Let it Go : the Best Wedding Advice I Received

Weddings are generally very stressful events for everyone involved. Family member worry how other family members are going to act, will Uncle Leroy get drunk and grab all the girls or will Grandma Ana be horrified that you didn't have the ceremony at her church? Will the cake be the right color, will the flowers arrive on time, will the club DJ your brother suggested not play songs with words your Great Aunt has never heard?

Every part of a wedding is stressful and it is supposed to be the most beautiful day of your life. Mine was and it was because of the best wedding advice I got that week and I got it from my mother, the one who was more stressed than anyone else. She told me to let everything go and have a good time, to not worry what everyone thought or if something went wrong. So I took her wedding advice and I did.

I let it go when the fridge we put the wedding flowers in actually turned into a freezer overnight and froze the bouquets. The edges browned and we were horrified. Everyone who didn't know asked where we got those beautiful antique lily bouquets?

I let it go when I fell in the grass during the pre wedding pictures of my husband and I. We were practicing him throwing me over his shoulder, which was how we would leave the wedding ceremony, when he lost his balance (we were on a hill) and down we both went. A line of grass stain spread down the back of my dress. No one noticed and those images are some of my favorites.

I let it go when the beautiful vases filled with goldfish on the reception tables quickly became filled with floating goldfish. Many didn't notice and another of my favorite images is my husband pretending to drink out of the vase with one of my bridesmaids laughing in the background.

I let go of worrying what everyone would think of everyone else and who sat by who. My grandmother, a very religious woman who has since passed, stated that it was the most beautiful wedding she had ever been too, though I know she didn't understand why it wasn't in a church. She stayed for some of the dancing even though a great deal of drinking was happening.

I let go through the entire event and enjoyed the experience. I took the wedding advice my mother gave me. We still have people say to us that it was the best wedding they have ever attended and I think this was because everyone let go and celebrated the start of our new life.