It’s Been 8 Years Already??!?
by Jenners • 05/19/2010 • Life, Mr. Jenners • 40 Comments
Eight years ago today, Mr. Jenners and I were married. For our anniversary, I thought it would be fun to remember our wedding day and share some thoughts about what I’d do differently and what would stay the same.
What I’d Do Differently:
- I would have asked for more of the mini hot dogs and chocolate-dipped strawberries to be saved for me to eat. Although I did have the foresight to write into the catering contract that some of the mini hot dogs served during the cocktail hour were to be saved and served to the bride, I only got three! And I barely got any of the chocolate-covered strawberries that we paid extra for! (It was one of our big splurges … we have our priorities!) If I could go back, I would ask for an entire tray of mini hot dogs and at least four chocolate covered strawberries. (Mr. Jenners could ask for what he wants too … I’m just talking about what I want for myself.)
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Don’t I look giddy with happiness?Probably because I got some mini hot dogs and Mr. Jenners didn’t!
- I would not spend so much money on flowers. Flowers ended up being our second biggest wedding expense, and both Mr. Jenners and I agree that it was money NOT well spent. Erin over at Tesori Trovati had the coolest post about flowerless weddings the other day, and I so would have gone this route if I had known about it.
If I could go back in time, those flowers would be gone!And oh la la on the slit on my dress!
- I would told the photographer to just leave early and get the HELL OUT! I had very mixed feelings about our photographer. On the one hand, he was dirt cheap and the photos came out wonderfully. (We paid under $300 and got all our negative and 5×7 prints of every photo he took.) However, the photographer himself was … um … how shall I say this nicely? … a bit lacking in social skills. Not only did I hear him making comments during a serious point in the ceremony, but he had this walking cane and was galumphing everywhere during our first dance in the most distracting manner possible. He also felt he was “one of the guests” and was always coming up and talking to us and making comments about this and that until we told our best man to “tip him so he’ll leave.” (It didn’t work … he wanted to stay and practice with his new digital camera.) But perhaps I should have expected this when we first met him in his “studio” (his living room that looked like a scene out of Hoarders) where he wore a wife beater, boxers and was listening to a police scanner the entire time.
My favorite wedding photo–our signature jumping pose
- I would have fought harder for a better first dance song. To say that Mr. Jenners and I are completely incompatible musically is the understatement of the century. Simply put, he has appalling taste in music and tends to choose music based on how the singers look. At the time of our wedding, he liked Britney Spears. Need I say more? I tend to have more eclectic taste in music and do such shocking things as listen to music based on how it sounds. It was a bitter battle to find “our song” to play for our first dance, and we ended up compromising so much that we picked a song that neither of us love and neither one of us can ever remember the title of. In the interests of research, I found out it is I Knew I Loved You by Savage Garden. I was also vetoed on my idea to walk down the aisle together to The Peanuts Theme.
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Dancing to our lame song.What you don’t see is the photographer about 1 foot away
galumphing about with his cane and yakking away!
What I’d Do The Same
- Marry the man who puts up with all my shenanigans, loves me as I am, provides for our little family with
relativelylittle complaint and co-created the most wonderful little boy in the world. I love you, Mr. Jenners! Happy Anniversary!
Loving my husband for 8+ years despite my continuous complaints about him on my blog,
P.S. It seems that I lost about 210 readers in my Feedburner feed! I know I’m not that offensive so I suspect there might be a problem with my feed somewhere, even though I can’t find it. But if you read me only in a reader, I suspect you won’t know I even have this post so this P.S. is basically useless so I shall stop typing now.
Oops that comment from Eric is from me Emmy. I am using my husband's iPad and did not realize he was still signed in
LOL! Okay was your photographer seriously dressed like that when you met him? I think I would have ran away, fast!
Happy Anniversary! Great post. I would go flowerless too. Way too much money. Our photographer wore rainbow suspenders and seemed to be always eating instead of taking a picture. He started off the day by ticking my mom off when he said, "Hey Mama, Mama (yes he did say that) can we use the neighbor's lawn, it's nicer than yours."
Congrats! Our 4th wedding anniversary was yesterday. I'm totally going to have to steal your idea and backdate it so it appears like I actually wrote it last night! Here's to many more years, riches, and a cruise around the world on a yacht filled with books. Huzzah!
