June 2021 brides

View Quoted Comment In Newport at one of the tented outdoor venues there. I can dm the name. I was charged like $3k to move it to next year but then again I have a year to pay that additional money. As for other vendors, perks of picking no frills vendors and involving less ppl. I only have to worrry about photographer, flowers, and dj. Dj is a friend so no issue there, flowers are no frills they didn’t even take a deposit from me so no issue there and photographer is available on my new date. I have to pay them $500 to move it. So I’m not getting out unscathed but I have much greater peace of mind now which personally works for me.

View Quoted Comment That’s really good that your vendors aren’t charging you. I cannot imagine Covid going on until 2022, so I think you’re definitely in the clear.

View Quoted Comment I think it will for sure still be going on in some form. Historically, pandemics can last several years into the decade timeframe. But what I think will be different is the wedding venue response and restrictions. It just feels like 2021 is still going to be an experimental summer. Maybe they will never have walk up bar service again. But they will need to figure out the dancing and the headcount restrictions, otherwise the big wedding industry will die out. I just don’t see them sustaining three summers with those stringent restrictions so I’m just banking on summer of 2022 being when things start to look more normal out of wedding industry necessity and not necessarily bc covid is no longer an issue.

Wow what state are you in. I need to check again with my state.

View Quoted Comment DJ!
Dan McKee just said on the press conference that the numbers for indoor weddings will be raised to 100 people and outdoor wedding to 150 people by April 1!!!!!! It’s going to happen in RI!

View Quoted Comment Hey! I’m glad to hear this for the other brides that booked after the pandemic. However I’m still upset over the potential of no dancing. Luckily my wedding is outside and we booked before the pandemic so from what I was told although who knows because I’ve been told him in different things, my guest count was no longer going to be an issue because I booked before the pandemic. I’m still just very worried about having things like dancing etc. as a workaround for the whole dancing situation, we were planning on renting a few party buses as there are zero regulations currently in Rhode Island in regards to party buses. So we figured we’d rent a party bus or 2 for around 830 and then we could all dance in those. They are very lounge-like inside and hopefully we won’t have to resort to that, but I guess it will be good to have in the long run in case there are other people that don’t get rooms that need rides home. Things are so up in the air right now I don’t even know what to think, but I will take this as a sign of positivity and hopes for a better spring and with hopes for June! I’m so glad that they’re supportive people on here like you that also understand the situation here in Rhode Island!

Yes, it's why we are considering moving our reception to our backyard. We live in the country with no neighbors nearby and plenty of acreage. I'd like to be able to relax at my reception without being fussed at to stay seated, mask above nose, no dancing and other restrictions many of which make ZERO sense.

Yes, we’re feeling the same. We’re in California which has same restrictions about no dancing. So only ceremony and dinner is allowed at the moment. We’re looking of the opting of canceling and having something much smaller. We need to make a decision in the next couple of weeks. I just feel like we will be paying the ticket price of a normal reception for just dinner and no dancing or mingling.

How did it work out @djtanner?!

View Quoted Comment It sucked. They didn’t do anything right. They didn’t even give my guests dressing on their salads. The salads were wrong, not even the ones I picked. Not to mention they put croutons all over the salad, even though I specifically got gluten-free salads for guests. That was just one of many other things that they screwed up on. They also forgot to pour the champagne for everyone for the toast, so they put down the champagne flutes but never poured any champagne and then just took the champagne flutes away. So many other things that went wrong. We specifically told them what lighting we wanted and gave them specific reasons why, and they give us the incorrect lighting. The pasta was nothing like we specifically discussed. It was just a total disaster. I asked for gelato and then they gave us sorbet. Gelato is a cream-based and sorbet is water-based. So they charge me for a ‘homemade gelato’ price but gave me when I’m assuming it’s not even homemade and it was sorbet. So many other things that went wrong as well. Just sort of a mess. I wish I never had the wedding

View Quoted Comment If croutons, dressing, and Gelato ruined your wedding and those were your main takeaways then you really let fairly trivial things ruin what was supposed to be the best day of your life. Annoying? Yes. Did they fail to fully deliver and should be called upon? Yes. But really.....croutons and lighting ruined your day?!??!! We had to make a last minute shuffle and move our reception indoors as opposed to outdoors due to weather. We had 4 guests not make it last minute due to covid and travel that we ate $$ on. The wind blew like crazy during our entire beach ceremony. I was an emotional mess the first half of the day because my father recently passed and couldn't be there.....I don't remember what salad I ate, or ordered! I had 1 drink the entire night because I was so all over the place. The AC wasn't great and everyone was a sweaty mess as the night went on. But guess what......my biggest takeaway is that we got married, and had our closest friends and family there and despite a few hiccups everyone had a BLAST!!! Step back from the petty stuff and focus on the fact that you GOT MARRIED to the love of your life, created IRREPLACEABLE memories and had all your loved ones there!!!!

