Think it's gonna rain..

LOL was it WW Jo who had the hurricane wedding? She was a trouper!

Nonna - it was Lynnie!

@futureMrsD

I hear ya! My wedding is the next week in Michigan and it keeps calling for rain as well. My ceremony is indoors, but I plan for all my pictures outdoors. It is true that cloudy makes the best photos, so maybe it will just be cloudy and the rain will hold off? I hope for the best for you!!! And I also hope that your wedding day you are so focused on the celebration of your marriage that you don't care! (That's what I am hoping for myself anyway) I am a crazy OCD planner, so I am just hoping that it all falls away that day and I just enjoy myself, even if it doesn't all go perfectly

Laura, ain't no rain like a Michigan rain--it will be great no matter what

You honestly can't rely 100% on the forecast.... ours called for rain literally the past 5 days and it only rained one of those days. Just remember your day will be amazing no matter what because you're going to get to marry the man of your dreams and be surrounded by people who love you. Remember things could be worse.

@Gymrat It was a small vent, clearly stated at the beginning. I have plenty of perspective, thank you. Cancer fucking sucks. My dad has stage 4 and is a fighter; he refuses to let it take him down.

Again, thank you to those being positive. We do have an indoor plan for the ceremony. Everything is all in place and it will play out the way it is meant to. The day will be wonderful regardless of what the weather does. I get to marry my best friend and have my dad walk me down the aisle. Good luck to the other PPs that have their wedding this weekend as well!

No fucking shit. I can read. And what I read was, "let me vent, but don't tell me THIS."

Sorry about your father. Maybe you should take a lesson from him then and stop complaining about the damn weather. You want to play the who has more medical issues game? My mother is a two time cancer survivor, and was supposed to have her gall bladder removed 5 weeks before my wedding, but didn't because she didn't want to miss my wedding. She also didn't tell me about it until I came home from my HM because she didn't want to stress me out.

Based on your last paragraph, looks like all you needed was to hear yourself talk. Thanks for playing today's episode of attention seeking posts.

What kind of positive advice can I give you? Hopefully you can train how to control the weather in 2 days!! GOOD LUCK! It's a neat trick, but you can do it!!

You already have it in your mind that you don't like the space. If you can't turn it into a positive, nothing I can say will turn it into a positive because I haven't seen it.

@Gymrat Nope, just needed some positive vibes to help boost my mood and I got that with various PPs. Your constructive criticism and advice is needed on other posts that are still in the midst of planning their wedding though. I'm off to continue packing!

I'm POSITIVE you did this to yourself and vent or not, no sympathy for people that can't plan better.

I feel you on the "it's good luck" thing! People *are* trying to make you feel better but it's still not what you want to hear 500 times

My best advice is to buy a few clear umbrellas, scout out the best indoor photo space you can find as plan B, and then stop checking the weather. You can't change it, so you're just going to drive yourself crazy!

I had the most phenomenal bridesmaids ever, and when I finally hit my breaking point and started crying on the wedding day one of my bridesmaids took my hands, looked me in the eye, and gave me some tough love - "this is not about your wedding vision, all of your friends and family are here to celebrate you, and we're going to have a great time" (with an implied 'whether you like it or not') I needed the tough love moment to remind me to suck it up and be positive!

Are our indoor wedding pictures my favorite? Not really. Did we have an amazing time? Absolutely yes!

Sorry about the possible bad weather.

I'm curious why you would pick an inexperienced photographer if photography is so important to you?

The forecasts are usually wrong, so personally I think it's a good thing it is calling for rain now. Stay positive!

You're off alright!

Don't forget to pack an umbrella and a second shooter!

I don't know the details of your forecast, but as others have said, there will likely be breaks in the rain or light rain that would allow you to still do outside pics, particularly with an umbrella. One thing that made me feel slightly better about the potential for rain was overcast lighting for pics as opposed to harsh sun.

I'm dealing with a tropical storm over here, so I think you'll be fine. There's nothing you can do but embrace it.

Not sure what "positive" advice you were looking for.

Change the weather? Nope, can't do that.

Go back in time and hire a better photographer? Nope, can't do that.

Go back in time and change your venue? Nope, can't do that.

All we can tell you is make the best of it.

Buy some clear umbrellas, and go on pintrest and look at rainy day wedding photos and try not to stress about things you can't control.

Please keep things in perspective as @Nonna said.

Also rained on my wedding day....cold, sideways blowing rain. But I married my best friend, the man of my dreams. I celebrated with my closest friends and family. We had a great time!

We also have a very creative photographer who managed to capture some great pics outside.

Hoping things work out for you and the rain stays away. However if it doesn't, please don't let it ruin your day.

Attaching one of my favorite rainy day wedding pics (we are under a small overhang)

OP I know exactly how you feel. My wedding was last weekend in my back yard. We had tents, but the ceremony was planned in another, uncovered part of the yard in a gazebo that was a wedding gift from my parents. If it rained, our only option was to have the ceremony out in the rain, or on the dance floor.

The forecast leading up to the wedding was rain all day the day before (I was worried about my yard flooding), and rain the morning of the day of but cloudy the rest of the day. I was okay with that, because the ceremony could still be outside at least.

2 days before the wedding, the day of forecast changed to thunderstorms starting at 5pm, when the ceremony was supposed to start. I felt completely defeated- the beautiful gazebo was going to go to waste and what was supposed to be a beautiful ceremony would become blah.

I posted something on facebook about how defeated I felt, and all I got were comments about how they would "pray for no rain" (I don't believe even a little bit in the power of prayer and those comments just annoyed me), or they would tell me that rain is good luck, which I know is just something someone made up to make people less upset about rain on their wedding day lol.

Anyway, in the end we had to run a lot of damage control to deal with the mud and puddles from the day before rain, but the day of there was nothing- no rain, no thunderstorms, just clouds. And it was perfect.

I don't have any words for you, except to say that I get it, and that most of your guests won't care. I was a giant ball of stress the days before my wedding, and the only words I heard that made me feel better were from my guests who said that they knew they would have fun no matter what happened, and that they would just wear galoshes or muck boots. And one person suggested mud wrestling

This is why I always say that you should love your rain Plan B as much as Plan A!!!