My parents' wedding present to us — in addition to a wheelbarrow (true story!) — was a selection of shade plants: ferns, hostas, and hydrangeas. My mom brought a truckload of cut flowers from her garden, cut a bunch of literal WEEDS from the scruffy yard of our new house, and threw the lot together into centerpieces and floral sprays. We had the best wedding flowers I've ever seen. Cost: $0. Plus, now the shady west side of our house is the "Wedding Garden," built around our centerpiece plants.
Cool, no?
Happy Anniversary!!!
I think Feedburner is broken or something. Not sure.
You crack me up! The photographer, lol! Too funny, but it does sound like you got a great deal. We have heard stories of bad/mean photographers, but we usually get thanked for being professional and respectful. The first few times I thought it was really odd but I guess the norm is the photographer who feels he is a guest. lol HAPPY ANNIVERSARY!!! We'll celebrate 7 years on Monday.
Congratulations, first of all…
And I have to say, if the police scanner/wife beater thing didn't worry you, I think you got what was coming to you with that photographer, who sounds kind of awesome if this was a TV sitcom.
Happy Anniversary to you and Mr. Jenners! Great list of wedding fix-its
I love how you had mini hot dogs and chocolate dipped strawberries at your wedding! I would've died for food like that! My MIL controlled everything so we only had fancy stuff…
And the wedding dance song…well at least it wasn't a Britney Spears song
It would have been really horrible to have danced to something like "Baby hit me one more time." Funny but horrible.
Happy Anniversary! Love your priorities – chocolate covered strawberries ought to come first every day!
And what an amazing signature jump!
Happy Anniversary!
I would pay exorbitant amounts for white chocolate covered strawberries, myself. The rest, eh, who cares?
I have a few things I'd do over too, but not the most important stuff!
Oh yeah, happy Anny!
You crack me up!!
I think that is so awesome about the Peanuts Theme! How Perfect!!!
And I love those mini hot dog things too! I'll take…ohhh let's just make it a WHOLE TRAY!
Happy Anniversary! You look beautiful in all of the photos!
I think I would have spent more on my wedding dress and held it at a larger location. (It was at a tiny country church and it was quite cramped – who knew we were so popular?)
You guys are positively precious! And I loveloveLOVE reading stuff about what other people would do differently at their weddings… it always makes me feel about 2,000 times better about just wanting to host a potluck where I hand out disposable cameras to everyone who shows up.
HAPPY ANNIVERSARY!!!
Happy Anniversary!!
I totally love the jumping shot. You both look sooo into it, which makes it awesome.
Hope you have a wonderful anniversary!
Hey, happy anniversary! Digging the new look! (I know, it's been awhile since I popped by here). Anyhoo, it's so nice to see Mr. Jenners in the flesh, and he is a catch!
Oh…congratulations, Jenners (and Mr. Jenners too!)
We will be married 28 years in June (good God, has it really been that long?!) and I was willing to have very few flowers at my wedding. My mother, on the hand, was not — so she agreed to pay for all the centerpieces herself
Yes, I am a bit stubborn on certain issues.
Enjoy the day — and night *wink – wink*
Happy anniversary! I love your posts.
Happy Anniversary!
I hope you both have a wonderful day.
love,
charlotte
I want to go flower-less this time around…always thought it to be an incredible lot of money for something that wouldn't last. My first marriage, his sister made the bouquet with fake flowers. This go-round, I just want free hands…the girls are walking me down the aisle, and we will be holding hands. He wasn't so sure it would look good with no flowers, but its gonna be a bbq wedding, so who cares what it "looks" like as long as we all have fun!
Happy Anniversary! I think the only things I would have changed about my wedding would have been 1. Try sitting in the corset and dress at least once so that I would have known I couldn't eat in it and 2. Made more of an effort to REMEMBER the day. Everything else was perfect as far as I remember.
I was meaning to tell you about how offensive you've been lately…I mean lovin' on your husband and stuff. Plus that over the top masturbation post. It was simply too much for all those casual readers. LOL. I'm sure they will be back once they realize they haven't laughed in days.
reading you since the begining of time,
kisA
I like the old fashioned coming to a blog to read it so you didn't loose me.
First, Happy Anniversary. I loved your what you would and wouldn't change post. Funny as always.
I get so jealous when I see how far wedding photography has come since I got married back in 1992.
Our photographer wasn't even cool enough to have us do the jumping pose. In our group family pictures he had me on this old couch that I sank down into and there was an exit sign over us!!
