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The Best Thing for Fighting the Blues

Is to see that your blues are not as black as they could be. Your comments helped me re focus, re gather and have a mini pity party of 'I don't like this blah blah blah' instead of a depressing fit.

Many of you face issues far harder, more complex with grace and courage than I do with this one non-life threatening accident.

Shame on me.

That truth made me get my act together….real fast!

 

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Another way, there are plenty of ways of getting off the blues train is to share someone's happiness.

Yesterday Mimi and Pierre invited me to see their wedding venue. OMG.

We had dinner and a toast, that champagne does the trick.

I cannot wait to show you the lovely details… Thank goodness for this handy iPhone!

 

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Instead of seeing my broken wrist as the best blues party in town I was swooped away by my friend's happiness, on my matchmaking, on that thing called love.

Felt good.

 

For those of you who are married, if you could change one thing of your wedding day what would it be? Advice or ideas about 'the day' are welcomed.

 

The wedding will be small, and not a ton of hoopla. Macarons and champagne a given.

Pink silk linen, and flowers.

Rings and trust.

And a cast hopefully off so no lace needed…

 

Comments

67 responses to “The Best Thing for Fighting the Blues”

  1. splendid

    we celebrated 26 years of marriage yesterday… if I could change one thing, it would be to not worry and ENJOY myself, we had a huge church wedding, over 350 people and everyone always says what a great time they had, i spent too much time worrying about my dress and the dance etc. one more piece of advice, spare no expense on photographs, memories are wonderful but very hard to show to the grandchildren.

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  2. jackie

    We ran away and got married in Scotland, even had to grab 2 people off the street to be our witnesses (they were on their lunch hour.) Hmmm…I guess more photos, yes, more photos. We don’t really have any…

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  3. Carol L

    I will be married for 30 years next month…yikes….and if I could go back and change one thing it would be to NOT have a big expensive church wedding/reception, that whirls by in the blink of an eye and have a simple backyard party instead. I would then sink all that money into real estate.
    Every time I see a young women at the newsstand looking thru those mesmerizing bridal magazines I always mention my suggestion. But I know they wont listen. At the very least use that money to buy a bigger diamond !

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  4. Bev

    After the church reception we had a small reception at my parents’ house and then drove off to start our honeymoon. If I was to do it over again, I would stay and enjoy being with all of the people who had made the trip out to Washington for the wedding.

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  5. Karen@PasGrand-Chose

    Champagne ALWAYS helps! (And I’m bummed because I missed out on that champagne bucket in TICA – does that even count?!).
    What a sweet photograph of the love birds! It doesn’t sound or look as if they need any advice – their wedding-day plans seem like perfection to me.

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  6. Becky F

    My husband and I will be married 25 years in May. We had a large church wedding/reception (300 guests). If I could do it over I would have a much smaller reception with just immediate family and close friends.
    I would hire a wedding planner to attend to all the details so that we could just enjoy the day. I spent too much time at the reception making sure everything was taken care of instead of relaxing and being with the people I loved. I would also wait a day before leaving for our honeymoon. After the reception(10PM) we drove 3 hours so that we could catch our flight to Ireland the next day. We were exhausted.

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  7. Laura @ 52 FLEA

    Our wedding 37 years ago was simple and family oriented, planned entirely by our parents as I was away at college. 🙂 It suited us perfectly and was a wonderful day. I wore my Mom’s satin wedding gown, a friend took photos, another made our cake. It was sweet, simple, what we could afford and filled with the love of family and friends. The only thing I would change would be the weather…there was a huge snow storm the night before!
    Those two look to be so in love! 🙂

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  8. Linda R.

    What would I change about my wedding? First I was going to say, “Nothing, absolutely nothing.” We were married 38 years ago in December at my cousin’s Montana ranch home surrounded by family and good friends … but the family was all mine. My husband had been estranged from his mother and stepfather (and consequently the rest of the family) for over ten years and so no one celebrated with us. Later however I discovered that two of his aunts (a sister to his mother and a sister to his father, both sort of the black sheep in the family) had remained in contact through a yearly birthday card or Christmas card; when I wrote them letters introducing myself, the door opened a little bit. Three years later a little granddaughter sealed the deal. So what would I have changed? That both our families had been with us when we celebrated.

