I want wedding stories!!!!

[mommaU4]

I really want to hear about your wedding. I just love weddings. The good, the bad, and the ugly!

How long have you been married? Where'd you get married? Did you have a limo? A carriage? A 1,000 people or just 10? Did you smash the cake in his face? Did anything go wrong? Have you or will you ever renew your vows?

Dh and I got married June 27, 1993. It was an outdoor ceremony in Los Angeles in a garden setting with a huge fountain, roses, etc. The reception was in a building right next to the ceremony. Everything went surprisingly well. The baker forgot our cake topper but since that was the worst that happened it was no biggy. We just stuck flowers up there. He was very nice with the cake but not me. I smashed a piece right in the middle! He got me back though by grabbing me and giving me a big kiss so we were both covered with frosting. We have pics of the whole thing. So funny to look at!

We had about 75 people, mainly close family and friends. It was great. We danced to Always and Forever. We ate food prepared by a family friend who does catering. I was never nervous and I can attribute that to my mom and my 2 aunts who made sure everything went smoothly. If there was any problems they kept it from me. I was blissfully unaware!!

We took off in DH's jeep without the top on. We had balloons, streamers, "just married" signs, the works, decorating the jeep. We were cruising through the streets of L.A. and Hollywood in his jeep with our wedding attire on getting lots of whistles, horn honks, etc. To me, it was perfect.

Someday I'd like to go to Vegas and renew our vows. Maybe for our 20th! Your all invited!!

 

[PneumaticTransit]

Actually today is my 2nd Anniversary.

My husband and I were married November 7th, 2003 at the Osceola County Courthouse in Kissimmee, Florida. We only had about 8 guests and kept it very casual. We had a reception BBQ at a friends house. My friend decorated a sheet cake, but her grandson got into it before we even made it to the house so I never got to really "see" it.... the frosting was all smeered so they cake was just blue.

We went on a 7 day Caribbean cruise for our honeymoon, which was filled with retirees... and it rained everyday. It was nice to get away, but honestly was not the honeymoon I envisioned as there was very little to do for young couples. All the shore excursions were well above our price range.

It was very uneventful, but we did not have any money for a "traditional" wedding. I would like to have a nice vow renewal in a couple of years with a 2nd honeymoon to a cabin in the mountains.

 

[mommaU4]

Actually today is my 2nd Anniversary.

It was very uneventful, but we did not have any money for a "traditional" wedding. I would like to have a nice vow renewal in a couple of years with a 2nd honeymoon to a cabin in the mountains.

Well, Happy Anniversay to you and your DH!!!!!!! Any plans for the occasion?

And I'll be wishing you get that renewal and cabin in the mountains!!

 

[Frantasmic]

My story. I'm married.

 

[vettechick99]

Sounds like a great wedding you had!

You can read about mine through the link in my siggie. We eloped and had a great time!

 

[mickeyboat]

We got married June 6, 1992, I was 21, DH was 22. We had about 75 people at our wedding - married at the Catholic church, reception at a local country club. Our guests said it was one of the funnest weddings they had ever been to, our DJ was awesome! We partied the entire weekend - Rehearsal dinner, party afterwards, the wedding, party afterwards, brunch the next day. My MIL really went above and beyond to make everything extra special for us.

When we my friends and I got back to our hotel after decorating the morning of the wedding, the fire alarm was going off and all the guests had been evacuated. My dad swore he would go back in and rescue my dress if it came down to that. When DH got to the church, there was a bat flying al around the altar. He and his ushers trapped it under a offertory basket and released it outside. When we got the the reception my mom had put a little "troll" bride and groom on our bread plates, and some white isotoner slippers under my chair so I dance comfortably.

We honeymooned on St. John, USVI and went back to visit last year on our Disney Cruise.

Denae

 

[Honeibee]

I SHOULD be working on a project but I couldn't resist your post.

When I got married the first time my then-husband was a member of the Long Island Street Rods. I went to the church in a chopped bright orange '32 Duece Coupe. We took 1930 Phaeton convertable from the church to the reception, with all the other street rods in an impromptu parade thru two towns. OMG it was so much fun!

Of course, my second wedding was really the best. I save the best for last....

 

[jennyl772003]

I was married 2.5 years ago on DCL. We looked into a more traditional wedding/reception, but it just didn't appeal to me. I'm not really a "planner", and I don't like dancing.

All I had to do was get my dress.

