Inspired by all the Wedding threads....Did you do anything unusual at your wedding?

[CathyCanada]

Well it IS June, wedding time right? Well not anymore, I wonder what is the most popular month to get married now?

Anyway, for the "times" in which you were married, did you do anything different from the norm?
I had both my Mom and Dad walk me down the aisle, which was probably a mistake, my Mom and I were both a mess!
I also had corsages for 2 special ladies in my life. My Godmother and an "adopted" Gram that lived across the street from Jim. Before the ceremony, I had someone ask them to come to the vestibule and I gave it to them.

How about you? Was your wedding unusual for the time?
CC

 

[tkyes]

Yes, I think June is the most common time for weddings.


I don't think I did anything really unusual.

I knew I didn't want to kiss to the clinking glasses at the reception. So we had our florist bring a dozen balloons that had couples names in them. If someone wanted us to kiss they had to go pop a balloon, the couple whos names were in the balloon also had to kiss too and then we would. It was unusual when we did it, as I hadn't seen anyone else do that.

We also had a birthday cake and sang happy birthday to 5 friends and family members who had birthdays on or within a couple days of our wedding.


tamie

 

[aprincessmom]

My whole wedding was unusual. First we had it at a YMCA camp on Cape Cod. All guests were told to come in shorts and bring swim suits. My mom and dad walked me down the hill and we got married by the lake. Then we had a huge barbeque for dinner, volleyball on the beach (really popular), people could use canoes and paddle around the lake. We had bocce and horseshoe courts set up and towards the end we had a big softball game going as well.

The wedding went from 11:00 a.m. til about 7:30 p.m. when they finally kicked us all out...although the camp people didn't want us to leave because they were having as much fun as we were (they were hanging out with us) but noise restraints caused the party to end. Oh well...it's was great fun.

And I spent more money on my bathing suit than my wedding dress

 

[daughter_of_amid_chaos]

I of course wasn't at my parents wedding BUT i have seen the pictures.

They got married on one of the holes of a golf course and my mom wore a cowboy hat.....


ENOUGH SAID!

 

[cgcw]

A June bride checking in!! 14 years now -- seems like a lifetime we've been together.

We rode in a horse drawn carriage throught the town we were married in after the ceremony and before the reception.

During the ceremony, I was a little nervous and I heard later that although my hands were not shaking, my calf length dress was shaking. And, probably because of the nerves and heat of the day, neither one of our wedding rings went on smoothly and we both struggled to get them on.

 

[WDWLVR]

Kind of a silly thing really but it brings back great memories. We belonged to a sci-fi group back then and at one of the parties we had we did a group circle dance to Additcted to Love. They asked the DJ to do the same thing at our wedding but we got everyone invloved and the circle got quite large. People would take turns dancing in the middle of the circle and my favorite memory is of the two mom's dancing together!

 

[torismom]

Instead of the mother corsages and etc. I had them each carry a tussie mussie. I have a lot of "step-family" on both sides that I do not think of as step. I recgonized everyone as family and it was wonderful.

I had two men stand up on my side along with my two bridesmaids. They were very close to me and it just would not have been right too not include them.They wore the same tuxes as the guys.

I did not use the traditional wedding March. A harpist played cannon in d and it was so beautiful.

I am a June bride , as well. 8 years on the 17th.

 

[scarlett873]

my first wedding was pretty normal...

my second wedding, last september, was unusual for me...it was just the two of us...no friends or family with us...it just wasn't possible to have everyone with us there in orlando...but that was perfect for us!! we didn't want family hanging around during our honeymoon!!

 

[skuttle]

Another June bride here.

Our wedding was a traditional Catholic wedding.

If I had to pick something unusual, I'd say it was my bridesmaid dresses. I picked the color and they each picked their own style of dress (from the same designer to make sure the colors matched). That's not too unusual.

Also, DH and I stayed at our reception until the very end. We left about 30 minutes aftet the band stopped playing and most of the guests had already left.

 

[robinb]

The police were called to our wedding. Not the reception. The wedding. Talk about stress!

 

[mtemm]

October bride here. Not really anything too unusual, although I did have my mom make home-made communion bread for the mass (catholic). She used to make it for a church we went to in California...instead of the wafer hosts, its a wheaty type bread. Nuns gave her the recipe. Everyone said how good it was! LOL!

 

[AirForceRocks]

Another June bride here - 12 years this coming Sunday.

Other than everything going wrong from the time I woke up that morning until I started walking down the aisle (I was wearing a 30 year old crinoline under my dress, and the tie on the back had dry rotted. It broke as I started to walk down the aisle - had to stop, go into the little anteroom in the back, lift up my dress and staple it together!) everything was pretty normal.

