My husband and I, on the 6th anniversary of our first kiss got married. It was June 1, 2007. I look back at this date with a sense of accomplishment as we'd made it through so much more than anyone ever thought possible. However, every now and again a dark cloud covers my memories of our wedding. I've never really shared anything about it, although I've wanted to at the very least blog on it. I couldn't at any other point in time though, as my issues are with some of my in-laws, and while they will likely forever plague my memories, they are not something that I want to bring up to them.

And, as most of my in-laws are friends of mine on MySpace and Facebook, I've kept quiet.

I realize this likely sounds petty, but there are only two things that I would change about my wedding day. The first being my dress. I love love LOVE my dress. However, I wore the dress for about an hour before the ceremony actually began, and had the train busselled the whole time. In the heat of the moment, I forgot to let the train down before the ceremony. Whoops. That's a minor glitch, and it still looked nice. So, whatever. 

The second issue is actually kind of a two-parter involving my husband's cousin's children. Every year in my town there is a formal father-daughter dance that these girls attend. Their mom buys them very formal, very pretty dresses for them to wear. I think that's great. I would have LOVED to take part in something like that when I was a girl. But this woman let her daughters wear these FORMAL dresses (and one of them was WHITE!) to my wedding. My outdoor, mostly casual wedding. Now, I'm no bridezilla (trust me on this, I'm about as laid back as they come) but it was MY DAY to be the pretty one. And these little girls are prancing around like it's prom night. Fantastic. 

The second part of my issue, which is the one that actually bothers me the most, is that these little girls decided to take up the entire first row of the groom's side of the seating during the ceremony. My mother-in-law had to sit on the third row of her only son's wedding. My sister-in-law had no place to sit at all. There was much of my husband's family who couldn't sit down anywhere because these girls didn't know their place, and for some reason their mother didn't set them straight. I'm sorry - but if you're not IMMEDIATE family, the front row is not for you. This is NOT proper wedding ettiquete. 

In one respect, I do feel kind of petty making an issue of this. I realize that these are little girls, and that they don't know any better. But in the same respect, their mother should know better and should inform them. And it wouldn't be a problem for me if I wasn't reminded of it every time I look at the pictures from our wedding, or every time I stumble onto a wedding site that's talking about seating. 

Anyway, I just wanted to get this out there and hope that it makes me feel a little better. I also realize that if this is the worst problem I encounter with my in-laws that I am one lucky girl, and that realization kind of puts it back in perspective.