What type of wedding did you have?

[olena]

A stress-free one in Las Vegas.

 

[Disney Doll]

Traditional Catholic church wedding, down the aisle, "Here Comes The Bride"(hey! I had waited almost 30 years to be a briude and I wanted everyone to know I was coming!!!! ), reception at a reception hallf or 200 people, dinner, dancing. I still have peole tell me 12 years later what a great wedding we had!

 

[tw1nsmom]

I really had the wedding of my dreams.

We were married in Congress Park in Saratoga Springs next to the Spit and Spat statues. It only cost $50 for a permit to be married in the park. It was the end of June and the flowers were just beautiful. We were married by a justice of the peace that was also my husbands 5th grade teacher and refused any fee (he said his services were a gift to us).

My dress was shantung silk with embroidered Italian lace. I had it made from my design.

My husbands brother took the pictures (they turned out beautifully), and we walked to the reception site (just two blocks away).

The reception was beyond reasonable as well. It was at a restaurant called Lillian's. They had a banquet room that could accomodate the exact number of guests we invited (120). When we put down our deposit they didn't have seperate pricing for business functions and weddings. I know it's probably crass to keep bringing up prices, but I still get a tickle out of how reasonable but elegant our wedding was. They only charged us $8.95pp for a luncheonbuffet that included salmon, prime rib and chicken. It also included dessert, so they took three of their signature carrott cakes with cream cheese frosting and placed them on three levels on a table. I brought fresh flowers to decorate them and this was our wedding cake. Each table had an iris in a bud vase, white votives and rose petals sprinkled all over the table. We bought the flowers at a discount flower market and did all the work ourselves. We had open "table service" bar and were charged for each drink. By not having immediate access to a bar, as well as the luncheon beginning at noon, our alcohol expenses were negligible. With all the budgeting, people still said it was one of the most beautiful weddings they had ever attended (although they wouldn't exactly tell me if it was awful now would they)

We, of course, honeymooned at disney.

 

[JKMastalski]

We had my dream wedding! Everything was perfect. Formal wedding at a Catholic Church, followed by a 5 hr. reception at a club on the water. Everything for us was perfect, and I was very lucky to have my parents be able to provide us with a day like that. Wouldn't have changed a thing!

 

[r2boys&buzz]

Our wedding story is about two little babies born to parents that never met but lived 2 doors down from each other, by the same doctor at the same hospital... it took us 22 years later, two countries and lots of hardship to finally meet.

We were married on the California Coast -- Bodega Bay -- on a cliff overlooking the ocean. We had a wonderful photographer (official 49ers photographer) a harpist playing Pacabello's Cannon (sp) and a rented beach house for our after wedding dinner and drinks. We sent our guests home (all 15 of them) to Sacramento and we spent our first married night there. The next day we had our reception back in Sacramento and on the following day left for our honeymoon. We went to a private island in Fiji where we slept in a wonderfully romantic treehouse bure. We were called to meal by the beating of a drum! After candlelight dinners on the beach, picnic lunchs in a quiet coves, hiking and kava kava cermonies with the natives it was soooo hard to go home. The help on the island sang to us with instruments as we left. On the boat ride back to the main island we were in a very small boat and a couple of dolphins jumped beside our boat. Cost of entire wedding/reception and week long honeymoon (all inclusive) cost about $6000

We plan to renew our vows at 10 years -- with just a couple guests -- our amazing little boys (age 3 and 5 months).

