My Wedding

• The church I wanted to get married in wasn't large enough to accommodate DH's family.
• My friend who sang at the wedding was dumped by her boyfriend on her way to the wedding rehearsal.
• It started raining just as I arrived at the church, my hair and makeup done already.
• When I got into the car after having my makeup done, I accidentally shut my veil in the car door, pulling it crooked. No one told me, and I didn't notice until we got the wedding pictures back.
• I didn't realize that heavier makeup is needed for photos, so my wedding pictures look like I'm not wearing makeup. I didn't want to look THAT natural.
• I wanted to wear my mom's wedding dress, but alterations weren't permitted.
• I wanted to get married barefoot, but the cost to hem my dress that much led me to wear heels that killed my feet.
• The florist disregarded my request for simple spring bouquets of daisies, roses and hydrangeas. Those flowers were present, but there was nothing simple about the arrangements.
• DH and I wrote our own vows. I spoke loud enough for the audience to hear, while DH spoke so that I could hear. We both disagreed with how the other person spoke.
• The minister was supposed to read 1 Corinthians 13 as a passage. Instead, he expounded in length about each part of the verse.
• DH's youngest brother passed out during the closing prayer. The people taping our wedding edited it out.
• We arranged for a nursery for children during the wedding. The teething twins came into the church anyway.
• I wanted light finger foods for the reception - relish trays and finger sandwiches. I got fried chicken fingers, Swedish meatballs, and mini hotdogs in barbecue sauce.
• The baker for my cake used hot pink icing instead of rose pink to trim the cake.
• Just because someone has a fancy camera doesn't make them a photographer. There are some angles that are more flattering than others, and a good photographer knows this.

Despite all that, I loved my wedding. Because it all came down to this:

Happy 8th Anniversary, DH.