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  9. Bernadetteryan5@gmail.com

    I would change my husband! Well not really, just sometimes when he is driving me mad, like today. Seriously, I would only have the people I really wanted at it, and I would have put a bit more thought into it, instead my parents planned it all, and I just turned up. Saying that it was a great day, everyone had a ball, I think because my husband and I are very relaxed and laid back, but as I said looking back I would like to have planned a couple of things myself, but I was too busy daydreaming and sailing along very happily and casually, so someone had to plan it. That was 25 years ago, almost.

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  10. Kristin

    I had the most perfect wedding. I loved my dress. I loved the food. The weather was beautiful, my guests were all there. The cake was delicious. The trio played beautiful music. The only thing I would change, and it is a silly detail, would be my hair! I did not like my hair. I wish I had a stylist who did it ‘wedding style’ and not just pulled back and sprayed with hairspray… A small detail, but the only thing that nags me from that day….

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  11. Natalie Thiele

    We got married 17 years ago in our backyard. I made my dress, our friends catered it, another friend loaned us a hot dog cart to use as a bar and some bales of hay to make a stage, our favorite band played, it was just what we wanted.
    What I would change? I wish we had hired a photographer. We put paper cameras on the tables. It was a fun thing, but it didn’t take the place of having great photos of the day. My brother-in-law took a few great photos of us, so we do have those, thank goodness.

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  12. deborah

    I would take more pictures, especially of the happy couple! I really love the idea of a smaller wedding and a larger reception when you return from your honeymoon trip.

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  13. Mo’a

    My wedding was 40 years ago…as far as I can remember it was perfect 🙂
    It is wonderful to see a photo of Mimi and Pierre. Their story is dinner party fodder for me. I love that a volcano erupting in my mother country (Iceland), resulted in a love story in France. If they need a guest at the wedding that can pronounce the name of the volcano…I am available 🙂
    I am sorry to hear about your accident.
    I wish you good healing…you are truly amazing…blogging no matter what is going on.

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  14. missy

    nothing to change….married at the
    Grand Canyon and would do every
    millisecond of my marriage again…
    missy from the bayou

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  15. Christina

    Well, that’s a good fun question…
    what would I change of how my wedding day went down?
    That my husband would have been there.
    Yes.
    We got married by my father in law, a pastor, and mother and brother in law as witnesses here in the states…
    nice and quiet without a huge ramtamtam… just 5 people. nice potluck style get together with aunts and uncles for the next day.
    back home in germany we were to have another church renewing of the vows (i think that’s what it’s called) for my side of the family…
    to make it short, we got thru the ceremony, all the while husband felt awfully sick, which he didn’t say anything about until we left church. so off home to bed he went. which left me driving back and forth between the restaurant where the whole party went and a sickbed to tend to my dear love…
    so, the flu, i wish my dear husband hadn’t come down with the flu on that day… really.
    no, i don’t hold a grudge, maybe just a little one, it is just another piece in the puzzle of life.
    :o)

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  16. kim

    I got married in a Buddhist temple and it was a very beautiful ceremony. We only invited about 40 people and had a small reception afterwards. I loved everything about it. The only mistake I made was that I didn’t hire a professional photographer. I just asked two friends to take as many photos as they could. Sadly, we didn’t get a lot of good photos and I was always sorry that I didn’t just hire someone to do it. Oh — but I just remembered that Mimi’s got you!! Doh.
    I just hope she has a lot of fun on her wedding day and that she doesn’t get stressed out.

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  17. Zosia

    Glad to hear you are feeling better. The bride and groom-to-be look lovely together. May they have Champagne every day of their life together (or at least very often).

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  18. Marilyn

    My wedding was long, long ago. I made my dress and still like it, loved the cake, and the photographer was amazing. I would have changed the flowers, there weren’t enough. I would have had flowers and more flowers, plus maybe a prettier venue too. But overall it fit the occasion at the time.

