To the married among us (poor souls.) Was your wedding day all you expected it to be?

I got married in a court house, with no guests, and went to a restaurant after that turned out not to be very good. So the wedding was about what I expected, but the dinner was disappointing. The ceremony was a bid odd too. The judge whisked into the chamber, read the vows she picked out of her little book (which were very nice, I couldn’t have come up with better) and then whisked out. I don’t think she even mentioned kissing the bride. We asked the bailiff if that was it, because it seemed like some ending statement was missing. He said, yup, you’re married. We left and had dinner. Took our wedding picture with the camera at arm’s length in the car. But it was a very happy day.

First, I don’t consider myself a poor soul. I’ve been married for many years… my first and only marriage. It’s had it’s up and downs, but I wouldn’t change it for the world.
We were married in January. We had worried that being married in January in the Midwest, we’d have a chance of bad weather… but it was a sunny and warm day!! Very unusual.

We were married in a church with the traditional wedding attendants. Our wedding reception was lovely with about 100 guests. Everything worked out great!!

We didn’t have a lot of money, so we drove to Chicago and spent our honeymoon there. It was fun! So you could say all went well then… and 38 years later… it continues.

My soul is much happier for being with my husband’s soul. We got married in out favorite Indian food restaurant, Leela Lounge (which, sadly, is no more) in NYC. My best friend led the ceremony, my oldest gave us rings. There were about 40 people, close friends, they had a great time. I was 7 mo. pregnant with my second, my dress was sewn by my aunt and my husband’s outfit was from Pakistan (a gift of my best friend’s family). This wasn’t a legal procedure as I was still married to my first (I thought I’d be divorced by then, but there were issues and it all took longer). When a couple of months later, we were legally wed at City Hall, one of my close friends was a witness and my husband’s parents were finally able to make it. My foot was broken and I was 3 weeks postpartum and in pain but it was short and amazing. Here is the link to pics for the first ceremony.
http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=2398033&id=805316&l=63a6765b57

I’m don’t remember, I was too intoxicated to notice.

@CaRbOnPrOdUcTwo Cheers good to hear from you again. It’s been a while. I might put up with you if the mood takes me.

The reference to poor souls was entirely intended for those who appreciate ironic humour.

@ucme…....I’m flattered beyond recognition…..have we met?

@CaRbOnPrOdUcTwo Same old same old.

Butt of course….(rolling my one good blood shot eye up into me head)...How dim witted of me….(tip toing out da vrooooooooom) ;+

AH AHAHAHHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAH ing quite loudly…

@CaRbOnPrOdUcTwo See you’re still partial to a cockatoo.

Wife and i had this beautiful church wedding. all our friends and neighbors were present. it was truly a time for us to remember. i have never regretted that day, because i was marrying the love of my life. we are still married to each other and having the time of our lives(since our children left the nest and also are married). yahoo!

@ucme Butt hole knee the plump pink crowned females. My Macaw wouln’t eat anything less….;+

It was better than I expected. I wasn’t really dreading the wedding but I thought I’d just go through the motions and get it done. I’m a shy introvert so I didn’t expect to enjoy it much. I had such a wonderful time, it was such a time of joy. When my wife started walking down the aisle she was the most beautiful woman I had ever seen, I was overcome with emotion and had to look away and drift into thought so I wouldn’t cry. It was an amazing experience that I recommend, I’d do it again!

Our wedding was great. The church part of it went really well and was beautiful, and the reception was the best party ever! By the end of the night, my face hurt from smiling so much.

There were a couple of minor mishaps, like one bridesmaid forgetting the gauzy scarf that went with her dress. My mother in law solved that problem by running to the fabric store and buying material to whip up a new one. She had to get a different color, so we gave it to the Maid of Honor. It looked like we planned it that way, and people even commented on how nice it was to see the Maid of Honor singled out like that. The DJ was late to the reception and played crappy music, but I didn’t really care. More of a drinking crowd than a dancing crowd anyway. Finally, a waiter spilled a glass of champagne down the front of my wedding dress. I thought he was going to cry, he was so upset. Didn’t bother me at all! I was just to happy to be married to the best man in the world that nothing could have phased me that night.

I worked my ass off to have a nice wedding. My family fucked it up entirely.

I’m very bitter about it, and I still want a re-do.

@Seek_Kolinahr you can totally have a re-do. you should.

Had a fabulous time, eveyone was there that we wanted there and although it was done on a semi budget it was a fabulous day and lots of fun was had by all :)

Oh, the wedding. If we could do it every year I would. It was so much fun!

We got married in the backyard of our local pub. We met there, our friends worked there, we got engaged there. It was beautiful. All the old wood and simple flowers lined up in vases along the wall. They painted the whole place for us and it was perfect. They planted flowers in the backyard for our wedding.

Our officiant didn’t show up so a friend of ours stood in. He ran home and changed, ran fingers through his hair and stood with us to make us a family. It was a beautiful May day and the wind rustled the trees overhead. Our friends cheered and blew bubbles for us.

We played with the wedding favors (ice cream poppers, finger monsters and the like), danced to our songs. There were toasts that went on for twenty minutes- from atop the old bar!

I was so humbled to have the experience. I was amazed that this wonderful man wanted to be with me. I am so grateful and lightheaded just thinking about what an amazing wedding we had.

Was a great day. It was especially memorable, as we were married on my 22nd birthday. The only thing that spoiled it was at the end. I gave my car keys to my mother for safe keeping, and told my friends that they could do what they liked to the outside, just leave the inside alone. However, mother gave them the keys, and they filled it to the window line with polystyrene bean bag filling, as well as tying a fish to the exhaust manifold. This was especially annoying, as we had planned a driving holiday for our honeymoon. I never did get all the little polystyrene balls out of that car…......

Also, we had had arguments with my in-laws, who wanted the wedding in their home church, which was in a town of 3000 people, some 500km from Sydney where we lived, and where all our friends were. This was despite the fact that we were paying for it! They refused to come until the last minute, and then my father-in-law made a terrible speech at the reception.

Despite all this, it was still a great day, and we are still together almost 24 years later.