Wedding stories

[Megan's Mom]

Well, June is almost on us and as it is known as the wedding month; how about sharing your best, funniest , etc wedding stories. I'll start with mine. DH and I got engaged on Nov 7 (the day that Magic Johnson told the world he had Aids). We had planned on having a June wedding and talked to parents about plans. By Thanksgiving my mother was driving me crazy, have you reserved the church yet? You have to do it now if you want a date in June, etc. You get the drill. DH and I talked and said that this was going to drive us crazy if it lasted till June. So we said we would elope. One of my best friends pitched a fit you can't do that. So I said okay we will get married at your house on New Year's Eve. We were just kind of joking at the time but the more we talked the better we liked the idea. My friend goes all out decorating at Christmas so it wouldn't cost anything to decorate. We decieded not to tell anyone. She always has our Singles from church's New Year's eve party. We had a surprise wedding. Five people knew beforehand. I bought a nice dress my DH bought a new suit. My friend that was maid of honor wore a red dress she had had in another wedding . We called our parents that morning to tell them abouta the wedding and to invite them. DH parents were great mine wanted to know WHY!. Long story short it was great. Everyone enjoyed themselves. My dad liked the fact we only spent about $500 including my dress and DH suit. Mother eventually got over the fact that she didn't get a new dress and get to run the show but for a while there she was not the happiest camper in the world. We are known as "the people that got married on New Year's eve." Of course now we are just known as "Megan's parents"
Anyone else have a funny story to tell?

 

[Chattyaholic]

I enjoyed hearing about your wedding! Sorry your Mom didn't understand, but it wasn't HER wedding! I don't really have a funny story or anything to share but just wanted to say the last beautiful wedding I went to was my daughter's, 3 years ago June 17th! The day was absolutely perfect in every way, the weather was gorgeous - blue sky - sunshine - and nothing went wrong. The ceremony was beautiful, she had a string quartet and they were wonderful, vases of single roses in the church windows (to honor grandparents who had passed away), she looked spectacular in her gown, I didn't trip down the steps after lighting her part of the unity candle , the flowers were lovely, and I didn't cry!! I saw she was fighting tears so I knew I couldn't cry or she'd really lose it! The balloon release after the ceremony was beautiful, and the reception went smoothly and was so much fun!! It was an awesome day, one I'll never forget. Oh, and they were married in the same church as myself and DH were married in 25 years before so that made it even more special!!!

 

[Megan's Mom]

Sounds wonerful. I think that is what my mother was afraid that we would miss out on the beautiful wedding and regret not having all the bells and whistles. I bet the balloons were great. Hope no one said anything about it being"bad for teh environment". They do bubble and butterflies around here a lot. When we left as if on cue the neighbors were setting off fireworks. It was great.

 

[Keli]

You know Megan's mom that's exactly what I was thinking when I read your post and you said your mom wasn't happy about the wedding. I would worry a lot about the same thing. I know it does happen to some women too because my sister had always dreamed of a big wedding with all the bells and whistles but her bf talked her into a much smaller affair (private wedding, only immediate family, very small and thrown together quickly) because he didn't want to wait a few months to get married. She has stated a few times how much she regrets giving up her dream wedding and it makes me feel for her everytime it comes up. Since my dd has always had the same dreams of a big wedding I would worry myself sick if she decided to do something else because of the regrets she would probably have later. I know in my heart that I don't care at all for myself what type of wedding she has but I care very much for her what type she has.

 

[grinningghost]

Went to a coworker's wedding several years ago. She lived in a rural town. It was kind of a strange wedding for DH and me, as the talk was mainly "farm talk". We were a bit out of place. I felt as though we were in Hooterville, as the guests were really off the wall. Well, going through the buffet line, an old gentleman was taking rolls and sticking them in his pants pockets. He was quite proud of himself, even elbowing me in the side and snickering about it. If I hadn't been so dumbfounded, I would have laughed right in his face. Instead I waited until I got back to our table and then nearly choked on my drink I was laughing so hard.

We saw the guy hit up the rolls again while we were eating. I'm not sure where he was stashing them, but I'm betting he had quite a feast the next day.

