10 CONFESSIONS OF AN ATYPICAL BRIDE (AKA, ME! ON MY WEDDING DAY!)

  1. The night before the wedding? I slept soundly and deeply.
  2. My wedding day was also my birthday.
  3. I dragged my entourage to the church two hours before the ceremony so we could take editorial looking photos in “natural light” but in reality was skin-burning afternoon sun.
  4. And since we were in the church so early, we caught the bridal party that was there before us. When I passed by the other bride and her entourage, her entourage all went: “We loooove your dress!!, who made it?”—in FRONT of the other bride. I was super embarrassed, but was also secretly super pleased.
  5. My wedding march song was “Here Comes the Sun” by the Beatles. (watch Pharrell perform it here) I didn’t want anyone crying in my wedding—me included—and this uplifting song just made me walk happy.
  6. Turns out, I wouldn’t have had the time to cry anyway because I was so busy concentrating on how NOT to trip over my gown. Hahaha.
  7. We, my husband and I didn’t want flowers on the aisle. We wanted it simple, bare, just like the architecture of the church.
  8. And, if there was to be any plant life, we wanted it as a living wall on the altar, a floor-to-ceiling, all green foliage installation. But our design was disapproved. All three pitches. Doctrine trumps décor—and in weddings, as all brides know, the church is the law.
  9. It was so hard to balance sitting on a bench in that ball gown, the whole time it felt like I was going to fall off! I was not worried however, because with all that tulle underneath me, I was sure I was just going to spring right back into place, and no one will ever know.
  10. While Mano placed my wedding ring perfectly on my fingers, I, however, placed his on the wrong hand. Oooooops.

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