I hated my wedding day

[Anonymous]

OP, unmarried single mom here so no real advice about the wedding, but if you've found a solid partner who you love, hold on with two hands. Life is short and unpredictable. And please forgive yourself for disappointment about your big day. It's not your fault society bills the wedding as the pinnacle of a young girl's life experience. The truth is there will be so many more poignant moments: travel, children, fights that turn into laughter, small tragedies that bond the two of you for life. It's all so much bigger than you think.

Chin up, mama. And to the other posters, the disastrous-wedding-turned-happy-marriage stories are awesome. Keep 'em coming!

[Anonymous]

I was supposed to get married the weekend Harvey but Houston last year. My dress was at the cleaners which flooded and ruined it and then venue was blown away. 70% of our guests evacuated. We ended up getting married the next weekend with no one there in the rain. Not my definition of fairytale but I’m happy we all survived the storm.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:OP here. I felt so overwhelmed. My family are asian and they live abroad. On the morning of my wedding my mother was on the phone telling me I was making a mistake and to call it off.

My MIL looked like she was going to break down crying because she did not want her precious son marrying at all. My SIL who was a bridesmaid refused to come get dressed with us and didn't speak to me all day. My husband was more excited to party and be reunited with his friends than give me attention.

At the end of the day we got into a huge fight and he yelled at me and I cried myself to sleep.

I just don't want to relive that day again.

What a nightmare. Just more reasons for men to never get married in the first place. I cannot imagine putting up with all this bullshit.

[Anonymous]

My wedding day was perfect, everything went off without a hitch. Now I am divorced. Take from that what you will.

[Anonymous]

I hated my wedding, too. It was too stressful, I felt anxious the whole time, I couldn't relax. There were too many people, I didn't like the attention being on me, and I felt deeply conflicted about which friends to invite and not invite, and what it said about my relationships with others.

But, I've been happily married for 10 years. And I'm glad I had a wedding, even though I didn't actually enjoy it!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:
My first wedding was a disaster. My wife's bridesmaids thought a few vodka shots would calm her nerves before the ceremony. Only they drank shots of water while my wife drank the real thing. My best man (out of town friend from high school and college) didn't know anyone, so he got drunk and decided to make it his mission to get laid at any cost. He started hitting on all of the women at the wedding, including my local friends' wives and my own bride. The caterer said they'd never had a group consume so much alcohol.
At the end of the night, my wife had a total, drunken, screaming meltdown and insisted that I take her to her parent's house instead of the hotel I had reserved for our wedding night. I slept on my MIL's couch. We're both remarried to others.

Things could have been so much worse, OP.

Jesus Christ.

You should've had that shit show annulled the next day. What a disaster. LOL