1. I got my eyebrows waxed the day before my wedding on a whim. Big no-no, as I conveniently forgot that I was using Retin-A micro for my acne, and I got a huge-ass burn/scar in between my eyes. Major freak out here - I had a huge ass red scar smack in the middle of my face! Well the upper-middle of my face anyhow. Anyway, I was saved by the miracle of makeup. You couldn’t see it unless you got super close to me and were looking for it.
2. Two bridesmaids left their bride-issued footwear in miscellaneous places, resulting in one wearing flip flops in many of the portraits and the other wearing chocolate brown satin heels instead of my regulatory gold-strappy sandals - no biggie - on the day of the wedding I miraculously became a go-with-the-flow kinda gal.
3. The limo incident - the limo was very late picking up the boys, following an incident with the law and breaking into the limo garage. The driver was dressed like a skank (for a limo driver professional anyhow) and rude.
4. My aunt didn’t follow my detailed step-by-step breakdown of the flowers. The centerpieces were not in accordance with the bloom to branch ratio that I had envisioned. Many-a-thing was improvised NOT according to my plan - I had a split-second bridezilla moment, but then made a conscious decision not to be pissed until after the wedding was long over.
5. The hubby forgot to get a guestbook as I had previously assigned to be one of his only duties - he had to run to get one before the ceremony.
6. The favors were left behind and someone had to be called to rush to get the favors during the ceremony, and our coordinator was rushing to set them up during the reception.
7. My uncle got into a motor vehicle accident while turning into the ceremony venue - it was his fault.
8. One of my cousins decided it would be a good idea to dress as a skank to come to my wedding.
9. It was hot! The hubs was sweating like a pig! The minister joked about it being due to nerves, so it ended up being kind of cute instead of plain gross.
10. The aisle runner was left out at the ceremony site during the reception and it decided to monsoon. I had to dry out the runner in my garage for several days before it was dry enough to send back to the linen company.
11. During the “interview” portion of the wedding video footage, my mind went blank! The hubs, however, managed to pull out some really romantic stuff out of his ass at the last moment, making me look really bad. Bastard!
12. We tried to cut the cake together unsuccessfully - we accidently cut into the faux styrofoam layer upon the advice of someone (I don’t remember who) - they thought it was the 4th tier, but it actually the 3rd tier, which we happened to attempt to cut into. Makes for a funny story I suppose.
13. I almost couldn’t zip up my cake dress during the 1st reception (the short ABS dress) - I ate too much during the reception and forgot about how form fitting my second dress was. The food was THAT good!
14. I got my period the day before the wedding. I knew I forgot something - to start taking BC to regulate when my period was gonna be. As such, I was forced to wear big ugly undergarments under my ivory gown - big ol’ sexy spanx and boyshorts - hot, huh?
That’s all I can remember for now. I can’t wait to see my wedding video, whenever that happens to come in!
#8 - priceless!
There’s always one #8. Lol.
Might I inquire as to how you dealt with #4 after the fact? Or did you just let it go?
smartl- I just kinda let it go and steamed about it to myself :-p I didn’t want to hurt her feelings after she worked so hard all weekend to make my day prettier, ya know? I just told her thank you and that I truly appreciated everything she did for me and my hubby 
Sooo funny. I think I’m going to document all that went wrong on my day after the fact. I’m sure I’ll have a couple of #8’s show up. However I’ve been to several weddings here in the south, where what you would wear to say Walmart people wear to a formal wedding. CAN’T WAIT!
Do you really think that complaining about your aunt not following your directions multiple times on the internet for her or anyone else who reads your blog and knows her to see will avoid hurting her feelings? I’m hoping at least #8 won’t be able to figure out you are referring to her
Aww you should focus on the things that went right! As for #7, you said it was his fault, but more importantly, is he alright?
Despite all of those things that went “wrong,” you married the love of your life, and at the end of the day, that’s what really matters!
i would have turned into bridezilla! very proud of you for not!
