hi guys today we are gonna be reminiscing going
back five years almost and talking about my wedding day biggest regrets and also some of
the things that i'm super happy that we did and i hope this video can be helpful because i
know wedding season is coming up and planning a wedding can be really stressful so before we get
into today's video i want to say a huge thank you to wayfair registry for sponsoring a portion of
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sponsoring this portion of today's video now let's get into all of my wedding day
regrets it's so crazy that our five year wedding anniversary is coming up it feels like
time has gone by so fast i don't even understand how it has been five years and we have a baby
james is downstairs and you can probably hear him squealing because he's playing with my
mom but it's just so crazy how fast time flies and on february 18th that's february 18th on
the worst ever february 18th will be our five year wedding anniversary and it's also so crazy
that so many of you guys have been following us since our wedding before our wedding it's all just
so crazy like you guys have really seen me grow up and it's just it's really special so anyways
i loved my wedding day we got to share a lot of details about our wedding day with you guys we got
to share our wedding video which i love so much and i'll link that down below if you guys kind of
want to see what our wedding day was like um but i definitely have some huge wedding day regrets
that i've never ever talked about before so i'm really excited to tell you guys and hopefully if
you're planning a wedding or if you hope to get married one day this can provide you some tips and
things to maybe avoid that i feel like i messed up on okay so my number one regret that came to my
mind when i was planning this video was hiring a wedding planner and i need to clarify because i
don't think this would be a regret for all people but for me this is a regret because i was so
hands-on in the planning process of my wedding that i feel like i didn't really need a wedding
planner i more so needed a day of coordinator so those are two different things and so i feel like
a wedding planner you guys can correct me if i'm wrong because i only had my one experience but a
wedding planner kind of helped you from start to finish and that's another way that i kind of went
wrong because i hired her only a few months before my wedding and i had already done so much
planning i had already found the venue i had already found our caterer i had already found so
many of those like huge parts of the wedding and a wedding planner is not cheap and i'm not saying
they should be cheap because wedding planners do so much work but i think since i got my wedding
planner so late i think that's what my regret is so i do feel like it was a little bit of a waste
of money and um when you're planning a wedding you know you are usually sticking to a wedding
budget and every single dollar that is spent out of that wedding but budget is super precious
to you because you want to make sure you're spending money in all the right ways and getting
the most out of the money that you're spending so um i definitely do regret hiring a
wedding planner um but i wouldn't say that nobody should ever hire wedding planners but i
think if you're someone that's already super like type a and um good at like making the decisions
and know the exact vision that you already want maybe go with hiring a day of coordinator because
that is something i'm really happy that i did um the day of coordinator just kind of helps the
ceremony and the flow of the day go smoothly and that is something that i was really thankful that
i had so that was my number one regret is hiring and spending a lot a lot of money on a wedding
planner also can i just say like so many things have slipped through the cracks when it came to
my wedding that i wasn't really even aware of till after the day was done which thankfully the people
that were helping me with my wedding like my bridesmaids and stuff i'm so glad they didn't
tell me all the things that were going wrong the day of because i would have been so stressed
out but guys like i literally did not have cutlery so like all the dinner tables were set and
there was no cutlery so marx's cousin actually ran the store and bought like a ton of cutlery for the
dinner which was like that could have been like detrimental how would people have eaten their
dinner so i found that out the day after my wedding and i was just like oh my gosh i
also found out that my seating chart was completely messed up so i had the vision of doing
one of those like chalkboards with like the hand calligraphy um table numbers with all the guests
in which tables they were gonna sit at and i did it all myself so like it took me so so long i
found out the day of a ton of guests names were missing from the table chart a ton of guests
uh were like duplicated in the seating chart so some people weren't even there some people
were in the seating chart like three times and i really just messed up the seating chart and it
was like i remember doing the seating chart and i was like so so overwhelmed so maybe i would
have um done that on the computer like i should have planned out my seating chart better but i
kind of just like wrote it down really quick and uh it all got messed up those are just some of the
things that went majorly wrong on my wedding day that i didn't even have any idea about people were
dealing with that stuff while me and marcus was like taking our pictures after the ceremony but
wow that's that's like like pretty bad on my part my second major regret was not doing a final
hair trial with the lady that did my hair so i decided i was gonna do my wedding day makeup
which i'm so happy i ended up doing that because i would say if you're confident at doing your
own makeup and you know exactly how you like it i would say do your own makeup but i don't
know with my hair i didn't feel as confident doing it myself so i hired somebody to do
it and she did come over for a hair trial but at that point i thought that i wanted to do an
updo so i will insert a picture here of what the updo looked like it was super beautiful but i was