My mom and dad came, as well as my bro, sis, and neice. My husbands parents came, and of course My DH and son were there. We got married on a pier over looking the ocean, with our cruise ship in the background.

The weather was fantastic, the cruise was soooo much fun!

A few months after we got home, we had a picnic with everyone who wasn't able to join us for our wedding.

It was the PERFECT wedding for us (I know it isn't everyones cup of tea, but perfect for us!)

 

[AllyandJack]

DH and I were married on 8/12/02. Our ceremony was at the Wedding Pavilion and the reception was in the Napa Room at the California Grill. We had about 25 people - all but 2 flew down from MA. While planning my wedding, I was also building my house and studying for the bar exam. I made 2 phone calls and then forgot about it, so it was a nice surprise when I got there!

I ran into a snag right before the wedding. I had to have my dress custom made because the regular sizes were too small on top and too big on the bottom. With all of the tailoring that would have been needed to get the hips brought in and the chest let out, it was just easier to custom make it. It arrived from London in the wrong color! So, back it went and another one was made for me in the right color. I was totally prepared to wear shorts and sneakers. I honestly didn't care.

It poured on my wedding day, but the Disney wedding people were like the Secret Service and always in contact with the weather service. The woman at the coffee place at the Contemporary remembered me 2 weeks later as the bride laughing at her soaking wet wedding dress.

We went out on a fire escape to take photos in front of the fireworks and our photographer used his bag to prop the door open....you can see where this is going, right? Just as we're smiling our "I'm drunk as heck!" smiles, we heard a door close and we were locked out there. Someone finally came and rescued us.

We all went to Pleasure Island after (I changed into the aforementioned shorts and sneakers, but kept my veil).

To this day, all of our guests say it was the best wedding they've ever been to. Not that MY wedding was so special, it was more the Disney Wedding thing. From the food to the service to the week-long vacation after....it was just so fantastic. We hosted a breakfast at Chef Mickey's. We had a dinner at 'Ohana. It was so amazing to be able to spend that week with them....DH and I stayed an additional week after they all left, of course. Although, we had been there for nearly 21 days and enough was enough. We were ready to get home.

The best moment was when my mother and I were alone on the monorail platform of the Contemporary the day before the wedding. There was another mother and daughter there - the girl was about 5 years old and sleeping in her stroller. We got to talking with them. My mother said to the other mother, "My daughter was her age when I first brought her here and tomorrow she's getting married here." We saw them again after the wedding and she said she thought of us the next day and tried to see if she could see me when the monorail she was on passed the Pavilion.

If she did, she might have thought, "Look at that poor bride holding the golf umbrella over herself!" I didn't care. Very few weddings turns out to be exactly what you want them to be and mine turned out to be more than I could have ever hoped for....rain and all!

 

[Shugardrawers]

We were married September 1, 2001. My bridesmaids and I took a limo to the chapel which actually wasn't a chapel at all. A former storefront had been converted to a ballroom/wedding chapel/reception hall. Getting it all in 1 helped save us a ton of money. Anyway, I made all the flowers and let me tell you there's nothing I do on a small scale. All the bouquets were HUGE!! Huge on the scale of Princess Diana's bridal bouquet huge! So they took forever but were so pretty and exactly what I wanted. We had both been married before but I had my heart set on a real wedding with all the trappings so we had to cut a lot of corners and be very creative.

I wore a white satin gown with heavy beading on the bodice but nowhere else and a chapel train. I wore a pearl tiara with veil. The bridesmaids wore pink and DSis wore navy blue as the matron of honor. My colors were pink, blue and yellow. Dh wore an offwhite tux jacket with navy blue pants. Because best man decided the day before that he didn't approve of the marriage he decided not to show up so FIL was best man and just wore the suit he brought. We had only about 10 people there since most of our families live out of town.

Our wedding song was Maybe I'm Amazed and although we didn't have dancing actually, When a Man Loves a Woman was on the cd of background music we used during the reception and we danced to that to everyones delight. We had just a cake and punch reception and no we didn't smash. After that we all went to dinner at a nice restaurant, still in our wedding finery. We got a lot of stares but I waited 37 years to wear that gown I was getting my money's worth!

After dinner we stopped off at a liquor store for a bottle of champagne. Still in our finery. The owner was working that night and as a gift he gave us the finest bottle of champagne the store had to offer. When we got home and got undressed I took my hair down and Dh said I looked like Shirley Temple on acid

The only funny story is that while my BIL was taping things "backstage" he asked my sister where Ian was. Ian being my 3yo at the time nephew and ringbearer. They looked around (still taping) and found him in the ladies room playing in the toilet. He was SOAKED!! When it was time for the wedding to start, Ian ran full force down the aisle waving the ring pillow in the air and soaking wet.

