Or, what went wrong. Clearly, every bride and groom fear those inevitable wedding day disasters. Not that Mac and I are pessimists, we’re not, we just wanted to prepared for the worst (crumbling cupcakes, undercooked food, late photographers, etc). Here’s what we encountered:
1. Guest arrival: we rented a party bus to transport guests from the hotel to the Botanical Garden. The bus got stuck in traffic with a full cargo, and a few guests trickled in even after I was walking down the aisle.
My reaction: we pushed the ceremony back for the en route folks. The late ones sat in the back.
2. Bridal procession: I was slightly particular about when in the arrangement of Canon in D I wanted to start down the aisle. Since our aisle was oddly shaped, I misjudged the time. Whoops. I was halfway down the aisle when the guests stood up.
My reaction: whatevs. I wasn’t about to turn around and restart the song.
3. My name: our pastor called me Lori. Don’t know how this happened as he’s never ever done it.
My reaction: I reminded him that my name is in fact Lisa. He thanked me and mentioned after the ceremony that he accidentally called one bride the wrong name even through her vows. That would suck.
4. Music: we did have a few awkward moments of silence. Our DJ was fantastic, but we had some lulls in between cocktail hour and dinner. I didn’t decide to do the bouquet and garter tosses til after I turned in my music selections to the DJ. I just wish that he had just turned on something. He also didn’t make any announcements about wrapping the reception up. The music ended, and he started packing up while our guests were milling around.
My reaction: whatevs. They all got on the shuttle and continued drinking at the hotel bar.
5. Not all of our guests signed our guest book frame. Clearly, from the post title, Mac’s brother and best man forgot. Winner. Now that I think about it, I’m not sure any of our bridal party signed our guestbook.
My reaction: Well, it took me over a month to notice the bridesmaids were missing. Can’t say I’m losing sleep over it.
Overall, our wedding snafus were inconsequential in the grand scheme of wedding disasters. My guess is that our guests only noticed the “Lori” incident. We were thankful and blessed to have an amazingly perfect wedding day surrounded by our friends and family.
What sort of disasters have y’all experience or seen?
