Tell me about your wedding; the good, the bad, the ugly

[TrickyBob]

The good: I got married! 



The bad: That beautiful building? Not air conditioned. It was roughly 100+ degrees the day of my wedding. And even worse inside.

It was also the day I found out, for certain, that I am allergic to make up. And she REALLY caked it on, in colors I didn't ask for. 

Lace sleeves are itchy but my upper arms are fat, so I wore them anyway. 


The ugly: Beats me, but it sounded good. There were some family arguments. We got married by a stream, but it was so hot that it was a breeding ground for gnats, none of my wedding photos are that fantastic because I was dying from the make up, the heat, and the bugs. lol. 

[pursemeatballs]

That place is picturesque!

[Deleted]

Good: It went perfectly. Food, good. Guests, fantastic. Music, fun. Ceremony, short. Cake, a fucking mazing.
Bad: I got married to the wrong man. Oops.
Ugly: I heard my dad and stepmom fighting and him ask for a divorce. Yay drama!

[Deleted]

Good- food. And I got married.

Bad- my BFF/MOH got completely slammed even before the first course was served. She had finished off 2 bottles of wine in about 30 minutes, so she was passed out at the table. I was all "Kelsey. Kelsey. Wake up." and she was all " blarrrg".

And my FIL was late because he had to catch some bees. Yep.

Ugly- FIL wore a Canadian tuxedo. MIL wore white. Lol.

[vicky]

The good - I eloped and spend ~2.000 on a party. The rest of our wedding fund bought our house.
The bad - watching all my friends get married now makes me want a big pretty pretty princess day with lots of pictures.

[melodramatic26]

the good: Pinterest and Facebook weren't around. I was skinny!

the bad: I drizzled all day. I wanted a fall wedding for pretty fall pictures, couldn't get any outside.

the ugly: MIL and FIL got drunk and told my uncle that I was trying to take dh away from them and that my family acts better than them. Threats of a fight ensued. Thankfully, we had already left the reception by this point, but hearing about it the next day from his parents on why they wouldn't be going to my parents house from brunch, awesome! Still not over it.

[So_Fetch]

Good: Almost everything, the marriage, the venue, the music, the cake, the food.
Bad: I heard that DH's aunt and uncle had decided to come and I had to shuffle the seating arrangement.
The ugly: Same aunt and uncle didn't like where they were sat so they left. the fuckers.

[Tacocat]

The good: Everything went well and pretty much as planned. Ceremony, food, music was awesome

The bad: My personal attendant did absolutely nothing. I even gave her an emergency kit to hang on to all day and when I needed a bobby pin, she didn't have it with her. I think she just did it to hang out with her FI all day.

The ugly: My cousin got super drunk and kept trying to dance with H and I. My BIL kept pulling her away to dance with him instead lol. Then she tried to start a fight with H's friends outside.

[Deleted]

The Good: it was so much fun, and there was sex afterwards.

The Bad: every person in the church but the priest knew we wanted a full mass. He sent us down the aisle after a short ceremony. I made him go back and finish, which involved getting our guests to file back into church. Lmao. I like to think we got a second photo op.

The Ugly: The cake and the centerpieces. There was too much liquor for anyone to bother caring, though.

[jerseygrl]

The Good:

I loved our venue

We had the best time!

I got married

We had a kickass bridal suite

The bad

My ex-BIL cause a humongous scene without even being there.  He blew up my sister's phone and threatened her if she came to my wedding.  All over the fact he was not asked to be a groomsman

He blew up my sister's phone so much she couldn't even ride in the limo.  She took her car to the reception and sat in the car while he yelled at her.  Pictures were held up because of it.  Then during pictures she hid her cell phone in my niece's flower girl basket and answered calls in between pics.  Finally my dad had to take her phone away

My sister then left my reception before it even started because my ex-BIL threatened to call the cops and report my niece was kidnapped and send them to my reception to fuck things up so my sister left. 

My sister divorced him soon after that.  He was very abusive

I'm going to add *the funny*

H forgot to pack his overnight bag so the photographer got a picture of him getting in the limo to go home to with his parents and I headed up to our suite alone LOL.  A lot of people stayed later though so we drank on the veranda. 

[lightbulbsun]

the good: food, drinks, getting married, seeing family

the bad: one of the groomsmen's dates got super trashed before dinner and passed out in the bathroom. Oh, and she was supposed to drive.

the ugly: my grandma's face in all the candid photos. She looked like she was having the worst time ever, but everyone else had a blast so I don't really care.

