Wedding Day Blunders

benlreed —  November 7, 2009 — 11 Comments

Wedding Cartoon

I’m preparing to perform a wedding ceremony today.  I get more nervous doing a wedding than I do preaching a normal, full-length sermon.  I guess the reason is that if I mess up a wedding…well…let’s pray that never happens.

Very few, if any, weddings are complete without a goof-up, or two, or three.  On our wedding day, my keys were lost (notice I didn’t say that I lost my keys…I still think it was a conspiracy against me!), the groomsmen showed up 1 hour late for pictures, it took way too long for the wedding party to make it to the reception, and it rained, which meant that our reception had to be inside (the building could hold about half of the amount of people we crammed into it).  You know what, though?  At the end of the day, we were married.  And I guess that’s my point.

Mistakes are bound to happen.  Details will be forgotten.  The pastor may even mess up.  But for all you brides (and maybe even grooms), breathe a sigh of relief.  The goal is marriage.  And as long as that’s accomplished, the day can be counted successful.

What mistakes happened on your wedding day?

 

Share and Enjoy

  • Facebook
  • Twitter
  • Delicious
  • LinkedIn
  • StumbleUpon
  • Add to favorites
  • Twitter
  • Email
  • RSS
In Uncategorized , , ,
permalink

benlreed

Posts Twitter Facebook

Christ follower, husband, father, writer, pastor of small groups at Long Hollow Baptist Church. Communications director for the Small Group Network.
  • Jacob

    I had a stomach bug on my wedding day. Then my wife got it on the honeymoon.

    • http://intensedebate.com/people/Benlreed Ben Reed

      Ouch! I won't even go into the troubles we had once we left the reception. Too many to recount, but suffice it to say that my wife broke her ankle. Awesome.

  • http://www.jamrmiller.blogspot.com Mindy M.

    The first thing that comes to mind with my wedding day is the rain that came pouring down. Do you & Laura remember that storm? I remember watching people get soaked coming into the church.
    Wesley's tux didn't fit & we had to use some of that hemming tape, but it kept coming undone.
    Then, the pictures took way too long & lots of people left the reception before we got to talk to them.
    At the end of the day, I was relieved it was over & that Anthony & I were married. If I had it to do again, I would have taken our immediate families to the beach & gotten married barefoot in the sand. Weddings are stressful.

    Good luck performing the ceremony today.

  • Kristin

    Our wedding day was perfect. Small, only family and a few close friends on the beach, and our church pastor. It flooded rain the days prior, and we had no backup plan as the indoor facility was previously booked for a wedding. The morning of our wedding, the sun came up, a perfect 70 degrees, and dolphins were jumping in the waves behind us. It was awesome!

    Ben, how on earth did Laura break her ankle on your honeymoon????

  • http://www.myspecialks.com Renee Garcia

    Our wedding day was HORRIBLE!!! Started out with our pastor calling the morning of letting me know that one of my friends from high school had been shot and killed a few hours prior. One of my bridesmaids freaked out… I told her she needed to focus on ME! (LOL) Never told Frank about my friend at the wedding. I was HOT (like sweating hot) and crying (I don't handle being hot well), it was raining, the decorations were AWFUL (LONG story there), the photographer was like 6 feet tall and didn't bother to come down to our level (have you SEEN how short we are?!) so all our pics are at a downward angle, my bouquet was thrown away at the reception, I was SO HOT UGH, we went to the WRONG hotel, finally got to the right one like at midnight, then I woke up in the middle of the night freaking out about my friend being dead and Frank thought I was dreaming since I never bothered to tell him! AHHH! SO we canceled our honeymoon so we could go to the funeral and drove home the next morning. But, yes, almost 11 years later, we're still married, though there was some debate about THAT too when we found out the pastor who married us was in a HUGE scandal at the time! LOL Pretty sure we're married though! Hmmm… LOL

  • Kayce Susong

    Renee, you're cracking me up!! Wow, that is bad. The only thing that wouldn't go right at our wedding was the unity candle. We couldn't get it to light. We probably should have lit it before the wedding so the wick would be ready to go during the wedding. Oh well.

  • http://www.crossroadsenterprise.org Leslie Oden

    Great topic, everyone has a story! Ours makes me smile, even now. We got married in a beautiful Cathedral in Denver, Colorado on a beautiful winter night. The reception was held at a downtown hotel, where we had reserved the Honeymoon Suite for our wedding night. Some thoughtful friends let us use their luxury sedan for the trip from the church to the hotel. We danced the night away, stayed in our beautiful suite…..then woke up the next day to realize neither one of us had a car there! We had to call Gene's mom for a ride. ROFL!!

    • http://intensedebate.com/people/Benlreed Ben Reed

      I love it, Leslie! I bet you weren't ROFL the next morning though!?!

  • Christy Tarver

    Our wedding was wonderful, but the DJ at the reception called Ben the wrong name ALL night! We got our money back haha

    • http://intensedebate.com/people/Benlreed Benlreed

      That's horrible, Christy! At least you got your money back, though. Again, though…my main point…you're still married!

  • Pingback: uberVU - social comments