He also went around to my Hot friends and asked if they were interested in coming in for a boudoir photo shoot. Ewwwwww.
happy anniversary! i feel like i got
to attend.
i pray that your future together is
even sweeter than the past eight
years.
Happy Anniversary!!! I am glad I'm not the only one who would change things.. (Including a battle of the parents over pictures) But at the end of the day, all that mattered to me was I got my husband.
I love Kaye's idea of books as centerpieces. That sounds like something you should have done! Thanks for the shout out to my blog. You are a dear. Your wedding pictures looked really nice. A trip down the lane… my husband told me that I could have all the planning decisions, except for the date (to miss the hunting and Badger football schedule) and the first song. He chose "If Tomorrow Never Comes" by Garth Brooks. I still love that song.
One of the best wedding songs ever was at my friend Tawnya's wedding… remember the song Adam Sandler sang to Drew Barrymore in the wedding singer on the plane? That is the one that they had at their ceremony. It was priceless.
Enjoy the day!
Erin
I'm still here.
Next time T Rex Dad and I get married to each other, we're bagging the traditional wedding (ours was REALLY traditional) and we'll have "Elvis" do it in Las Vegas. That would have been SO much easier and cheaper!
And that flowerless wedding stuff looks pretty darn cool – would you go the butterfly route?
Aw! Congratulations and happy anniversary!
I have always wanted to do an anniversary post like this.
I think it's the cutest idea!
Mini hot dogs and chocolate covered strawberries sound AWESOME! Did you know that due to "health code reasons" my family wasn't allowed to have any left overs from the caterers?! That's BOLOGNA I tell you!
OMG SO there with you on the flowers!!! Your photographer sounds like a nutso, and I'm going to have to go listen to your songs now.
I chose REALLY untraditional songs at my shindig and it will be shared on my anniversary post so make sure to check in! ;P
I still could see you in my reader!
I love that jumping picture–did you have your wedding at a vineyard? How romantic! Happy Anniversary!
happy anniversary!!!!!!
My daughter and fiance love to read so we are actually using books as centerpieces for her wedding. I think it is a "novel" idea
Happy anniversary! Your photographer might have been a bit of a pain, but he did take some great pictures! I love the jumping shot.
Ahh, you just made me realize I've lost more than half of my readers in Feedburner too! Hopefully, that will be fixed soon.
Walking down the aisle to the Peanuts theme? Fabulous idea. =)
Awww, congratulations! The photographer sounds like a real charmer. I love your pictures though!
Ditching the flowers? Best Idea Ever. Especially during the era of Silk Flowers. What were we thinking? (Obviously I am much older than you.
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Congrats on your 8 years! "I knew I loved you before I met you" is one of my favorite love songs…hahaha. I was just wondering whatever happened to Savage Garden yesterday.
I have to tell you that it is so nice to hear someone else talk about what they would have done differently at their wedding and how it wasn't like oh my gosh so like totally perfect. Brian and I still wish we would have eloped to Vegas. Much less hassle.
Super sweet! I love the signature jumping shot. Happy Anniversary and I love the new spiffiness around here!
Happy Anniversary! Here's to years and years of happiness!
The Mister and I got married in our living room. No flowers (except one arrangement, purchased as a gift). No dancing, so no arguing about the first song.
Had we danced? He wanted Frank Sinatra's "It Had to be You" (mainly because it says that I have lots of flaws), and I wanted "I Don't Know Much" (but he said that he could not stand Linda Ronstadt's voice).
He's been pointing out flaws ever since.
Happy Anniversary! What a nice sweet post! (if I were Mr. J, I'd be saying, "okay, what do you want?!!!)
My husband and I both have always thought flowers were a waste of money, but I thought it would be good to carry some to make it seem like a wedding. He thought it would be good to get free wine and cheese at the hotel we were staying at. So I went up to a florist, bought (WITH HIS CREDIT CARD – BWAHAHA) a glass garden flower/butterfly feeder (that we still have in the garden to this very day) and I carried that. In addition, I swiped (temporarily) a little vase of 3 flowers off of a table from the room in which he was having his free wine and cheese and stuck the real flowers inside the glass flower. We grabbed two witnesses from the wine and cheese thing who assumed I was a landscaper and Jim was some sort of gardener (AS IF) and we were good to go!
Don't worry about the Feedburner stuff, ALOT of people are having issues. Me included.
Anyway, great anniversary post. I hope that you have a great day.