What was your wedding like?

My wife found a wedding dress at Goodwill. It was a designer dress, originally worth somewhere around $5,000 (according to the original tag). She bought it for $50; it fit perfectly and the dress was in perfect condition. We took it as a sign.

We had our wedding in a small chapel, with her kids and brother. Five people in total. That night her brother watched the kids and we went downtown. I wore my suit and she wore her wedding dress.

We started by taking a carriage ride down 6th street and had dinner at Bess Bistro. After dinner, we worked our way back up 6th street, going from bar/club to bar/club. Everyone treated her like a princess. People were buying us champagne, letting us choose the music playlists, bringing us up on stage and making announcements.

When we finally got back to the car, the bars were all closing and there wasn’t anything to do but leave. But my wife didn’t want to go home; didn’t want the night to end. So we went to IHOP. We navigated to our table, which was hard with her big, poofy dress, and ordered breakfast. But she was so tired, she fell asleep. Her head flat on the table when the whole serving staff came with our food. And for the first, and only, time they brought her hash browns exactly the way she liked them.

Then I brought her home, picked her up, and walked her across the threshold for the first time.

@mrentropy : That just made my day! :-)))

@mrentropy what a cute cute cute story! I love it!!

You also reminded me that I did not mention that I paid $33 for my wedding dress , quite a steal compared to most of the women that I know.

Ours was pretty traditional, but a lot of fun. I wouldn’t change a thing about it!

Since my family and friends all live in the midwest, and we got married here in CT, we decided to have the rehearsal dinner at an outdoor lobster place right on the water. It was byob, so we brought coolers of wine, champagne, and beer. We sat at picnic tables while eating delicious seafood and admiring the view of Long Island Sound and sailboats as the sun set. It was laid back and so much fun!

We had the wedding ceremony at a beautiful Episcopal church in Mystic, CT. My grandma and my new sister-in-law did readings during the service, and afterward we had pictures taken not only at the church, but by the historic drawbridge area downtown. It was late September, but warm and sunny without being hot. A perfect day!

The reception was at a nice Italian restaurant. We had a sit-down meal, did all the usual tossing of the bouquet and garter, dancing, open bar, and yummy cake. There were minor snafus, like the DJ was a bit late and a waiter spilled champagne down the front of my dress. I was so happy to be married to my husband that I didn’t care at all! The food was very good, and the cake was outstanding. At the time, my husband and I worked with a guy who was an amazing singer. He sang a song he’d written for the occasion, and overall we had a fantastic time. No one left until the manager came out to say he really had to close up. My face hurt from smiling so much!

That night, we went to an adorable bed and breakfast right on the beach. Friends of ours had left champagne and chocolates in our room. The next morning, we drank our coffee on the beach, sitting on big rocks and just enjoying the peace. We didn’t leave for our honeymoon until a week later, but went to Disney in Florida. Had a wonderful time there as well!

It was pretty darn great for a shotgun wedding. ;)

I never had a big wedding. The first one I wore an ankle-length white lace dress. Our families were there and it was in a gorgeous Episcopal chapel where I had attended church a few times. Did Not like the priest. Beautiful ceremony. Opened gifts afterward at my parents (my) house, had wedding cake and danced. Rice was all over the car!
The last one was in a Vegas chapel, a big new one, by an Assembly of God lady minister, very budget, no attendees.

I loved our wedding. We were married outside in a garden at a historic house in Philadelphia. It was very hot (end of August). My dress had been made for me. We were married by my father-in-law, a minister. They put tables in the garden and the caterers circulated with substantial hors d’oevures. The waiters kept bringing new types to me to taste. I would take one bite and stuff the rest in my husband’s mouth. Sadly, I did not do the same with the champagne. So I got pretty high. The cake was made by my friend, who also managed the entire event.

After the wedding, all of the out-of-town guests were invited back to our apartment for a party. There were people sleeping everywhere so we spent our wedding night on the floor of the screened-in back porch. We got up for breakfast with everyone, and then left for our honeymoon.

Big honkin’ Italian wedding.

250 guests, church ceremony, an obscene amount of food, lots of music, twenty person wedding party, family in from Italy and Argentina, Italian pastry up the wazoo.

It was amazing. We danced until about 2AM.

Awesome stories.

@cprevite I loved “big honkin’ Italian wedding”.. lol. My husband is Italian, and I think this family was dumbfounded by our little event.

I loved mine, the only bummer was that the day went so quickly and the evening ended so early (around 11PM i think – but that’s because it was on a Sunday (venue hire cheaper on Sundays) and people had to work the next day and our wedding was about at least a 45minute drive for just about all of our guest).
Anyway, it was probaby what one would call mostly traditional, except that it wasn’t a religious ceremony even though we had it in a chapel. I had a beautiful wedding dress that didn’t cost all that much because i ordered it over the internet and had it made especially for me.
Everything about that day was really great, and i wish i could have another one. :)
I had a purple colour scheme and a butterfly theme. We also had no flowers at all at the wedding (waste of money for something that wilts a day later, and WAY too expensive anyway), but we improvised with other things to make it absolutely beautiful. As far as weddings go, it wasn’t TOO expensive (around $6000US if my conversion is accurate) and that was for about 64 guests, so it wasn’t a really big wedding.
The food was good, everybody loved the wedding and the ceremony which was unconventional for most of the guests, everybody was impressed by our tango as first dance, the speeches were amuzing, the hall looked beautiful, my best friend flew all the way from the UK to attend my wedding here in South Africa, so, i had SO much fun!
Oh, and i also made all the guest’s gifts, which i really enjoyed doing as well. I made most of the things myself (invites, thank you cards, gifts, chapel confetti etc).

Which one? LOL
My first is a church. Whole nine yards
Second and third we eloped didn’t tell a soul. spent all the money on the honeymoon.
Married by the Justice of the peace.

Ours was in England in January. Daffodils were in bloom! We had about 20 people – family and a few close freinds. I wore an embroidered cotton Mexican wedding dress, and a cape and crocheted cap that a friend had made. It was a morning weding and the reception was a “wedding breakfast” with food cooked by me, my husband and my mother-in-law. It was great. When we came back to the States in June, my parents made a party for us on their back lawn.

@janbb: That sounds really nice.

although, I’m not sure about cooking on your wedding day.

Aside from the fact the 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake destroyed our church and reception hall a week and a half before the wedding date, my wedding was gorgeous. The groom’s mother is an excellent seamstress and so spent 1½ yrs constructing a knock off designer gown for me that I just loved. My own mother was a floral designer and had everything decked so nice and smell good too. The groomsmen were my then husband’s best friends which had also become friends of mine over time. My ladies were a few of his sisters and my closest gal pals. Our last minute available church site was still big enough to hold the few hundred guests that came to celebrate us so all went well. Everyone cried and even though we’ve been divorced some 15yrs, people still remember and note our wedding ceremony as being one of the most wonderful they’ve ever attended.

How do I want my next wedding? Simple. I want to be married in Disneyland with whatever friends or family in attendance that want to make the trip and spend a few days with us there. For our honeymoon then I want to cruise on the Nile river in Egypt for a week, each day sightseeing temples and ruins. I don’t need gown and tuxedo this time around, I’ll be fine if we stand before each other in loose silk caftans and barefoot.

@cprevite The food was all cooked in advance. It was more of an English lunch, but they call it wedding breakfast; veal and ham pies, roast turkey, etc. More of a cold buffet than anything else.

@janbb: Aaah – I envisioned you sweating over a griddle in a wedding gown. :^)