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  19. Weaverbec

    I’m glad to hear you are feeling better and jumped off the pity pot.
    We got married in my Grandmother’s back yard in front of a pink rambling rose bush in full bloom by the preacher that baptised me. Very small, 20 guests, all family. We had cake and ice cream.
    The only advice I have is to remember, no matter what happens the main objective is to get married. If they get married and are happy, then it was a perfect day!

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  20. Julie

    I loved my wedding so much, but I do wish we would have had a better photographer with more pictures. I wish I would have had people take more candid photos to remember the day.
    Also, my husband decided right before we had the receiving line that he didn’t want one. I spent the entire evening running around trying to talk to people and I didn’t get around to everyone. If we would have had the receiving line I would have been able to meet new people/family and seen everyone who attended.

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  21. Paula S In New Mexico

    Great memories! I love reading all these posts about love and weddings! We got married in a resort town by the local judge who had to be paged because he was out shopping. Afterwards we got caramel apples and mexican food for dinner. Only the two of us. Very low key, that’s how we roll. What would I change? I’d probably put more effort into that “special dress”.
    As nice as weddings are, they are no replacement for life-long love, devotion and commitment. Boy do I have that! I’m one happy girl.

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  22. Candace

    More photos especially of the details. Definately more photos.

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  23. RebeccaNYC

    My (2nd) wedding was 5 years ago. I wore a dress made in the costume shop at the Metropolitan Opera, carried a bouquet I made myself, and married the most handsome man imaginable. The only unfortunate part was the photography. My husband is a photo-journalist and many many many photo-journalists were there as guests, with their huge cameras in tow. So many photos were taken it started to be annoying. At one point a person outside of the restaurant asked if someone famous was inside because of all the photos. so, you’d think I would have a million photos of this beautiful event, right? WRONG. I have 10 photos from the day, thanks to my sister Liz who faithfully brought her little point and shoot camera. 5 years later and I am still begging those guys to give me the photos. It has become a big joke amongst us. Oh well. I wake up to that handsome man every day. Thats all that really matters.

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  24. Kiki

    I wouldn’t change a thing of my wedding to Hero Husband. BUT I would make sure to have a VERY GOOD photographer who takes tons of the type of photos I am taking…. lol – All the really nice photos are ‘random’ shots and I had to hunt after the few people who said they would take pixies – NOT what you should do on your wedding day.
    I had the most gorgeous and very simple flowers and I am still dreaming about them; the altar of the church was hardly visible – it was a wild field of impossibly long stemmed tulips in all colours (got married on the first day of spring), more glorious ranuncules and anemones, ‘married’ with long branches of stuff growing in the fleurist’s garden…. Same thing on the tables where we had dinner, and going on over the furniture along the side – it was heaven.
    It seems a theme here to spend some money on a good photographer…. YES, do it!
    Apart from that; I suggest to my HH from time to time (about once a month!) to renew our wedding vows – just like that – because it was such a spectacularly wonderful day… 🙂
    Lovely, lovely shot of the Happy Couple – exactly MY type of picture! See what I mean?

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  25. Kimberly

    I would like to go back and make the wedding more simple. I remember my Mom being so busy the morning of the wedding that I only saw her right before I walked down the aisle. Too much rushing around and not enough time enjoying my loved ones. Blessings, Kimberly

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  26. Amy Kortuem

    I’m so glad you’re out of your funk. It’s natural, I’m sure – to have those feelings after a major physical trauma (and yours was major, my dear). Seriously, visions of champagne and pink linen and macarons has gotten me out of my own bummer of not getting those grants!
    What can’t be fixed by champagne and pink things, really, when you think about it?

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  27. Amy Kortuem

    Oh, and P.S. … the thing I would have changed about my wedding day? I would have run like the wind. I would have grabbed my brother by the arm as we stood there waiting for the ceremony to start and jumped in his truck and driven away.
    Fast.

