What didn't go as planned on your wedding day??

The trolley ended up leaving us behind (the bride and groom!), plus my 3 bridesmaids that were still in my room. Our wedding coordinator had to drive back from the ceremony site (after my FIL told her she better fix it, when she said she wasn't going to have the trolley make another trip to get us). There wasn't enough room the photographer and all of us to ride in our wedding coordinator's car, so 2 of my bridesmaids had to wait for a cab and take it to the ceremony.

Between the photographers being late and the trolley leaving us behind, it set us back over an hour. All of our pictures were rushed, from the getting ready photos to the photos at the beach. We also were supposed to stop at the iconic buoy in Key West and take a bridal party photo, which we no longer had time for.

My brother walked me down the aisle (my dad passed away when I was 17) and instead of saying something sweet right before, he looks at me and says "What's wrong with your make-up? Why do you look so yellow??" After looking at a few photos guests took, it does look pretty yellow/orange. My make-up artist used airbrush make-up, so hopefully it will look different for the professional photos?

I'm trying to think about all the good things (great officiant, almost everyone on the dance floor, amazing caterer) but I can't shake the negative. Has anyone else experienced not being able to go of the bad? I think I'm most upset we lost an hour of pictures when we paid a lot for the photographers (the caterer and the photographers were the 2 things I didn't mind splurging on).

I burned my arm steaming my dress :/ it hurt a bit at the time, but after a few minutes it stopped and was just a little sore- so I thought it wasnt that bad, and it didn't ruin my day.

but I realized the next day it was a 3rd degree, and took something like 6 weeks to heal.

it didn't hurt on the wedding day much, but I've got a icky mark on my arm!

I never expected steaming my dress to be a issue, I've steamed things 100 times! I got distracted and accidentally let my arm lean in to the steam.

the minister was late- it was about 5 minutes before starting time, and I got told he wasn't there. I was still putting the finishing touches in my make up and just said 'fine, send C in here' he is a minister friend of my husband's and was to be a reader. we had the ceremony printed out, so I just figured that he could it instead. I"d had the darnedest feeling something was going to go wrong with the minister, and had been telling husband that for weeks. I wanted to ask C to be ready to step in just in case, and hubby kept telling me I was just being paranoid.

since he didn't want to hear "I told you so!" for the rest of his life, Husband ran frantically to the ministers secretary, she called the ministers cell phone and he thought the wedding was a hour later than it actually was, (don't ask me why!) and told her "I'll be there in 15 minutes!" he was late, but he got there.

I started feeling a little sick after the after reception dinner at the restaurant was over (probably pain reaction) so we didn't make it into the club that we had planned to go to. but, we did get there and there was a huge line up, so we decided to call it a night- I was a little disappointed about that, but not that sad.

I went to sleep a happy bride.

I'm sorry about all those things happening. and you're right, your brother has a big mouth, what do you do with brothers?

it sounds like you had a handful of things go wrong, but you also had some very key things go right. had you had a bad officiant then the ceremony could have gone badly and to me that is the key thing. not all pictures can go as planned, I bet you have some beautiful ones. as for the skin tone color, that can be adjusted with editing can't it? I used editing to balance off the color of my skin since I wasn't feeling all that well that day and in some of the areas in the church the lighting was very yellow.

it's hard to let things go- feel how you feel and don't try to bury your feelings no matter how much people may tell you to just get over it. sometimes it takes time, and nothing wrong with that. try to force yourself to be ok before you are ready it won't work.

how about showing some of the pictures you have? I bet you look beautiful

Ouch! Sorry to hear about your arm, but glad it didn't hurt too much on your wedding day. Thanks for sharing your experience and the advice.

You're right - editing is always an option! And at least the trolley leaving behind the bride and groom makes for a funny story. One of my bridesmaids came up with the idea that I should wear my veil and "just married" shirt the next day and take pictures around Key West. We had fun doing that and we even got a picture of us chasing a trolley down the street.

These are 2 of the best pics we have so far (the ceremony one was taken by our friend who dabbles in photography) and the other one the photographer posted on their FB page. I'll also include a pic from our day after "photo shoot"

My biggest issue of our wedding was that the rings went missing right before the ceremony. Long story short, one of the bridesmaid's husband thought my jewelry box (a small heart with my name engraved on it holding the rings) was his wife's and he grabbed it from the room we were getting ready in. The bridal party had already walked down the aisle so only my sister/MOH and I were looking for the rings (we got ready at the hotel we got married and had the reception in) and we were delayed 10 minutes. Finally I hit my IDGAF point and we went without the rings (I was still wearing my engagement ring so I used that and my FIL/officiant handed off his ring to sub out for DH's ring). We found the rings during cocktail hour so we were able to put them on before the reception.

