When Your Perfect Day Isn’t…

Your wedding day is supposed to be absolutely perfect, but that’s not always the case. We’ve all seen those “wedding bloopers” on TV and YouTube, and although we may hope nothing like that ever happens to us, what if it does? How to cope? Let me use my own wedding day as an example.

It started with my hairdresser taking forever to do my hair. The trial took 90 minutes and looked fantastic. On my wedding day I got there at 9am and didn’t get done until 1! My florist was scheduled to arrive at 1:30, as were my maids, flowergirl and ring bearers. The traffic was ridiculous-it was as if every slow driver was out on the road. I got home at 1:45 to find my maids, flowergirl, ringbearer, florist, and photographer waiting for me. The photographer was early. She urged me to get dressed right away, so I completely missed out on the whole mom/daughter moment of her helping me get dressed because she was still at her hotel getting ready. I got into my dress and found it didn’t fit quite right and bunched a bit in the middle. It was fine at my final fitting but something went wrong between then and when I picked it up after it was steamed and pressed. Everything went smoothly after that until the limo arrived and it was not the one we’d reserved! This one was incredibly small and barely fit the 8 people we had. As I got in my head slammed against the roof, that’s how cramped it was. On top of all that the photographer’s car wouldn’t start so she and her equipment got crammed in with us as well. I was not happy, but it was only 5 minutes or so to the church.

We got to the church, and my emotions take over as my dad and I are walking down the aisle. As a result those pics look horrible because I am crying-good tears mind you but horrible none the less. The priest that was supposed to marry us (and who we loved!) got called to active duty (he’s in the Army) so they assigned the new deacon to us. He proceeded to completely screw up our ceremony. He had us exchange rings before we exchanged our vows, chastised my husband for saying yes instead of “I do” (after telling him to “answer in the affirmative”), and basically making us feel like fools. But we were married!

The picture taking went pretty well, and then it was on to the reception (the limo company explained to us that the limo we wanted had broken down and to make it up to us gave us a party bus for free for the rest of the day).

How did the reception go? Stay tuned!