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Wedding regrets & being late

Alex, 28 May, 2025 at 08:04 Posted on Just Married 0 2
It's been 1 and a half years since I got married, unfortunately I was 15 minutes late and 20 by the time I got down the aisle. I was so stressed, anxious and felt so bad. A number of things happened in the morning and I gave myself so much time to be ready so was so disappointed (I clearly needed more).


How do I get past this? I feel like my in-laws were annoyed at me because they are very punctual and so many people flew in for our wedding, I feel like I let them all down. People have brought it up to me after the wedding, joking around and one of them said they noticed the priest was annoyed (they didn't say this in a malicious way, the preist made a comment to the church when I arrived about me being late, which set my anxiety off at the start of the ceremony).
I really didn't want to be late and it happend, how do I move past it? Despite this we had the most amazing day and I married the love of my life.

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Latest activity by shri, 16 June, 2025 at 11:46
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    Genius July 2020 Monmouthshire
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    I went to a wedding where the bride was an hour late - we were just glad that she turned up safe and well and hadn't changed her mind last minute!

    If the priest or your in-laws had issues with you being late, that's their problem, not yours. It's not like you were deliberately being late to inconvenience people. Stuff happens, especially at weddings. Ignore the critics. Every time one of those negative thoughts about being late pops into your mind, consciously replace it with a positive thought. Focus on what matters - that you and your OH got married and are happy together x

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    I understand you 100%. I am enduring wedding blues even though my wedding was amazing. I got married just under 2 weeks ago and I was late to the venue by 1 hour, then the arrangement of the chairs weren't as I had stated so I literally had to get down on my hands and knees to re-arrange all the furniture and sheets that laid across the aisle. My sister told me to stop after 30 minutes of doing this to get ready for hair and makeup and whilst i was moving my car out of the wedding venue and into the parking spot, i got stung by a wasp and this further delayed me. I was about 30 minutes late walking down the aisle but luckily my Dad was entertaining the crowd. I'm just annoyed that I wasn't able to mentally prepare and destress on the morning day to walk down and smile but overall it was a fabulous day

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