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Post by Merge on May 1, 2021 22:04:21 GMT
My husband’s best friend tried to talk him out of getting married by betting him a game of cribbage. They ended up going 2/3 and then 4/5 and so on because DH kept winning. Friend finally gave up and said, welp, guess you’re supposed to be getting married tomorrow.
We celebrate 25 years in September.
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Post by Spongemom Scrappants on May 1, 2021 23:23:15 GMT
So many great stories. I smiled at so many and shook my head at a few. Terrifically fun thread!
My first wedding was elaborate and huge... and so had a resulting larger number of mishaps. No show groomsman replaced by a 7" tall nephew necessitating a tux driven in overnight on a Greyhound bus. The wedding banner falling off the stand and being hammered back on by a groomsman's shoe as the ceremony was beginning. Being locked out of the reception facility as the caterer had the time wrong. And more.
Second wedding was very small and intimate in the backyard of the first home we bought together. The funny moment came when I handed kitchen knives to my youngest son, a friend's little girl, and husband's young nephew so they could officially 'cut' the cake. Nephew ran into his mom in another room with the knife covered in cake icing announcing he had cut it... and she nearly fainted. She thought he's done it on his own accord. We also completely forgot to play the music planned for the ceremony!
We'll celebrate ten years this June. He's definitely 'my person' and I'm now exactly where I am meant to be.
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Post by snoopy on May 1, 2021 23:36:45 GMT
I would have been bullshit. I hate anyway when couples do that when they both agree and they both do it. But to have the person that claims they love you do it, and that severely, when you specifically asked them not to, is terrible. I'm sorry that happened to you.
For me, it would have been a really big deal--perhaps a marriage breaker. Yep, I hate the "custom" that much and if I said don't do it, and my groom did shove cake in my face..............It would not have been pretty. To me it demonstrated total disrespect for the person you are supposed to love.
My MIL specifically told my DH to not smash cake in my face. She really disliked that at weddings, and that was her one and only request regarding our wedding. I think DH would have been to terrified of my reaction to actually do it anyway, but I was so glad we agreed beforehand that there would be no cake smashing. My MIL was an absolute saint!
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Post by luckyjune on May 1, 2021 23:36:49 GMT
We'll have been married 29 years on August 1. We had a summer camp wedding before they became the hipster thing to do. It was a gorgeous day and our camp's lodge never looked better! We left and headed to a local waterfront hotel because we were not leaving on our honeymoon until the next day. When we arrived, we realized that despite being surrounded by mountains of food all evening long, the only thing we'd eaten all day was the cake from the cutting.
We were tired and famished and the restaurant in the marina (one of our favorites) was about to close. So we did what any respectable Pacific Northwest couple would do: we ate at Taco Time! Best memory ever!
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Post by FrozenPea on May 2, 2021 1:06:16 GMT
We were married 33 yrs in January. We were both just shy of 21.
First favorite memory is my husband was so excited he came down the isle to the first pew to get me, before we, both my parents walked me down the isle, were half way to the alter!
The second, we were both starving and during a special song we were whispering about it. I told him that I was hungry for one of his pb&js. The priest came over to ask us if we were ok and still wanted to get married! 😂 😂 😂
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Post by Anita on May 2, 2021 1:20:55 GMT
We rounded the thirty-year curve in January. He was stationed in Long Beach, CA and had orders to be deployed. We'd become engaged on Christmas night, but the orders made him want to bump it up to ASAP, so one day in January, we drove to Phoenix, picked up a license, drove to Mesa and got married that afternoon, and spent the night in Apache Junction. Drove back the next day, and then his orders were revoked the next week. The funny part was he had a friend show up as a witness, and she had a young son and new baby. For some of our wedding photos, the little boy was in them. We sent copies of wedding photos to both families, and my family members thought I married a guy who already had a child. When we came home to introduce him around, people asked where his son was. I was so confused until they brought out the wedding photos. ![(rofl)](//storage.proboards.com/forum/images/smiley/rofl.png)
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Post by KikiPea on May 2, 2021 2:50:12 GMT
My oldest niece was 3-4(?) at the time and was one of our flower girls. She was SO nervous! She walked all the way down the aisle, then turned around and run back to me and asked if she did a good job. I said of course, you did great! So, she turned around and ran back down to the alter and asked the preacher if she did good. Of course, he sang her praises, we all laughed, and continued on with the ceremony. She was so stinkin’ cute! 🥰
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Post by my3freaks on May 2, 2021 3:52:34 GMT
We were planning a wedding for June 1995. My husband is a hermit, and never cared what kind of wedding we had. His attitude was pretty much, "whatever you want, tell me when and where to be". In Nov 1994 we called the justice of the peace we had booked for the wedding to see if we could schedule a time to just go ahead and "elope". I was tired of planning and butting heads with my parents over dumb details. I knew my DH didn't really want the big wedding, so we decided to just get married since that's what all we really wanted anyway. The JOP asked where we wanted to get married, and we hadn't planned that far yet LOL. He said he could do it at his house that weekend, so we went there Saturday afternoon with my best friend and his buddy that he was stationed with and stood in the JOP's living room and got married. ![](http://i1168.photobucket.com/albums/r481/2peasrefugees/Smilies/love.jpg.gif) The funny part that I always remember is that the Patriot's game was playing on the radio, and a few time during the ceremony, the JOP paused and kinda cocked his head to hear what had just happened. Then he'd say "Sorry!" and continue. ![](http://i1168.photobucket.com/albums/r481/2peasrefugees/Smilies/laugh.jpg.gif) I was barely 21 & my DH was still 20. It hasn't always been easy, but 26 years later, we're still together.
