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Location: Deep in the heart of Texas. | I was thinking today and was going to ask all of the married people on here. If there was one thing in your wedding that you could change what would it of been. And how did you pick your wedding date? Yes i am married i was just wondering how everyone else picked theirs.
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Location: Riding Crackhead. | Aren't you already married? |
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| Just guessing here, but I would bet most would say they wished they would have focused more on the marriage and less on the wedding. |
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Location: Riding Crackhead. | OK I see you edited your post and yes you are married. The wedding is the smallest part of a marriage. Colors, who's standing up for you, where its at and the date is small potatoes compared to love, respect, being faithful etc. |
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Location: NW MT | That I never would have wasted my time marrying my ex husband!!  |
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Location: Riding Crackhead. | Rockyroad - 2014-01-19 10:38 PM That I never would have wasted my time marrying my ex husband!!
Bahaaaaahaaaa |
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I'll Be Your Huckleberry
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Location: Arizona | My whole wedding was a disaster. If I could do it over again I would! Although it makes an awesome story. It makes everyone say, "oh my wedding wasn't so bad after all." LOL! |
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Location: Deep in the heart of Texas. | Rockyroad - 2014-01-19 10:38 PM
That I never would have wasted my time marrying my ex husband!!
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Location: Deep in the heart of Texas. | MsDuchessGoTe - 2014-01-19 10:41 PM
My whole wedding was a disaster. If I could do it over again I would! Although it makes an awesome story. It makes everyone say, "oh my wedding wasn't so bad after all." LOL!
Well my uncle preached our wedding. And of course my husbands mother is a witch as it is and she walks into the rehersal and said im the **** grooms mother where the hell am i suppose to sit . And we were in the church and i was like i will now be going to the back of the church and crawl under the last pew. |
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Location: Kansas | Why dwell on the past that you can not change.
Look to the present day and future to see how you can make it the best |
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I'll Be Your Huckleberry
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Location: Arizona | txkrystal - 2014-01-19 10:43 PM
MsDuchessGoTe - 2014-01-19 10:41 PM
My whole wedding was a disaster. If I could do it over again I would! Although it makes an awesome story. It makes everyone say, "oh my wedding wasn't so bad after all." LOL!
Well my uncle preached our wedding. And of course my husbands mother is a witch as it is and she walks into the rehersal and said im the **** grooms mother where the hell am i suppose to sit . And we were in the church and i was like i will now be going to the back of the church and crawl under the last pew.
Hahahaha! I'm sorry that's terrible but funny!
For me.
1. I was pregnant.
2. I had very minimal money to pay for the wedding so bought my dress at a costume shop for 25.00. It was ugly and didn't fit well.
3. The day of the wedding my mom picked up the wrong hoop skirt and it showed terribly so I opted not to wear it.
4. Realized w/o the hoop skirt you could see my undies so went commando instead.
5. My hair looked awful ( went to a family friend because he was free) big mistake.
6. My makeup was even worse. The hubs said I should have done it myself lol.
7. It was raining. ( In a white dress...commando...)
8. No dress rehearsal so the groomsmen dragged my bridesmaids down the aisle going mach 10.
9. My red/white cake had SO much red food coloring it was almost inedible.
10. When my dad was giving a speech at the "reception" he banged on the table to get everyone's attention. The groom on top of the cake fell off, the head broke off, and rolled across the floor...everyone thought that was hilarious.
11. The limo driver dropped us off at the wrong hotel, so I had to walk 2 blocks, in my wedding dress, in the rain to the right one. (Our cell phones were already at the hotel in the room, relatives set it up for us)
12. My hubby had to work the next day, I had to work and be at the Dr. at 9:00. Needless to say we never had a honeymoon.
However, we've been married 9 years in February with 2 beautiful boys and it makes a good story lol.
