It seems almost everyone who's been through a wedding has some "horror" story to tell. A friend recently wrote me about a bride whose seamstress left town on short notice, so the bride had to stalk the woman's boyfriend to get ahold of the much-needed altered bridal gown. At my sister's wedding, though the correct Bible reading was on the lectern during the rehearsal, mysteriously the wrong reading (one my sister didn't much care for) was set out for the confused lector to read the day of the wedding. And then there was the reception I went to a few years back when I thought the cake looked rather small for the size of the crowd. Turns out the actual cake apparently fell off the table when the servers were setting it up before the wedding! Apparently someone had to make an emergency bakery run.
I could probably go on and on, but I think being aware that "things happen" will hopefully help me not get super stressed out.
And, yes, I've had my first "things aren't going quite right" moment when the DJ I had booked (and already sent a deposit for) called to tell me that the company he works for hadn't realized he was busy that night - being a groomsman. He had DJ'd my sister's wedding, so I felt quite comfortable that I didn't need to meet him or check out his tunes before booking him. He offered a well-qualified substitute DJ, who we will probably use, but now my fiance and I are considering meeting with him before we decide.
We also had a multi-week saga trying to find a priest for our wedding. To me, all of the options were fine. My fiance wanted one of his high school religion teachers, which was fine with me, but in the end that priest let us know after more than a few phone calls/messages that he was unable to get out of a prior commitment. Thankfully, one of the other priests we know was available, so crisis completely averted!
Next up, aside from cake tasting, is ordering the bridesmaids dresses: I think I have decided on one, but not the particular shade of purple. While the Web site says the particular dress is available in concord and plum, the swatches at the store say amethyst, plum and aubergine. I like the amethyst color best (at least in the 1-inch swatch) so I'm hopeful I can get that!
So, anyone have any fun wedding "horror" stories? Do share!
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Double-check and triple check the correct song for your first dance. 24 years ago we had selected "I Only Have Eyes For You"...simple popular song correct? Wrong! We ended up dancing to the James Bond theme song "For Your Eyes Only"
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One thing that went wrong on our wedding day occured right as we were having our photos taken after the ceremony. My husband can't see without his glasses, which of course broke as we were posing. There was no way to put them back together (the frame around the lens cracked in half, who knows how) , so the only option was for my dad to run back to our house to grab my husband's outdated contacts. The contacts worked for the reception, but there was no way he could wear them any longer than that as they would give him a headache since they were an old prescription. He had to make a pair of Frankenstein glasses out of the various lenses, frames and earpieces and had to wear these on our honeymoon since we had to leave for Ireland the next morning.
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