Married ladies, share your biggest wedding day regrets

Thanks for this posting. These tips will help as I'm reviewing details & "day of" lists with my DOC!!

My biggest regret was not having sex that night. We were way too exhausted from all the partying!

1) We should have hired a videographer

2) I wish we would have done a first look. It ended up raining immediately after our ceremony and we missed out on a lot of outdoor pics. Also, since it rained, we decided to enjoy cocktail hour and get family pictures later. The family pictures never happened. So we have pics of me with my family & him with his family, but none combined. Oh well.

My BIGGEST regret is not hiring a DOC and a reliable photographer.

Wow, reading this thread is making me REALLY happy we hired a DOC!

Wish we sucked it up and paid for videography services and I wish we had spent more time looking for a DJ. It is what it is though but def happy to share with any future brides... as you can see by how many comments there are here... there will always be something that you will look back and wish you had done differently.

Even though we went over things with everyone, I had vendors (specifically DJ) asking me questions and I just said don't worry about it all. I wish he would have just stuck with what we went over because now there are some things that we wanted that did not happen.

Thanks for this forum! I was jn limbo about some yhjngs but NOW I know what I need to include for sure!

Oh, I also would have scheduled my hair and makeup an hour earlier. I thought 5 hours before was enough time, but not when you factor in getting dressed, all the girls doing their own makeup and then getting pictures in. I missed the first touch shot with Lee because of that

MissMadeline-- I'm worried I'm going to be too full from all the cake and s'mores!! :/

My wedding was absolutely perfect, i attribute that to the amazing coordinators that came with my amazing venue (i had a whole team!). The only thing i regret and i feel terrible about is the lack of ramp for my two guests in wheelchairs who couldn't make it down to the group photo area, everything was such a whirlwind i didn't even notice them sitting up there, not being able to get to the photo location

I WISH I WASN'T SO STRESSED DURING MY WHOLE PLANNING PROCESS. Everything worked itself out. I wish I wasn't freaking out about every little thing leading up to the wedding!

I just wanted to say thanks everyone, I appreciate this advice so much!

Thanks for all the posts ladies. Your input is invaluable.

Wedding was 2 weeks ago. Couple of things I regret that are keeping me awake at night and I’m having panic attacks.
1. Wrong song. I wanted to walk down the aisle to “ Can’t help falling in love with you” and the party walks down to “canon in d” my Day of coordinator mixed up and I walked down to the wrong song.
2. Pictures. I didn’t get pictures with my girls in their robes. I actually didn’t get certain pictures because of the timeline our photographer/videographer set for us3. Jewelry. In the haste of things, I completely forgot to give my bridal party their jewelry to wear for the wedding.

Just a few details were missed at my wedding:

1) The monogram in front of the backdrop was hung at the wrong angle because we never gave a reference image to the people hanging it up. Not a biggie, but could've been easily fixed. To me it looked weird because Hubby's initial was way higher than mine but it wouldn't have been obvious to anyone else, so I'm told.

2) The lady who made our cake wasn't told where to put the cake, so she put it at the center of the table not knowing that the design was supposed to be asymmetrical resulting in it being in an awkwardly placed position relative to the other decorations. The cake was so heavy it couldn't be shifted after she set it up, or no one wanted to risk it.

3) The photographer completely missed the girls getting ready because one of the groomsmen was late and they did some outside stuff of the venue while they waited for him to show up. I wish they could've got some of the girls getting ready instead.

4) The videographer didn't know who was going to say their vows first. So they were set up in the wrong place to film when we started the vows and didn't want to shift mid-way through. So we ended up having the camera on me the whole time even when hubby was saying his vows.

I don't think anyone could've anticipated these things going wrong, well, except 4) I guess. It's very important to let your photographer/videographer know where they should be at each point in the ceremony to capture the shot(s) you want!

1) Not Getting a videographer.

2) Not slowing down and interacting with my guests more individually.