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Location: Texas | Don't let your MIL do it... and as for the date, her and hubby pretty much picked it. |
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| i let my hubby pick the date so he would remember the date (WHICH HES AWFUL AT)
He gets it wrong anyway ....WHY??? you ask.... WELL .. HE DIDNT REALIZE MEMORIAL DAY WAS A DIFFERENT DATE EACH YEAR!!!
he picked that day because it was the anniversary of our first date-- i know sweet..so no matter what the date is--i always celebrate my anniversary on memorial day.
as far as changes-- i would have double checked with the bakery to make sure i got MY WEDDING CAKE..sent someone to pick it up-- they came back with a small cake wasnt the one i picked or paid for and wasnt even close to feeding all the family we had there
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 Underestimated Underdog
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Location: Minnesota | I would change not getting SMASHED at my reception. I drank way to much!  
The date was picked because it had to be planned around goose opener, duck opener, trapping season opener and the end of the racing season for my husband. We were marrier on September 8th, 2012. |
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Hungarian Midget Woman
Location: Midwest | I would not have scheduled our flight for our honeymoon at 7 AM the morning after our wedding.... we had like 3 hours of sleep.... not the best thought out plan |
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Location: N Texas | I picked October 6 because I like fall weather, and being in north Texas, I figured I'd have a good shot at some awesome weather for the day. WRONG. It was SO COLD, I was so bummed out.
I would change a lot about it if I could go back and re-do it. I wouldn't try so hard to do all the "traditional" stuff...like matching everything. I would make it more like a party and less like a wedding reception. I also would've picked a venue with an indoor option. We had an outdoor wedding, and the reception was under covered pavilion, not inside, so everyone was cold, but they were real troopers anyway.
I would also hire professional caterers instead of relying on my hubby's family, so that my guests would be served WARM food.
My wedding was way too stressful for me, I really didn't like all the planning. I'm definitely missing the "it's MY day, and this will be so much fun!" gene. |
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Location: On the Boulevard of Broken Dreams... | Sangria - 2014-01-19 11:46 PM Why dwell on the past that you can not change.
Look to the present day and future to see how you can make it the best
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| We got married on the 4th of July because we knew that we would both have that weekend off from work (plus now we get fireworks on our anniversary)! We eloped with only two people and a photographer present. I guess really the only thing I would change is I would have someone there with a video recorder too. My husband has the tiniest bit of a speech impediment that blows up under pressure. I'm officially his "awfully wedded wife", because he got stuck four different times on "awfully", I was in hysterics laughing and the JP could barely get his words out either from laughing at us all. Then I got hysterics again when it was my turn and got stuck on "lawfully wedded husband", because I couldn't breathe from laughing too much. I would definitely elope and the whole mess, clothes, venue, photographer, etc. ended up costing like $3500 total and the photos and memories are so wonderful. :) |
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Location: Idahome | We got married during the NFR on Dec. 6. We picked that because we have friends and family from all over and thought that would entice them to come to the wedding. The only thing I would have changed is my photographer. He got some good pics, but had no personality and we really didn't care for him. I also wish Pinterest would have been around back when we got married. Otherwise, we did all the decor and it turned out really well. We left before everyone and they had to kick people out because no one wanted to leave. |
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 The Comeback Kid
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Location: lost in missouri | My sister, my brother in law, myself and my husband each picked a day, put it in a hat and my BIL drew one out. Lets see I would rethink putting a candle on the table with our guest book as our guest book was caught on fire. I would not forget my husbands wedding band in my truck console and I would think twice about lettig the first boy who ever kissed me (first grade lol) sing at our wedding and reception, at least he didnt announce in church and waited until the reception to let everyone know i was the first girl he ever kissed. lol it was funny and sweet so maybe i wouldnt change that part. |
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| I would not change a single thing about our wedding day. Everyone said that things would happen that will drive you crazy, or it won't run smooth....
Honestly...we were expecting things to go wrong, and they never did. It went great! So-I would not change a thing!