 

[Chim Chiminy]

I loved reading all these wedding stories.
Mine was not the wedding I wanted. It was all for my mom.
DH and I had lived together for eight months before the wedding. I was 18, he was 19.
One and half months before he got orders to go to Germany. We wanted to right away go to City Hall and have it done, but my mother wouldn't hear of it.
So we threw together an extreme budget wedding in a matter of a few weeks. My mom wanted us to have a church wedding, so we married in my parents church on a Saturday in January. A woman from the church made cakes, so she did our wedding cake. We had to borrow a dress for my cousin to wear as a bridesmaid (I did not want her, but my mom insisted in order to keep the rest of the family happy). The dress was the ugliest fuschia color I have ever seen. Then mom decided that the flowers and cake needed to match the ugly dress. So our cake had ugly fuschia and blue accents on it. The cake maker also did flower arranging, she gave my mom a good deal, but now I have an ugly fake flower bouquet with fuschia and baby blue flowers.
My parents did all the food for the reception. They made fuschia and blue chocolates . Everyone had pink and blue mouths! And fancy Hawaiin Punch .
My brother was recruited to videotape, and he was so far back in the church that there is no sound on our wedding tape. He also forgot to video the reception.
My SMIL complained the whole time. Saying that we purposely chose a date that would make it hard for them to attend (they only had to drive two hours on a sat. FIL didn't work weekends.) I chose the date because it was my Grandfathers's B-day. She was mad because we didn't make DH's half sister the flower girl.
We didn't have a flower girl. She was mad because we didn't have a mini bouquet made for half sister. Etc, etc....
The cousin that I didn't want in the wedding to begin with, when I threw my bouquet took a flying leap through the air and knocked other people out of the way. She caught the bouquet. Her brother did the same when the garter was thrown.
We spent the night at a Holiday Inn. Not exactly a honeymoon.
Not exactly a dream wedding.
We plan to do it our way for our fifteenth. We are planning to invite friends and family that we choose to WDW. We will use our DVC points to provide accomodations.
This summer, we are going to Franck's to talk to someone about wedding renewals. I am excited about that!
Hubby wants to wear his dress blues, not sure about my dress yet. We want our two kids in the wedding too.

 

[Kismetdreams]

Liz and anyone else thinking of having a WDW wedding/vow renewal/honeymoon,

You should join us on the WDW Wedding and Honeymoon thread here on the DIS and also on the DisneyMooners group on yahoo groups. You can get tons of ideas from the ladies and gents on our list!

DisneyMooners

 

[Growin'upDisney]

I too had the wedding of my dreams.

We were married 01-01-00. New Years' Day! We had an elegant wedding ceremony in the Mission on the campus of Santa Clara University where I was attending law school. The church was brilliantly decorated with 6 Christmas trees in white lights in varying sizes. The alter was flooded with poinsettias and we had the candles on the high alter lit.

We had a reception for 125 at a local reception hall where we ate, danced, and celebrated that the day had finally come. My DH and I had dated for just over 10 years by the time we got married. He was 15 and I was 14 when we first "dated" and so everyone was truly happy that the day had finally come.

Everyone but me was stressed about Y2K. People asked, "What if you don't have power?" My response - "I'll get married by candlelight. All I need is a groom, a license, the minister, and a witness and I canl get married. All the rest is irrelevant."

Needless to say Y2K was a non-factor and my wedding was a fairytale.

 

[palmtreegirl]

We had a huge wedding courtesy of my wonderful parents that was a blast!

We got married in a church but only had the ceremony, we had 6 bridesmaids, 6 groomsmen, a flowergirl and ring bearer.

I wore a traditional wedding gown, the top looked liked Belle's yellow ball gown(lol) and the bottom was full tulle(a netting type material) and a pair of custom made Keds sneakers!! My mom maid them for me, they really were beautiful, they had tons of beads and sequins on them. I don't do heels and since you couldn't see my feet I figured I might as well be comfortable, it was very *me*.

We had our reception at a place on a mountain nearby with the cocktail hour outside on a huge stone balcony and the rest of the party inside. We had a buffet so we could get the food part over with fast and an open bar. We had a Mickey-n- Minnie wedding caketopper too. I think we had about 200 people there. It was supposed to be 5 hours but then my Dad added a 1/2 hour, then my FIL added another 1/2 because people were still there having a blast. We had a hard time convincing the Inn to extend the wedding a second time because people were drinking so much-lol.

