Brides, what sort of things cropped up 'on the morning'?

Erm.......nothing ?

Thats what I like to hear!!!

Make sure labels are taken off the bottom of new shoes, cut labels off /iron anything else that needs it.

Depending on what you are doing with make up/nails etc things like eyelash glue, nail glue are good to have on hand! Also wetwipes. I've cleaned dark red lipstick smear off the front of pale pink bridesmaid dress with them in the car on the way to the church!

Spare tights/stockings etc.

Thanks, all good tips!!

My morning was honestly really chilled out. I think the owner of the B&B I was staying in nearly had a nervous breakdown trying to cook breakfast for my whole family, but I was quite happy!

I had a little wobble when my MUA was 5 minutes late but that all settled once she arrived. The only other thing that didn't go quite to plan was that my hair and make-up took slightly longer than anticipated, so the car arrived for my BMs before I was ready to put on my dress - in hindsight I'd have spent the extra money on a second car for them at the same time as mine, rather than have one car do two trips. Fortunately I had various aunts and cousins around to help with the dress and it was all fine in the end.

I must say though, that I didn't have anything to do with the venue setup. H did all that, and I know he had a more stressful time!

Erm nothing really.. and anyone with any decency won't come to you if there is an issue anyway. The phrase 'bring me solutions not problems' comes to mind. No one should be bugging you on the day!

Absolutely nothing. And if they did, my venue coordinator never let on.

Sooo true - because I'm ATB I deal with the problems!!!

I was very annoyed when I was trying to do a bride's make up once and the florist, venue co-ordinator, caterer ALL came to ask her stupid questions and take her away. Dis-advantage of getting ready at the venue..

Nothing at all. I went to church early for private prayers, did some gardening, and waited for everyone to turn up. Totally chilled.

Actually I'm lying.. there were a few things that people came to me with on the morning (defo a disadvantage of getting ready at the venue) but my response to them was I don't care just deal with it.

Mum went to set up the cake and the 3 tier stand we had previously been shown was no-where to be seen, in it's place was a 4 tier. Mum had made a 3 tier cake. I told her to deal with it, I didn't even want to know.

TOG told me 10mins before we left for the ceremony that he'd spoken to the vicar and been told he couldn't take pictures during the ceremony. My response to this was really rather rude and along the lines of 'what the f do you want me to do about that right now, take f'ing photos'

❤️ One of my bridesmaids only picked up her dress the day before , en route to the train station (it was with a dressmaker for shortening). She didn't have chance to try it on before taking it away... She told the other BM's about this but they decided not to tell me which I am very grateful for!!!

My hair/make-up ladies turned up early, so showers were a bit rushed. I was sick a few times and had to go for an unscheduled walk to calm myself down (this state of affairs was entirely unexpected). I had to sew up my mother's fascinator. We had to hem ribbons. The BMs ended up ironing shirts.

Nothing that sent the whole morning down the pan, but enough to keep us ticking along without a load of time to spare.

It's clear from the focus of your posts that this concerns you immensely but, honestly cupcake, there's nothing you can do about it. Nobody's going to be coming to you asking you to do anything major and, in some ways, it's nice to turn your brain off and sew the odd button on.

It was drizzling/spitting and I'd decided against getting umbrellas for our June wedding. Luckily almost all of our day was scheduled for indoors anyway (city wedding and neither of us are outdoorsy).

Apart from that, I don't recall any last-minute panics in the morning. A few little things went wrong during the day but they were either organisational (e.g. there was a mix-up which led to my iPod being left behind so no music for the champagne reception) or things that you COULD NOT have "covered beforehand", like Waitrose messing up our sandwiches order (which did not ruin the day anyway!).

Needed to buy last minute pressies for parents (talk about last minute shopping). Decided I was ravenous and likely to faint during the ceremony on the way back from hairdresser/MUA's salon so went to acquire pasty/chelsea bun. Left monster brolly at salon - had to go and rescue it. CBM forgot strapless bra so had to tuck things in and her straps weren't so dressmaker had to reattach before putting me in my dress

Actually it was all fun and I'd've rather been busy than thinking too much.

I WOULD definitely plan to eat before the service if you can - at least a decent breakfast as I would have had a major wobbly moment if I'd not headed over to the pasty shop!

I had forgotten to pick up my engagement ring (mum had to dash off to jewellers to pick it up)

I got a stain on the back of my dress at the end of the train almost as soon as I had put it on (I didn't care)

I found I wasn't stressed at all and had nothing to sort, the only thing that slightly bothered me was bordom! I woke just after 5am, hairdresser wasn't due to arrive till 9am, so morning was a tad long with not much to do till everything/everyone arrived.

Good luck on the day, it will all be fine

Okay, this was so much of a help. I mean, even I was wondering what might crop up.

