"Glitches" at Your Wedding - Please Share

[Lisa and Pic]

Originally Posted by McheleM

Besides my oldest daughters attitude and refusal to take orders from anyone because "i know where mom wants everything" (and she didnt) our main hiccup was the pastor calling DH by his brothers name!!! I tease DH that if he makes me mad, I'll just go live with 'my other husband'.
I simply leaned back and looked at my brother in law and shook my head NO WAY!!

And the homeless guy my daughter made mad was pretty funny! He wanted a cup of lemonade and got mad when she told him no. He said "surely you can spare a cup of lemonade" and she got all momma mode and told him "no, I can't! I have 50 wedding guests who I have to provide lemonade for. There's a water fountain!" I told her Later i would have given him the lemonade but she said she was afraid if she gave it to him, she'd have to give some to all of them......

And Dawn, our entire ceremony and reception was under $2000.00. And I am pleased at how it all turned out!

I just loved hearing about your wedding and the wrong name is too funny!

[celstu1]

This is not really a glitch... but when DH & I went to do the cake, we didn't know who was supposed to go first. We stood there staring at each other like 'Now what?' LOL

[Lou]

Originally Posted by AngelFae

We've received invitations with a tag line in the bottom left corn that says, "No children, please." DH and I won't attend any weddings like that though.

If you knew the children I spoke of you would understand. I don't hate children I just had these two annoying me for most of my teen years. No one would babysit them anymore and that is probably why they were at the wedding.

[celstu1]

Its ok with me if someone does not want to come because they can't bring their children, as long as they are not mad at me for not inviting the kids. Our reception was no kids under 13. We just addressed the invitations are Mr. & Mrs. and not family. 99% of the guests thanked us for giving them a day (we had a day wedding) away from the kids to have a nice meal and fun with their significant other. Hubbys sister (whose 2 kids were invited!) was talking behind my back to the family saying if her kids were not invited she was not going (just be a b***ch bc she knew her kids were invited) she was just trying to cause trouble with the family and me. I can't stand her anyways!
Don't like it, don't come!

[McheleM]

I'm fine with well behaved kids. It's the ones who run around unattended and undisciplined that irritate me. (Like the ones who pull bolts of fabric off the shelf and leave them on the floor and the parents do NOTHING!)

[Lisa and Pic]

Originally Posted by yorkietalkjilly

I didn't see that thread about Michele's ceremony!!! Got to go looking and see if I can find it. I wanted to hear how it all went.

Loving the stories here. My wedding was glitch free thank goodness but one of my dearest friend's maid of honor fainted right smack in the middle of the vows!!! I was standing two bridesmaids over from her and began to sense motion out of the corner of my eye and was dying to look but didn't want to call attention(as if everybody couldn't already see what was happening). For the longest time she was just swaying forward and back, forward and back for quite a while before down she went! Everything just stopped while everybody crowded around and someone got her a Coke to sip on and a cold cloth for her face. Finally when she felt stronger, everybody got back into position and the minister started the final ceremony from the beginning. It was all being videoed with gorgeous lighting, beautiful effects here and there and little candlelight spots all about on the flowers and candles and and I felt so sorry for my friend, the beautiful bride, to have her and her fiance's big moment so spoiled as she was such a perfectionist about things. When they did the final cut of the wedding video, the video service just edited the fainting out and you never would know it happened. My friend that fainted still feels so bad about fainting but my friend the bride never gave it a second thought - at least to all of us.

It sounds like things went very smoothly at your wedding! But, how awful about your friend fainting and what a classy bride to never mention it and to cut out that part in her video.

[AngelFae]

Originally Posted by Lou

If you knew the children I spoke of you would understand. I don't hate children I just had these two annoying me for most of my teen years. No one would babysit them anymore and that is probably why they were at the wedding.

This is so funny that this came up- DH and I just received an invite yesterday that says "Adult only reception."
At my sister's reception our youngest cousin at the time was running around and crashed into the cake table! Pretty sure that she ruined an awful lot of the cake!
I love that at the start if our ceremony when I started down the aisle, a little girl I used to babysit for let out a HUGE gasp and very loudly said, "Ooh! She looks like the Wizard of OZ!" (Meaning Glinda, I had a huge tulle skirt.)

