I wish I'd..............

Whoops i mean i thot i'd regret NOT having an vog!

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I wish i'd won the lottery so i could have flown everyone to italy!

From my first wedding, I regretted not spending a LOT more money on photos. They were OK but not amazingly artistic as some that I see are. I also regret having a couple too many glasses of wine and being a bit tipsy giving my speech!

I don't regret spending mega bucks on my dress and flowers.

This time round is totally different, but I'm hoping no big regrets!

I wish I'd had the simple wedding I wanted. Would have saved loads of money, the atmosphere would have been more relaxed and we could have chosen exactly what we wanted (food, drink, entertainment) without having to fit in with venue restrictions.

Ah, now this is my motto... No regrets.

I had so many before:

Not a church wedding. Wrong bloke (obviously!). Not a big dress. Limo. Only 50 guests and therefore a couple of friends. No TOG. No friend BMs. So many more.

Hence why I'm going to have the perfect day now I've found the perfect man ?

Nurse bride, u going all out this time?

Bet u'll feel like a 'Bride'. Didn't sound like it was 'special' last time!

Like ur moto!

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Yeah, exactly!

We're still being sensible with money, but if we want something and we can afford it then we're having it. We're having about half and half friends/family, so all the important people will be there. Got the list up to 80 something though using this theory!

At least I'll be a happy bunny this time!

It's my 2nd time as a bride but doing things our way this time! I not only regret the groom but the pushy in-laws insisting more people come in the day, more cars on the day, etc etc. This time we're going abroad, less fuss, less hassle, less money and just close friends and family to share our day with us ? oh and more importantly, the right groom - finally found my soul mate x

I think the only thing we'd probably have changed is a bigger budget enabling us to invite everyone to the wedding breakfast, and possibly if we had a huge amount of cash to book out the entire hotel to give as many people the chance to stay over rather than drive home.

But otherwise, I think it's exactly how we want it to be. There's nothing significant that we aren't having that we desperately wish we could have had, although there's one or two things I would have liked "if only we had the money" but they won't make the day better, they would have just been "nice to have", if that makes senes.

If we'd had £12,000 spare we'd have booked the Bootleg Beatles to do a set during the evening somehow ... but that was never likely to happen

Of course, there are always going to be things like certain relatives that are no longer with us that obviously aren't going to be there - but we can't do a great deal about that really except remember them in our own way.

I regret not having a VOG to be honest... I didn't think I would, but when I saw MrsC's video clip, I got all teary and wished I had something similar from my wedding! So much of it has faded from my immediate memory so quickly. Photos just don't *quite* do the day justice. I also regret spending so much time worrying about whether everyone would hate my theme! Should have just relaxed and enjoyed the planning more!

At the moment there are two:

1. If I had a bottomless budget I would've loved a reception at a castle somewhere like Scotland/Ireland and paid for all guests to stay in the hotel and had a paid bar too

2. A VOG - although OHs Dad is quite dapper with the old vid camera (I know it won't be anything like a pro) but I'm really happy/pleased he is looking forward to capturing our day for us.

I wish the car company we booked had not contracted out to someone who never turned up. I had no details as hubby had booked it. I assumed it would be there and when i said in passing about it no one seemed to realise the significance of it not being there half hr early as booked so needing to make calls. I had to squash into a car with 4 others. It was embarrassing as neighbours had turned out to watch me come out. My dress was round my head!I was half an hour late. People were starting to think i was not coming.

I was rushing about home sorting everyone else out. No one could think for themselves or use any common sense it was ridiculous. I had no photos of the flowers i had asked for. I wanted some of me getting ready only got one .

I wish we had not accepted an offer for enthusiastic amateur to do photos we had halo's off the sun? in the middle of me and husbands head in most of them. As we were late we only had a few mins of pictures before other wedding guests for a later wedding started arriving. Yet the vicar had said they only do one wedding a day and no one else had booked that day when we booked. we booked 6months before. We were asked to move so we then got lots of random pics coming through a gate. Luckily got a lot of photos from others. My dress was all hooked up and it was a big thing i asekd to all bridesmaids i had 6! Please make sure my dress is spread out nice for me. grrrrrrr. The one thing i asked grrrrrrrrr.

We were supposed to have an afternoon tea....... The bar was opened early on a relatives say so even though we didn't want it for 2 hours later!. My husbands family do not drink alcohol. As the bar was in front of the kitchen it was awkward. The tea and coffee never got made and all the soft drinks and j2o we had bought were never touched. We had alcohol for toast. Said relative opened every single bottle (we had bought extra) and spread them about in front of non drinkers as well. There was loads left over as so many were not drinking. people took bottles with tin foil over the top away with them.

Our lovely cake had our mirror initials put in it a very odd place by someone well meaning and they were the wrong initial first. There were on the 2nd tier not on the top!

With hindsight would have done quite abit different and not let people assume and take over as much. I Should have turned bridezilla !

Saying all that we had a lovely day and i was buzzing so much most of the upsets didn't matter much.

I wish I'd....eloped.

Less stress, less money, same result.

Okay, maybe thats a bit strong. We're having the wedding we want really. I just wish prices didn't magically double when you mention the word 'wedding'.

Done what the other half wanted us to do and get married abroad to save all the wedding stresses.

I'm only just starting planning my wedding, but already I wish I didn't have interfering parents... Well, mainly my mum. Pretty sure my dad's forgotten we're even engaged.

My only regret from my first wedding (except the man obv.) is not getting a better florist. I didn't want many flowers but even those that we did have were terrible.

I regret deciding to make my invitations myself. i have no idea why i thought this would be a good idea and now we're going to run into trouble.

One thing i'm glad i worked at was making things right with my older sister so she would be a bridesmaid. That means more to me than she'll ever know.

This might make me sound like a sad cow, but I wish I'd had more Hitchers at my wedding.

It was amazing having two at my wedding, especially as they'd helped me so much with the planning. Even though I hadn't met them before, it made no difference as I chat to them both so much online and they mixed so well with my 'real life' friends.

Lots of different things!

I am really lucky as we dont have parents interfering!

Both sets of parents have been married twice (think they bored of wedding planning)!

They interested in our plans but never interfere!

I'm really grateful for that.

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