 

[hmp2z]

I don't think I have a funny story from our wedding day - it was just perfect! But my brother's wedding was crazy!
They didn't even reserve the church until the week before the wedding, they were so disorganized. They didn't buy rings until the day before the wedding! My brother drove out to buy them, and his car broke down. He removed the radiator cap (dumb, I know), and boiling water splattered all over his arm, burning him. I got a frantic call from my mother, and had to go pick him up and take him to the doctor.
Then on the wedding day, of course they hadn't arranged for anyone to do the music, so they bought a CD, borrowed a CD player, and asked a friend to hit play when he saw the bride walking up the aisle. That particular friend had never seen the bride. A guest at the wedding had on a little white sundress, the friend jumped the gun, and hit play. "Here comes the bride" starts playing, the woman in white looks over her shoulder and starts running down the aisle to get out of the bride's way, and it was just hilarious
They were having a Cajun wedding, since we're from Louisiana, so they had shipped in some crawfish and since my brother worked at a restaurant, he asked some of his buddies from the restaurant to boil the crawfish for him and bring it to the reception. Well, about TWO HOURS after the reception started, the food was finally delivered. Turns out these friends of his decided to do some drugs in the parking lot of their restaurant, before preparing the food!
My brother and SIL are a crazy couple - very disorganized
Cheers!
Heather W

 

[Penny2]

I've been married 13 years come September. We got married at a friends 100 year old farmhouse on a warm, September afternoon. Canopy, white wicker gazebo, floating tulle in the wind, flowers and more flowers everywhere, wind chimes in the trees, enough finger foods to serve a small third world country, flower cart with basket weave cake with flowers....think Great Gatsby. It was a magical afternoon that turned into party central in the evening....wouldn't have missed it for the world!

Having said that.....I would never do the big wedding thing again. Too much work, too much stress, too much MOM wanting everything her way (My God...you aren't serving a buffet with overdone chicken and vegetables???, You can't NOT invite your third cousin, twice removed....you know the mother drill!!). If you have a fiance' who actually helps...consider yourself REALLY lucky. My DH's only job was making the wedding cake boxes and he didn't do that until two days before we were married. At one point during the reception, I remember thinking to myself...if one more person tries to grab my dress, I swear I'm going to lose it and whack em!

I sure am glad I married my DH, though and no matter what the circumstances, I'd do that again in a heartbeat! Hey, here's an idea...maybe we'll renew our vows in another seven years at Disney....want to come???

 

[crazymomof4]

Originally posted by Penny2
Having said that.....I would never do the big wedding thing again. Too much work, too much stress

I totally agree, in fact I said that to myself at our reception.

[WOW! I finally figured out how to get the quote to appear like everyone else's. And it only took me 210 posts!]

My funny wedding story: I was waiting at the back of the church as my bridesmaids etc. walked down the aisle. I was around a corner so I could not see them as they went. Just before I was set to start walking the entire audience broke into loud laughter. I was perplexed! What on earth was so funny about my "perfect" wedding that I had near killed myself planning for a year???? I had to walk down the aisle wondering what it was. Later, I was told that my 5 yo ringbearer had held the pillow in front of his face and dragged his twin sister (flower girl) all the way down the aisle! I would have laughed at that too, but it wasn't funny from where I was at the back of the church at the time.

 

[wdwpluto]

How about wedding day panic?

We got married in WDW. I stayed in my Mom's room the night before the wedding. The alarm clock was set to go off for 5:30am (it was a 10am ceremony) and at about 5:15am, my Mom sits bolt upright in bed and screams "OMIGOD WE OVERSLEPT!"

I look at the clock, see that we have 15 more minutes to sleep, say some words that cannot be written here and promptly fall back asleep for the next 15 minutes.

I said to her later "What were they going to do, start without me?"

Love ya Mom!

Lori

 

[Harambe]

I wanted a small wedding and DH wanted the whole sha-bang! Since my mom passed away when I was young, I did all the planning myself and nearly had a breakdown (LOL). Best thing I did was order a Hawaiin Luau for the food! Everyone loved that!

Anyway, once we were married and heading into the reception, I look at the tables and start cracking up. Can't stop. New DH is staring at me, worried. I had ordered pale peach table clothes. Well one person's pale peach is another person's bright orange!

It was "festive" that's for sure! Just made me realize that all the little details aren't really important, it's the person you're marrying!

We'll be celebrating our 12th with dinner at Boma this January! Woo-hooo!

 

[2bemarried]

AGH! wrong thread to read with my wedding is in SIX days!!!

The planning itself has been fun, but the red tape and emotions have been horrible. My mother has been going through a mental breakdown the whole time I've been planning so trying work, go to school, plan, and try to help her has been a royal headache. Luckily, I have an amazing fiance that has been my rock through every minute of stress and every breakdown that I've had. So keep your fingers crossed for me...and hopefully I'll have a good story to bring back to all of you!