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Originally Posted by abaya
Ah, but how did you and your wife feel about that? Do you think you would have regretted cutting more corners than you did?
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I think I would have, but had you asked me a week before the wedding I would have awnsered differently.
The photos were stupid expensive. I refused to pay the extortion. My mom didn't. And the way Mrs.Bossnass lights up when she shows off the album, and the incredible prints that are on the walls of each our parents and grandparents made it worthwhile. I'm not a photographer, but I can recognize 'professional' results.
We attended a wedding where the first dance as a married couple sounded terrible because of some problem with the laptop playing the mp3s. That alone promted us to get a DJ. He played pre-reception music, played appropriate music when the wedding party came in, shifted smoothly between background music to speeches with sappy music to specificly requested music. When the dance floor wasn't busy, the DJ filled it without being annoying. I wasn't sure about the DJ until the wedding day. The reception wouldn't have gone as smoothly or been as fun without him.
My brother got married in a hotel lobby with a justice of the peace. Me and his wife's sister the only other people. It worked for him. He has no regrets, but I'm certain that his wife does.
An old friend of mine got married on a beach on a beach in belize. Unfortunatly, almost none of his friends could make it. There were random people on the beach 30 feet away, even though they had reserved a section with the wedding planner at the very nice resort. He told me he regreted it when I picked him up at the airport; one of his keenest memories is "right after I kissed the bride, I looked up and saw an old fat hairy sunburned dude giving me the thumbs up".