thinking about it and i was like i don't know so i decided i was just gonna wear my hair down and
long curls very simple like the hair i kind of do every single day of my life and i think she just
put too much hair product in it and basically once i got to my venue after getting my hair done my
hair was like basically straight and it looked so bad and so i like quickly had to like use one
of my friends uh hair curling irons i had to like re-curl my entire hair and i kind of ended up
doing my hair in like five minutes myself and i you know i don't think my hair looked horrible on
my wedding day but i think it could have looked a lot better and um you know i just wish it had
some more volume and some more like you know you know what i'm saying so that was another
big regret because i should have just had her come over for another hair trial but since
i just thought the hairstyle was so simple that i didn't need to do that but yeah that
was definitely really stressful to be doing my own hair like five minutes before my wedding
ceremony okay my next regret has to do with my photos and video situation um one of our
biggest expenses of our wedding was our wedding video in our photos which i'm really
really happy i'm so happy with the photographer and videographer that we went with and i think
i'm so happy that we spent a large portion of our budget on that because we have so many
photos and like our wedding video is so special um but the thing that i regret about my photos is
not prioritizing pictures with my family more i think um the wedding photographer really focused
in on like photos with me and my bridesmaid and of course photos with me and marcus which i'm
so glad i have all those photos but i do look back at my photos and i wish i had more pictures
with my mom and dad more pictures with my sister and marx and i's grandparents so if i could
go back i would you know verbalize that want to my wedding photographer not her fault
or anything like that because i didn't even i didn't even specify like those types of pictures
that i wanted but um i would go back and just make sure i had those photos i was trying to think back
if there was any regrets that i had during the ceremony or anything like that but i'm so happy
with the ceremony and like me and marcus wrote our own vows which i'm really really glad that
we did even though it felt like a little bit more pressure and i feel like i sometimes just wanted
to like just read vowels that were already written even though that's there's nothing wrong with
that i am really glad that we wrote our own vows and um that's that was a really special part of
our wedding i think this regret that i'm gonna say i think probably a lot of brides can relate
to but after your ceremony after you take all your pictures and you come in for the reception
it can feel like a little bit overwhelming because if you think about it pretty much every single
person friend and family member that you love is in one place so obviously you want to talk and
see every single person and i feel like a lot of my time after the ceremony was like taking
pictures with um like friends and family after the ceremony and i feel like it can just
be a little bit overwhelming to just like see one person for one minute take a photo go to
the next person take a picture and i don't know i kind of regret not setting the boundary of just
being like okay i want to enjoy and talk to people and eat dinner and have a piece of cake like i
feel like i didn't really do any of that because i was really just like taking pictures with friends
and family i kind of wish that i like would have enjoyed and like sat down and like soaked in the
moment a little bit more because even when it came to like eating the cake like we cut the cake and
i remember i didn't even taste the cake i'm like i really wish i would have actually eaten a piece of
my wedding cake so i was just like so all over the place and like saying hello to everybody and i'm
sure a ton of you guys can relate to that as well and then the last thing that i would say that i
regret about my wedding day is not having some type of like touch-up bag with me um like maybe
a hairbrush or um some powder and some lipstick because i feel like i should have just given like
a little bag to one of my bridesmaids and then i could like have touched up in the bathroom but we
were dancing so much at our wedding and like i was dripping in sweat my hair was just like a rat's
nest after i had been dancing all night and i wish that i would have had like a clip or something to
clip up my hair and then just like powder my face and like look a little bit presentable because i
look like a crazy person by the end of the night and i feel like if i just would have had a little
touch-up bag to run to the bathroom really quick it could have solved a lot of my issues that i was
having by the end of the night i mean that's not a huge deal but if you are um planning a wedding
i would definitely say to have like a little touch-up bag with you or one of your bridesmaids
so i think those are all of the wedding regrets that i could think of but i'm sure you guys
have some really funny ones as well so leave any wedding regrets in the comments of this video
help some future brides out give some tips because i'm sure i forgot some things but overall i just
want to remind you if you are planning a wedding your marriage and your wedding is not about all
the little things try not to get too stressed out because it can feel stressful you're planning
like the hugest party of your whole life but try to just let things roll off your shoulder try not
to get too stressed out because it's really just about this special union and you are marrying the
partner that you are going to be with for the rest of your life so it's just like just try to soak it
in try to enjoy it try not to stress out too much and let the little things that go wrong just roll
off your back because there will be things that go wrong it's inevitable so um i hope you guys
enjoyed this video and again leave any comments below of wedding things that you might regret
or things that you are so happy that you did um for your wedding but i love you guys i hope
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