What Was Your Wedding Like?

Laurent · August 11th, 2006, 04:00 PM

Can't remember if we've ever had a thread like this, but I couldn't find one with a quick search.

I like hearing wedding stories - so, what was yours like? Huge church wedding with 8 bridesmaids? At the courthouse? Great dress or jeans and a t-shirt? Someone in the wedding party get drunk and embarrass themselves and/or sleep with someone?

Spill!!

SammysMom · August 11th, 2006, 04:11 PM

My husband and I exchanged vows twice to each other. First time we did it on a whim so to speak but the second time we wanted to marry in the church and I wanted to do it on what would have been his mother's 82nd birthday. She was an amazing woman.
First time we got married was at the courthouse. They were having their office Christmas party and invited all who were getting married to enjoy the food. The Justice of the Peace had the party catered.
Second time, we got married in our church. It was amazing. The candles were all we had for light and we had family and friends. Nothing big. We had the worst thunderstorm come rolling in. It was raining so hard we could hardly hear the priest.

twitchy · August 11th, 2006, 05:50 PM

It was a cold rainy grey day, but we got married here: http://www.edmonton.ca/portal/server...+conservatory/
Amidst tropical flowers, birds and waterfalls. Justice of the peace and a small group of family and friends followed by a potluck supper. No stress or fuss. Fabulous.

cloud · August 11th, 2006, 06:08 PM

My dh was the one that wanted a big wedding. We got married on New Year's eve, candlelit ceremony, 3 bridesmaids - the church we got married in even left up their christmas poinsettas and evergreen decorations, so we didn't have to decorate the church at all. It really was beautiful (although I had wanted to elope).

Algernon · August 11th, 2006, 06:09 PM

Mine was a pretty traditional church wedding with reception following, but not nearly as costly as most. I cut corners everywhere (my dress was a 70.00 prom dress, I made the invites, made just about everything I could). We splurged on the reception because we wanted people to have fun and we both have GInormous families...the reception was the majority of our 5k total.

I had a lot of compliments on how simple and lovely the wedding was, and I don't have any regrets. I had one bridesmaid and my hubby had his dad as his best man. My oldest son was three at the time, and we had him go up the aisle with us...too precious.

buttmunch · September 5th, 2006, 03:33 PM

I was 8 3/4 months pregnant and we weren't going to marry but decided, what the hell, let's do it. Went down to city hall and were the last in line. The couple before us appeared to be a 20-year-old mail order bride and her 68-year-old blushing groom-to-be. Hilarious. We had a choice of the short or the long version. Short version was yes and yes while the long one was do you take...yes...do you take...yes: a difference of about 4 seconds. It was absolutely great. We went out to dinner afterwards and called everyone to tell them and then his mother gave me a ring of hers (we forgot about rings) which I promptly lost two weeks later. And we never did get proper rings, just took rings we had bought together a few years earlier and switched to the appropriate finger, along with a band from his dead grandfather and a band from my dead grandmother. It was so fun and lovely and I wouldn't have had it any other way.

Luna · September 5th, 2006, 05:44 PM

Ceremony was outside at our local Country Club, small wedding 50+ people, reception indoors, very beautiful, great food, so much fun BUT I truly wanted an even smaller wedding on the beach but deciding on a place for the reception got tangled. Outside influences got to me and I went a bit more easy & traditional. Barefoot and fancy free is more my style but it got complicated. It was a beautiful night just not my dream wedding, oh well, next time

A*O · September 5th, 2006, 05:56 PM

Quick civil ceremony in a dusty Register Office over an off licence (booze shop) in a small country town. Happy couple, plus parents plus 2 witnesses. Then a HUGE pissup/party at a yacht club by the river Thames. Everyone had a good time, no family feuds, no drunken brawls, nobody caught in flagrante under the table. Pretty boring really.

UndercoverGator · September 5th, 2006, 06:26 PM

Huge church wedding that they tell me was beautiful, unfortunately I was in a state of panic/abject terror the whole time since I'd been briefly married once before and understood I was possibly fucking up my life for all time and eternity. We had 300 + guests and the reception was held at a family old plantation home. But being that we're Cajun everyone brought food and liquior, fun was had by all and we didn't spend a fortune.

PrettyGirl · September 5th, 2006, 07:30 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by UndercoverGator

I was in a state of panic/abject terror the whole time since I'd been briefly married once before and understood I was possibly fucking up my life for all time and eternity.

OMG, THIS IS THE STATEMENT OF THE YEAR....I LOVE IT!!

chatterweb · September 6th, 2006, 12:32 AM

We got married at a church overlooking the ocean.
It was in August (HOT) The bridesmaid got sick and fainted.
We had our reception at a hotel.
Our exit song was a song by the Business; Drinking and Driving- british oi punk!!
We honeymooned at the hotel suite and went to sea world the next day.
I really enjoyed the whole deal!

Beeyotch · September 17th, 2006, 05:58 PM

We had a 20-min ceremony in a beautiful little gothic style non-denominational "chapel" on our university campus where we first started dating.

We had 3 bridesmaids (my best friend+2 sisters) and 4 groomsmen (his brother and 3 best friends). Wrote our own vows and said them in front of 80 of our family & closest friends. Walked out to Weezer's song "Holiday," since we love them and fell in love to their music, and it's a great rocking, triumphant-sounding song besides!

Reception was in a great little Victorian house bed and breakfast with the most wonderful garden. No drunken outbursts or spats, everyone had a good time. It was perfect and I almost couldn't believe it. Later that night in our honeymoon suite (after a couple of glasses of wine) we cried our eyes out because we couldn't believe the immense love and good feelings we felt in a room full of our families and closest friends, and how lucky we were to have such wonderful people in our lives, and each other of course. Very emotionally draining, but rewarding.

LynnieD · September 17th, 2006, 07:12 PM

About a 10 minute, no nonsense/no singing/no candle lighting /no anything ceremony for us. Walked down the aisle, said 'I do' and got the hell to the party. As close to a Vegas wedding you can get in a church I swear. And thats how I wanted it.
Had about 200 people, and had 6 bridesmaids. Had a GREAT reception--still 11 yrs later people talk about it. Open bar for 6 hours will do that....
One of the Groomsmen dropped his pants and drawers while dancing to the Rolling Stones. I have the pictures to prove that.

sweetrebel · September 26th, 2006, 02:37 PM

We had both been married before, and had the "big wedding" so we decided to go to the Justice of the Peace and get married. I had bought a beautiful dress (nice but not too frilly or formal) and when I was getting dressed the zipper broke! I didn't have a clue how to fix it and had no time to find something else...I ended up wearing a pair of slacks and a nice wrap around sleeveless shirt.
We went out to eat afterwards and went and picked up the kids (mine from previous marriage) and spent the night at home with them. My sister came the next morning and we headed out for the honeymoon...
I have seriously been thinking about renewing our vows. Our anniversary was 9/19 (3rd anniv) and I thought at 5 years would be nice...

southernbelle · September 28th, 2006, 04:41 PM

My babysitter recently had a very pretty wedding. It was small, probably only about 50 guests. It was in the Japanese gardens of Houston

. The bridesmaid dresses were chocolate brown and afterwards there was a reception in a courtyard near Rice University. Since the wedding was outdoors, the programs were fans (each one was glued to a decorative, colored piece of cardboard and had a popsicle stick handle).