Given the chance, what would you change in your wedding?
August 15, 2008 by Christine Gooding
Filed under Wedding Planning
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If you had the chance to go back in time and do it again, what would you change about your wedding?
I was reflecting on this the other day and thinking back on our own wedding day and thought, “What would I do differently in our wedding?”
The first thing that came to mind was inviting more people. For a Filipino wedding, a guest list of 120 is called ‘intimate’. My Husband is English and to him, having 120 guests at his wedding is a spectacle! I didn’t want to overwhelm him on our special day so I was ruthless in trimming the guest list down. Now, if I have to do it all over again. I’d invite my other friends whom I wanted to be there to share my special day. There were some I am sure I have hurt because I didn’t invite them.
The second one would be the venue. I would’ve wanted a garden wedding reception. We had ours in a hotel because my Mum thought it’d be too hot and sticky for guests to have an outdoor wedding in the Philippines. I suppose she was right but I’ve found cool outdoor wedding reception venues in Manila now that offer ‘airconditioned’ parts in their outdoor venues. Great idea eh?
I can’t think of anything else I’d want to change. What about you? What would you have changed given the chance?
I would totally have picked a different hair dresser. I always had a dream of how I wanted my hair on my wedding day and that dream was crushed. One of my bridesmaids who happened to be a professional hair dresser was late coming to the church to do my hair. She took all of her time on her own hair. I was so miffed. I only had 20 minutes to do my hair. My other bridesmaids each took a curling iron and made ringlets which turned out really cute, just not what I wanted for my wedding. I am still bitter about it 9 years later LOL