Paying 800 euros for an hour of open bar, not delegating to the organization, or talking too much (because of the wine) are some of the penances that many Spaniards deal with after the wedding
"I regret not drinking more before the wedding." Natalia, a 30-year-old engineer:
"When I woke up the next day and saw the photos and videos that the guests began to send us, I realized that I spent the entire wedding stiff as a stick waiting for everything to turn out as we had planned.
And not just the hours before. During the celebration—the cocktail party, the dinner, and the dance—I was in constant tension... It showed in my face and how I interacted with people that day. If I could go back, I would have had a few glasses of wine before leaving the house, surely I would have been much more relaxed and would have been able to enjoy the night more".
"I regret jumping through hoops and getting married." José, 42-year-old publicist:
"I don't have any problem with commitment, I've been with my girlfriend for 14 years and I already felt like a married man before our wedding. That's why I never wanted to go through the hoop of a wedding, which basically consists of celebrating love and paying real nonsense for absolutely everything. But my girl was very excited and in the end, we bundled up our heads. We spent a lot of money on something that is not worth it. From the moment I was at the casino knew that I was going to regret that. The wedding cost us around 40,000 euros and, although we recovered most of the money invested, it seems absurd to pay that money to get married. I am happy to be with my wife, but I regret having given in and invested so much time and money in something that goes against my principles".
"I regret everything I said that day." Ignacio, a 35-year-old lawyer:
"On my wedding day, I was so nervous that it seemed like I was drunk. It was hard for me to hold a conversation and even string two sentences together coherently. I made a speech that I realized when I saw it up to date following a video my brother passed me, I had neither head nor tail. It really embarrasses me to listen to it even today, four years after the wedding. Also, from things my friends told me later, it seems that none of the talks I had with the guests was too lucid. What's more, with my nerves I told more than one inappropriate anecdote. My wife still gets angry when she is reminded of some of the things I said (and yet I am unable to remember having said)".
"I regret having paid 800 euros for an hour of open bar." Sonia, a 40-year-old salesperson:
"My husband and I contracted an open bar until four in the morning, but the place where we celebrated the wedding gave us the option of extending one more hour if we saw that the guests were left wanting to party. When The deadline arrived, the maitre d' asked us if we finally wanted to extend an hour of the open bar by paying 800 euros for it. At that point in the night, there were only 15 guests left, but they were so dedicated that we felt sorry to throw them out so we decided to extend until five in the morning. The next day I kept asking my husband how we could have paid such an amount when only 10% of our guests were left. The worst part was that three of the few remaining guests had to leave the wedding five minutes after we had paid the extra hour because one of my husband's friends broke his leg when he slipped dancing and they had to take him to the hospital.
