Despite all the mayhem and things going wrong i had THE most amazing day :D
Most of these are more disasters than behaviour, but there was some behaviour that pissed me the hell off!
First off, the bridesmaid dresses....
Ordered custom made dresses from a hong kong seller off ebay,
She messed me around so much with sizes, and after sending her the meassurements several times she insisted i had normal size dresses(so size 8 10 12 etc)
I needed custom dresses as two of my maids are heavy uptop, etc so i canceled and had a right game getting back my 400quid!
Then choose an english seller and ordered the dresses....they came and they were HORRENDOUS! Far to short(verging on hooker style!) didnt fit, either too tight or too loose, etc etc. I was so upset(2 weeks to go) and now have to take the women to small claims court for my £450 back as she deliberatly sent the dresses on the 31st day so paypal wouldnt help :O
so brides be very aware of ebay sellers!
Thankfully my wonderful sister went out and found five perfect dresses!
My wedding dress was ordered in febuary(wedding was two weeks ago) and i was promised it would be here 28 days before the wedding so we could do any alterations...it arrived 6 days before the wedding, despite me phoning the shop constantly and just getting voicemail untill i gave up and drove 45mins to the shop and demanded my dress!
We had five days of hunting around to find a dressmaker who would alter it...no one would or could! I went out and brought higher heeled shoes and a huge hope lol.
The wedding....Hmmmm
My eldest daughter, age 5, was so tired(stayed up till 1am talking to my sisters who had flew in from australia) she had the most obscene temper tantrums and wouldnt have her hair done or get into her dress...I've never seen her so vile, and ended up in a stress screaching at her
'if you dont buck your ideas up and get bloody ready you will NOT be a BM and spend the whole day in your room ALONE'
She spent the first part of the day refusing to smile for the photographer. I am still hoping my videographer(friend) does NOT put me freaking out at DD1.
I had my nails done the night before whilst chilling and whilst having my hair done each one pinged off! Spent from 1pm to 2pm in a local nail salon having them done properly, the wedding was at 3pm!!
DH's niece who was desperatly trying to be centre of attention(as always, and was helped by MIL) had gone through refusing to wear the dress, asking nanny to put extra things on her dress, refused to wear matching jewlery etc...I snapped and said she does what i want or shes not a BM.
On the day my sister was doing all our hair, and i'd already had an semi argument with my two younger sisters who wanted to wear their hair down, but then relented and agreed. MIL had DD2(18months) the night before, and was in charge of looking after her during the getting ready and was sposed to be arriving at 10am with DD2 and DH'Niece. She turned up at 2pm, dumped DD2(that sounds so mean but we physically couldnt get ready with an 18month old running round) Amelia had her dress on, but hair wasnt done, no socks, shoes or hair band thingy...and no one could locate said items.
Niece had been taken to a hairdressers and had her hair done DOWN....I flipped as i then had sisters shouting at me,
why does she get to wear it down and we cant?!
I was soooooooo angry with MIL.
Whilst all this was happening DH had made a discovery of his own. The suits we hired from moss bros(name and shame) out of the 7 we hired, three of the shirts we're the wrong size so DH had to go hunting for cravat compatable shirts on the morning of the wedding!
The music CD's we made for guests arriving/waiting, walking down isle, signing reg etc wouldn't work on the CD player! Cue mega panick(thankfully i wasnt told) until the wonderful wedding co-ordinator realised she could play the on her laptop!
Oh and the wedding ring didnt fit me, so while i had my nails done Step dad had them resized!
The ceremony was beautiful, and as the registra introduced herself and started etc, our DD2 decieded she didnt want to sit still, so the registra said
its ok let her run about if she wants
soon as nana let her go she ran straight up to me and daddy, and sat on daddy's lap throughout the whole thing...then when he put her down so we could stand up and say our vows she stood there just staring at us then when we kisses she clapped her hands and shouted
'meme lubs dada' (she calls me meme instead of mommy lol, and lubs is her love)
We were all in stitches and i was so gratful she was entertaining and funny cus i was on the verge of tears!
Meal was beautiful, then the speaches!
Dads was lovely and made me cry, DH's was amazing and i was in tears by the end of it snuggled into my daddys shoulder lol
Best man....GRRR
He was DH's cousin...didnt organise DH a stag do and no help with the wedding, and then his speach. I could have kicked him
It consisted of mainly
'Um, yea, thanks for coming, urm zoes brother phoned from afganistan this morning to send his love, urm zoes other brother called from califormia to send his love, urm(opened my wedding cards the bastard) sew'n'sew sends his love, and sew'n'sew send their love(people who were at the sodding wedding, not people who couldnt make it!)
urm so yea, cheers'
When he was finished and we were all talking amongst ourselves, best mans wife stormed over, grabbed his collar, dragged him into the corner and gave him the biggest bollocking ever, for not writting his speach and for being a crap best man...it was hilarious
Everything else went good, then as the party was ending and there was about 10 of us left, all fairly young, my baby brother started throwing sweets at my mates, so the lads deceided it would be hilarious to continue.
The door men who had been fantastic all day, stormed over grabbed my brother by his shoulders, shock him and bellowed in his ear,
'do that again sonny and you'll have me to deal with'
My brother is 14....I was SOOOO furious i spent the next 15mins making a formal complaint to the hotel. They really upset me as once they had attacked my brother, they both stood at the 2nd entrance and just stared at us for about 20mins, untill i asked the hotel to tell em to bugger off. Made me feel really uncomfortable.
Oh, then some of my other guests got compleatly hammers and were doing gamboles(forward rolls) up and down the hallways until the hotel threatened to kick em out!
Brilliant day hehe