Weddingbee Blog

’Twas was the night before our wedding. We had just finished dessert with our guests and were heading to our reception site. On the list of things to do: the flowers, seating cards, various decorations, making our signature drink, numbering and moving our tables if need be. A group of guys had set up the tables the day before, but since it wasn’t able to be set up as planned, everyone wanted to get my final approval! This happened more often than I anticipated.

The biggest task was the flowers. Do you remember I was going to DIY my flowers? I really wanted to make my own bouquet and had full confidence that I could do it, but our friend who recently became a florist offered to do our flowers for us. Or that was my understanding. We had some sort of miscommunication where I thought she offered to do the flowers, and she thought she was just ordering/buying them for us. Whoops. There was also a last minute problem getting the flowers that I wanted through her store, so I ended up with different flowers. I really should have ordered them all online as I had planned, but my friend was being so generous, how could I say no? The bouquets were beautiful, but I did have to spend a moment getting over that they were not going to look like my trial runs.

Because of our miscommunication, I hadn’t slotted time do my flowers and felt awful! Luckily, our friend took the reins and while I was getting the reception details in order, she had a crew of friends helping her with the flowers. Another mistake I had made was not going to get the vases for the flowers myself. My brain was not functioning when I told my mom to get small vases, maybe something round. The vases she picked, and I approved over the phone, were an awful fit for our flowers. Our friends tried several arrangements to find something that would work, but again it didn’t turn out as I had been planning. I kinda wanted to cry inside, but looking back it was really no big deal. Heck, we could have not had flowers on the tables, because we had plenty of candles to cover the tables.

The flowers above are kinda sad, I know, but it worked. I still wish I had been able to do at least some of the bouquets myself - and not because I didn’t love them because they were great, but I really enjoyed making the bouquets during my trial runs! I should have made time to at least make my own, but the stress of the evening threw me into a mode where I was doing and delegating without really thinking if things made sense. I was in go-time mode.

I can hardly remember what time it was when we left. Maybe 1 AM? As I looked at the reception hall before heading home, I heaved a heavy sigh. The tables which were supposed to be set up in two rows, one for each side of the family, were now three, and didn’t have much walking space between them. The flowers were finished, but not as I imagined. All I could think about was what wasn’t going perfect.

In reality I had a lot to be relived about, like the fact that our friend didn’t punch me in the face when I had her re-shape my bouquet. I’m so silly. Do you see my bouquet in the making (above). Who wouldn’t be happy to hold that? Everything for the wedding had made it to PA safe and sound, including our furball. The weather might have been calling for rain. I had a plan for rain made weeks ago, the foresight to pack leather ’outside’ heels so my Kate Spades wouldn’t get ruined, and we now had a slew of giant umbrellas at our disposal. We were having a great time with our friends and family who had arrived days early and were more than willing to lend a helping hand when need be. There were no true disasters to speak of. I may have gone to bed worried, but by the morning, all I was thinking about was our day - Our WEDDING day! And I couldn’t have been more excited. Seriously, wait ’til you see my crazy excited faces.

Next up: Our wedding day!

For those of you who are married, did you find yourselves dwelling on anything that wasn’t going as planned or were you able to keep it cool and focus on everything that was going well? Or did you find the days leading up to your wedding were easy breezy?