We went to WDW, of course, for our honeymoon.

We'll still run into people today that were at the wedding and they always say we had the best wedding they'd ever been to-lol.

 

[Laura]

Originally posted by Chim Chiminy
The cousin that I didn't want in the wedding to begin with, when I threw my bouquet took a flying leap through the air and knocked other people out of the way. She caught the bouquet. Her brother did the same when the garter was thrown.

My brother was my first sibling to be married. My sister was engaged at the time. When my SIL threw the bouquet, it was going straight for me but my sister SHOVED me out of the way and caught it. The photo of the toss is so funny. It was inches from my fingertips, then the next photo is of my sister posing with the bride.

 

[Alice28]

We had a pretty traditional wedding in my in-laws church; it was in January (my husband worked in retail at the time...we wanted a November wedding, but him getting the time off would have been a no-go). We each had 4 attendants and my colors were navy blue and burgundy. I bought my wedding gown off the rack at the Jessica McClintock outlet in San Francisco- $150! My headpiece cost more at $200 at the J. McClintock store! While I spent wisely on the dress, we (okay, my parents) splurged a bit on the photography and wedding reception- we had a buffet lunch at a very nice restaurant in downtown San Jose, and about 120 guests came. I tied in my (our) love of Disney in several ways- a castle embossed on the napkins, a Mickey and Minnie cake topper, Mickey lollipops as favors, Tchaikovsky's Sleeping Beauty Waltz as our recessional and of course, a Walt Disney World honeymoon!

 

[ahutton]

I was blessed to have a WDW Fairy Tale wedding, which turned into a beautiful marriage. We celebrated 7 years on Saturday! Wedding Pavillion ceremony, Living Seas VIP lounge reception for dinner and dancing. It was Christmas-time, and we were lucky enough to be invited to the Candlelight Processional, where Barbara Eden introduced us and wished us well, then to UK for an Illuminations Party. It was truly was one of the best days of my life, right there with having each of my 2 lovely DDs!

 

[WDWLVR]

I definately had the wedding of my dreams. We did a traditional Catholic Mass at the church I grew up in. Afterwards we had a great party with a sit down reception with family style dinner. One of my favorite memories from the reception is my mother and mother-in-law dancing together in the middle of our circle of friends to Addicted To Love!

We ended the video with "We're going to Disney World" and the video tape credits have "When you wish upon a star" playing in the background.

We honeymooned at the Grand Floridian on the Grand Plan and had the time of our lives.

13 years later and we are still happy and still loving Disney. Just came back from a trip to the Contemporary!

 

[Poohnatic]

I had two, but both were simple...

First was in the City Park where I lived, under a gazebo, with about 40 guests. We had a 'rent a pastor', as ex husband was agnostic. We had the traditional NY style reception, which none of my Maryland friends had ever experienced. Open bar, viennese table and a 5 course sit down meal. However, I did all the planning and was wise about it. It would have cost 2,000 (in 1990) for the whole shebang, but when the bill was presented, my ex FIL said "no, this is on me". This was also after ex FIL insisted on paying for a photographer. (He and ex SIL are really classy people)

Second wedding is to the guy I wouldn't have met if I hadn't been married to the first one. This time, had the wedding in a small church (40 people) and our pastor personalized the whole thing to us, as he'd known us for a couple of years.

We had the reception in a restaurant attached to a hotel. The restaurant is a replica of a Maryland lighthouse...now that we live in the town, everytime we go by there, we both have to look at 'our lighthouse'! Deja Vu moment was when my MIL hands us an envelope and insist we open it right then. She estimated how much it was going to cost and gave that as our gift.

Second was also more intimate, with 20 people coming up to our suite after the wedding, hanging out socializing, playing music and pranks and drinking. The honeymoon was all Disney, and I married into a totally Disney family. I think I sometime frustrate DH because I'll pick up the phone and call them, talk for an hour, then ask "you want to talk to your sis?"!

