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As I was digging through the archives of my favorite wedding website–A Practical Wedding–I stumbled across this great post:
From My Grandmother:
- Choose a dress you can wear again – out dancing.
- The good thing about a wedding is it happens no matter what occurs (including a blizzard, a car wreck, total photography failure, and severe allergic reactions, all of which happened at her wedding. And yes, she giggled while she told me about it.)
- Buying expensive shoes might not be a bad idea if they are made well enough to be comfortable and you can wear them many more times.
From My Friends:
- Just remember, it’s not a wedding if someone doesn’t cry (and not from joy during the ceremony).
- Advice From A Bride: Don’t mix Valium and champagne for the wedding, even if you just broke your leg. Not good.
- Advice From A Groom: Mixing Valium and champagne makes the whole thing much more pleasant.
- When you look around and say “Didn’t we use to talk about things other than the wedding? What happened?” Then your ready to get married.
- After the wedding, you’re over it. Whatever centerpiece you picked? Yeah. You’re not going to care.
- For God’s sake, have fun.
Not surprisingly, much of this struck me as pretty darn sound advice (even if I don’t wind up following all of it). I have to say, we’re feeling pretty relaxed about this big party we’re throwing, but I’ll take all the help I can get in staying that way. So I’m curious: what tidbits of practical, sanity-saving wedding advice do you have to share with us? Any words of wisdom from your own big day, or things you you wish you’d known? Our guests are, by design, a wise and awesome bunch, so we can’t wait to read your pointers!
I didn’t know you had this going! glad I stalk you on facebook. 🙂
I’m not a bride, and I like this site. http://2000dollarwedding.com/
Oh, finding things 2nd hand was great – ebay & amazon are great friends. 🙂
Hey Olivia,
The best advice I can give to you is to be prepared for “your husband stepping on your wedding dress” … Just have your own sewing kit in your bag and you will be able to repair the damage on your dress and no one will note it 😉
Big kiss and have fun,
Cristina