[Lisa and Pic]

Originally Posted by msyorktown

I was at the hairdresser, when I got a call from my dad saying the florist called. Well I call them back to ask what the problem was....my flowers weren't ready!!! I got married in February and had ordered the flowers back in November the year before....'what the &*(^ do you mean you forgot to order them??? AND you have no idea what I ordered....I don't care if yo mama forgot and she don't speak good English, fly down south and get the freakin orchids and orange roses I ordered!!!! OMG I was soooo pizzed ....I was in tears! The make-up artist had just finished my make up, so you know that had to be re-done.....and my hair...good LORD that was another story!

I was growing out my hair and decided to give it a rest by putting extensions in it. What a mess...the girl that put them in had no idea what she was doing, it looked like a birds nest! So I show up at my daughters best friends house at 2am and all she could say was WOW, just Wow.
Go to my hairdresser after I had taken out the nest that was supposed to be my hair....she says its ok boo, I can fix it...."oh boy...sweetie I'm so sorry I can't fix this....its all broken off, I have to cut it" WHAT!!!!
I'm getting married in three months, how you gon cut it off...it aint gon grow back in time.....again tears.
She says 'boo boo, its ok, you know how we do...we can add some, if we need too (meaning add some hair)...hush now let me work some magic"
I had half inch of hair when she was done! All of my hair had broken off from the stupid extensions I had someone put in! We are talking about six inches of hair had to be cut...I had wanted my hair up bc I was wearing a tiara!...NOPE back to the store to change my headpiece, cause now I had no freakin hair!!!!!

In the end, the florist 'borrowed' the flowers from another florist....they had babys breath and the orchids, the white roses came from yet another florist....and my hair was a cap of curls that framed my face...it had grown enough that we didn't need to add any to what I had grown.

And the joke is after all of that...we are no longer together....

Oh, no flowers... Back in my bridesmaid's days, I was in a wedding and the flowers did not arrive. We were in the basement waiting for an hour and a half for my friend's flowers. Not sure what happened. I felt sorry for the people waiting upstairs.

How awful about your hair. Bet you had a cute haircut, though.

[msyorktown]

Originally Posted by Lisa and Pic

Oh, no flowers... Back in my bridesmaid's days, I was in a wedding and the flowers did not arrive. We were in the basement waiting for an hour and a half for my friend's flowers. Not sure what happened. I felt sorry for the people waiting upstairs.

How awful about your hair. Bet you had a cute haircut, though.

My hair did turn out very pretty....after that no more hairdressers for me....its now 9yrs later, and my dread locs are almost at my waist! All is well....

[OscarsMom]

My husband and I got married in Vegas. During the ceremony our pastor burped REALLY REALLY loud. I was so embarrassed and couldn't quit giggling! It was pretty funny when we got home and showed my family the video. If I wouldve got married at home with a big fancy wedding I probably wouldve been upset that he did that, but hey its Vegas LOL

[Lisa and Pic]

Originally Posted by msyorktown

My hair did turn out very pretty....after that no more hairdressers for me....its now 9yrs later, and my dread locs are almost at my waist! All is well....

Oh how wonderful! Glad your hair turned out perfectly and that it was able to grow.

Originally Posted by OscarsMom

My husband and I got married in Vegas. During the ceremony our pastor burped REALLY REALLY loud. I was so embarrassed and couldn't quit giggling! It was pretty funny when we got home and showed my family the video. If I wouldve got married at home with a big fancy wedding I probably wouldve been upset that he did that, but hey its Vegas LOL

Too funny about the burp and glad you were able to get it on video. Did your giggling also make the video?

[Gillykat]

I would have cried laughing at the pastor burping......silly things like that just crease me up

Neil and I had a pretty straightforward wedding.....apart from the mother of all thunderstorms and monsoon rain as I was being driven to the Registry Office Thankfully it soon passed and it was soon glorious sunshine once more.

We just had a quiet wedding with Neil's parents, brother & his wife and 5 of our closest friends The registrar seemed quite shocked at there only being 9 of them. Thing is.....neither of us wanted a massive big event and didn't have the cash for it anyway...especially as the shop I was working in had closed down just 7 weeks beforehand! The whole thing cost less than £300 £97.50 for the marriage to be held in Newcastle Registry Office, £70 for my dress & jacket, £25 for my plain white gold band (found it in a flea market one week before the wedding!!!), £50 for Neil's suit and not much extra for my hair to be put up on the morning by my wonderful hairdresser and a corsage (is that the right word?) of freesias for Neil and myself The honeymoon was two weeks in the Lake District which Neil's parents paid for as a wedding gift Twelve years (on August 31st) later we are still blissfully happy

Funny thing was....I had a customer in the shop where I work today and she was talking about how her daughter got married last weekend and how it had all 'only' cost £15,000. She was dumbstruck when I said mine had barely been £300 Albeit it wasn't a big fancy church do.

