Sometimes, no matter how much you plan your wedding day things will always go wrong – but it’s how you handle it that really counts. For this bride, everything felt like a disaster
A couple’s wedding is supposed to be the happiest day of their lives, but it can be a very stressful time with trying to organise everything – and often, despite all the best-laid plans, things can still go wrong.
One bride has confessed all the ways her wedding went wrong – but rather than trying to moan or scare other people, she wants to let them know that there is always a solution to a problem. Even after her dress split, it still didn’t ruin the day.
Taking to Reddit to air everything that happened, she wrote: “To start, our pastor ‘forgot’ (??) about our wedding and therefore was not even present to legally marry us. He literally had left the country. We found out about this about 3 days before our wedding. Both families are very religious and getting married elsewhere was not really an option.
“Our solution, we ended up finding an officiant on Facebook Marketplace who married us in his driveway the day before. Although it was June 7, he didn’t officially sign until June 8 so we still have one wedding day and no one really knew. My (now) husband’s Uncle is a pastor and was invited to our wedding already.”
Sharing another issue that arose, the bride revealed that because she had gained weight in the lead-up to the wedding, her dress ripped the day before. She continued: “This obviously stressed everyone out but one of my friends has a background in alterations and had it fixed in a few hours. It was perfect the whole night. I’m actually very happy it ripped in advance and not at our wedding lol.”
There’s an old fashion saying that if it rains on your wedding day it’s all the tears of your marriage coming out now, so you’ll have a smooth life ahead. However, bad weather can sometimes ruin plans for outdoor nuptials or even just photos. But that wasn’t the case for this bride.
She explained: “It rained our whole wedding day. We specifically chose June because we didn’t think that would happen lol. The bright side – it made for very beautiful photos surprisingly and my makeup artist did such a great job that it didn’t even affect anything. The rain didn’t bother anyone, we were all so happy regardless. Don’t stress about the weather, just have umbrellas ready and a backup indoor location in case.”
According to the bride, as they had a destination wedding, a lot of guests faced trouble such as ‘Visa issues, cancelled flights’ – and some weren’t even to make it. However, as some people couldn’t make it, they ended up sending last-minute invites to some people. And instead of being insulted they weren’t invited to begin with, they had the best time.
But the troubles didn’t end there. They also had guests who didn’t RSVP turn up, and their DJ dropped out the day before. But even this sorted itself out, as he ended up sorting a new DJ for them. “I hope this doesn’t happen to anyone else but if it does, make your DJ find a replacement, don’t take on the stress yourself,” she added.
If that wasn’t enough, they realised late on that they had gone over budget, not leaving enough for gifts for the bridal party and parents. “I couldn’t afford to buy them much so I instead made them art. I drew myself in my wedding dress next to my mum in hers, next to her mum in hers (who passed when was 1). I promise a gift like this is more meaningful than a nice necklace (although also lovely). My mum hasn’t stopped talking about it.”
The bride and groom also had trouble with their wedding coordinator – as their venue decided to fire her the day before. “This obviously made a mess of our wedding day planning. Fortunately, I was getting ready at our venue all morning so I was able to oversee lots of the decor and planning,” said the bride.
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While there’s no doubting many things went wrong, the bride’s story is an example of how you can make the best out of a bad situation. “I don’t say any of this to scare people, only to say stuff WILL go wrong but most importantly everything can be sorted out. For the record, not a single one of our guests knew anything went wrong at all lol,” she added.
After confessing that at some points she had felt “so stressed” she couldn’t eat, people flooded the comments section thanking her for such honesty. One person replied: Thank you for sharing all the solutions along with the issues, I’m sure there are couples that will find this very helpful!” While another user joked: “Girl this way like a series of unfortunate events. I’m glad you still had such an amazing time at your wedding!”
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