I had my wedding and am looking for some advice about my parents and my own bummed feelings about the wedding day. One parent partied too hard at the wedding and keeps bringing up how embarrassed they are for it. The other keeps saying they wish they had taken more photos/been in more photos. We haven't gotten the photos back from the wedding, but the photographer assured me that there were lots of pictures of me with both parents. I get the feeling this parent wishes they had also walked me down the aisle and feels left out. Now I'm playing back the mental tape of the whole wedding day trying to convince myself that I didn't exclude them from anything else (I spent 6 hours with them getting ready before the ceremony. They helped me put on my dress. I was busy during the reception with everything that was planned!).
I'm also bummed because I planned SO hard for this day. About 30 mins of the wedding was spent trying to help the parent who partied too hard... (me and all the guests thought they were having a heart attack so we called EMS). Obviously, I am SUPER grateful they were NOT having a heart attack. Rehashing that they should have made better decisions at the reception over and over is making me feel worse when I feel like I got robbed of the final hour of my wedding (30 mins spent trying to help them, then 30 mins shellshocked about what happened/realizing my wedding was over by the time the dust settled). How do I stop feeling bad about it when the rest of the day was literally perfect?
