Recently married women...What are your wedding day regrets? Let's share our stories so maybe other brides' wedding day can be better planned....
To all Brides, here is a list of my wedding day regrets and some tips to help your planning and wedding day go better than mine did. As always Best of Luck......
1. My Wedding Venue (Don't settle on a venue for convenience for friends and family. It's your day do what makes you and your FH happy.)
2. Having my uncle take pictures ( even though he's a professional photographer, I should have hired someone else) ( 4 Months married = Still no pictures) Professionals provide a detailed contract of when your pictures will be finished and also probably won't partake in any pre-ceremony drinking unlike family....)
*Side note: Get with your photographer and go over moments you want captured on film in as much detail as you can provide this will ensure you get most of the pictures you wanted, if not all*
3. My Videographer ( 4 Months being married, still no video. Word to the wise, don't go cheap and ALWAYS get a signed contract detailing their production timeline.)
4. Spending the night with my BM's the night before (I think it would have been better to have a night by myself, especially if they are going to be with you all day the day of the wedding)
5. Not completing all the decorating of the venue the day before our wedding. (Decorating on your wedding day takes time away from your day and adds more stress...)
5b.) While decorating the day before, I had so many people there to help, but all they did was hinder. Word to the wise, select like 4 or 5 people you trust to stay on task otherwise expect Chaos. Other options is have a Wedding Planner who can decorate for you....Keep DIY projects to a minimum.
6. Rehearsal Dinner the night prior to the wedding, see if you can do this a week or two before the wedding, that way you have time to think it over and change it before the ceremony begins, because once the music starts there's no changing it......
7. This whole idea that the bride and groom shouldn't see each other on their wedding day before the first look or when you first walk down the aisle. I would have liked to finished decorating our wedding ceremony space together instead of FH having to make all the decisions by himself. However, family and friends shoved me in a bridal suite for an entire day. Talk about going stir crazy....UGH!
8. Limit the amount of people you see prior to your ceremony.....you are busy with hair, makeup, pictures, etc. The more people interrupting the more stress especially if you have an non-alcohol approving grandma who wants to limit you to one glass of wine all day because "You don't want to be drunk and miss all these feelings of this important day" *insert eye roll*
9. Not postponing my wedding is my biggest regret. ( This may be because my sister got married in June and my wedding was in September (Mine was planned first BTW) , and my parents were still going through her after wedding process....it didn't give my mom time to help me with all my DIY projects we had planned to do.