[StormyDixon]

the good, we got married
the bad, it was like 100 degrees that day
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my DH pointing out his escape route

[Yankees21]

The good: almost everything. It was a great day

The bad: It was ridiculously hot and the church didn't have the A/C on right away...my FIL was fanning me with one of our programs so I didn't pass out during pictures.

[Deleted]

the good- pretty much all of it
the bad- it rained

no ugly that I can think of!!

[luckyval]

Good: I looked fabulous, my groom and I were on cloud nine the entire night and the reception was incredible!

Bad: Two separate dramaful incidents between groomsmen and bridesmaids. And I had a bridesmaid back out on me two days before the wedding - that's what you call a good friend

Ugly: My hangover the next day? I wouldn't call any of it ugly. Except for the flakey bridesmaid, none of the drama included me and H, so we didn't let it rain on our parade

[Deleted]

The good: I got married (yay!), my dress was awesome, the venue*/service was great, the food and cake were yummy.

The bad: The * next to venue is because pre-ceremony, they accidentally turned on the HEAT (our wedding was in the summer) and I was wearing a huge ballgown, guys in their obvious tuxes,luckily they figured it out before we all melted; pretty much all of H's family left after dinner/cake cutting because we were going to engage in sinful, sinful dancing - on second thought, maybe I should put that under the good LOL

The ugly: My MIL, who after asking "What should I wear, can you send me some ideas, etc?) and I send her some different outfits and even sent her a picture of what my mom was wearing (with a joking, here's my mom's outfit - now you don't want to be matchy-matchy Bobsey Twins) goes out and gets basically the exact same outfit for the big day as my mother - same color, same designer, embellishment, and MIL just laughed and laughed about it. My mom and I had the last laugh, eyes silently meeting, when the photojournalist mistook MIL for my grandmother. Hee hee hee hee hee!

[daisycat]

The good: nearly everything, the location (beach on Maui) getting married, everything was pretty perfect

The bad: I didn't include my mom in as much as I should have and that she would have liked. I just felt like I needed to do everything myself and didn't want to ask for help. Also, while I like the wedding pictures I got, I didn't get any good framable portrait type photos of me and dh.

The ugly: the woman who showed up despite being told she wasn't invited (it was a very small wedding, our parents, his grandma who came with his uncles as she couldnt travel by herself, and a very few friends, and she was the mother of the best man. While I understand she had known by dh since he was a kid and felt like his second mom, we really just wanted it small. My mom didn't quite understand why she got to come (and, in some ways, why dh's uncles cam too) when I wasn't even inviting my aunts and uncles. To be fair, I knew that for various reasons my extended family wouldn't come to Maui, so I compromised by having a fancy reception back home that we invited all family to attend.

[BlackCanary]

Good: I married the best man ever!
Bad: One of my bridesmaids had to rush from work* and made it barely in time. So kinda bad, but it worked out.
Ugly: Nothing I can think of. 

She wasn't able to get off work, but like I said, it worked out. 

[simplyinpenguin]

The Good- Got married, we happened to pick the one day it didn't rain that month so our pictures came out great. We scored great deals and freebies.

The Bad- the place I had my reception refused to follow instructions on where things were to go. They disassembled all my centerpieces and stashed them in a closet, when it took my mom over 2 weeks to construct them all. Oh she was pissed. Mostly it was the setup of the reception that went bad.

The Ugly- my mom and my bff got into a nasty argument right before the ceremony. Bff was 45 minutes late and didn't call. My mom lit into her. Bff starts crying and insisting that she go to the church with her H instead of in the limo with all of us. My mom wouldn't let up. She wouldn't even let my bff, who was my MOH, help me with the dress. It was my mom and her friend that helped me into the dress. Now I'm out a bff. My aunt kept making rude, snide comments WHILE FILMING MY WEDDING about my friends. "Why is that one in all black? What's with the mohawk? Why doesn't that girl cover her tattoos? My niece hangs out with bad people." I haven't asked her for the video.

