The End Is Near (What Would I Have Done Differently In Retrospect)

With the wedding a mere 3 months away and things starting to ramp up, I find i'm often looking back at the last fifteen months of wedding planning and thinking about what I would have done differently.

1. My absolute biggest regret of my wedding is not hiring a videographer, I am heartbroken that I dont have one. That being said, its not that it was a detail that was overlooked in the littlest, they are just so expensive. I'm not trying to devalue their work at all, I think that having those moments captured on film in a professional way is invaluable if anything but being on a tight budget means that you unfortunately have to make those sacrifices here and there. This really is the only thing that eats away at me because of our low budget. Everything else I am very satisfied with.

2. I should have numbered the response card envelopes and recorded the number with who it was sent to somewhere in my records. It is really inconvenient to get a response card back and have absolutely no idea who sent it lol.

3. I should have put stamps on the return envelopes although I really can't say I regret not doing it because what is 60 or whatever cents for a guest would have been 200 bucks for me to do all of them. I've been really shocked by the amount of people who have sent back response cards when it clearly says you can rsvp on the website and that's way more convenient (at least I would have thought).

4. And we both agree on this one, but looking back if we had known what this process was REALLY going to be like and not what pinterest told me it was going to be like, we probably would have saved our money, flown to a gorgeous island and eloped. Planning a wedding and I mean planning it, not hiring someone to plan it for you is probably the most frustrating task in the entire world. Part of the reason is money, part is the numerous opinions that you get that you really dont care about, the guest list, the food, it all just wears you out after a while. If I didn't see the value in a wedding planner before, I certainly do now.


With all this being said, the big day is three months away. Its going to be a beautiful wedding, I can promise that but there were certainly some things I would change looking back!