I want wedding stories!!!!

[Shugardrawers]

Sugardrawers -your story was so sad. I am glad you got rid of him.

Suprisingly, we stayed good friends after the divorce. Ex Dh takes all the blame for the whole fiasco of a marriage. I do know now I should have just said no and walked away. Anyway, now I have a faboo Dh who is the man I should have married all those years ago

 

[CharityLynn]

We were married October 2nd, 2004, so we've been married just over a year. The weather was nice, a bit windy. We were married in a hall, one side was for the ceremony the other the reception. So we did it all in one hall, which saved us some money. My step-mother and I did the majority of the planning, we grew a lot closer during this time and I am extremely grateful for that.

My SIL took me to the hall in her car, nothing special. We left in our Jeep sidekick..lol also nothing special. We had our daughter with us too, we went and gotr pizza and rented a movie, I had my veil in the whole time..lol

As for cake smashing, we agreed not to do it. Which was fine for us but my family didn't like it...my cousin smashed cake in my face later on in the night, most of the guests had ;eft already. I thought it was pretty funny actually. He didn't get any on my dress (which was one of my worries and the reason I agreed with DH not to do it) it all ended up my nose..lol

we had about 100-120 guests, mostly family and friends. we had a couple come in from Washington State but everyone else was from Michigan.

The only thing that went wrong was the fact that our cake was really late! A friend of the family made it for us (she makes great cakes, very yummy) but she stayed up late partying the night before and got up late so the cake was started late The only other thing that went wrong is the minister (she hadn't met the groom due to work conflicts) she sent my DH to walk down the aisle with his sister (my MOH) and the minister walked with the best man...

I'd love to renew our vows in 5-10 years, I was really large last year, didn't even realize how big I was until I saw the pictures. I've lost 31lbs already. I'd really love some beautiful wedding pictures some day. Hopefully we'll renew at Disney which is where we honeymooned and spent our first anniversary.

 

[rhanditresmom]

Well, we were married June 30, 1990. We had been engaged for 3 years and were READY to get married. We have been married for 15 years and I just adore him!

Our wedding was very simple and small....50 people total. My mother made my wedding dress...it was beautiful. My father, and our pastor at the time, married us. I had a hard time looking at my dad when I was he was speaking...it was very emotional. My dad passed away this summer...so it is a very precious memory for me. It was a beautiful wedding and everyone I really love was there. No dinner, no dancing...just a ceremony and a reception.

 

[Amapola]

My FIL died the night before our wedding, exactly 12 hours before our 11 am ceremony. He had been in a persistent vegetative state for years, so it was not an unexpected death, but the timing was rather, shall we say, unfortunate. My MIL insisted that we had to go through with the wedding, so we did. We had planned a simple Catholic service (no Mass, just the vows) and a luncheon at the Officer's Club (my dad is USAF). There was going to be no dancing because DH and I don't dance and since it was our wedding we decided we didn't want dance music.

DH is from a town 2 1/2 hours away, so nobody from his family was able to come to the wedding except for his brother (best man), SIL and niece (flower girl).

Fortunately, we were rather broke at the time and we had booked a stay at a beachfront hotel about halfway between here and DH's hometown, so we didn't have to cancel our entire honeymoon. We did change the first night's stay to a horrible little business hotel in DH's town, and went straight from the reception to the funeral home. The next day we went to the funeral and took off, again with my MIL's full blessing, to our honeymoon.

I have to say, if this had been an unexpected death things would have been different.

The worst story I've heard was from a friend of mine, who was at a wedding where the father of the bride dropped dead while singing Ave Maria during the ceremony.

Oh, and our 17th anniversary is coming up in January and we'll be celebrating at WDW We plan to have a renewal ceremony for our 20th, maybe on a cruise.

 

[princess pooh]

My wedding was less than a month and a half ago and it was the best day of my life . We were supposed to have a destination wedding in the Rockies but we had an illness in the family, so we went for a gig, fat, local wedding instead. We had it at an all inclusive banquet hall, with a garden for the pictures and a tent for the ceremony. I've never really been into weddings but it was the most amazing experience. It was great having all our family and friends there and I've never felt so loved as I did that day. I've never felt so much joy. Of course stuff went wrong but it was the perfect day for us

 

[liamandcaili]

Today is my seventh anniversary.

A couple of weeks before our wedding, DH and I attended a friend's wedding, and we determined then and there, we were going to have fun at ours. This friend was hounded by photographers, plagued by a bad DJ, and dragged down by dismal relatives. That wasn't going to be us.

Okay...not everything was perfect. My hairdresser took way too long, allowing me mere minutes to put on my makeup before the photographer arrived. The flowers were delivered to the hotel instead of the church. I was late...I think the wedding planner at the church was ready to have a heart attack. We listened to the Patriots get soundly defeated by the Atlanta Falcons on the way to the reception. The DJ forgot our music and had to go back for it, delaying the reception for what seemed like an eternity. (At least the wheel didn't fall off the limo like what happened to DSis...she was rescued and arrived at the church in a police car.)

However, for all the things that went wrong, there were many more that went right. DH and I got married a year to the day that we started dating. The priest who married my parents (and DSis and her hubby) presided over the ceremony...an uncertainty up until the last minute because he had been sick. Our wedding rings, specially ordered, arrived just in time. The day was perfect...lovely New England fall weather, complete with a white, steepled church. I didn't cry when I exchanged vows. The reception was such fun. To this day, people still comment on our wedding saying it was one of the best times they have ever had. I believe our DJ has a photo of us hanging in his office that he specially requested from the photographer because it was one of the best party pictures he had ever seen. Our first dance was to "As Time Goes By," as Casablanca was one of the first movies we watched together (obviously on video!) It was a great wedding.

I am now in the midst of compiling a book of pictures and memories for DH because he is deploying to Iraq shortly. It has been a busy, happy seven years, so I have lots of stuff to include. I am leaving blank pages at the end to fill in later

 

[jbdreamer]

Dh and I met on the CP too!! What year were you?

Spring 2001

I worked at the Emporium
DH worked at the Caribbean Beach Resort