[candc]

The Good: My Dad who was dying of cancer made it to walk me down the aisle, he did not have the strength for the father/daughter dance but he was there, everyone claims they had a great time and the venue was really beautiful

The Bad (or funny): My dress was ordered 2 sizes 2 small by accident (it was 2 piece and the skirt fit great, but they had to remake the bodice 4 weeks before the wedding), my driver did not show up so I had to drive myself to the wedding (I must have looked like a runaway bride speeding down the highway) it poured on my outdoor location until 5 min before I arrived so I avoided the rain but others got soaked, it was so hot and humid that my cake melted and fell apart before dinner (outside reception)

The Ugly: My niece's father is in all the family photos and did not stand on the end like I asked...I knew I would want to photo shop him out!

[angelaa73]

Good: it was super fun day
The bad : it was a Sunday morning wedding and it went by really fast. Too fast.
The ugly: 2 of our guests fell on their faces drunk. One was rays bffs mom!

[Kit]

I won't bore anyone with another wedding post from me, but I posted yesterday about my recent wedding. pandce.proboards.com/thread/165676/aw-where-talk-wedding#

The Good: I had so much fun, and everything was lovely.
The Bad: My stepmother was there, and I hate her.
The Ugly: See above.

[amberlyrose]

The good- I was already legally married, so I can't say that. Anyway, the food was awesome. Our guitarist/bagpiper was amazing, my family had a great time, and instead of champagne we had a local brewery make us a raspberry cider that was AMAZING.

The bad- DH got a sunburn at a golf tournament the day before, his pants were too tight and he had to pick them up from alterations that morning, our photographer was crappy.

The ugly- I was at my highest weight. BIL was an asshole who said he wasn't coming then showed up expecting to be the best man and ended up writing a shitty letter to their aunt saying he had an awful time and didn't feel welcomed.

[rex]

The good: I got married.

There was a lot of bad and ugly. We should have eloped like I wanted to.

Debbie Downer!

[vicky]

Oh, the beautiful - I got my most favorite picture of my and my grandmother ever. It's the picture I look at when I want to see her face.
And the ugly, I forgot about - my ex best friend trash talking me on Facebook because we eloped and didn't tell anyone. She felt "betrayed."

[revolution]

Good: I got married, It was the best day ever.

Bad: I got married on a friday evening, so even though the florist had the right date, they got the date wrong. WHen someone finally told me they were late and not there I called them. They said "Oh, your wedding is the 28th, we'll be there at 3 tomorrow". me "um, asshole, today is the 28th and my wedding is in an HOUR". The scrambled to put together arrangements that I HATED so they could get me flowers in time. We had words after my honeymoon including me threatening a lawyer if the didn't reimburse a shitton of my money.

Ugly: My bridal party all got trashed or for whatever reason they weren't there at the very end, so cleaning and packing up at the reception was myself in my wedding dress, DH and his mom after everyone left.

[karmasabiotch]

The good: I didn't fall walking down the isle

The bad: How hungry we were after. Thank goodness we had an extra 4 lbs of challa in our hotel room.

The ugly: my wedding album. Paid tons of $$ and the dude did an awful job. Then he trolled me on The Knot crested AE's to talk about how awesome he was. I'm still staring at you Sam Sarkis!

[fluffaluff]

The good: beautiful venue (outdoor on the river), food was delicious, and all the decorating came together (we did everything ourselves from flowers to center pieces and tablecloths to fans

The bad: the DJ sucked hard. He even messed up the song I came down the isle to! Then didn't really play any of the popular party/wedding songs or the genres we told him to. It was also very hot (in the 90s) but there was an indoor house people could go into. Also, we were supposed to leave in a boat, but there was major flooding earlier in the month and the city still had a boat restriction, so we didn't get to do that

The ugly: nothing really..besides half of DHs family not showing up because they were fighting with the other half.

[fluffaluff]

Apr 19, 2013 13:55:16 GMT -5 StormyDixon said:

the good, we got married
the bad, it was like 100 degrees that day
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my DH pointing out his escape route

This looks a lot like where we got married and it was also close to 100. Thankfully the venue set up huge outdoor fans by the dance floor. 

[TrickyBob]

Oh. I forgot, because I keep trying to erase this from my memory:

I spent a butt load of money on flowers; they arrived AT MY HOUSE after the wedding. My neighbors, bless their heart, when across the street to talk to that neighbor and she cut me flowers from her yard and gave them to my Husband to take up to the venue. I cried my heart out the morning before our wedding because "weee don't haveeee *sniffle* flowwwerrrs".

I gave my neighbors LOTS of cake afterwards.