The only unusual thing I can think of is that we left empty seats with a rose in each place for my father, DH's mother, and my grandfather, all of whom had passed away many years before.

 

[figmentvi]

DH and I got married on June 04. My birthday is June 03 and we were supposed to get married on my b'day, but he was 24 hours late to the wedding. OK, OK....he had a good excuse, but still

Hee Hee.....we got married at the end of a TransAtlantic sailboat race to Bermuda, and DH's boat ran into some rough weather.

Anyway, the wedding itself was a little unusual. We had the crews from all of the other boats there. And you know sailors....they can be just a little on the rowdy side. All of the guys were so cute though. They wore the very traditional Bermuda formal wear of Bermuda shorts, knee socks, jackets and ties. Even the minister (Rev. Butt, no lie that was his name) wore shorts and knee socks under his robes.

Whew......what a wedding and what a hangover the next day!!!!

 

[debster812]

Like Tamie (tkyes), we did not want to do the whole kissing to the clinking of glasses. So...we had my BIL take a picture of us smooching, and then blew it up to almost poster size. We had the coordinator at the reception site put it behind our chairs at the reception. The first time the glasses started, we pulled out the poster, and showed it to every one.

that kind of put an end to the 'clinking'

 

[AirForceRocks]

Oops, I do remember one thing at the reception that I hadn't seen before, but it was my DH's family that started it, not us.

They had a stack of index cards, and everytime we kissed, they wrote scores on the cards and held them up.

 

[snuggles]

I'm a June bride too. 25 years next Tuesday. We didn't have anything too strange except that it was so hot we nearly melted. No AC at the church!

 

[RUDisney]

AFR, what a nice thing to do in your family members' memories. We did something similar. We got silk roses that we took to our grandparents' grave sites the day before the wedding. We really wanted to include them in some way, too.

My DGF never got to meet my DH but when I was little, we used to go to DH's uncle's junk yard for used auto parts. We'd park in front of DH's house and my DGF would say, "it's amazing that someone would build such a nice house in the middle of a junkyard." Little did he know that I'd marry the boy who lived in that house.

We were married in April, 4/9/94, the week after Easter, so the church was jam-packed with white lilies. The unusual, at least to my family, was that we had 3 minstrals who strolled around played during cocktails and played Italian music. They also played when we were all seated for our first course.

We didn't have a head table, which was odd for this area at that time. My DH and I sat with our parents, my DGM, our best man and his fiance and my maid of honor and her fiance. The rest of the bridal party sat with their dates/wives,husbands at tables that were next to ours. We wanted everyone to be comfortable and have fun and to NOT have a "reject" table for the dates and SO's of our bridal party.

 

[Desiree]

Well ours hasn't happened yet. ( My first wedding was really boring). But we're planning on having a movie themed wedding. We're going to be married in my theater (where I work). Most of the time we dont open until 12:45 pm so I can do it easly at 10:30 or even 11:00 am.

I also want to have everyone (if they want to) come dressed as their favorite actor or character. I also want to have various movie props around the reception hall. Plus centerpieces of popcorn. It's all still in the planning development. But this time around we're going to have FUN!

 

[caitycaity]

instead of us having a traditional guestbook (boring imho, i know who'se attending. i don't need them to sign in, LOL) we had our favorite picture (us in front of the castle and the sky is a beautiful pinky/purple) mounted onto wood and cut into a puzzle by a puzzlemaker!!!

then we got special pens to write on the wood and requested that everyone take a puzzle piece and write a message. now not only do we have a neato puzzle, but we have nice messages written to us from everyone who attended!

 

[Steve H.]

Originally posted by caitycaity
instead of us having a traditional guestbook (boring imho, i know who'se attending. i don't need them to sign in, LOL) we had our favorite picture (us in front of the castle and the sky is a beautiful pinky/purple) mounted onto wood and cut into a puzzle by a puzzlemaker!!!

then we got special pens to write on the wood and requested that everyone take a puzzle piece and write a message. now not only do we have a neato puzzle, but we have nice messages written to us from everyone who attended!

We did something very similar to that as well, caity. We had our engagement photo blown up to a poster size and put on a canvas and had everyone sign around the picture at the reception. I hadn't thought about making it into a puzzle, though -- that's a pretty cool idea!

The only other slight variation to our wedding was the quick stop to the bar around the corner from our reception hotel on the way downtown. We had a little time to kill after getting all the photos taken, so we swung by the bar and I bought a round of drinks for our whole wedding party.