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Natalie
Dedicated November 2014

How many times did you change your mind about venue/location/style of wedding? **RANT

Natalie, on August 11, 2014 at 1:35 PM Posted in Etiquette and Advice 0 13

In the beginning of this engagement journey which began only 2 months ago I THOUGHT I had everything planned out. WRONG! Our initial plans were to have a beach wedding and then have an informal reception. We let everyone into our plans and made the mistake of broadcasting way too much on social media to where I deactivated my account bc we already had a million complaints that "I haven't received an invitation". Well that's bc we never sent any. lol. People really think that the Fiancé and I are Kim and Kanye. Another WRONG. So we decided to change our venue to the family church which holds 400 and the reception site only 200. These really weren't what we wanted but they would be practically free for us. I have now decided that I could care less about the opinions of others because as we know opinions don't pay bills. Now we are back to square 1 as to figuring out how to pull off a small intimate beach wedding and big reception. ugh

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Latest activity by Zoe , on August 11, 2014 at 5:20 PM
  • Maltese
    Master June 2015
    Maltese ·
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    Zero. Once we decided on a big local wedding, the reception venue was chosen pretty quickly and deposits made on most of our vendors within a month. We hit the Point of No Return and there is no chance for that much change

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  • N
    Master September 2014
    Now I'm Mrs_M ·
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    Zero. I never changed my mind, but my mind was changed for me due to unnecessary circumstances.

    We lost our venue at three months out and had to scramble to find new one.

    Then, I had to reprint invitations and re-calligraph envelopes because I ruined half of them trying to open them up to get the old invitations out.

    Then, just yesterday, I lost my make-up artist who no longer works at the salon that myself and bridal party are scheduled at the morning of the wedding.

    UGGGGGGGHHHHHHHH

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  • Ashley
    VIP April 2015
    Ashley ·
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    I've change small details that I haven't even committed to yet - but as far as location, venues, big vendors, etc...those won't be changing. It's your wedding, do what you want!

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  • jenna_
    Master March 2015
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    I changed once. i knew i wanted a rustic wedding, so that didn't change. i just changed the colors and the feel a little bit. i've gone more traditional/romantic rustic rather than like, shabby chic rustic. if that makes sense. haha. i originally thought i wanted pastel flowers and possibly succulents. but then i changed to a more rich color scheme of navy blue with raspberry and blush pink. pastels just made everything feel too eastery. haha. i haven't changed since that.

    if we're talking about the whole wedding... everything changed from what i thought i originally wanted. haha. before we were engaged, we were talking about a nice little backyard $10k affair. but since we started planning that quickly went out the window and the budget has tripled. so that's a big difference. :/ oopsies. haha.

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  • H
    Dedicated June 2014
    HisWifey ·
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    Your wedding is in, what, about 8 months? Why on earth would anyone be looking for an invitation now? Invitations dont go out until like two months before.

    to answer your question, we changed our venue twice just because i changed my mind. It all worked out.

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  • Abbiell
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    I went back and forth on venue a couple times. I ultimately went with one in my home town that was further away but cheaper and fancier then the one in my current city. It all worked out. Just do what you and FH want and don't worry about anyone else. No pay, no say!

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  • TiffanyShay
    Master October 2014
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    I've jokingly said we should elope when I get stressed but we have never seriously talked about changing anything

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  • Kari
    Super May 2015
    Kari ·
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    ONCE! And it cost us $1,200!! FH and I had made a deposit on a venue and planned a budget around 15k for our wedding. Then we had a huge argument about finances when he traded his truck in for a mustang out of the blue one Tuesday afternoon....... and eventually we came to the conclusion that we would cancel the big wedding and plan a more intimate budget-friendly wedding at his parents' home. Now we are planning an $8k ($9.2k considering what we lost) wedding.

    When we cancelled the venue, we were almost a year and half out. I was hoping that they would have taken that into account and not held us to the contract so strictly, but they still did and we lost half of our deposit.

    That was big. But I am constantly changing my mind about minor details about the wedding, like colors, style, bridal party attire, dessert, etc etc.

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  • Natalie
    Dedicated November 2014
    Natalie ·
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    Oh no! Sometimes I feel like things are blessings in disguise :-)

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  • Natalie
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    Natalie ·
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    I'm happy to know that I am sane! LOL

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  • MelissaC
    Master January 2015
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    Zero times! I'm a girl who always knows what she wants (unless it's food, and then I hate thinking about what food I want).

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  • Rebecca
    Super July 2014
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    We changed our mind once. We originally wanted to elope and have a very simple beach ceremony in bora bora with just the two of us then dinner afterwords on the beach. (no guests, cake, flowers etc.) We had the resort chosen and started working with a travel agent to plan flights, hotel etc.

    I then went and bought my dress which ended up being a huge elaborate ballgown that I was not sure would work for a beach wedding but I said screw it and decided I would wear it on the beach.

    A little while later my husbands mom who knew we were going to elope called him up in tears saying how hurt she was that she would not be able to see her only child get married and that she wanted us to reconsider and have a wedding. My husband gave in and we planned a small wedding at a winery in Napa CA which turned out perfect. I was secretly upset about not eloping up until the day of the wedding but everything turned out so great that im happy we went the wedding route. My dress ended up better matching the winery location versus trying to wear it on a beach.

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  • Z
    Master May 2012
    Zoe ·
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    I didn't change my mind once, probably cause I didn't have a 'grand vision'. I wanted to marry DH in a big puffy dress with friends and family, and however that came to be with whatever colors was fine by me.

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