View Quoted Comment As I said they were many other things… We too had to move our wedding ceremony inside but not a big deal, we also had people not show up but so what. You’re upset about wind? It was windy where we were too. All of those things are just the normal risks that you take when you have a wedding. That stuff to me is nothing to really get upset over. Those things are just sort of understood risks that go with weddings. Don’t have an outside wedding if you’re going to think that rain will ruin your day. It’s common sense. And I used the salads as an example of many other things, and yes I do have every right to be upset about it because those are things that I paid for that were wrong. I’m not sure why you think I don’t have a right to be upset about things that I paid for that I never received. Kind of strange to be honest that you’re more upset about wind and that people pulled no call no shows which is something that’s honestly just part of the wedding. But let’s not compare ‘who had it worse’. That’s certainly not what my post was intended for. Just expressing some of the many things that went wrong that I had to hear about from certain guests. It’s embarrassing when you stand up to make a toast and people have empty champagne glasses. I was wondering why no one was cheersing but then I was informed that they only put champagne in my glass and in my husbands glass and no one else’s. It just wasn’t something I really noticed or we would have stopped our toast to our guests to make sure they pour the champagne. Yes our wedding was open bar, but the champagne was not included and was a separate add-on. Yes I could write a novel about everything else that went wrong, but in my opinion when I ordered a decorated salad and paid for it, and I got slop on a plate literally just lettuce with croutons even though my guests are gluten-free and they didn’t even bother to put any salad dressing it’s embarrassing. Especially when the salads that we ordered were gorgeous. And no it’s not OK. But again this is just one of many other things about the meal. As I’ve said multiple times. But I’m going to say it again seeing as how I don’t think you’re understanding that. Just a few of many other things that happened. I’m not too sure how much you spent on your lighting, but lighting is extremely expensive, And yes of course I’m going to be upset when I gave them specific reasons of why I didn’t want certain lighting and they gave it to me anyway and those very things and reasons of why I didn’t want the lighting happened. Bright bulbs during dancing ect. They assured me they knew how to work the dimmers and had no idea. Lights were flickering on and off. , there were things that I paid a lot of money for. I’m assuming that your lighting wasn’t very expensive seeing as how you’re upset that a few people pulled a no call no shows because of Covid which is something that’s a pretty understandable excuse to be honest. Budgeting a few extra thousand for no-shows is sort of a given with weddings. Hate to break it to you but your day is not that important to everyone else as it is to you. That’s the harsh reality. That’s why when people don’t show up who cares. As long as you got everything you paid for then what’s there to be upset about. Of course my husband and I are thrilled about being married. But we’re not too thrilled about spending thousands and thousands of dollars for some things that we just outright didn’t even get, or things that went completely wrong. Especially when guests have something to say about it. Because let’s face it, the reception is for your guests and when your guests start talking and telling you stuff that’s not good.

View Quoted Comment You totally missed my point.....I didn't actually care about all the few things that didn't go off without a hitch, I shrugged it off and we still had a phenomenal time. I just thought it was really sad for you that your biggest complaints were croutons and lighting and you wished you didn't have it.🤷‍♀️

View Quoted Comment And just to add, my husband and I have been together for over 10 years. Of course we were super happy about the ceremony. Of course saying our vows to each other are irreplaceable memories. But that’s also stuff that we could’ve done for a lot less money by just getting eloped We’re having a cheaper wedding on a beach or something we’re in a public park. Of course that was the best part of the wedding and memories that I will cherish forever. But everything else has absolutely nothing at all zero zip zilch to do with our vow exchange or our ceremony. My husband and I have worked extremely hard over these last 10 years and Your wedding day is supposed to be the one day that you should at least get what you paid for. So try not to associate our marriage or our exchanging of vows or or happy moments of the day. Those were moments that we could’ve had for free. A reception is also not a wedding ceremony. We’ve all learned that from Covid. And yes when A business ruins everything yes the day is ruined. Because I could’ve saved myself to thousands upon thousands i’ve had those same happy memories for free. Really wish I knew ahead of time that it’s completely OK for wedding vendors to charge you thousands and not give you half of the stuff you paid for. If I had known that ahead of time I wouldn’t of had an expensive wedding

View Quoted Comment Lol well obviously my wedding ceremony was amazing. But yes of course I wish I didn’t have an expensive wedding at this point. And again you’re going back to croutons, but I think you might be reading over the part that I said there were many many other things that went on during the night. Like how my husband and I had the most amazing cake cutting ceremony ever and of course it got a little messy like every other cake cutting does and a comment was made to me by one of the attendants asking if I planned on cleaning it up. But again one of many many things that yeah basically ruined the night. Again didn’t ruin my ceremony didn’t ruin the wedding day itself because that was magical. But as far as the reception yes absolutely ruined

View Quoted Comment You absolutely should seek a resolve for the issues.......I don't disagree with that, after the fact I would've been arguing for some $$ back.

View Quoted Comment Good Morning,


I am so, so, so sorry this has happened to you. We do so much planning and planning and more planning that the day of, you really are stressed because you are thinking of "what's next.. what's supposed to happen right now". As a person who likes things a certain way , call it control.. who cares! ( I only had Day of Coordinators because i/we planned it all) that becomes a LOT. We had a few hiccups ( mostly DJ and food orders) but our guests made the most of it. Even of they had complaints, they never brought it to us. Matter fact, the hiccups made things flow. It also doesn't help when your guests are telling you what's wrong instead of what's right. You want nothing but positive, positive vibes and energy on your day.. From everybody!!! Hell, you know what's wrong because YOU planned it!!! Hopefully you had more good from folks then bad. I know you will or have but step back, write down all that you remember that went wrong with each vendor and then call and email them. Service is service so write reviews on all platforms if can as they need to blasted for sure!!!Again, I'm so sorry this was such an expensive lesson for you guys but I am glad you are married to your love and praying your honeymoon is extremely amazing.