Was your wedding the best day of your life?

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Mine wasn’t. But I’m glad it wasn’t! That would have meant life was all downhill from there! My hair was right in the middle of the worst stage of post partum hair loss, and it was so thin and straggly wearing it down as I wanted looked terrible. Wearing extensions wasn’t an option either as it had gotten so thin you could see every clip. The hairdresser did do her best with what she had to work with but it wasn’t what I’d have chosen. Also my makeup artist cancelled last minute and I had to find a replacement who did do a decent enough job but it wasn’t what I’d pictured. Several things went wrong , but nothing major. My son was 8 months old and in strange form and was glued to me. Also I found I was kind of hovering not really knowing who to sit with or speak to, as everyone sat in their own groups. My husband and his mates congregated in the smoking area watching football for almost all the reception! I didn’t expect him to be glued to me the whole night but come on, at least make the most of the entertainment we’ve paid for !! So, while I do look back fondly on it and it wasn’t a disaster, certainly not the best day of my life. Was your wedding the best day of yours?

Yes, joint with the birth of my daughter

Yes! We don't have any children yet, so I assume that will totally be the best day!

We had a small wedding of 90 (small by this country's standards). Everyone we love was there. DH even had both his parents at the wedding (FIL passed away 2 months after 😞). The weather was beautiful, the venue even more, we had so much fun and I felt so beautiful and special. We have great pictures and video and when I remember of the day I feel all warm and fuzzy. I loved it.

It was right up there with the best days.
It was amazing.
We had a fairly big expensive wedding, and I'm amazed we pulled it off, everything just went so smoothly.
If I was to do it again, I wouldn't change a thing.

No. It took alot of planning and fuss. I wish I'd just gone to a registry office and had a nice meal with close family and friends but hindsight is a wonderful thing.

I loved mine! I wish I could re-live it as it flew by so quickly. I have many fond memories of the day. No regrets at all!

Totally loved mine. Family and friends, sunshine and hedgerows filled with flowers is how I remember it!

Equalled with birth of DD. Even during the hours of labour I was so excited and not scared.

I've had lots of brilliant days that it's hard to pick a best one. I'm lucky and grateful and hope for many more.

Wedding was a great day in a field , guests camping, Indian food , wellies with wedding dress. The best moment of my life so far was finding out I was pregnant for the first time , standing on the pavement staring at the stick in my hand after doing the test in a public loo. Always wanted kids but didn't meet a man till later in life so always worried that getting pregnant was going to be hard.

Mine was fantastic and we had a brilliant time but its trumped by the kids being born (by a country mile) and the honeymoon which was also fantastic.

No, I get too stressed about any kind of hosting for it to have been the best day of my life! But it was a great day and I'd love to relive it now, knowing that everything went well.

No, because we knew DH was life limited. He was so weak that day that we left the reception really early and went home. The 4 months we were married he was practically bed bound.

Mine was amazing, small and totally relaxed, and I couldn't have imagined being more in love with DH (although I love him even more now 6 years later, especially seeing what an incredible Dad he is).
There have been so many great days though- the day we got engaged was wonderful, we had some perfect days on our honeymoon and we've had so many happy days since.
The day I became a mother was definitely not, by the time DS actually arrived I was so exhausted and in pain and overwhelmed (80 hour labour with poor hospital care) that I was actually incredulous that I was immediately expected to take care of a newborn - I did not feel that rush of love everyone talks about until a week or so afterwards.
If I had to pick a best day it would be the day of my home birth with DD, I was utterly euphoric to have completed my family and the memory of my 3yo getting home from preschool and meeting his baby sister will be my favourite for a very long time.

Nope. It was lovely, but my best days have been the unexpected. There was a lot of pressure on my wedding day (and my mother in law behaved badly) and though it was a day filled with joy, I’ve had days in my life which I remember for the pure, simple, contentment. There was a day in lockdown last year when the sun had been shining, it was warm and the evening extended on forever and I felt very content. I was far happier then in the moment than I was on the day of our wedding (and one of the reasons I was so happy was because my husband and I were together, at home).