Thats the one thing i am worried about, waking up early then being bored while everyone else has their hair done. Hopefully there will be too much going on to be bored (in a good way).

Why on earth would you be bored?! Just because you aren't busy doesn't = boredom. I loved spending the morning with my bridesmaids, I don't get to see them as often as I would like so we just had a fab morning chatting away, drinking champers etc.

I think though, that if you start panicking about all the things that can go wrong, you'll work yourself up.

What went wrong for one person has very little chance of being relevant to anyone else. And the overwhelming feeling is that none of it matters anyway.

Yes, try to get everything sorted to the best of your knowledge beforehand but don't worry about what might happen. If anything does, you'll deal with it.

I was very chilled during the morning of my wedding but there were a couple of things that got me wound up - I had given my coach company a contact for someone travelling on the bus should anyone not turn up, but they phoned me instead. The piper also came up to the room where I was getting ready to ask what I wanted him to do!! This pee'd me off as I had already told the piper what I wanted and he decided to send someone else, not pass on the infor and then go on holiday.

I would of said the same thing!

Ahh aahh this thread brought bad some memories from first time round, i first got married in 1996 and the morning of i wedding was mad i was getting ready at my house with bms then going to mothers for dress and set off from there ,well first prob was i had my brother who was 19 at the time come to deal with the dog take her for a long walk ect anyway took dog out he was gone hrs kept thinking where has he took her, then get phone call "hello this is pc such a body from such police station "are you leesa and are you getting married today ,yes is this a wind up i say cop:erm no we have your brother here at the station bang he just got bridezilla on the end of phone my last words to cop was you better have my brother and dog back at my house in 10 mins or else any way 15 mins later cop car pulled up outside my house with brother and dog both looking sheapish in the back turns out dog did a runner and brother was found in someones garden looking for her lol after phone call to me cops took brother back to area to look for dog and found her sat on pavement ,then phone call from groom erm my pants dont fit and neither do best mans my answer simple, swap them you plebs (shop got pants mixed up with groom and best man)then get to mum and dads house dad covered in work dust what you doing i ask erm he had to go to an emergency leak at someones house and just got back i get married in 1 hr lol true to his word he was ready on time mother on the other hand was no where near ready (story in another post)could have killed her 25 mins late because of her at this point i gave up on anything else that went wrong ,i hope or dont care if any problems crop up this time just as long as oh is there and the vows go ahead thats all that matters xx

You can't worry about everything. All you can do is make sure everyone round you has a copy of the rough timetable and all the contact numbers. Then let them deal with anything.

Ligsligs - really sorry but I'm struggling to read your reply on my phone. Full stops, commas and paragraphs would be handy. Ta!

This is a good one. People can never find scissors on the day especially if at the hotel.

What Mrs C said about Ligsligs' response - I'm on a computer and I can't even read it because it makes my eyes hurt!

The only thing that happened to me is unlikely to be a worry for anyone else, but we'd somehow forgotten to get enough cash out to pay all of our suppliers in the run up to the wedding. We tried to get some out on the Friday evening, but due to the amount we were trying to withdraw (in Australia!) our bank blocked our cards. We couldn't get any money out and Barclays Fraud Team were phoning us both the morning of our wedding! We ended up having to borrow money from our parents but that was one very avoidable stress I could have done without.

With regards to paying suppliers - I put either the right amount of cash or a cheque in different envelopes and gave them to the best man (or with me if I would be seeing them). So one for the band, another for the hairdresser, wedding certificates etc... Each were labelled with who they were for.

I did this too.

Hmm let's see... I didn't have the most relaxing morning!

Some of the chairs in the ceremony room were stained when I went in to arrange flowers so I had to get those swapped by some dopey woman who didn't seem to know there was even a wedding on.

My wedding co-ordinator was actually having a meeting with another couple in our wedding breakfast area and the guy was leaning all over my lovely little favours and placecards. They had moved stuff around to get paperwork out, so that had to be re-arranged when they'd gone.

Then a bit later on when my friend was doing my hair and we were all in dressing gowns, the dopey woman actually brought another couple into the room to see the bridal suite. This freaked my mum out as she is very private and that got her even more anxious, so she was a nightmare for the rest of the preparation time.

Our cake was due to arrive at noon so we could pay the lady and get it set up in time...it arrived about 5 mins before the ceremony actually began.

Then finally one of the lights stopped working in the ceremony room so they had to bring the chandelier down to fix it, delaying the ceremony slightly.

But it was all dealt with and we still had a wonderful day!

Sorry you cant read my post,i cant find my glasses

and i think i can read and type ok without them (not)

off to look for them now ,so once again sorry!

That's just plain rude.?

How do glasses help you to remember to insert punctuation? ?