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  28. Sharon Penney-Morrison

    Ahh just think about your trip to China and all the fun things you got to do…and your wrist was not in a cast.
    Being bummed is ok. I have self pity days every now and then but I have friends who remind me of gifts and where I could be. Works every time.
    Hugs and keep on keeping on.
    xo

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  29. Theresa

    The biggest thing I would change about my wedding 20 years ago is that my mom would of been there. Instead she lay in the hospital after having surgery on her head for an aneurysm. It was both a happy day and a sad day for me. The best part was we stopped by the hospital around 1:ooam and took her a piece of cake

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  30. giftsofthejourney (Elizabeth Harper)

    I have to echo most of a comments regarding wedding photography. I wish I had insisted on hiring a professional for the day. I wrote a cute post about it later, but I still wish I had not had to worry about it that day.
    https://giftsofthejourney.wordpress.com/2009/02/17/everyones-a-wedding-photographer/

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  31. Chris Wittmann

    My first wedding was very small in a quaint little church but not one I was familiar with….my own church wouldn’t marry me and “English husband” because he was (and still is) an atheist! what would I have changed? How about not getting married to him in the first place 🙂
    My second marriage to my present husband was even smaller…married here at home. I wish now we had gotten married in NJ instead of here so my mom and sister could’ve been there.

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  32. Kathie B

    Recently discovered that the judge who performed Farmboy Husband’s and my wedding ceremony lo these many decades ago just retired earlier this year, at age 88. I’ve thought of writing to her to let her know that at least some of the couples she married are still together, but need a push (any suggestions?), because work and other distractions keep getting in the way.

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  33. Cheryl ~ Casual Cottage Chic

    Married 35 years ago in Las Vegas at the courthouse, wearing a simple white dress and holding a bouquet of pink (of course!) roses…no family & friends with us; no fuss and no stress. A romantic dinner at the hotel (with excellent champagne). Later..much fun at the gaming tables 😉 No wedding photos, no wedding cake, no big expensive reception. And they said it wouldn’t last…lol! Love that man of mine!!

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  34. Kathie B

    Is Chelsea available to do the wedding photography? She seems the ideal choice, if she’s available.

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  35. AmanDUH

    I would have wanted my Grandfather to be there, but he had died years before. Everything else was perfect. 🙂

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  36. Kathie B

    “If they need a guest at the wedding that can pronounce the name of the volcano…I am available :)”
    Quote of the Day!

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  37. Ann

    It took me a whole year to plan our wedding. Every detail planned out and every aspect of our wedding was beautiful. And after all this planning, what would I change? Well, is there anything that could help level the emotions? My dear dad, right before we walked down the aisle, whispered in my ear,”you are so beautiful, I don’t think I will give you away.” I walked down the aisle with tears streaming down my cheeks. DH at the other end didn’t understand and once the tears started all the emotions building up to that moment I just let the tears roll. I had everything so well planned and under control and didn’t even think I would get all emotional. Our wedding was perfect and those who attended talked about it for years so expect the unexpected and have a wonderfully blessed day.

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  38. Denise

    If I could change something, I would try to make sure that I was not so tired so I could have fun with my guests and be mindful and fully in the moment.

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  39. Jeannie

    The best advice I can give is to have fun. Don’t worry about Aunt Edna, who is a party pooper. Nothing you do will make her happy. It is your day and to heck with grumpy people. The one thing I would change would be to have lots of cameras available. This isn’t really a problem today, but 24 years ago our photographer’s camera was stolen from his car with all our photos on it. But most of all, make sure you have FUN!!!

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  40. Patti

    …we should have gone and enjoyed the impromptu party with friends and family after the reception.

