So I posted my BAM a couple weeks ago, and now I’d like to share some of what wrong with our wedding, even though the day itself was perfect. To all of you soon to be brides out here, I hope this offers you some comfort in knowing things will go wrong, but your wedding day can still be amazing.
First, we had a destination wedding, flying from Arizona to Hawaii 4 days before our wedding day. The nightmare began with the center stone of my engagement ring becoming loose the night before we left. It was wiggling a lot and rattling when you pressed on it, so I decided to take it off and put it back in its box and take it with us. I cried. Not gonna lie, I was heartbroken to possibly not have my engagement ring on my wedding day. It was so loose I was afraid to wear it because I legit thought the center stone could fall out and be lost forever. We were gettin married on a small island (Kauai) where there’s not even a Walmart let alone many jewelers so I figured there’s a slim chance anyone could fix it. I brought it along anyway and we did find a jeweler to fix it on the island. Yay! The nightmare continued however when I woke up the morning we were leaving with a cough and a fever. I spent 6 hours on a flight with 10 people, with a high fever, cough, and badly congested. Felt like I was dying and was so upset that I’d possibly be sick our entire wedding week. I ended up feeling fine the next morning, which was a legit miracle. Third, my DH’s stepmom turned our entire wedding week into a family reunion and gave no F’s about our wedding or us at all for that matter. She tried to change everything we planned, did, arranged, etc. and we had to fight her back at every step. Keep in mind we are in our 30’s and 49’s respectively and they were not paying for ANYTHING but she couldn’t deal with not being in control. This lead to many fights and tears. Fourth my dh and I got NO time together the week of the wedding. We rented a large beach house to stay in before the wedding, and also get married at, and we actually got to sit on the beach that was in our own back yard together all of two times before the wedding because we were so busy with vendors, the welcome dinner, rehearsal, and managing everyone’s emotions the weeks prior. It was a mess. Fifth no one listened to the invitations at all. We invited only the bridal party and our siblings to the rehearsal dinner, and had a welcome dinner the night before that for everyone else. Still, family members that weren’t invited to the rehearsal pitched a fit and even threatened not to come to the wedding if we didn’t invite them to the rehearsal. It was insane. All that aside, the day of the wedding was amazing. We woke up together the morning and the wedding and just decided to be put everyone else on the back burner and make it about us. We decided to stop accommodating everyone else’s BS and just put ourselves first, and we had a great wedding day with all our friends. Things will go wrong, but you will still have a great wedding day if you stop giving in to peoples drama. Married people, what went wrong on your wedding week/wedding day? Did you still have a good wedding day in spite of it all?
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