that way.