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  41. everton terrace

    Wow, had loads of fun just now reading through all the comments. We had a great photographer and something she did, I loved. She had an assistant go and take photos of my husband as he got ready that morning. Shots of him shaving, buttoning up his vest, laughing with his friends etc., she did the same of me – putting on my make-up and so forth. It was fun for us both to be able to see each other during that time.
    I do wish I would have relaxed more at the reception. People came from far and wide to our wedding (other countries even) and I felt obligated to make sure I went around and spoke to everyone. I was an exhausted hostess. Wish I would have kind of stayed in one place and let them come to me. 🙂

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  42. Tammy Hensley

    The absolute only thing that I would ever change about our wedding day would be that our priest wouldn’t have ended up in the hospital on the morning of our wedding not only because he was in great pain but also because he’s a family friend who we so wanted to be a big part of our day. He called me at about 6:30 that morning and explained that he was in the hospital and was trying to find someone to replace him at the ceremony. My family was also trying to find a replacement and so at one point there were actually two priests there for our wedding mass which I wasn’t told about until after the mass was over (thankfully)! One of the most memorable parts of the day was going to the hospital after the wedding mass was over before we headed to the reception to visit him. We got some stares as we were in our wedding attire and when we left his room, the hallway was lined with nurses applauding us on our big day! So word to the wise, have a backup priest (or whatever your tradition dictates) – I never thought that was a possibility, but now I know!

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  43. Julie Ann

    My mother would have lived to see it. I love your photograph, looks like a match made in heaven, J xx

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  44. Victoria Ramos

    The weather for me was my #1 thing I would change. It was the hottest day of the year on Aug 30, 1987 – 110 degrees. Out door garden wedding. The cake was beautiful- three tier white chocolate mousse that started to lean to one side due to the heat.
    It was suppose to be a small garden affair at our local children’s home restaurant and garden (in keeping with my wanting to give back to the community)… until my mother-in-law got involved and invited too many so they were stuffed like sausages out there on the tiny garden patio….sweating like pigs.
    I was 29, both my parents were dead so I not only organized the whole thing, but paid for most of it ourselves. I also did all the flowers – and was stung by a wasp 3 times on my hand while cleaning up after doing the flowers that morning. To make it even better….Because docents were working the event, they neglected to tell me that the white chairs I ordered and had delivered for the ceremony had to be set up, because they didn’t do that….so my maid of honor and I drove over there in the morning like crazy women setting up the chairs….sweating all the while….with my swollen hand from the stings.
    But in the end – with three sweaty violin players, a leaning cake, droopy flowers and dripping guests who all ran for the air conditioning the minute the ceremony ended — all went well.
    I agree with all above about the photography. I had a co-worker who did weddings on the side do mine, and I had wished that I had a professional do it. But hey, you do what you can do.

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  45. Rebecca in the pacific northwest

    At the time of the wedding, I wasn’t too crazy about the flower arrangement up front — “airy” to me, and to the flower person, were apparently two different things. It bugged me.
    But you know what? 29 years later, the main thing I remember from that lovely day is looking into David’s eyes and saying the vows that are essentially between him and me and God; everyone else is a loving on-looker. I always tell young friends who are about to get married how very different from being in the audience for someone else’s wedding, compared to being the one looking into the eyes of her beloved.
    From the Episcopal prayer book, we vowed to each other, “With all that I am and all that I am, I honor you.” And we still do.
    PS. We lucked into really good weather. And loved all the people who got to be there, many of whom are now gone. I’m so happy for all my candid shots of friends at the party!

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  46. Delphine

    We had a very small wedding with just family and a couple of friends 38 years ago. Reception was back at our flat with immediate family – wedding cake and horrible bubbley stuff. I would have liked to dance at my wedding, everyone should dance at their wedding. But your lovebirds already look like they’re dancing. Happy, happy wishes sent their way.

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  47. Rebecca in the pacific northwest

    PS. When we go to weddings, we always whisper to each other “our wedding was best!” Which is what I hope for each couple who weds — that they’ll do exactly what they love and want most.
    Our wedding was in the middle of a Sunday worship service at our beloved, very vital church of which we were each a part. Instead of having to feed the hungry masses who would have piled into the parish hall immediately aftewards, we offered blanket invitation to all in the church and all our coworkers (we worked together too) to drive the 30 minutes to my husband’s parent’s backyard, for a relaxed outdoor party that started 2 hours after the wedding was over. Anybody who was willing to drive that far was more than welcome.
    There was 200 pounds of boiled shrimp (gift from his folks!), kegs of beer, and zucchini bread as a vague nod to wedding cake about which I didn’t really care.
    We dropped off our stuff at the hotel on the way to the party and got, um, delayed a little bit before showing up, slightly-red faced and grinning.

