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No matter how much you love planning your wedding, what is one thing that you wish you could pay someone else to do? What service or product would make your life easier?
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No matter how much you love planning your wedding, what is one thing that you wish you could pay someone else to do? What service or product would make your life easier?
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23 Comments on “Brides – What frustrates you the most about planning your wedding?”
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I would have paid some one to collect the response cards. People are inconsiderate and believe that you are a mind reader as to whether or not they will attend
Posted on November 11, 2009 at 8:08 pm.
Im a wedding planner who just planned my own wedding. In my 4 years i found that stupid people make my job harder. when the tent is set up 30 mins before guest arrive, and special dress order time they rarely call you when it’s in you really have to be on them,etc.
Posted on November 13, 2009 at 6:13 pm.
Hire someone to find the perfect groom…lol
Posted on November 16, 2009 at 7:48 pm.
I want to pay someone for writting the thank-you notes and telling all the customs I need.It will be easier in my wedding.
Posted on November 17, 2009 at 7:37 am.
I really wish there was a thank you note service maybe tied in with a gift tracker. I made so many mistakes for my engagement party when I wrote thank you notes (ex. thanking someone for the wrong gift or forgetting to thank someone for a specific gift).
Posted on November 20, 2009 at 9:37 am.
My mother frustrated me the most. She was always upset because she felt like she had little to do in helping me plan. That wasn’t my intent, it just so happened that I knew pretty much exactly how I wanted everything to be.
Posted on November 21, 2009 at 2:42 am.
My biggest pet peeve is how 90% of all vendors jack up their prices once they hear you are having a wedding…doesn’t matter if its a hall, a DJ, or going to a party store…their wedding stuff is always more expensive!
Posted on November 23, 2009 at 11:23 pm.
What you all need to understand is there are people you can pay to do all of this stuff… we are wedding consultants, planners and day of coordinators…the worst thing I **** dealing with as a planner is the pushy parents who try to change the wedding on the couple…I had to include it in my contracts that all changes had to be approved by the bride or groom via phone or email before they will be implemented
Posted on November 26, 2009 at 4:46 am.
Trying to please people without compromising your own taste and vision.
Trying to plan a west coast wedding while finishing school on the east coast and working on my senior thesis project and being an RA in a freshman dorm and maintaining some fraction of a personal life.
My mom hounding me about dress shopping. I want to include her but its hard when we live on opposite sides of the country for most of the year. She’s even gone so far as offering me to fly out to San Fransisco to go shopping. No shopping has been done yet.
Competitive girlfriends of my fiance’s other brothers (he’s one of 6 brothers, most with long term girl friends) who want to get married before or around your wedding and want to do it “bigger and better” than yours. Drama *****.
But everything else is great.
Posted on November 28, 2009 at 8:49 am.
People who dont rsvp even though you add the stamp for them. How lazy is that
Posted on November 29, 2009 at 1:15 am.
I wuld have loved to pay someone to deal with my MIL.
Posted on November 29, 2009 at 1:41 am.
People letting us down because we are having a small wedding. I was let down by 2 different caterers and by the lady making our cakes, we think that they got bigger bookings for the same date and dumped us so they could earn more money.
Posted on November 29, 2009 at 12:57 pm.
People not getting their RSVPs back to me is something I wish I could pay someone for. I would like that someone to be a total b-itch too, because at this point I just want to let all the people who haven’t sent their RSVPs know that they’re disinvited, family included.
I also wish I could pay body doubles to plan and have our wedding while my fiancé and I run away to get married.
Posted on December 3, 2009 at 12:57 am.
what frustrated me the most when I got married was my flowers. I only had a small order of a brides bouquet, MOH bouquet and 3 boutonnieres and somehow they managed to mess that up. my mom ordered them and put them under her name. then I went in to add a boutonniere to the order and gave them my moms name, but becuase someone under the same name as my mom was getting married, they added to that one, then called me and asked me to come down and straighten it out and started yelling at me that the order should be under my name and not my moms so they wouldnt get mixed up. well, I let them have it at that point telling them a professional place should not be messing things up like that and that it shouldnt matter what name it goes under…what if someone by my name was also getting married…whould that give them promission to mess it up again? then I told them I could take my business elsewhere. luckly for the wedding day they got it right. I’m was the furtherest thing from a bridezilla for my wedding…but when someone tries to blame me for their mistake…I lose it!
Posted on December 3, 2009 at 1:09 am.
The things that are frustrating me the most is that my sister is having a fit that I didn’t choose her to stand up for me (shes a major drama queen and wants to do and plan everything her way without any input from me), my FH sisters aren’t speaking to each other, so I worry about a knock-down fight at the wedding, and now my mom and her fiance (who happens to be the best man) split up over the weekend and my FH is having a fit. The wedding is in 6 weeks!
Sorry to vent – I’m just so ANGRY!!
Posted on December 4, 2009 at 9:12 am.
getting the groom more invovled in the planning process and finding the right venue for the recpetion.
Posted on December 7, 2009 at 12:03 am.
I wish I had had the money for someone else to do my centerpeices and decortations for the reception. I made them all myself. I did it to save money. They still came out beautiful, everyone wanted one to take home. But it took up alot of my time and was very stressful.
I also think the groom was a little stressful. I would ask his opinion on things. Which of these 3 cakes do you like more, if I did not end up going with his desision he got mad. I was just asking an opinion, not asking him to choose it for me. He became a pain in the butt, but I would not trade him in for the world.
Posted on December 9, 2009 at 7:24 pm.
I would have hired an enforcer to make people send back the RSVP cards. I don’t get why it’s so hard for some people to do this. They’re in self addressed stamped envelopes. All you have to do is write your name and check accepts or regrets.
Posted on December 10, 2009 at 9:21 am.
It would make my life a million times easier if I could just hire someone to do it all for me. I know there are planners out there and I would love to use one, but our budget is stretched to the max as it is. I would hire someone in a heart beat if I could afford it. I’m sick of everyone saying they’ll be glad to help and then not stepping up when I need it. I’m also tired of all the input. Even when I don’t ask for opinions I seem to get them from the most random people who decide that I should definitely know what their sisters brother in law’s wife did for their wedding. I DON’T CARE!! Whatever “vision” there used to be for this wedding got thrown out the window a long time ago, and now I’m just rolling with the punches and making decisions as I come to them. It would really be nice to have someone who could make it all a little more “put together” so to speak. I’m worried that I’ve lost sense of what the whole thing will look like when I’m done.
Posted on December 11, 2009 at 6:27 am.
I just wish my future husband would give me his input! He says the planning is a girl thing and is leaving it ALL up to me! If he would just help out a little it would make a big difference.
Posted on December 14, 2009 at 12:09 pm.
I agree with most of these answers. I would love to have someone collect the RSVP’s and realize how important that is! I also would like someone to sit down with the bestman and maid of honor and tell them…YOU AGREED TO THIS!!! I’m having MOH and BM issues right now GRRRRRRR
Posted on December 16, 2009 at 1:21 pm.
I only wish people would keep their opinions of our plans to themselves and come along for the ride…we really are working very hard to plan things our guests will enjoy, even if they are out of the ordinary!
Posted on December 19, 2009 at 10:21 pm.
I wish i could have someone round up everyone for dress fittings and for tux fittings. I cant seem to get everyone here for a fitting and i have about had it and tell everyone buzz off.
Posted on December 20, 2009 at 11:59 am.