I could understand why Mrs. Plum was upset over #4 seeing that she’s a floral designer - if it’s something you’re passionate about, even the smallest things can drive you insane! Also, as I read through the list, (and I could be totally misinterpreting things here) #8 seemed lighthearted, almost as a comic relief among some of the more serious things.
Although these lists can look long when you write it down one by one, it sure looks like Mrs. Plum had a beautiful wedding and like KDN said, what really matters is that she married the love of her life!
Miss Peony - thank you so much for understanding where i’m coming from! I didn’t mean it to be rude in any way - I was just venting. I did let my aunt know that I wasn’t completely thrilled with the design, but I really truly did appreciate her effort and wanting to help me.
lol yes #8 was meant to be funny - it;s just something you notice, but doesnt really BUG you per se - things like that are bound to happen!
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Actually I took the post to be as a helpful resource to other brides so we can try (as much as possible) to avoid the same problems. Of course you can’t avoid all problems, i.e. the car accident, but it’s always good to be prepared.
I’m sure you do look back on your wedding day with happy memories, not anger.
as a detail-oriented former bride, i feel ya because you do remember all the little things that went wrong. but it’s great to share this kind of information so that other brides-to-be can see that yes things will go wrong - often many, many things! but you can still have a wonderfully beautiful and happy wedding as you did Mrs. Plum!
venting is good for your health! i think this post is helpful. it shows things will go wrong (just accept it) and the wedding will still be an awesome event…as evident w/ mrs. plum’s wedding. it’s all about how you handle it and the need to put things in perspective.
Oh my - - how did you sum up all of my ‘day of fears’ into your actual day??? And here I was finally convincing myself that ‘everything will be fine, there wont be any snags…’ You’re a bee!!!! And you still (with your bee status) couldn’t control the universe. I’m doomed
Love number 8. We all have one of those!
I got my period the day before as well! Each time I had a dress change, this was the roll call.
1. get out of first dress.
2. pee
3. change tampon
4. get dressed
5. reapply lipstick.
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You’re funny, too bad I missed your wedding sounded like fun. Your hubby isn’t chinese and his mom wanted a chinese wedding or believed in chinese tradition, hm? You’re cute too, wished I could have met you. Next time, take care. Love Daniel
I can beat anyone with my list.
1.) My town was on fire. Our wedding was outdoors and it rained ash on our food and choked our guests with acrid smoke.
2.) So many people RSVP’d we had to up our final guest count to the caterer. Then (because of the fire, some said) about a third to half the guests just never showed up.
3.) The make-up artist, and hair stylist made me and my wedding party look knappy and retro. I asked for glossy and summery.
4.) I forgot to change out of my flipflops for the portraits… Oh wait, it doesn’t matter, because the photographer lost all of our wedding pics.
5.) I was over two hours late to my own wedding. When I finally arrived (dressed) none of the stuff I’d sent ahead had been unpacked or set up. Not the flowers, nothing.
6.) I only got to hear one song from our band. The cops came and shut them down after some awful person called them with a sound complaint. Mind you, this was around 3pm on the 4th of July.
7.) No one turned on the video camera. It was charged, but it never got taken out. It was just another thing that sat in a box, never unpacked and used.
8.) I let someone talk me out of a mic for the ceremony. People actually yelled out in the middle of the ceremony, “Speak up!”.
9.) Something went horribly wrong with the fireworks display, that was supposed to be our grand finale, at the end of the night. It kept starting and stopping intermittently.
10.) The caterer hightailed it out of there while the fireworks were sputtering on. When the display was finally done, I looked down to see the cake had been cleared away. They just threw it away so they could leave more quickly. They never even offered to pack a piece up for us to take away.
11.) The co-owners of the restaurant my fiancee worked at offered their venue as a place for a private afterparty. When all our guests showed up, someone had booked out our private room from underneath us.