After we had been married our friends took photos outside the building in front of the gorgeous flower displays and we then got into our car and drove off on honeymoon We had to stop a few times as we drove over the Pennines as the UK was just recovering from that terrible Foot & Mouth outbreak in 2001 and at certain places you still had guys in waterproofs washing down your vehicle wheels and underside with disinfectant.

If we could it again I don't think we would change a thing.....other than stay in a caravan or a cottage instead of an apartment as the woman downstairs was SO noisy

[Lisa and Pic]

Originally Posted by ChibiLuv

aw man these stories are crazy- I can't wait to see what kind of things happen at my wedding in 3 months

Best wishes to you! I am sure you are having a blast getting ready and will probably have something that happens to make you laugh.

Originally Posted by Gillykat

I would have cried laughing at the pastor burping......silly things like that just crease me up.

Neil and I had a pretty straightforward wedding.....apart from the mother of all thunderstorms and monsoon rain as I was being driven to the Registry Office Thankfully it soon passed and it was soon glorious sunshine once more.

We just had a quiet wedding with Neil's parents, brother & his wife and 5 of our closest friends The registrar seemed quite shocked at there only being 9 of them. Thing is.....neither of us wanted a massive big event and didn't have the cash for it anyway...especially as the shop I was working in had closed down just 7 weeks beforehand! The whole thing cost less than £300 £97.50 for the marriage to be held in Newcastle Registry Office, £70 for my dress & jacket, £25 for my plain white gold band (found it in a flea market one week before the wedding!!!), £50 for Neil's suit and not much extra for my hair to be put up on the morning by my wonderful hairdresser and a corsage (is that the right word?) of freesias for Neil and myself The honeymoon was two weeks in the Lake District which Neil's parents paid for as a wedding gift Twelve years (on August 31st) later we are still blissfully happy

Funny thing was....I had a customer in the shop where I work today and she was talking about how her daughter got married last weekend and how it had all 'only' cost £15,000. She was dumbstruck when I said mine had barely been £300 Albeit it wasn't a big fancy church do.

After we had been married our friends took photos outside the building in front of the gorgeous flower displays and we then got into our car and drove off on honeymoon We had to stop a few times as we drove over the Pennines as the UK was just recovering from that terrible Foot & Mouth outbreak in 2001 and at certain places you still had guys in waterproofs washing down your vehicle wheels and underside with disinfectant.

If we could it again I don't think we would change a thing.....other than stay in a caravan or a cottage instead of an apartment as the woman downstairs was SO noisy

Sounds like your wedding was wonderful!

[AngelFae]

It is absolutely ridiculous how much money some people spend on their weddings. DH and I have friends whose CAKE cost more than our entire wedding! The kicker of it- the cake wasn't even very good!
I was a bridal consultant for 8 1/2 years and I certainly helped put together some crazy weddings. I must say, simple elegance is my favorite style and it doesn't have to cost a fortune!

[My lil friend]

I have to think hard to remember back that far. Because I am my mother's only daughter,I let her plan the wedding that she didnt get,we just showed up. Sense my DH is NEVER on time,always 15 min late. I told him to be at the church at 4pm,the wedding was at 7pm. I remember standing at the end of the isle waiting for my dad to walk with me,I looked at him and asked "do I gotta do this?" he said "Yes,because he had spent a fortune". That was my only moment of wanting to be the runaway bride. At the beginning of the ceremony I pulled a tissue out of my cuff and handed it to DH. We made it about half way through the ceremony,heard the big doors to the church squeeeeek open behind us,a man's VERY drunk voice says "hey! look! its a wedding". I told DH ," your uncle is here". The reception was a blur. All I remember is my feet were killing me,I had on 4" heels and Mom wouldnt let me take them off because it was "improper". As we left,DHs bestman dumped an entire camera case full of rice on me,,approx 8lbs. We finally made it to the limo and I looked at DH and said " We are finally legal". Kudos to my mother for single handedly making EVERYTHING for the wedding,my dress,her dress,3 bridesmaids dresses,our cake that was 5ft tall,all of the flowers (she didnt just put them together,she actually made the flowers). Im pretty sure that my parents left town for 3months after the wedding.