The only thing I wish I'd done at the second was get more pictures...we only have a half dozen of them, and two were from our pastor!


Suzanne

 

[Samandmom]

We had a big wedding. We got married in my church. We had all of our siblings in the wedding party. There were 16 total. My niece and nephew were Jr. Bridesmaid and Usher and my other niece and nephew were Flower girl and Ring Bearer. I had a beautiful long white dress. My bridesmaid wore a purple dress. The Flower girl wore a white dress. All the men wore tuxes. We wanted to have our wedding reception at a Sheraton, but my In-laws said they would pay for the reception if we had it at the Elks. Yup you guessed it right we had it at the Elks. We did a little refurnishing though. We rented chairs, we made a beautiful wall with lattice and put white christmas lights on them. It WAS the hottest day of the year. (It was record high) We had a full 5 course meal. We had butter swans. (I made them) I made candy (bells, bride and groom, and wine glasses) I also made purple rose chocolates for all the ladies. I also did my own favors for the men. I bought small bottles of champagne and wrapped them in purple cellophane and tied them at the neck of the bottle with curling ribbon and put our ribbons on them with our name and wedding date. This my favorite thing that we did. We bought Ivy bowls from Michael's (craft store) only .88cents each and put in purple pebbles in the bowl with water and get this GOLDFISH in them also. We put one at each table for a centerpiece.
Everybody and their brother got so drunk. (Except DH and I we don't drink) We spent the night at a Sheraton. My brother got sick all over his car on the way there. We then went on a 7 day cruise and 3 nights in WDW.

If I had know that you could get Disney themed Invitations and the such. I would of.

 

[KathyFP]

We were supposed to get married in a hot air balloon. Hard to find a minister. Once he was secured, the weather would not cooperate.

Got married at the park with only two friends present.

 

[Kristi1357]

We had our Fairytale wedding at WDW in 1999. Got married on the beach at the Grand Floridian (now the pool ) with about 30 guests. Had our reception at the California Grill, danced with Mickey & Minnie. Then off to the lower UK terrace for an IllumiNations dessert party. It couldn't have been a more wonderful time!

 

[moinab]

Spur-of-the-moment, on Valentine's Day while visiting NYC, at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.

We had known each other all of 8 weeks.

5 years and 2 beautiful children later, I wouldn't have it any other way.

 

[FOJMO]

Originally posted by Chim Chiminy
It was all for my mom.

Boy, that sounds familiar! My first wedding was like that. My mother would wake up at 3AM and be planning all kinds of things at the kitchen table (seating arrangements, flowers, etc) and bombard me at breakfast each morning.

Big Catholic Church wedding and the marriage lasted 6-1/2 years.

My second wedding was MUCH more enjoyable, because my DH and I planned it. We had a simple ceremony in a Unitarian chapel. We had met in "Camelot" (Lancelot and Guinvere) and the man who played King Arthur was a minister at the chapel and he married us.

Nice, small reception back at our house with about 40 people. Luncheon meats and salads and a cake which we cut with the "Excalibur" sword.

Then off to WDW the following morning!

My mother tried to horn in on the planning for my 2nd wedding, but I would have no part of it. We did that the first time around and this was OUR turn! We're married 23 years this year!

 

[zurgswife]

Let's see...Got ingaged March 89 and Married Nov 89...

Got married in my DH's home town...in a beautiful Cathedra

We had a couple hundred people...5 bridesmaids and 9 groomsmen (DH has lots of friends)

I purchased the dress of my dreams except they forgot to make it cathedral trane (sp) but it was still wonderful

The reception was a buffet style with a band in the local gym that we decorated ourselves the day before... it was great with lots of plants and little white christmas lights

We honeymooned in Grand Cayman

The only part I would change is we didn't have a professional photographer...DH's friend had a great professional camera and thought it wouldbe the same...it wasn't...I miss that part...

Otherwise fantastic day and still going strong 14 years later...