No. It just went on FOREVER. Hours and hours of talking and eating and drinking. Castles, cars, overpriced flowers, hairdressers, make up artists, god, the list of crap goes on forever. It’s like getting onto a course you wanted to get on to but then having to study shite you’re not interested in for MONTHS (seriously, I don’t care what the wedding cake looks like), and having an all day exam to see if it all comes together. If I did it again it would be me, him, parents and kids in a registry office followed by a slap up meal at the local Italian. That sounds perfect (not to mention about £15k cheaper).

No. Didn’t enjoy it at all.

Best days of my life have been based around everyday stuff because that's what life is.
Big days like weddings/births come with stress of being outside comfort zone, relying on others and expectations.
That said I did love our wedding. We did Gretna, on our birthdays (we handily share one). It was just us and eldest child (youngest showed up 9months after) and tourists as witnesses. We went to the pub and picked up chippy after. It wasn't perfect, the child who hardly ever tantrumed got a bit overwhelmed and wasn't happy I had to put him down for the ceremony so I got married with a sobbing 2 yo wrapped around my leg and the curry sauce from the chippy was disgusting but didn't know that until I had dumped it on my chips. But I have no regrets over our wedding day. It was exactly the right wedding for us - I also had never had any longing for romance, marriage and a big wedding. Marriage was a legal thing but we made it special.

No. We had a great day but it would be pretty depressing for it to be the "best day of my life". What an awful amount of pressure for a day.

It was for me and I think DH would say the same. It's the only day in your life when you get to have every single person you love in one place. I felt so happy from the minute I got up to the minute (20 hours later) that I went to bed, and for weeks afterwards too. Such a happy, carefree time in my life.

My first wedding was an absolutely amazing day/weekend full of pure fun
But the bloke I married was an arse who raped me and was financially abusive

My second wedding was a lovely understated day but I was also postpartum (by 18 months 😂) and more self conscious

Definitely not! It was great, loads of fun but not the best day of my life. How could it be? All the pressure of people being there for us, wanting everyone to be comfortable etc
The best days have been carefree, spontaneous, no expectations.

It was a lovely day but not the best of my life. That was the day I passed my driving test after many attempts!! Wedding day comes a close second.

Actually the day after my wedding day was better than the itself. DH and I sat arouns opening cards and presents, watching rugby and eating wedding cake!!

No. My in laws ruined it. SIL told lies to PIL which caused MIL to verbally abuse me & be agresssively unpleasant throughout. I cried a lot. SIL behaved abominably. Only highlight was a groomsman telling her to shut up & behave.

Karma did get them both in the end.

Best day of my life was landing on my first overseas trip. Repeated every time we travelled. Am missing it a lot!!

@Chienloup your wedding sounds very similar to mine, central London, getting cabs, only a few people present, beautiful registry office and then meal in a private room, it was an absolute blast. I don't regret not having something bigger, we were so in love, I would have been happy to be just the two of us. I only had the slightly bigger (14 people!) event as I knew it was my mum's one chance to see one of her children married. No regrets.

No. Best day of my life was my son being born.

We had a very simple small wedding, spent about £400 total, dress £17, I was six months pregnant and we had six guests in the register office. It was absolutely perfect and both of ours dream wedding. Neither of us were arsed about an actual wedding just being married, so it was perfect.

But it’s just a day, it doesn’t really change anything day to day (just legally). It was really nice and the best way I could imagine doing it, but it wasn’t anything mindblowing. I’d have hated anything bigger and fancier.

In comparison having my son changed my life for the better permanently and was a huge transition. I’m so glad he was with us at the wedding though, I can’t imagine getting married not pregnant! Loved it so much.

I’d have been livid though if I’d had a bigger wedding and my DH had spent some of it watching football! How disrespectful to you and the guests!