It's been 4 years now and we are as happy today as we were that day.

 

[Snoopymom]

No lie...alone at the Justice of the Peace, lunch and rootbeer floats at the DQ, went back to work, 19 years and still in love!!!

We were very young and we were buying a house together, so we thought we'd get married. Our parents weren't the best parents in the world, so we were each other's stability, and having that cute little starter home literally meant the world to us!

That's my Cinderella story, no fancy dress, limo or honeymoon, but we are living happily ever after (the DQ didn't kill us, LOL) and we got to celebrate two of our anniversaries in Ireland, the most beautiful and romantic place on earth!

 

[agotta]

Dh and I will be married this January for 2 years. The wedding was planned in only 9 months. Dh was graduating college and was moving to VA. I told him I wanted to come too and I would finish my degree there. WELL... his parents freaked out (Very religous, Catholics) and said they would essentially disown him.

So we started planning for our wintery wedding. Most of Dh's family refused to drive the 4 hours. We had about 100 people there. The ceremony went smoothely except the florist TOTALL screwed up my flowers. I had the best wedding planner and she fixed everything.

While getting photos taken after the ceremony, our guests were treated to free swing dance lessons at our reception. We played only big band/swing music for the rest of the night.

Around 9:30/10 ish the blizzard hit and most of our guests left. We had a wonderful brunch the next morning and flew to Disney on Monday!!

Things are a bit better with the in-laws now. It is very hard to forget that MIL didn't want us getting married and encouraged DH to date others while we were dating

 

[jbdreamer]

DH & I met at WDW while working in the WDW College Program. So we really wanted to get married there, but decided it was a bit too expensive to pull off.

We got married on July 5th, 2003 at the Como Park Flower Conservatory in St. Paul, MN. We were surrounded in flowers with our closest family and friends. Only about 90 guests.

The big drama: My DH 2 groomsmen cancelled 2 weeks before the wedding! So we had our dad's step in. It ended up being very lovely. My sister was my Maid of Honor, and My best friend Lisa (aka Scoutsmom99) was my other bridesmaid.

My sister and friend sang - "Life is a Road" from Anastasia

Instead of rice, we had bubbles!

The reception was in a very elegant hall called The Minnesota Club.
Instead of cake - which I dislike, we had Tirramisu!
Every guest was given a bell to ring if they wanted us to kiss.
Every table was given a disposable camera - These are some of our best pictures!
All the centerpieces were flowers from Sams Club! What a Deal!
We had a Mickey & Minnie Cake Toper on the gift table.
We took pictures in our Mickey & Minnie Bride & Groom hats from WDW.
Our first dance was "Just the Way You Look Tonight"
And our last dance was "When You Wish Apon a Star"

We went to London & Paris for the Honeymoon!

We went to WDW for our 1 Year Anniversary!

 

[swankybeth]

Dh and I got married on 4/16/04. We were engaged 1/7/04! The reason for such a short engagement was because DH was going into bootcamp for the Marines on 4/19 and we wanted to get married beforehand so we could live together on base. (He ended up getting injured during bootcamp and coming home in June, but that's another post!) We had been together for 5 years already. We really wanted a WDW wedding, but most of our guest wouldn't be able to come to FL for a wedding, so we had our reception in NY.

Since we had an inter-faith wedding we had the ceremony at a beautiful historical chapel that had been restored back to the 1800's. The guests threw rose petals and then we went to the reception. We had about 100 guests, a DJ, the whole works. We added some Disney touches to our wedding-the invitations were Mickey and Minnie, our cake topper was Mickey and Minnie, our song was Promise, the song they play after Illuminations, they played Be Our Guest when dinner was being served and When You Wish Upon a Star when we cut the cake. Also, when we walked out of the chapel, When You Wish Upon a Star was playing on the organ. All in all, it was really nice, especially considering the lack of planning time we had.

 

[poohbear1029]

We got married 10/29/94, been married 11 years. Got married in a Catholic church in my home town. Had the reception at a country club one town away from us.

3 bridesmaids, 3 groomsmen and 1 ringbearer - my little brotherinlaw who is now turning 16!

Limo driver with no teeth took us to the wrong country club....we pull up - totally across town from where we should be and I ask him what are we doing here...clueless...we were 45 minutes late for our own reception.

