We had a fantastic wedding weekend to say the least. While we will post more meaningful thoughts in the near future, I thought I would mention the few things we forgot to do during the weekend while they are still fresh in my mind.
It's difficult looking forward and thinking of details, items, or situations that you need to remember or prepare for: to think of what you didn't think of while planning a wedding weekend. Looking back, we did a pretty good job! I think if I were to be a super hero, my special power would be (or is) to look at situations and know what questions to ask, what problems could arise, and what has been left out and how to plan to make sure everything gets done. I only thought of three things that we didn't do; important or not, you make the call:
1 - Lack of Extreme Creativity in Severe Weather
While the weather for wedding day was always forecast as sunny since the 10-day lineup was available, the dinner the night before, the one outside, was always a toss-up. I wasn't worried until this forecast was deemed part of a tropical storm (Nicole) that had a 90% chance of heavy rains and winds and becoming just a terrible situation. While we anticipated rain, we did not anticipate heavy rain/winds and especially, a flood - all of which was problematic with a half indoor, half outdoor venue. Luckily, the heavy rains stopped at 11AM and the rain actually stopped completely from 5pm to 8:30pm. Pretty good!
2 - Purell
Knowing this was the one thing we forgot for the dinner makes me quite happy. While there was a bathroom with a sink, it wasn't in-house. We should have had a small bottle of purell.
3 - Car Rental Gas
After our wedding weekend, we dropped off our rental car and realized we forgot to fill up on our way to the airport. Fearing the worst from our free-upgraded SUV, our jaws dropped when the service man began checking the numbers on the car. Thinking this was going to be $100 or more for $45 worth of gas, I was not happy. Luckily, Emily jumped in and said "we just got married, with everything we needed to do this weekend we just simply forgot." The service guy was forgiving and gave it to us at the regular rate and it only cost us $50! (with a loss of at MOST $5). Just two reminders to 1 - always milk a special event and 2 - if you don't add something to your google calendar or ical, don't expect it to get done.
I am also giddy to think that nothing went wrong or unexpected during the wedding: ceremony, reception, dinner or afterwards. Of course, the alcohol situation was not what we eventually agreed upon (while it took a while to finally agree and decide what we were doing, we forgot to finalize our decision with the venue, leaving an open, full bar the entire night). While it was close to what we wanted, it was not exact but I don't think it upset anyone; and being the only detail that wasn't pretty much perfect, I can't see there being anything to complain about.
-The Groom
