Great information and eats!!

No horror stories from me but good thing you caught that early!

Smart Caitlin! We had a nightmare with our photographer after the wedding. Took us 4 months to look at the proofs ONLINE. Another 6 months to get the pictures we ordered as part of our package (so that makes it 10 months from our wedding), then a year and a half to get our album. Our photographer was avoiding our calls to during all of this. Oh and to top it all off, there was a picture added to our album that wasn’t even US! After a year and a half of all the drama my husband and I just laughed it off. We were just happy to be done with him!

Hello! I am an avid reader (read: lurker) of yours, and you’ve totally inspired me to start a food journal blog. It really is eye opening! Especially when I look at your food and realize there is no way I can be that healthy!
Anyhow, I love your wedding articles, you make the planning look easy.

I know! I got my wedding pictures 2 days later and reception pictures 2 weeks later (we had a destination wedding so the reception was a week after the wedding)

Good call looking over your contract now!

Good for you for calling the photographer up and renegotiating a deadline – way to cover your bases. And very good advice in general!

I can’t think of any horror stories from my wedding – I am happy to say it was pretty drama free (except when the local party supply store came to pick up the chairs the next day, and it was just my mom there – he freaked out on my mom because a wheel broke off the chair cart. So she called my uncle drying and so my uncle came and freaked out on the chair guy, the chair guy called the police on my uncle, and the officer that happened to come was friends with my mom, so the chair guy was the one that got in trouble – so not really a contract thing, just a bad experience for my sweet mom with the chair delivery/pick up guy)

I have to ask about your Pittsburgh connection. Did you go to school at Pitt? I’ve been living here for about 2 and half years and I love it… (my bf is a senior at Pitt)

And did you ever run when you were here? They’re bringing back the Pittsburgh marathon this spring which should be exciting.

If you ever miss the ‘burgh, just check out our blog. 🙂

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My dad is bi-polar and had threatened not to show up and walk me down the aisle but since he behaved very well at rehearsal it never crossed my mind at all on my wedding day and he walked me down without a hitch. Come to find out, that he didn’t arrive at the church until 1:55 (wedding at 2) and my mom had to go home (1 mile from church thank God!) and get him out of bed!! My sisters and friends knew what was going on but worked hard to keep me distracted and in the dark because they knew I would freak!

the place where me & my girls were supposed to get our hair & nails done (a spa type place that we knew the owner) closed two weeks before my wedding!!! so how hard do you think it was to find a place that was could get 8+ girls in for hair & nails in one morning!! Not too many….luckily it all worked out…but I was stress-ing for a while!! Hope that doesn't happen to you!!

we had lots of little problems with the place were our wedding was. we had to stay on top of them with EVERYTHING, every little detail. it was a pain but my husband was so good about it. he deals with contracts at work all the time so it wasn’t an issue.

Lunch looks delicious! No horror stories here…very thankful for that!

rachel – yes! i just bought them!

leah – its about 200 calories for a 1/2 cup. i have prob about 1/2 – 3/4 cup.

I was a Bridesmaid in my friend’s wedding and the Pastor told the Photographer the day of the wedding that he was not able to take pictures during the ceremony in the church. This was never discussed before. They fought in front of all the guests and the Best Man had to step in to calm the situation. In the end the Pastor allowed the photographer a point where he was able to take pictures(mostly in the back). The pictures turned out ok, just not the best.

No disasters from me! I have a funny story though…I was a bridesmaid in a wedding at a nice hotel in Vegas. I’m sure the pastor does about 10 ceremonies a day and he sounded very “rehearsed.” There was a point where he actually said, “Marriage is filled with many times of joy and sorrow…but don’t worry, because I just saved a ton of money on my car insurance by switching to Geiko!” No joke! That pastor said that during the ceremony! Everyone was shocked and silent, and it took a minute to register what he said. Then, there was the awkward laugh of the crowd and the ceremony continued. So weird!

My bridesmaids dresses were all ordered, all the girls were fitted, and all paid up. When the dresses were supposed to come in I called to check on them. Evidentally the dresses were never ordered because they didn’t make them in the color that I wanted…they “forgot” to call and tell me. Yeah, it was not a good situation. It eventually worked itself out. I hope you have your girls dresses…haha…j/k!

Oh my… I did not have a solid contract with my photographer and I wish I had… Before I had my final pics and album, the photographer went into long-term healthcare and spent all the money from his photography business. So he left us with no final products and we had already paid for everything! Luckily another photographer stepped in to ‘handle his business’ and has really saved the day. We’ll still end up paying MORE for the album because the photog usually sends money with the album when it goes to the lab for final printing, but at least we’ll have it!

He had been photographing weddings for 40 years, which I thought of as “experienced” not as “old and sick”. We might pursue this through the BBB or small claims court, depending on how much extra it will cost us. We’ve been married for over 14 months and still no “official” pictures 🙁

way to be an educated bride!

It’s not really a horror story, but I just couldn’t believe how nasty people were about our “no kids” policy. Please.
I guess I do have one horror story – oh lord, I can’t believe I’m admitting this, but I lost my engagement ring IN OUR HOTEL ROOM the day after we got married! Good thing that baby was insured! It turned up three months later – it was INSIDE THE KLEENEX BOX.

Thanks for the advice on the photographer… I’m going to call mine tomorrow and make sure there’s a deadline put in our contract!

Great eats too, btw 🙂

Ok I am beyond freaked out now. NO MORE WEDDING HORROR STORIES! I’m stressed as it is!