12.) I had fantasized about breakfast in bed in the doubletree honeymoon suite the day after our wedding. By the time we remembered to make a rez, everything was booked solid. That night, we stayed at a oh-so glamorous holiday inn, by the airport.
13.) My rehersal dinner fantasy was to take everyone to the place my fiancee always took me on our anniversaries. At the last minute, the in-laws (who were paying for the R.D. as customary) balked and said the restaurant was too expensive. Right after I called the restaurant’s coordinator in tears and cancelled the whole dinner due to a lack of money, the in-laws said that they didn’t realllly mean it about the money, and why did I cancel? *pulls out hair*. We improvised a little luau at our house instead. It rained ash vigorously in honor of the relaxed out-door barbecue.
14.) This was one of the most annoying little irksome thing: One of my bridesmaids started bringing her best friend to every single private bridal-related event like dress fittings and such. The friend was a sullen ornery type that seemed to enjoy these girly-type activities about as much as getting teeth pulled without novacaine. She would sit in the corner and glower unpleasantly. I bought mani-pedis for all my bridesmaids to kick off the bridal shower. The friend whined loudly that the fumes were making her ill and went to sit in the car.
15.) That same bridesmaid that kept bringing her mean annoying friend everywhere, she had promised to bring the food to the bridal shower. She left the nail salon with the bitchy friend and just never showed up. She never even called… she did send a text message saying “my dad needs help starting up his generator because of the fire”. The next day she gave another girl a different excuse. At the nail salon my maid of honor overheard bitchy-friend asking about going to the movies and lame-bridesmaid agreed, so we basically know she just ditched us to go to the movies with her bitchy, controlling friend. Did I mention I haven’t spoken to her since the wedding?
16.) The night before the wedding, after the rehersal barbecue, my fiancee and I hightailed it out of there. We screwed up by not seeing that his crazy mother was escorted home at a reasonable hour. She ended up staying untill about 1am picking fights with my family and telling them lies about her son, like he beats her and will beat me and all this ridiculous, mad stuff. (She lost custody of him for phsyically abusing him when he was 14. She is insane and should not have been invited to the wedding. That was my fault as well.) My dad came to my door at 1:30am white as a sheet, and questioned me for a long time. I was awake, finishing off lists of instructions for setting up stuff at the site for the next day. Needless to say, having to deal with the family crisis and calm my father down, I never finished my lists, didn’t get to sleep on time, and well…
17.) Finally, the crushing depression of totally failing at throwing a wedding. I was out of work, and I had more than a year and I still couldn’t pull it off at all, which fills me with self-loathing. I keep thinking how I couldv’e handled everything differently. The only thing I don’t blame on myself was the town being on fire. My only plausible excuse is that I don’t know the first thing about how a wedding is supposed to go.
18.) Everyone says it was lovely, despite my personal feelings of failure and abandonment, which is a sort of a cold comfort.
19.) My hubby can’t believe I’m still typing. He gets mad at me for not remember the day with a more positive glow, but then I think back to the night my grandparents arrived in town and he was supposed to join us for supper, and I found him at the bar, SH*Tfaced drunk.
20.) Basically just… whatever. I’m happy enough. We can always have another party. Whatever. F*ckin A’. The town was on fire…
Mrs. Plum, Dallas
Age and Occupation in 06: 22, Accountant by day/Floral and Event Designer by night and weekends
Fiance's Age and Occupation: 24, Security Admin
Engagement Date: December 31, 2004
Wedding Date: June 29, 2007
Venue: Marie Gabrielle Restaurant and Gardens
About Me: I have been engaged for about two years now - yes, a long engagement, because my fiance and I wanted to wait until I graduated college, which I did this past summer! He proposed after dating just two months - crazy, I know, but 2 years later, here we are, still crazy in love :-). We are having not one, but TWO weddings and TWO receptions in one weekend - American-style and Vietnamese-style - in Dallas, Texas, where I was born and raised!
AHAHAa. mrs. plum- you are too funny! thanks for sharinggg! ^_^