I hate to be the one to break it to you: Not everything is going to go perfectly at your wedding.
I’ll give you an example: At my own wedding, the order we put in to have pounds (and pounds) of ice delivered just never showed up. My undies showed through my dress (borrowed a slip from a bridesmaid). And the venue had FORGOTTEN to order the colors of accent fabric squares for my tables.
Sigh.
Oh well. It all worked out.
That’s the beauty of having a day surrounded by people who love you.
They all want you to have a perfect wedding day, and they are glad to help you get over any little hiccups that show up.
We still got married. It was still one of the happiest days of my life, and those little details are some of the real moments that I actually remember from the haze of the wedding day.
Another example?
This photo is from my sister-in-law’s wedding that I did NOT shoot but was the maid-of-honor.
All of us bridesmaids spent months and dollars getting our bridesmaid dresses exactly to perfection. Hair and shoes and jewelry and alterations were all planned to a T.
I even had a seamstress add straps to my dress!
Even with all that planning, even with 5 bridesmaids paying attention, we still missed something….
The lining of the dress showed any time you were a position other than standing up straight.
Sitting, bending of any kind and (of course) dancing, one could see 2-3 inches of different-fabric dress lining sticking out the bottom of the dress hem.
So, what else could we do?
Right before the wedding ceremony, we found a pair of scissors and helped each other quickly hack off a few inches of fabric!
Obviously not as planned, but still a real moment at a real wedding.
This is part of the story of Kaitlin and Joe’s wedding, and a funny moment worth remembering….
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Jay and Sharon really saved the day at your wedding. Jay was the one that went and bought bags and bags of ice and hauled it all back in his van. And Sharon took the lace jacket that matched my dress all the way to the mall to have them remove that huge plastic anti-theft tag that they had neglected to remove when I bought it. (not sure why it didn’t set off any alarms when I walked out with my purchase). Sadly I hadn’t noticed it for the month or two that it was hanging in my closet. And you were such a trooper to take the cloth napkin snaffoo all in stride by just choosing a color that they had on hand. At our wedding we forgot to bring the guest book and it was too far away to go home and get it so someone (I don’t even remember who) went and bought another one for us.
At my friend’s wedding all us bridesmaids were wearing strapless (beautiful) dresses that had super long sashes around the waist. We all ended up tying the sashes around our shoulders, halter top style, because there was a little too much boob for the occasion, haha!