![]() ![]() It’s great to surprise your partner by arranging to have food and drinks waiting in your room. Then place throw pillows on the floor and sip champagne together. If you’re having a winter wedding, plan to have a fire crackling in the fireplace when you get up to your room. “Cover your wedding bed in petals that are the same color as your bridal flowers. My husband loved it!”įrom Janet Dunnington, owner of CEO Weddings & Events in Vermont: So I asked my wedding planner to add vases of flowers and scented candles, dim the lights, put on music and put some small snacks on a tray on the bed. ![]() “I wanted to make sure our room would look completely different from the one in which I’d had my hair and makeup done earlier in the day (when I was still single!). It goes without saying, we missed our flight to Hawaii.” My husband got so ill he had to go to a hospital emergency room with what turned out to be an allergic reaction to the shellfish in the pasta. We’d barely eaten at our wedding, so we ordered pasta from room service. “We planned to spend our wedding night at a hotel and to fly to Hawaii the next day. I realized I’d forgotten to take out the hundred or so bobby pins in my hair, and some of them had gotten hooked on the pillow.” “I woke up, went to the bathroom and when I looked in the mirror, I was totally surprised to see that a small pillow was attached to my head as if it was glued there. We both woke up starving in the middle of the night, so we drove to a 24-hour convenience store and loaded up on snacks.” “I was so tired after our wedding that I went to our room, took off my wedding dress and fell asleep. I was so upset at myself that there was no ‘consummation of the marriage.’ Worse, I woke up the next day, very hung over.” ![]() When I was getting undressed, I broke the baby pearl bracelet that a friend had lent me. “I drank a little too much at my wedding. When we finally got between the sheets, there was rice pilaf everywhere.” We didn’t care we sat on our bed shoveling handfuls of rice, asparagus, fish and fowl into our mouths. But when we opened our bags, everything was cold and there were no utensils. When we got back to our hotel room around midnight, all we could think about was food. “My wife and I were so engrossed with the wedding that we never had a chance to eat. I bet most people have pretty low-key wedding nights and save the wild stuff for the honeymoon.” We hung out with friends in our suite until no one could keep their eyes open anymore-except me! I was far too excited to sleep, but my new husband had no problem at all passing out while I just stared at the ceiling for hours, going over the day. “On our wedding night, we were back at our hotel room by 10 p.m. Despite this, John begged the hotel staff to put together a huge platter of sweets. I wanted chocolate-covered strawberries, but since it was sooooo late, the lounge was closed. We stopped on the concierge level, which had a lounge that offers evening treats. “By the time we checked into the Ritz-Carlton hotel after the reception, it was very late. Needless to say, I went straight to sleep!” That night, we went out to dinner and I could barely keep my eyes open. We had lots more planned, but I was so exhausted that when we returned from the ride, I passed out in a beach chair for the rest of the afternoon. After the wedding brunch, we all went for a sailboat ride. “We got married in the morning on a beach in St. My sister had gotten us a karaoke machine, so we sang with everyone until 4 a.m.-with me still in my wedding dress, eating chips and drinking wine. “Right after the wedding we went up to our hotel room with a whole bunch of friends and relatives. And there I was, asleep in a chair, wearing my lingerie and still holding onto a full glass of champagne.” To verify that he was who he said he was, a hotel employee had to come in with him. He waited for 30 minutes in his room and spent another 30 minutes begging the hotel staff to let him into mine. And I was so tired after the long night that I fell completely asleep and didn’t hear either my cellphone or room phone. But he never came! It turns out I’d forgotten to give him a room key. ![]() So after everything was over, I went upstairs, changed into my lingerie, filled two glasses with champagne and waited for my new husband. “Before the wedding, my husband and I had separate hotel rooms, but we were planning to stay in my room on our wedding night. Since real life is often not so picture perfect, we asked some recent newlyweds to share what really happened. Well, anyway, that’s what happens in Hollywood films. The Big Day is over, and you and your new husband head up to your hotel suite for a romantic champagne toast, followed by an amazing romp in bed. ![]()
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