The hardest for me was FINDING the vendors we wanted and doing all the comparison shopping and legwork to find the vendors.
Once the down payments were made, I was soooo happy!
The second hardest was the decorations….it was hard trying to figure out what I wanted (my groom didn't care about decor.)
I looked at thousands of pages and finally came up with something.
What was the hardest stuff for you?
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The hardest was dealing with all the things that went wrong the final week… cats destroying veil, photographer canceling, cousin AND uncle dying, officiant being a no-show. We got it all fixed (except my cousin and uncle dying, of course), but I was a WRECK that last week. I've never been so stressed out in my life.
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The hardest part was getting it through to certain family members that we weren't inviting everyone and their brother. My grandmother is one of 17 children! There is no way we could afford to invite everyone in her family, let alone everyone else. We told everyone that we would invite people we know and want there. We didn't want to have to pay for people we hadn't seen nor heard from in years. I had to put my foot down (gently of course!). Turns out my grandmother (mom's side) had assumed my dad (my parents are divorced) was paying for the food and she wanted to squeeze as much out of him as possible! I let her know that A. we were paying for the food ourselves, and B. even if he was paying, I would not make him pay for random people we don't want there anyway! Ridiculous!
Planning the actual wedding was quite easy actually. The only problems I had was dealing with a bridesmaid who was too lazy to order her dress (though she eventually did, at the last minute) and rude family members.
The hardest part about planning our wedding has been the guest list so far. We are getting married in September, and have gotten A LOT done in the month since we got engaged. Just trying to figure out how to include everyone without hurting someone's feelings is difficult. We are wanting to have a maximum of 75 people at the wedding, so someone is going to end up upset, but there is nothing that we can do about it.
Well it was finally – after lots of talking, discussing, etc…. and realizing that this wedding didn't need to COST A FORTUNE.
We needed to keep it small (close family and friends only), intimate and classy – once that was finally agreed upon by all parties (me, finacee and his and my parents) we were set!!!!!
Planning a wedding is easy if you don’t get carried away with detail’s
When I got married my girlfriend and I went to 3 local wedding fair’s and followed some brides who were planning two or three years in advance and panicking over colour shades of bridesmaids dresses, shoes, ties, flowers all having to match the table napkins (Oh my God they should get a life)
We provisionally booked the church, then reception venue, went to the first of the wedding fair’s, took the details for the Dress, The Car’s, The Photographer, and the Stationer for the invitations and order of service booklet’s at the second wedding fair was to double check on our decision and check the price’s and on the third visit which was about six weeks and a few days before the wedding day.
As my wife and I paid for everything ourselves we did not have to go along with “suggestions” from our parents, family or friends.
Life is too short to pay such major attention to minor detail.
So the hardest part was to coordinate the Church and reception venue.
The guest list was by far the worst. I know we tried to make our list as balanced as possible and we both had to basically rank our friends in order of who we liked best.
Searching for the vendors was sort of fun to me (groom). I definitely enjoyed the taste testings and what not.
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