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  48. Gretchen

    Changes for the wedding? I would sit my father closer to me at our dinner — for his comfort and ease. I would ban the bee that stung my husband on our honeymoon, although he handled it very well. Other than that, perfect!!

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  49. Lorene Silva

    Well there are two things I would change. The most important one is when my Parents walked me down the aisle I was supposed to kiss both of them before I was handed off to my husband. Well I was so nervous that I totally forgot and my Mom said something and as soon as she said the comment I knew I had forgotten. The other thing that I would change would be to make sure that no one had moved the box with the clear candle holders that were for the cake table. What happened was the cake lady couldn’t find them so she just put the votive candles directly on the white tablecloth. You guessed it, they were lit and when I got up there to cut the cake I was horrified to see melted wax all over. The photographer did a good job of hiding it as best she could in the pictures.

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  50. momof5

    Summer garden wedding
    Lots of daisys and blue cornflowers
    Home made “hippie” wedding dress embroidered with pink roses, 3 flower girls in blue gingham dresses
    Flowing champagne and appetizers Dinner with strawberry shortcake in lieu of wedding cake
    Father-in-law sang Sun Rise Sunset while family and friends cried…missing my dad
    Perfection, almost.

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  51. Danna

    Nothing.
    Even those things that appeared at the time to be ‘flaws’ have turned out to be some of our happiest memories of the day…….because most of those now bring with them fits of laughter.

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  52. Jane Ann

    We have been married 29 wonderful years. If I could go back, I would have been more involved in the whole wedding preparation. My dear Dad had recently lost his job and provided for the whole wonderful day. I wish I had been more sensitive to that. My mom basically planned the whole thing and ran things by me. She was absolutely wonderful! I chose to wear her dress and would do it all over again. I really just wanted to get married and appreciated her help. I really should have helped a lot more. Also, the person who read the Bible passage tried to sound like God. Awkward! I’d recommend not using an aspiring thespian in the service.

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  53. Marie-Noëlle

    Just like Julie Ann, I would have liked my mother to be here … and live it all with us.
    This has been on my mind since the wedding preparations !
    I wished I had gone shopping with my husband-to-be (for the purchase of his suit) …
    Pleased your blues have turned pink !!!!!!!!!!!

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  54. Marie-Noëlle

    PS –
    I know macarons have become very popular… but personnally I would have chosen the traditional “choux”.
    Now thinking things over, I doubt it that macarons (in the nowaday style) were born when I got married (in the late 1980s)

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  55. Jude Jackson

    In 1973 at 19, and a flower child, I eloped in a yellow mini dress on a hot July morning and was married for 28 years. Regrets? Sure, but I have a beautiful loving daughter from that union.
    At age 50, I had a traditonal church wedding with a long rose colored silk suit and fairy attired flower girls. The marriage ended after 18 months. Regrets. Sure, but life is not about mistakes and regrets. It’s just….life.
    At age 55 I again married, but this time in Hawaii in a turquoise summer dress with a flower wreath in my hair and posies I had picked along the way in the garden in Honolulu where we said our vows. This marriage is now totally unconventional as I live in the states and my spouse lives in Costa Rica.
    Again, when we change our mindset about how things “should” or “shouldn’t” be done, it opens up a whole other world. Change your thoughts and you can change your life.~~~~~~~>:<

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  56. monique

    Bravo for Mimi and Pierre
    kiss
    mo

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  57. Brenda, Walker, LA, USA

    Also, a small wedding….Would not have changed a thing!

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  58. Natalie Thiele

    Victoria, we live in Curtis Park and looked at the Children’s Home, too. In the end we decided to spend the money on our home and get married in the back yard.
    It was 107 degrees when we got married. It almost melted our out of town friends.

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  59. Karen C

    I would not change anything about my wedding other than wishing my Dad could have lived long enough to be a part of it.
    But my son’s wedding memories were completely spoiled by a last minute change in photographers.
    We later found out he was NOT a photographer and as hard as he tried, it breaks my heart every time I look at the photos.
    Not one presentable photo of my son and his bride or the wedding party.
    Digital photography and photoshop do NOT a photographer make!

