This post beings my "Wedding Retrospective" series on the wedding. This post is the full list of "Things I’m glad I did", "Things I wish I’d done differently", and "Things I have mixed feeling about" now that I'm looking back on our Wedding. You have to tell me which one(s) from each category you want to hear more about and I will do another post about the top ones and explain them in detail...
Things I’m glad I did:
- Had a Day Of Coordinator (with a detailed agenda/checklist)
- Had a Videographer
- Saw each other before hand and did pictures
- Had a girlfriend stay at my parent’s house with me nights before the wedding
- Had live music and danced until the end of the reception
- Hired a photographer that let me own my digital negatives
- Did DIY stationary for all of the wedding ceremony/reception itesm
- Did not do chair covers/ chair upgrades (because the stock chairs were fine)
- Had a Smashed Potato Bar at Midnight (so fun!)
- Involved our faith and families in our wedding ceremony
- Had beautiful turquoise and tangerine uplighting in the ball room
- Had a day-after brunch (did not leave for our Honeymoon right away)
- Did charity favors for wedding favors
- Had simple elegant centerpieces
- Had bouquets without a lot of greenery
- Gave each other wedding gifts (besides rings)
- Made out-of-town gift bags/buckets for the guests
- Did dance lessons for our first dance
- Did our own vows
- Actually ate our food at the wedding
- Had a Sweetheart table (let attendants sit with their family/boyfriends/wives/etc.)
- Created a "Play" and "Do Not Play" list for the Band
- Changed into sandals for the reception
- Put out pictures of us and our families
- Gave the band an iPod to play at breaks
- Had my dad make me a big omelet the AM of the wedding
- Had beautiful bright bridesmaid dresses and flowers
- Did a Bridesmaid Brunch and Mani/Pedi the day before
- Did the Rehearsal Dinner at my parents house
- Did assinged seats/escort cards
Things I wish I’d done differently. I wish I’d:
- Got ready earlier
- Had them box the cake to take it to go
- Had more group pictures – USC people, HS people, me with each bridesmaid, etc. and more photos of guests
- Bought a professional makeup mirror to check my makeup in
- Not ordered cake for every guest
- Reapplied makeup before the reception after being out in the sun/wind for hours
- Paid more attention to the guys tuxes and not gotten the ugly cheap ones
- Not stressed out so much morning of the wedding
- Told my bridesmaids/groomsmen exactly how to enter the ballroom
- Instructed the cake servers of how to serve the 3 flavors of cake
- Gotten a few more “traditional” photography shots to add to all the creative ones we have
Things I have mixed feeling about:
- Getting married at a hotel
- Doing my own makeup
- Not doing a receiving line, instead doing table rounds
- Doing a big, expensive wedding
- Wedding blogging
1 comment:
Oooh...this is interesting to see. I'm curious about so many of them and your reason for putting them into the category they're in. Definitely something to keep in mind...
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