As far as picking the date, we went with June 5th, 2010. It was the closest Saturday to when we actually started dating on June 10, 2006, and the church and hall were open. |
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Location: Now Bateman - West of Ft. Worth | I either wanted an April or Oct wedding. We went with Oct. because it could rain or be cold in April. When we went to look at the location (a year before the wedding), the only open Saturday they had was in the middle of Nov. I don't do cold so that was out. We decided to have it on a Friday. I asked him, which date could you remember, 10/04 or 10/11. He said 10/04, so that's what we went with. We got married 10/04/13
The only thing I would change is to take more pictures of just us and the party. We didn't do very many...I was running behind on getting ready and just didn't have the time before it all got started to take all the pictures that I wanted. |
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Location: Near San Antonio, TX | I was so opposite of a Bridezilla. I was the first of us three girls (my two sisters and I) to get married, and my mom had a hey-day with it. I was like "whatever" to everything and my mom mostly picked. It certianly turned out ncie, but hindsight 20/20, we should have gone to Vegas. It is about the couple, not about putting on a big party for 300 of your closest friends and family. That is how it should be anyhow. |
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Location: Oklahoma | We picked 05/19/12 because it was the first free weekend after my husband graduated college. I finished a year before he did and moved back home for the year, so the faster the better!
If I could change something.... I would have tried to not have been in such a rush! For example: My dress was originally a corset back, but I wanted it to zip and I wanted buttons over the zipper. So, we paid the extra $250ish to alter the back..... only to be in such a hurry that we zipped the dress and totally forgot about the buttons! You can't tell in the pictures, but once I walked out of the church I realized that we had forgotten and I hope that no one in the church could tell they were undone!! |
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Location: Oklahoma | Amber_Sanders - 2014-01-20 10:19 AM
I either wanted an April or Oct wedding. We went with Oct. because it could rain or be cold in April. When we went to look at the location (a year before the wedding), the only open Saturday they had was in the middle of Nov. I don't do cold so that was out. We decided to have it on a Friday. I asked him, which date could you remember, 10/04 or 10/11. He said 10/04, so that's what we went with. We got married 10/04/13
The only thing I would change is to take more pictures of just us and the party. We didn't do very many...I was running behind on getting ready and just didn't have the time before it all got started to take all the pictures that I wanted.
I totally agree on the pictures! I had three of four grandparents living at my wedding and I didn't get any formal pictures of my husband and I with them. I have some non-formal (so thank goodness for that!), but I wish I had better ones as well. |
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Location: SW MO | If I was getting married now days instead of a wedding I would save that money & spend it on a honeymoon or things for my house.
After you have been married several years the photos are under your bed with dust on them & who even knows where that dress is |
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Location: Great NW | If I had it to do over again. I would go to Vegas. Apply the what I saved to the house. |
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Location: Riding Crackhead. | I agree with eloping. If I had a "re-do" that's what I would do. |
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Location: Nebraska | I wouldn't trade my reception for anything. It was awesome and none of our friends' weddings yet have even come close. It wasn't formal and was like a giant party. The ONLY thing I would change is that I wouldn't have picked a date smack dab in the middle of nursing school. |
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Location: CTX | lol, we didn really "pick" a date, hubby showed up at work and we where talking about when to get married, so when my supervisor said to leave and go talk to the JP we went and got married that same day. His family is 2000 miles away, and mine are on another continent.... so we just went ahead and got married. Both in uniform.... now that makes for a nice wedding picture....
I still remember my mom telling me not to get married in jeans.... well.... I didn't...... |
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Location: East Texas | When my wife starts a conversation with that sentence..... It is going to cost me. |
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| I would get a new photographer and DJ. I went with suggestions from my husband's stepfather. The photographer was there for like an hour, pics from the dressing room, ceremony and in one spot afterwards. He had another job to go to. Wouldn't go cheap on that again. Thank goodness a lot of my friends are into taking pictures so we got good ones from them. The DJ didn't have our first dance song, so I had to pick another at the last minute. He was a bigger guy and fell out of his chair at one point. Every time I left to go to the smoking area he played one of the songs I had requested on a list, really uncool. It was a small venue you could see me. And he brought his kids dressed in muddy boots, cutoff shorts, lookin like ragdolls, and they ate our food. (We did buffet style) OH and he started 30 minutes late, and expected a tip afterwards....Yeah right!
I always wanted a spring wedding outside, we live in Florida so May is too hot, April rains usually, so we went with March 27th(Saturday), turned out to be perfect weather. |
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