Weddingbee Blog

He proposed. We planned for 22 months. Friends and family from Vietnam, Alaska, Illinois, Kansas, New Jersey, New York, Washington, Texas, D.C., Arizona, Colorado, and beyond ventured to San Diego, CA for a weekend of wedding craziness and fun. It happened so incredibly quickly. One moment I was sitting on my parents’ living room floor working on Deal or No Deal paddles and the next moment I was surrounded by friends and family ready to celebrate our union. We were in a whirlwind of wedding planning and executing craziness. And now it’s come and gone and I’m left with some memories of our day but even more blurriness.

What happened? Where are the photos? The video? This waiting is killing me. What did people think of the decor? Heck, what did the reception room even look like when guests got there? Did it match my vision? I simply have no clue.

Each person you talk to is sure to have their own perspective on the wedding day.

After all, everyone has to view the day through their own lens. Even our photographer and videographer are sure to have seen our wedding differently. They viewed it through entirely different lenses (lenses that actually record!). It’s interesting to think about how much other people’s perspective alters the way we think about and remember our own weddings.

To ensure that we could recall our own perspective of the day, Mr HW and I discussed our high and low moments of the day when we were finally alone on our wedding night. We discuss our high-lows after most events, so it was only natural that we did it for our wedding day, too.

My high: Hearing Mr. Hot Wings’ vows. The look in his eyes made me weak in the knees. I probably would have fallen had we not been holding hands.

My low: When I was just barely done with hair, my mom came flying into the room and yelled, “they’re here! Why aren’t you dressed? Get dressed! The tea ceremony has already begun!” I was sitting in a robe, and it was still 30 minutes until the official start time of the tea ceremony. I told BM1 to get my dress, BM 2 to grab my bra, BM 3 to grab my pants, BM 4 to find my shoes, and my mom to calm the F down. I threw off my robe with abandon, with male photog and male videographers in the room and all. Can someone say “stress”?

His high: Seeing me for the first time that day at our tea ceremony.

His low: Waking up at 3 AM with a near panic attack because of the planning stress.

I’m so curious how looking at pictures and watching video is going to start changing our perspective about the wedding day. And just so my first blog post post-wedding isn’t without a photo, here’s a teaser from our ever fab photog Hanssie!

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Married people in the hive, how has talking with your guests, and looking at your wedding photos and videos altered the way you remember or think about your wedding day?