What went wrong at your wedding?

Added to watchlist!! I'm already certain I'll need my BMs to remind me not to sweat the small stuff. I know it can't go 100% perfectly, but I still want it to!

Let's see-- the florist forgot one of the bouts-- take my advice and COUNT. This happened to me, a wedding my sister was in, and a couple people on here-- it seems fairly common.

DH and I forgot our vows and had to make something up. No biggie-- the officiant filled in enough to make it official.

That's all I remember/noticed.

Not married yet but the two weddings I was in had the following things go wrong:

*Flower girl got sick with fever (my daughter had to fill in)

*Something went wrong with the florist and we had to keep our bouquets in water literally up until we walked down the aisle because they were welting.

*DJ was late which delayed everything.

*Miscommunication with Cake Boss (cake boss thought they canceled wedding cake and groomsman cake) but they only cancelled the wedding cake so groomsman cake was made day of and looked it.

Actually that was all one wedding lol but the Bride just rolled with the punches I on the other hand would've been a bridezilla.

-The kennel wouldn't take our dog because he was missing a shot. Thankfully, our neighbor offered to watch him. (H didn't tell me about this until after the wedding since he didn't want to stress me out)

-We lost our cake topper

-Forgot to take pictures with my grandmothers

-Like Barbara, my dress pictures were taken in the hanger the dress came with and not my Mrs. Hanger. Looking back at that picture, I don't hate it because my dress kind of looks like it's floating in front of the window.

-Escort card table flowers weren't as big as I thought they'd be.

Tania, can you post the link to your BAM? I never got to see it

We went to my fiance's sisters wedding a few weeks ago is Los Angeles. It was a 2.5 hour drive to the Ceremony for most people. The father was late to the ceremony (he didn't think Los Angeles traffic on a Saturday was so bad) so we all had wait around for him to show up to begin. This delayed us an hour. After that was another 2.5 hour drive to the reception. Due to the long drive, not many guests showed up and the ones who did had to leave early because their kids were tired. The reception was in a gym of a church which had speakers already set up. They didn't work. So the first 1/2 hour of the reception had no music until a cousin could wheel a piano in to save the day. They finally found a cord out of someones car to play the music. It was a long, but nice simple wedding. The bride was very relaxed so I guess with that type of planning, something was destined to happen.

So on the day of my wedding, my family and I showed up to decorate our reception space, and found out that they blew a transmitter and didn't have any power, they called the power company and they said that they couldn't get anyone out to fix it (we were on Vancouver Island) the venue told them that they had a wedding that night and had to cook for it. They flew in the part via seaplane and thankfully it was fixed around 4:30 but I had no idea if the power was on until I showed up at 6:00, supper was a little late but at least we had music and lights

One more:

The shuttle bus driver didn't know where he was supposed to go. He had to ask the guests for where to drop them off for the ceremony, and then from the ceremony to the reception, he and I got into an argument b/c he was trying to drop us off at the wrong place. It was ridiculous-- he kept telling me that the location I was saying wasn't on his itinerary, but I was the one sitting there in the wedding dress-- you think I'd know where my own reception was being held!

KristenAnn-- your dress TOTALLY looks like its floating!! I am jealous! You can't even really see the hanger!

I would say that nothing went wrong at our wedding, because the stuff that didn't go as planned didn't take away from the day in the slightest. So, some things we didn't plan for:

-My stomach was in knots the entire day. I couldn't eat anything and had a dry heaving spell in the morning.

-My hair piece fell out when I got to the front of the aisle. I'm glad it happened cause it gave me a moment to regroup.

-our friend's baby cried during the first song of the processional and had to be taken out.

-We ended up a bit behind schedule by the time we finished dinner/toasts/slideshow/dancing, but that didn't really matter.

The only thing that actually makes me mad is that my sister (who we had some drama with pre-wedding), showed up unable to pay for her hotel room, so my parents had to bail her out with our gift money. I don't care about not getting the money, but I am very irritated with my sister's ongoing lack of responsibility. My parents have to bail her out all the time and she walks all over them.

The FGs had their sashes on completely wrong, I wish they had just left them off.

The BMs flowers wilted before the ceremony, it was hot!

Family photos took ages

Didn't get to eat any of the hors devours as we were off doing photos

Missed a few photos that I wanted - rings on hands etc.

Cut the cake but didnt eat it (too busy dancing!)

My bustle broke so the first dance was a bit difficult but we still pulled it off

Nothing too serious!

Mostly just forgetting things - to have my husband's ring for pictures, my bridal comb, my personalized hanger. And my in-laws tried their best to f*** things up.

Oh yeah, forgot to ask photographer for specific pictures - ZERO pictures of cocktail hour as all three photogs were taking pictures with the bridal party for some reason. Not as many pictures of just me and hubby as I would have liked..not very many pictures of family..

I'm having a difficult time getting over some of the things that went wrong but, in the grand scheme of things they were all very minor and everyone said it was a great time or one of the best weddings they had ever been to.

- Limo was black. I specified white and asked the driver why it was black and he shrugged his shoulders. No one really cares about this detail but, it annoyed me the morning of.

- Some of the flowers werent what I requested and some of them were a little wilty / not as fresh as they could have been. Also my florist forgot to order the aisle runner for the church. -__- In the pictures though they look fine unless youre really zooming in on the roses...

A few days before...
- Tuxes did not fit until the day before. DH and groomsmen spent 8 hrs at tux place the day before

- My MIL and I got into a tiff a few days before about bridesmaid gifts

- I cried about the weather three/two days before the wedding because it was supposed to pour all day. I had to let it go so on the day of I got a sprinkle on my walk into the church and when we came out it was dry - cloudy and overcast but, it did not rain for the rest of the day and for that I am thankful.

- Wedding favor #1 arrived (custom wedding koozies) but they were the wrong ones and belonged to another couple.

- Wedding favor #2 never arrived (luggage tags) because they got stuck in customs for almost two weeks.

- In my bridesmaids pics, we forgot to use the bouquets in the pictures. Nobody knew what to do with their hands.

- Made a PowerPoint presentation with our baby pictures and paid for a projector and everything. Then turns out the IT guy didn't have PowerPoint installed on his computer and there was no WiFi so we couldn't download it. No presentation. Very annoying!

In the grand scheme of things, it could have been much worse!