how many of you that have been married a while

[Pooh67_68]

Everyone in our wedding party was my family.

 

[golfgal]

We had 4 people in our wedding party that were friends, not family, and we stay in contact with 2 of them, one of them was best man and is Godfather to DS10. Dh was over there a couple nights ago and they were talking about being excited for us to move since we will only be about 5 miles from them instead of 3 hours and our oldest can babysit for them.

 

[pkasbohm]

We are still friends with all of our wedding party! Some moved away so we don't get to see them as often as we like, but we still are pretty close!
There is only one that is just a so-so friend....and it is because is now wife is a jealous person and thinks that a guy/girl can't be friends!


oh, and we have been married for 10 years!

 

[bigbabyblues]

We only had 1 bridesmaid and one best man and that was it, other than the flower girls (my cousins). DH still works with his best man, but my attendant hasn't spoken to me since I missed her wedding. I wasn't in the wedding, got the invite about 10 days before the wedding, and I had oral surgery the day of her wedding (Friday) that had been scheduled for two months. I could have moved the oral surgery date, but I had to get that done before the ortho would put braces on my teeth. I don't know if I was wrong or if she wasn't that good of a friend. It makes me sad, but that was almost 5 years ago and she still won't answer my emails/calls when I've tried.

 

[ilovepcot]

Lost touch with those people many years ago. Have no idea where they are but would love to see them all again. Maybe do an internet search?

Made me snicker at what some of you consider "a while".

 

[slo]

Our best friend is no longer our friend, but 3 other groomsmen are still close friends of ours (2 are a Godfather to each of our girls).

My maid-of-honor has passed away since my wedding. All the other bridesmaids are still people we talk to (2 are a Godmother to each of my girls).

I guess I should add - I've been married almost 11 years.

 

[JoyG]

I've been married 11 years.

12 people in our wedding party (6 girls, 6 guys)

3 were family...still talk to them

2 friends still in contact with; one by email/IM only the other I'm set to be in her wedding next month.

7 people are now total strangers to us.

Although dh and I enjoy looking back at that time in our life, we should have probably filled our wedding party with more family members...My kids look at the pictures and don't recognize all those people!

 

[RadioNate]

my bridesmaids were mostly family, my 2 cousins and SIL then 2 friends. One lives in Hondoures now but we email when she gets somewhere with internet access. The other I don't talk to at all. We actually stopped talking about 6 months after the wedding. She was cheating on her DH, who was one of my DH's friends, and she felt we'd side with him so she cut off our friendship. It really hurt me because I thought our friendship was more than that.

On the groomsmen side we still talk to 3 regularly, 1 occasionally and the best man not at all. In all fairness we've moved 3 times and thousands of miles away. I'm sure if we were in the same area we'd probablly keep intouch better.

 

[mrsheppo]

DH & I have been married for 8 years. We only had a maid of honor and a best man.

My maid of honor and I were friends for 15 years but we parted ways about 2 years ago when I caught her stealing at work and she was fired. Her DH was the best man and he doesn't speak to us either as he hates me for not keeping quiet about the theft.

 

[MELSMICE]

We're still in contact with all of them. Some are family and many are friends.

We've been married 18 1/2 years.

 

[2BigKIdz]

We had a very small wedding party, I had 3 bridesmaids and 2 flower girls (husband's nieces). All of my bridesmaids were friends and we are all still good friends, 8 years later. My husband's groomsmen were his 2 BIL's and his nephew and ring bearer was his youngest nephew so he still talks to them

 

[kilee]

Everyone in our wedding was family w/ the exception of my dh's best man. BUT he was my sister's fiance- and they did get and are still married. So, he's now family too.

My sister on the other hand-- had 4 friends in her wedding party besides family members. I know she's still really close to all but 1 of those people.

 

[Poohnatic]

Married 9 years. I still talk to my bridesmaid and matron of honor every week.

DH and I email best man on a weekly basis, don't get on the phone as much. The groomsman has dropped off the face of the earth as far as contact. Ironically, he and his wife moved an hour away from us about a year before we moved to Florida and we never saw them! We're not the only ones, though. The other friend DH was going to ask to be groomsman hasn't heard from them, either.

The only wedding I've been in the party was my sister, so I'm still in contact. Of her wedding party, she's only in contact with three of the six.

Suzanne

 

[skuttle]

We'll celebrate our 6th anniversary in June. I only had four bridesmaids. Two were my best friends since elementary school and one since high school. We're all still in touch and see each other as often as we can (we all live in different cities now). My other bridesmaid was my SIL.

One of DH's groomsmen was his cousin, so we keep in touch. One groommen was a childhood friend, and we don't really keep in touch. The other two were college friends of DH. I think he keeps in touch via email, but they live in another state so we never see them.

 

[Nancy]

I'll be married 21 years this June and I still talk to 2 of the 3 friends in my wedding party. The 2 other members were family. My DH still is close friends with 3 out of 5, 1 other was family, the other one moved out of town and we e-mail, but don't really have much contact anymore. Dh's and mine were childhood friends, it's nice to still be friends with them.

 

[luvmarypoppins]

Well this is our wedding
Maid of honor, my sister - deceased
Bridesmaid - My cousin - doesnt speak to me since grandmas funeral, dont know why
Bridesmaid - my "best" friend - out of state, hear from her maybe twice a year, just a b card or christmas card and little note if I am lucky

Best Man - Dh talks to him when his wife isnt around. She dislikes us.
Usher#1 - Also dh friend from college, see him maybe once a year(half way across country), dh talks to him when he gets a chance
Usher # 2- My best friends ex husband - nothing

Flower Girl - heard she is a lawyer in NJ and NY and just got married
Ring Bearer - Dont know, but know where his mom lives in next state

 

[ozarkmom]

This is weird because I was just thinking about this. We just had MOH and BM. MY moh and her husband I can't remember his name live about 1.5 hours away and we really just lost touch. Been married for 21 years and we used to try to get together now and then but it just never clicked. She and I were friends during a kind of wild and crazy time and it just didn't work for us in adulthood. I ran into her again during a football game last year my son was playing and her daughter was in the band for the other school. We hugged and talked for a minute and did the whole let's get together but we won't. My husband bm lives in the same town as us he and his wife don't have kids. I really can't remember how we ended up not seeing each other. I guess we just started raising a family and it sort of took us in another direction than them. He sells cars and when we're looking my husband always contacts him but that's really it.

 

[U2_rocks]

My 3 attandants are still my 3 best friends, although unfortunately 2 moved away to different countries and I only get to see them maybe once a year, twice if I'm lucky!

DH's best man died in a plane crash several years ago. The 2 groomsmen were my brother and DH's brother. My brother lives within walking distance, so we see each other often. We hardly ever see DH's brother - he's 10 years younger than us, and doesn't really have a lot to do with the family in general.

We've been married almost 16 years!!!

 

[Lisa loves Pooh]

Related to 4 of them---2 we have lost touch. One moved out of the country and the other---is a very close knit family man (Hindi)--so lost touch by proximity and difficulty getting together.

 

[MouseWorshipin]

We didn't have a big wedding. We each had one person stand up for us, and they are still our individual best friends, although one moved clear across the country.