DJ - SUCKED! Told me he would get any music we wanted. Told him I wanted Harry Connick Jr big band music during cocktails. I walk in and its Ann Murray singing all the big band music I wanted!! GRRR!!! Then, he didnt have any music we wanted. Friend who was a DJ went to his car and got some CDs. Handed him an Ace of Base CD and told him the song I wanted to have played....instead, he announced this song is requested by the bride "all that she wants is another baby!" ---at my wedding....and i didnt have ANY kids! I nearly had a cow on the DJ. Only have heard him on "easy listening" stations locally as a DJ, if that says anything!

Our favor was a photo of the two of us outside the church. The photogragher took it right after we left the church and sent it to a 1 hour. It then was placed in really nice folders that thanked people for attending our wedding....nice quality like Olson Mills gives out.

All in all, we agree we didnt have enough fun at our own wedding. I wasnt nervous at all....just felt like I needed to be around talking to everyone and never stopped to take it all in, you know.

The weather was perfect. Warm, the leaves were still dropping, etc.

Funny thing, my drunk friends went joy riding on the course with the golfcarts!!!

Despite the things that didnt go great that day, we have had an amazing 11 year marriage!!

 

[anewvance]

7 1/2 years ago my husband and I got married. He is from Denver Colorado and his parents live there. They came here to Florida for our wedding. The day of my wedding I showed up at our hair salon where my mil had been earlier in the day. The guy that did my hair said she wasn't looking so good that morning. I get to the church an hour before the ceremony and wisked to the bridal room. My grandma comes in and says that my mil is really sick and they had to call 911. So then she says she is leaving to take the rest of her family (sister & mom) to the ER since they were from out of town. FIL and gfil stayed for the ceremony. I was flipping out at this point, there was no way in heck my grandma was missing my wedding, it was bad enough my mil had to miss it. Finally a family friend offered to take the family. Right after the ceremony my fil and gfil took off to the hospital. We were taking pictures and figured we had time between the ceremony before the reception so my new dh and I along with our whole wedding party headed to the hospital in the limo. We got the ER entrance and dh and I go running in, remember i'm in big wedding gown and veil and dh is in his tux. We got tons of awww and congrats... lol. Turns out mil had some sort of virus or stomach bug... we went to the reception, I felt so bad because at in laws table, the only ones sitting there were their family friends who lived here in Florida and traveled to the wedding to see them! My mil was released from the hospital right as dh and I were getting ready to leave for the airport for our honeymoon.

To add to the story... my stupid dad had hired this horrible videographer for the wedding and the first 30 minutes of the video is the paramedics coming in and working on mil and wheeling her out and seeing guests reaction as they are coming into the church.

But I can't totally complain, it was a beautiful wedding and reception and followed by a wonderful honeymoon... besides not having most of dh's family there, I wouldn't have changed a thing.

 

[missypie]

When we got married, DH (to be) was living in Pennsylvania, I was living in Texas, my parents were in Illinois, my relatives were all over the country and DH's parents and relatives were in the Chicago suburbs. Given these facts, and since I had been married before and DH hadn't, we got married in his parents' church. The wedding was planned in 2 1/2 months, long distance, with only one trip up there.

There was something wrong with every apsect of the wedding. The photographer was obnoxious and shot the whole wedding with his fly open. The organist-a friend of DH's-made lots of mistakes. The soloists - also friends of Dh's - sang obsure songs in German. Before the wedding, one of the soloists was sitting in the church sobbing because her husband was late in bringing her clothes to change into. The flowers were exactly what I told them NOT to include. In the receiving line, everyone hugged DH and shook my hand...bizarre.

The reception was in the in-laws' back yard. The caterer left half of the condiments for the buffet in a storage shed. The table cloth for the cake table didn't go all the way around...there was about a 1 ft. gap. The "pastel yellow" accents on the cake were really mustard yellow. We were having a fajita buffet and the gas grill ran out of propane and they had to cook the fajitas in MIL's kitchen which made her furious.

My one attendant was my sister...she had a new boyfriend with her...she barely made it to the wedding on time because she and her boyfriend were enjoying their hotel room. She complained about her dress the whole time...the one that was designed just for her to her specifications and paid for by me.

I could go on and on...BUT, we had a great time. It was only when we saw the pictures and watched the video that we realized how bad it had all been!

