What (if anything) would you change about your wedding?

We had an incredible wedding. DH's Marine Corps buddies were the entertainment - from the dress blue uniforms and sword arch to them dancing and singing all night with all the kids and old ladies.

I wish I had asked the photographer to take more pictures of the guests, not just the wedding party. There's many loved ones who have left us and I don't have pictures of them.

For DD's wedding, the pictures were "artsy", but there wasn't a single shot of just the bride and groom where both of them are looking at the camera. Lots of him staring at her, looking at each other. All the shots in front of the altar had them with other family members.

I loved my wedding. We had a smaller wedding w/a wedding planner who did a fab-o job. The only thing I would change is the dress that my grandfather's wife wore to the wedding. She wore her wedding dress to my wedding. It was a knee length dress, but still...this isn't about YOU!

I don't feel bad, because my inlaws, who paid for the wedding, invited 150 of the 200 guests!  That's on them .

I actually got married last year with my anniversary coming up in a couple weeks so I was just thinking about this! I loved my special day & there were only two things that I wish had been different.

My MUA was over an hour late coming to my house (insert excuses here) which pushed everything else later, too. I wasn't late for the ceremony but we were unable to take any photos together, besides a few first looks, before I had to go hide in the church while guests arrived. My photographer did take some formals of my husband and my kids while I was hiding but my son has a weird grimace in ALL of the photos that he told the photog was his real smile and my husband and teen didn't notice. We were rushed after the ceremony to get over to the reception so I just wish we'd had that extra hour before the ceremony to get all of the photos I wanted. 

The other issue was that our caterer (which was a small local restaurant), while absolutely DELICIOUS, had only done a couple of wedding receptions before they did ours. They served SOOOO slowly (and we had less than 50 guests) and dinner with its various courses took 2 hours to get through. By the time they were wrapping things up, many of our guests were ready to leave... and we hadn't even danced yet! I only got to dance with my husband once, and the reception itself ended an hour early because everyone was tired and so full from dinner. My husband and I were getting photos at our favorite sweet shop around the corner so we weren't aware of how slowly things were being served until it was too late to speed things up. We had also assumed that since it was served family-style that we would be able to take the leftovers home and had planned accordingly but after we had cake, did first dance and dance with my parents, and then told a few guests goodbye, everyone from catering was gone and with the leftovers! It didn't say that we got to take the leftovers home in our contract, so that was our mistake not to follow up on, but we were pretty disappointed to have paid what we did and not had any leftovers to eat the next day since we didn't eat much at the reception.

We had a very small outdoor ceremony in my parent's backyard with only immediate family and close friends, probably 35 to 40 people total. I wouldn't change any of that. But I would change the date. We got married in August. In Texas. Outdoors. It was HOT.

I would change my dress but that might be more because it's been 38 years and my style has changed obviously. I feel like my mom liked the dress a whole lot more than I did.

I would hire a photographer. My brother is a good photographer but the kegs at the reception got in the way of getting any good photos out of him.

What I really wish though is that I could go back to that day for just a little while. So many family and friends who are gone now, including my dad and my sister and my in-laws.

Wow.

Not her wedding dress but my MIL wore white to our wedding. I tried not to let it bother me but obviously it still does. 

Marriage #1 (for me) was in my hometown in Utah. My fiance/husband was from California. His family was so mad over the light refreshments to the point it was embarrassing how they kept going on and on about it even years later. We had the sherbet sprite drink as well

My mom planned the prefect wedding. I was 21 and was just ready to get on with my life. The only thing I would have added would be a videographer. Everything else went really well.

Nothing. I have never been a big fan of weddings. We eloped. No family, no friends, just one witness. That's how we both wanted it.

The groom.  I would have saved myself years of pain and stress if I had followed my gut instead of my heart.  

I guess my thinking was that he was still only 21 years old and that women matured much earlier than boys did.  I thought he would grow up and be more responsible and not drink so much.

We should never have married so young.  He was the only boyfriend I had ever had.  I had met him in junior high school when we were both 12 years old.  His locker was directly below mine. We hung out during lunch at school and he would walk me most of the way home after school, ditching his books into a hedge at the corner of his street so he could carry mine for me.  

We hung together at any school-sponsored dance and went on every ride together when my town rented Disneyland for the night.  But we didn’t officially start to date until I turned 16.  And even then, we could only have group dates with other friends for that first year.  His older sister would go to the movies with us with her boyfriend, but she was cool and let us sit in our own row.

I guess that sounds horribly strict by today’s standards, but back then, my friends all had similar rules, some more strict and some more lenient. But even though we had known each other for almost 10 years by then, we were so not in a position to be picking life partners.

The location. Trying to include more family members on DH side, we had it where we were living which was his hometown. I would have had it in Nebraska so more of MY people could attend. All of my family attended but only a few friends.

Nothing. It was great. Truly - we have friends who say it was still one of the best parties they've ever been to, 36 years later.

A close relative did a similar thing. She wore a mid thigh, white dress with a back split, and a huge hat, shoes etc the same colour as my flowers and the bridesmaid's dress sashes. What's that you you...scene stealing attempt? No! Never 

Honestly, I wouldn't have spent so much on one day. I enjoyed it and it was very much to my taste at that time. I also doubt that I could have been talked out of the large wedding at that age. DH and I took on debt for the wedding and it took us the first several years of our marriage to get out of it. Not a great way to start a marriage.