Weddingbee Blog

When it came to the planning process, I admit, I really stressed myself out and drove people around me crazy because I was so unorganized. Here are my wedding day imperfections:

1. In one of my close up detail pictures, there’s a shot of my nice pedicured foot in bronze sandals. That was not what I wore day of. I placed a special order for custom made 5″ heels on Shoes Usa. Their shoes are known for comfort despite having gravity defying heels. Days before the wedding, there was no UPS man with my wedding shoes, so I called the company and spoke to who I think was the owner. He said he would ship them out overnight (free of charge). I must’ve thank you’ed the man to death. The day before the wedding, still no shoes so I called and found out they were never shipped. At that point, I was freaking out. A guy there told me he was going to personally drop them off at the airport and have them shipped to Newark airport (35 minutes from where I live), but the plane would not arrive until 7 something the morning of my wedding day. Long story short, my custom made shoes ended up stuck in San Francisco. My friend James ran around the day of the wedding to find me shoes. I ended up in 6″ not 5″ inch white stripper heels day of, which actually turned out perfect with the length of my dress.

Lesson Learned: It’ll be common sense and completely obvious for most of you, if not everyone. Get your things done ahead of time. Get it done before you have to click on express shipment. I really pushed it and waited till’ the last minute for shoes, so I don’t blame the company. The guy that helped me really went above and beyond to get the shoes out to me on time. The shoes are great. I will be rocking them with jeans in the summer time.

2. I’m not a hair person. I’ve had really long straight hair for as long as I can remember. I don’t go hair salons often because they always want to go scissor happy on my hair and cut it all off. I’ve cut and hightlighted my own hair for years in the past. On the day of the wedding, I got my hair done at a local Korean salon in Palisades Park. It was an updo (which I didn’t want but my mom had a fit when I didn’t want to do it) and they used hot rollers. BIG MISTAKE. I ended up crying in the car to my younger brother and at home morning of. I hated it. Luckily, my sister can do hair so she fixed it for me as much as possible, and I left my veil on the entire night.

Lesson Learned: Always do a trial run for hair. Make sure you love it and if you want it a certain way, get it done the way you want it regardless of what anyone else thinks. Hot roller curling styles give you ajumma (old married Korean women) hair. Have a stylist always use a hot curling iron, and make sure they are not rushing. It’s your wedding. No one should be rushing on the day of the wedding.

3. Instead of getting a good night’s rest before the big day, I stayed up making cd’s for the DJ. The music did turn out great and everyone had fun, but they didn’t play my cake cutting song which was Harry Connick Jr.’s Recipe For Love (which is by the way, the cutest song ever if want to use it for yourselves.) The DJ also didn’t play an entire cd I burned, which had a bunch of naughty, clubby music for my drunken guests. I can understand though - it might not have been really appropriate anyways. Songs included : Ice Cube- Put Your Back Into It, 20 Fingers- Lick It… you get the point.

Lesson Learned: When giving any DJ a burned cd of things you want to be played, number and list the songs in order of sequence. I just gave him a list of the songs but didn’t number them.

A little tip: Ask the DJ for his playlist to see which songs you want to weed out. With my DJ, I gave him an entire list of “do not play” songs which were never played. But I didn’t expect to here an instrumental version of the Congratulations song. If you plan on using the DJ I did, have them take that out. UBER CORNY.

Despite the little mishaps I had on the day of the wedding, everything came together at the end. Ladies that are getting married, don’t get dragged all over the place. Give yourself time to enjoy your hard work and the actual wedding. It’s an important day you’ll look back on a lot.