The other thing was that centerpieces were included in our wedding package. I had asked the wedding coordinator is she wanted me to call the florist with the table count or would she do it. She said she would do it. I don't know if it got forgotten or what but the hotel staff went to DH and said the florist didn't bring centerpieces. DH knew we specifically discussed that in a meeting and the hotel was supposed to talk to the florist. DH told them to just deal with it. I don't know how they did it but there were centerpieces on every table and a special one on our sweetheart table so it all worked out.

Oh no! I would have been in panic mode! Glad you were able to find them - did your bridesmaid happen to have the same name as you?

Our best man was 45 minutes late. Which pushed our photography timeline back 45 minutes. Luckily....that was it! Everything else went pretty well

This is a great thread - I like hearing these stories. Not because I want things to go wrong for others, but because it's a good reminder that things always go wrong, and you shouldn't expect everything to go as planned!!

I love your look! It's totally what I'm going for!

I love the cat on your lap. Was it a stray who came to say hi?

I love this thread also! Hoping nothing too terrible happens to me. (especially the bad weather)

@Allison - We had our reception at the Hemingway Home, where they have 40 polydactyl (six toed) cats that roam around - supposedly descendants of Ernest Hemingway's cat. I think because it was unseasonably cold in Key West that night, the kitty just wanted a warm spot to lay on. A few minutes later when we were standing up taking pictures, she came over and curled up on the train of my dress

I have to tell you Carly, one of the reasons I became a wedding planner was because I went through "wedding withdrawals"! It's a real thing! I think you know what I mean!! Nothing really went that wrong, it was just that I was very naive so I wound up planning the wedding for everyone else but me! I did get the gown I wanted though!!

You can do like I did, become a wedding planner to help other brides!

I have to tell you Carly, one of the reasons I became a wedding planner was because I went through "wedding withdrawals"! It's a real thing! I think you know what I mean!! Nothing really went that wrong, it was just that I was very naive so I wound up planning the wedding for everyone else but me! I did get the gown I wanted though!!

You can do like I did, become a wedding planner to help other brides!

Our cake was the wrong color, and the baker never put the cake topper on. It was huge and $150 and it never got put on the cake, I let it go but I was mad after the wedding, and more mad at the bakers response when I emailed her. Also I was on my period which was random timing and sucked. But that was all

My officiant didn't have the reading...We only had one reading in our ceremony, and it wasn't scripture (we were being unique!) so when she didn't have it, it just didn't get read. That also means that the pastor had to ad-lib her sermon! You could tell she was counting on the reading to give her ideas on what to say. She has done so many weddings, it went ok, but ooooh my goodness. That was big!

I didn't have my wedding yet, but at my mom's wedding her coordinator forget to give her her bouquet before she walked down the aisle....smh!!! I would be pissed.

The late thing, on anyone's part, makes me completely insane. I say lie to everyone.

Carly, no the BM in question doesn't have the same name as me. To add insult to injury, the jewelry box was a gift from that BM (not only was I in her wedding but I planned most of it myself). Her husband was with her when she picked out the jewelry box and had it engraved. I have jokingly said that they had planned it so that their wedding would be better than ours. I don't believe that but I know that my wedding was much more personal than theirs because I had 21 months to plan my wedding (I did a lot of DIY stuff while they had the cookie cutter, whatever you can find at the mall or Michael's). Their wedding was planned in 7 weeks (while it was a nice enough wedding, nothing about the wedding was "them", it was pretty much what could be purchased in store or rush delivered.

My mom got sick the night before the wedding. Really sad AND I can't drive, and suddenly all the family I was counting on to get me to last minute errands is tied up elsewhere. Plus, I suddenly realized I hadn't heard from the BM who said she'd pick up my dress. I barely got to the store before they closed! On the day of, aside from my mom not being there, the only thing that went 'wrong' was I forgot our vows. I made up something that sounded good (I thought) and when DH started he said, "I love your boogery sneezes". Yes, he really said that. I wanted to whack him with my bouquet! But then he started talking about how he couldn't wait to spend our lives together, and he got all choked up, and I totally forgave him. DH is NOT the 'get totally choked up' type.

I'm so glad I'm not alone! I'm obsessing about what went wrong with my recent wedding. We planned for 60+ ppl and maybe 35 came. All the money on food was wasted. We had to through away so much! I don't really care for the pictures and we spent $1000 dollars on photography. It was on father's day and I've heard every excuse in the book about not coming or staying for the reception. One of the family members on my fiancé side who was planning my Bachelorette dinner, decided at the last minute she wasn't coming to the dinner or the wedding. There was too many obstacles to even make me feel happy about what happened. I'm so glad it's over. Now I wish I could do it again in Las Vegas with just the two of us. Real simple. I would never suggest anyone plan a wedding. It's not worth the hassle.