What went wrong at your wedding?

My mom got the flu & there was a snow storm

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Little things here and there. Stuff that no one would really notice but me.

-It rained-- absolutely nothing you can do but hope you have a backup plan. If you have a backup plan, make sure you know what it looks like. We chose a room without ever having seeing it, and the carpet just did not go with our decor at all.

-The little kids were supposed to get chicken fingers for dinner and never did, so their parents had to feed them from the buffet.

-The DJ didn't notice when we were trying to make our entrance into the reception, so we ended up standing outside for a long time. No one seemed to think to look for us either

-People didn't want to dance. It was a small wedding, and no one was really dancers, but still would have been nice if more people danced.

-The pictures of my dress were taken with it hanging on the hotel hanger, not my personalized one. . .ugghhh.....

Oh the rain! My fiance knows how nervous I am about rain because our indoor ceremony option isnt even half as spectacular as our outdoor option. I am so so so hoping that it holds out just for the ceremony!

@Tania: I am still so shocked by your cake! What happened? did you get a refund? Was there any explanation as to why you didn't get what you ordered?

I hope it tasted good! @Tania

When my cousin got married, the venue "forgot" to serve my grandfather a vegetarian dinner, though the catering contract included the number of vegetarian meals to be served. They ended up serving him a platter of FRUIT also, something happened to the JP's mic so we didn't hear anything up to the vow exchange.

Yea thats really messed up Tania.... I wondered about this when i saw you BAM. Was it a pro who made your cake? Did you see them make similar cakes before?

@ Tania - That cake!! I'm still speechless about that cake!

At my FBIL's wedding the bouquets were all wilted before we got into the church! And the boutonnieres were falling apart! FBIL and his wife were so mad.

- My flowers were supposed to be all white, wrapped with white ribbon and pinned with rhinestone pins. They came in peach wrap, black pins and the flowers were tinted yellow. My aunt stopped the guy before he left and made him go buy white ribbon to wrap the flowers.

- My DJ couldn't hear when the ceremony ended so he was late in starting the recessional song.

- We forgot to take pictures with our dogs who we had in the wedding. (so upset about it) Also forgot to take more family pictures.

- My DJ played the wrong part of our song for our entrance into the reception so it was really awkward and we just walked in.

- DH girl friend was all over my husband and every single, engaged and married man there. She started an argument with me at the end of the night and calling me insecure after I told her how inappropriate she acted and to keep her hands off of my husband. She didn't win the argument! DH no longer speaks to her.

- His sister caused a lot of drama that some of his family didn't even acknowledge me or congratulate us on our marriage. They should have just stayed home.

Oh man-- that cake!!!

I will say, that the months immediately after the wedding, I had a hard time thinking about these little things that didn't go as planned-- it was hard to look at pictures of other weddings, etc, b/c of all of the frustration that went along with these things. BUT-- the day of, I absolutely didn't care (except for the no one dancing), and now, 7 months later, I feel much better about everything and can finally started looking at BAM posts again SOOOO. . . for anyone who is in the post-wedding funk, it will get better!

@Tania. She's a terrible person. She's caused so much drama in our relationship and DH didn't see it until then. I'm glad he realized how crappy she is.

@Melissa, your aunt is awesome for holding on to your florist and demanding he buy white ribbon LOL

I went to a wedding this weekend, and the little boy that was supposed to be a ring bearer had to be walked down the aisle, he had one arm draped over his face to hide his face, and the other hand clutching a dinosaur toy. It was funny actually, so it didn't really ruin anything.

I was talking to a medical technician, and she said for her daughters wedding... They went to pick up the flowers the day of, and someone at the florist had starting selling them to regular customers (not realizing they were an order for a wedding!)... so they had to on the spot just select a bunch of flowers, and they went with everything white because that was the most of what they had in stock. Luckily nobody but the bride/groom knew, so it went off without a hitch and looked beautiful

I went to a wedding reception not too long ago and the amount of people who just decided not to show up made me sad.

I hope my wedding goes over well lol. I think I'll add this thread to my watch list to refer back to lol

I'm not married yet, but so far there was a mishap with the BM dresses. I went in February to pick them out [I choose the color gem]. My sister in law and sister bought them then and there because we were already at the store. My FSIL went last weekend and they told her that that color had been discontinued since DECEMBER and that it's going to be very difficult to find her size. They manage to find the next size up and wouldn't even offer a discount on alterations. I was so mad because we had went in Feb and they didn't say anything to me about this or I would have found a different color. Then my 4th BM couldn't find her size either on line [she lives over 4 hours from a store] BUT crisis averted because everyone was able to get a dress in that color.

The wednesday before, we had to go online and register my OTHER uncle to marry us. who has never performed a marriage ceremony. ever. it went fine... but that was a freakin' stress ball.

a couple people no showed.

and FIL asked me the morning of, while i was getting my hair done, if a small group of additional guests could pop in. after riding over on their bikes... most likely in biker gear... to a formal wedding. of course, i had to tell him no. (even though i thought this had already been taken care of because he'd asked the same question the week prior and DH told him no then. but apparently it wasn't clear enough so he needed to ask me again, on the morning of, while i was getting my hair done. no, nope. the answer is still no. sorry.)

other than that... honestly, nothing major happened. even with the couple stresses that popped up in the week prior, everything on the day of went pretty smoothly.

@Sandy I had a similar situation with my BM dresses. We had all gone and picked out the color and the dresses. I called a month before we all went back in for them to get measured and ordered. To make sure we were all set and they still had that dress and everything was fine. ( We couldn't do all the girls the first time because I had 2 pregnant bridesmaids so we had to wait until post baby) We get there and find out they discontinued the dress and the color we picked out. So we had to start over completely.

I did my own flowers - with help from Mom and BMs. When I went to pick up the loose flowers the day before the wedding to starting making centerpieces and bouquets, I was told that my dark red mini calla lilies arrived in a different color - purple. Fortunately, the callas were for the bouquets and bouts only, not the centerpieces. My sister and I scrambled to pick out new flowers and ended up at Whole Foods buying wild flower bouquets for the BMs. My flowers looked completely different than what I envisioned, but I had flowers.

At the reception, someone bumped the cake table and the groom cake topper fell off the cake. The cake has some minor damage to it, but fortunately the topper did not break and the photographers had already taken photos of the cake.

Listening to people's advise that "things will go wrong, just roll with it," definitely helped me keep calm. And also keeping into perspective that I was marrying DH. And, of course, champagne helped.

A few problems that made the day really stressful, but most people didn't notice or it wasn't enough to ruin everything!

-No cell reception where we were getting ready...couldn't communicate with bridal party/vendors the day of without someone going upstairs.

-Got in a fight with my DOC and he totally checked out 2 hours before the ceremony (oops!)

-Groomsmen showed up late...but at least they made it before the ceremony!

-No raspberry sauce on the raspberry chicken so it was pretty dry and gross

-During cleanup, the staff threw away our mini helmet favors!

Tania--that cake should be submitted to CakeWrecks! That has nothing to do with the weather (since I'm assuming the cake was baked and stored in doors!) and everything to do with her being a terrible cake decorator. At least it was yummy!