NEWLYWEDS: ANY REGRETS?!?!

Thanks ladies!

I wish I would have hired a Day-of Co-ordinator!

It's not really a big deal, but we had all of our pictures done before the ceremony, and I completely forgot to arrange to have the flowers delivered beforehand (they were all at the ceremony site).  I have absolutely NO idea how that slipped my mind, but our formals have no flowers. =(

I really have no regrets...but I wish I hadn't stressed about the weather so much. Our pics with the umbrellas are cute. And I may not have had quite so much wine lol. I wasn't drunk or sloppy but it seems like I have a glass in every picture :-)

Check out this Guide article - a post similar to this one that got really long was turned into an article!

http://www.projectwedding.com/wiki/show/advice-from-the-newlyweds-post-your-i-do-over-for-the-brides-to-be

No regrets...maybe one thing is not going on the balcony with hubby and overlooking guests to just watch for a few min and take it all in...

one thing I am glad we DID NOT do was a pre ceremony reveal.  I kept hearing girls on her tell me it was important to do to get good pictures and boy is that wrong..I am so happy our first look at each other was at the ceremony!  It was so special..if I saw him before and then at the ceremony again it would of just been not as big as a moment.  We had only an hour before the reception and in an hour we got wonderful awesome pictures!  Think of how fast a camera snap is to take a pic..you could take 300 pictures in an hour if you wanted to!  So dont feel pressured to get rid of the ceremony special moment because people say you cant get good pictures or enough pictures.

I had one regret that day, and it was that I would have scheduled the ceremony for an hour earlier because I thought there wouldnt be enough time to get good pics. However, now that I have my pro pics back, I dont regret that anymore because we had more than enough time and got some really awesome shots. Other than that, everything went as planned!

I will also say to get a videographer. I booked one and DH thought it was a waste of money, but when we were on our honeymoon and discussing the wedding he said that he was SO happy I got one because the day goes by so fast and he couldnt wait to relive some moments by watching the video.

I would randomly look at people (mostly my MOH and DH) and say to myself, this is my wedding day. It really helped me to sit back and take everything in!

One more thing, I agree with Coral...Im SO glad we didnt do a pre ceremony reveal. IMO, it takes away the wow factor. When the doors opened for me to walk down the aisle, I didnt see anyone but my DH, my eyes were locked on him the entire way down the aisle and it was amazing to see his reaction (he cried!). We felt like we were the only ones in the room, even though there were 200 people there. That was one of my favorite moments of the day!

I would have had more time between the ceremony & reception/had different venue for the ceremony (we had both at the same place). It made for some harried running around for pics and not much time to do it. That is the only change I would make