Girls You have Got to Read This One!

[Bride]

:) So here is my story for you stressing brides. This is to serve as both a example of what not to do and to give you all a bit of a laugh to lighten the stressful situation that planning a wedding is.

My wedding is less than a week away and so about 5 days ago I called to confirm everything and make sure everything was all okay.

I had previously confirmed with everyone.......or so I thought.

I'm new to this wedding planning thing and there needs to be a person following around to make sure that all your "i'"s are dotted and the "t"s are crossed, but that wasn't happening with me.

I thought I had confirmed the date with my photographer. I had left a message for them saying yes we wanted them to do the photos and that this was our date and what package price we would be taking. Sounds good right?!?! No.....

So as you probably have guessed I call my photographer to re-confirm the confirmation and I'm so glad that I did. We agreed to a "mis-communication" error, but I guess I didn't get it across that yes we wanted them to do the pictures....so another couple was booked in and low and behold we have no photographer.....

so after the initial panic attack lasting the mandatory 5 minutes I call my hairstylist to see who is good in town (our original photographer was from another city), she provided me with some names and then I called the first one. Lovely day, our wedding date was the only date he had not booked for this summer! I said it was a sign and confirmed with him that this would work and he would do the pictures.

It actually worked out better in the long run b/c he is familiar with locations in our city and so don't have to have that worry. And he is very established and I guess I was just an idiot for not going with him originally.....

So here is the lesson here: Never take for granted that you have confirmed enough times......better too many than too little.

Luckily this story has a happy ending.

:lol:

[lindsayo18]

Bride~ You should be counting your blessings!! That is definitely a sign that this photographer should be taking your pictures because most photographers are totally booked every weekend in the summer! Good luck, I hope they turn out beautiful!

lindsayo18

[CarlosHoney]

Thanks for that tip. I am scared to death of this wedding planning mess, and just looking at all of the stuff that I'm going to need is overwhelming. We're doing the whole wedding on $1500, and the flowers, dress, hair, makeup, photography, officient services, catering, favors, music, and probably more stuff is being provided by someone I know personally or I'm doing them myself. There is a lot of butt I'm going to have to kiss to make everyone happy and keep it that way.

Thanks again for the warning.

[WhiskeyGirl]

It's good that you have found yourself a photographer. I will share my story with you. We got married last month on July the 16th. A year before the wedding my now husband's father and brother suggested that we have my now Husband's cousin's husband come from Germany to do our photography. (Did you follow that?? Basically my now husband's cousin) We called him and he agreed, sent us some pictures he had taken for magazines and we got really excited about him and the photographs he would take of us. Six months before the wedding we called him to make sure that everything was a go. (my father in law would pay for his, his wife's and his kids flight from Germany to Canada) That's when everything changed. The photographer told us that they had just moved and could not afford to come, why they didn't call us sooner and tell us all that, was and, still is, beyond me! So SIX months before the wedding we were out a wedding photographer! We were really upset and of course mad, and so we started looking for another photographer. We called the photography company that I had orignially wanted. (they are a world renowned company.) And of course they were COMPLETELY booked. They gave us names and numbers of other photographers we should call. Using these names we went on the internet and checked them out! After an hour of deliberation we called one and luckily they were able to take photos of our wedding. The story does not stop here. We met with the new photographer and loved them. Their style and them as people were awesome! We really liked our photographer and we were very excited. Then one day two months before the wedding we get a call saying that our photographer had passed away. We were crushed, not just because we no longer had a photographer but because our photographer was such a wonderful man and we really liked him. Two months before the wedding and we had no idea what we were going to do. They told us they would find us another photographer closer to the wedding. It took them a while, probably because they were mourning and trying to get the business figured out. (it was a husband/wife business. The wife posed and the husband snapped the photos) We never did meet our "photographer" before the wedding but we did meet with the "wife". She was so apologetic, but I just told her there was nothing she should apologize for and we really liked her as well! To make a long story short, our wedding photographs turned out ABSOLUTELY beautiful and all the stress we felt in between was in a way worth it. We are very sorry that our photographer passed away, he was a great man, and was sadly missed on our wedding day. (I know he was there in MY heart!) But our photos turned out beautiful. I guess God has a way of making things fine in the end!!! Best of luck with your up coming wedding, relax and go with the flow!!

~CanadianBride~