 

[RUDisney]

Three months before our wedding, DH's aunt, at whose restaurant we were supposed to have our wedding, hosted her DD's wedding. A HUGE family fight ensued, luckily after we had left, and she decided to cancel our wedding and our shower... only she didn't bother to tell us.

We decided independently that we didn't want a repeat of the previous melee, so we started calling around for a reception site for the date we had already booked at the church, 4/9/94. They ONLY place that was available was at a private club. Luckily, one of DH's uncles was a member and he sponsored us. We also found a different location for the shower and when I called auntie to tell her, she told me that she had already cancelled everything... wouldn't I just suspect that anyway after what had happed?

So, our fairytale wedding started in my home church, the weekend after Easter. The altar was adorned with so many flowers. My aisle was 150 feet long. We borrowed another uncle's limo and had a friend drive us. When he let us out at the country club, he ran into my DSIL's car door. He felt awful, but DH's family is in the car repair business so no one cared except for our friend, the driver.

Everyone (about 150 of us) had a wonderful time and we danced the night away... probably the last time DH has actually danced. Our song was, "Here and Now." Everyone was ga ga over the food. I had made up the menu, told the chef how to prepare it and he did a wonderful job with it. We sat everyone at round tables. Our parents, best man and date and maid of honor and date sat with us and we were surrounded by our attendants at other tables with their spouses and/or guests. We didn't want a reject table.

We left in another borrowed car and went to the house DH had been living in. We just wanted to have a cup of tea and go to sleep. By the time we got home, we poured water out of the cooler and fell asleep. Neither of us had the energy to boil water for tea. It was truly a perfect day and keeps getting better with age.

 

[experiment626mom]

Which wedding would you like to hear about??

My first wedding was my "fairytale wedding." Big dress, big cake, the works. It was absolutely beautiful. We were married in August in a small chapel without air conditioning. I had long lace sleeves and sweated through my make up. We had a Sunday afternoon buffet and a disc jockey. 4 1/2 years later, kaput.

My second wedding. I knew my husband for 3 days when we decided to elope. We drove from Albuquerque New Mexico to Las Vegas Nevada on a Friday night. I borrowed a dress from a friend. He bought me roses from a roadside vendor on our way to the chapel. We were married by a woman who was all of 3 feet tall. We then drove all the way to Los Angeles because he wanted to kiss me in the surf of the Pacific ocean. We were back in Albuquerque Monday morning just in time for me to get to work. It was the most romantic, craziest thing I've ever done. He was killed by a drunk driver a short time later.

My 3rd wedding was wonderful!! We were married in a Mexican restaurant decked out for the Day of the Dead festivities. I wore a peach and cream dress with lace boots. 15 of our closest family and friends attended. We danced to taped music. My dh ended up wearing my headpiece (My favorite picture from that day) The buttercream flowers slid off the cake slowly as we ate lunch. My mom and dad surprised us with a limo that day. 5 years later we had a handfasting ceremony on a beautiful October afternoon. Everyone dressed in midevial garb and we ate food that my dh prepared and drank homemade wine. We celebrated our 11th wedding anniversary this past October 29th.

 

[kc73]

DH & I married June 11, 1994. DH & I knew each other for a few months, but didn't really like each other until..we started dating. Still not sure how that happened. But, 2 weeks later we were engaged, and 4 months later we were married & still are happily, btw. My husband was 24, I was 20.

We ordered the tuxes (for our dads & ushers & his groomsmen) from a Chinese lady who apparently ordered them in Chinese sizes. They were all about 10 sizes too big for everyone. We had to resize & reorder the day before the wedding.

We had 2 attendants, and 75 people were there. My old friends from high school drove from LA to TX to be there. A huge storm came through that afternoon. I was so nervous (not about getting married, about the ceremony) that I prayed that it would keep people away.

My twin brother is a licensed minister & married us. I was nervous for him, & concentrated on the candles that were melting behind him. It turned out to be a beautiful service, so I shouldn't have worried so much.

The reception was in our church, so we didn't dance, but had our favorite song played.."I Will Be There" by Steven Curtis Chapman.

We left for the reception in my car that was "too" vandalized by the guys at the wedding. My husband stepped on the gas as we drove away & a shaving cream-filled balloon popped all over his new shoes. We got lots of honks, etc..on our way to the carwash.

We honeymooned in Puerto Vallarta and got so sunburned the 2nd day we didn't even want to think about getting near each other.

It's been 2 college degrees, 2 houses & 2 kids later & I'd do it all over again.