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  60. Diane

    I had an shared custody agreement with my ex that he had my daughter every other week. I planned to go to the mountains of North Carolina to be married on my ‘off’ week. A few days before, he announced that he could not take her that week. There was no one else that could watch. I knew that in FL a notary could perform a wedding and I knew a notary, a dear woman, with whom I had previously worked. So, I was married in the lobby of my old employer with my daughter and a few former co-workers in attendance. I was in such a hurry to get dressed and I tried on two different shoes, one on each foot. I was on the way in the car when I realized I had never decided which shoes and I was still wearing TWO TOTALLY DIFFERENT SHOES. I’m not sure I would have changed a thing.

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  61. Michelle in Htown

    I would have done two things differently:
    1. I would have eaten at my reception. I was having so much fun, visiting with family, friends and neighbors that I never ate a bite. When we got to the hotel that night, the kitchen was closed and we had no car! Starving!!
    2. I would have packed an overnight bag for after the ceremony. I had no clothes to wear after taking off my dress at the hotel. Though not a problem for my husband (blush), I didn’t have anything to wear out of the hotel the next morning except my dress! Also, no brush, no toothbrush …
    My life has been like that for the past 25 years with my husband. I plan, plan, plan and then watch the comedy take over. That, I wouldn’t change for anything.

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  62. Sara

    There is just one thing I’d change about my wedding day–we spent over an hour after the ceremony taking photos before taking part in the reception (both were at the same place). Our time would have been much better spent celebrating with our loved ones. We didn’t need so many professional photos–every possible combo of us with various relatives.
    All the best to the happy couple!

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  63. Rochambeau

    Dearest Lovely Corey,
    I’m SO sorry for your break!!!!!!!! Please know I am here for you if you have ANY questions about the healing process as this happened to me last year.
    Love,
    Constance
    I’ll email you my phone # now.

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  64. Rochambeau

    PS
    SO, so happy you are such a great matchmaker!!!!!

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  65. Bridget

    If I could change one thing… it would have been the photographer. Our pictures looked like my husbands family was having a family reunion. The only hint it was wedding photos was if I was in a picture wearing white. Thankfully plenty of family members were snapping the most perfect and precious photos of all.

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  66. Kiki

    Corey ;
    Isn’t it interesting how life is playing…. ?!
    Today I get the perfect Wedding Mail :
    My little wedding
    With tariffs for wedding photographers (not cheap but what stars they are!!!)
    Wedding Photojournalism in France
    Of course the top of tops, la crème de la crème is, to have a film made and I think I probably would save for this ‘extra’ – maybe for my silver or golden wedding (both of us in wheelchairs gliding over the lovely parquet of a beautiful venue…. !
    Wedding Film, Teaser and Video
    Again, best, very best wishes to the ‘new couple’ – it will happen any moment now, won’t it?!
    Love and hugs
    Kiki

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  67. Kiki

    Corey ;
    Isn’t it interesting how life is playing…. ?!
    Today I get the perfect Wedding Mail :
    http://www.mylittle.fr/mylittleweb/my-little-wedding-mariage.html from My little wedding
    With tariffs for wedding photographers (not cheap but what stars they are!!!)
    http://www.wpja.com/wedding-photojournalism/france-wedding-photographers.html for Wedding Photojournalism in France
    Of course the top of tops, la crème de la crème is, to have a film made and I think I probably would save for this ‘extra’ – maybe for my silver or golden wedding (both of us in wheelchairs gliding over the lovely parquet of a beautiful venue…. !
    http://www.mylittle.fr/mylittlewedding/video-film-mariage-dolly.html for Wedding Film, Teaser and Video
    Again, best, very best wishes to the ‘new couple’Mimi and Pierre – it will happen any moment now, won’t it?!
    Actually, I am aware that it is waaaayyy to late for a professional photographer – but the site and the many ideas are so wonderful that I HAD to share them with you and your readers….
    Love and hugs
    Kiki

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