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Post by Chinagirl828 on May 2, 2021 7:43:23 GMT
I love reading all these stories, this is such a wonderful thread!
I've only been married to my DH for 5 years, but my favourite memory from our wedding day was curling up in bed together that night and watching youtube videos together. We got married in Vegas with just the two of us and it was the perfect end to our day.
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Post by lesserknownpea on May 2, 2021 8:58:19 GMT
I love so many of these sweet stories.
It snowed the day of my wedding 42 years ago. Something we’re not really set up for here in the Portland OR area. XH went down to the church parking lot first thing in the morning with a friend to shovel the snow.
Meanwhile I’m doing both my hair and makeup, and my 15 YO sister’s, one of my bridesmaids. But my MIL paid for hairdos for herself, SIL, ( another bridesmaid), and three little nieces at her salon. The pictures cracked me up, because these little girls and my teenage SIL all had old lady hairdos.
I was still hemming my sister’s dress by hand in the car on the way to the wedding.
Walking down the aisle, which was slanted down like a movie theatre aisle, I was terrified I would trip as I had borrowed a dress from someone much taller than me.
FIL had insisted the wedding and reception be in their town rather than my family’s, and half my friends didn’t make it because of the road conditions.
I always wished for a do over, especially after I became a wedding photographer and saw how a bride is supposed to be treated on her wedding day.
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Post by rickmer on May 2, 2021 11:58:58 GMT
also no longer married.... but my story is i didn't realize the photographer required the second instalment of her payment at the wedding. she was taking a few pics at the very beginning of the reception and then leaving. i sure she told me just there were so many moving parts on a busy day.
i went over to my mom and said "i don't know what to do... i didn't bring a chequebook to my wedding!". she said she hadn't either... but there was $500 cash in my wedding card from her and her partner.
so there i am, while everyone is enjoying the cocktail reception part, in the bride's dressing room with the box o'cards looking like the trashiest bride - opening all these envelopes with my mom.... since she couldn't remember which one was hers, saying things like "nope, gift certificate from william ashley" and "damn, a cheque for $250" as i am throwing them aside. i am sure if anyone walked by, they would have had the wrong idea!!!
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Post by tuva42 on May 2, 2021 13:04:18 GMT
I am a very organized person (sometimes) and I had printed out a schedule for my DH and his groomsmen about where they needed to be when for the whole wedding weekend. They pinned it to a dart board and made fun of me. I scheduled them to arrive at the church at a certain time so they could get dressed there and be ready for pictures. They showed up an hour earlier than I had scheduled them, already in their tuxes, when we girls showed up to get dressed. They were pissed! Well, shoulda looked at my schedule!
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Post by atomicdog on May 2, 2021 13:09:48 GMT
I guess 2 memories stand out - one was going in a polka at the Octoberfest celebration going on in the hall next door (LOL!) and the other is just such a small thing - at the reception, my husband came to stand beside me and put his hand on the small of my back. Just seemed like a way of saying "she's my wife". I've never forgotten than moment, It'll be 40 years this October!
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Post by peano on May 2, 2021 13:29:42 GMT
I was 40, he was 39. Our first marriage. 22 years. I was pregnant, in my first trimester, exhausted and sick. I bought a cream brocade suit, that literally less than a week later, was too tight, and I had to undo the waist to wear it. It was just him and me at our town hall with the probate judge as the officiant. We went to dinner afterward and our table was by a huge wood-burning fireplace, which was very romantic. After dinner, home and to bed by 8.
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Post by simplyparticular on May 2, 2021 13:32:15 GMT
17 years last month, and my wedding memories are both good and bad.
My 3 sisters were my wedding party, and we went to MOH’s hairdresser the morning of the wedding for all of us. Mom didn’t want to come since she didn’t want her hair styled. But we talked her into it. I have fabulous memories of us bopping around the salon to music, especially OutKast’s Hey Ya! Every time I hear that song I think of my wedding day.
I didn’t want to spend money on a limo, so we rented a white Chrysler Town and Country minivan from the company I used for work, and my father drove me to the wedding. Mom is very tiny and misjudged getting in the side door with her heels, and whacked her head really hard. She was in a lot of pain the rest of the day 🙁and it she was pretty miserable.
Also, my two “best friends” from college were apparently so passive-aggressively mad I didn’t include them as bridesmaids (even though I had always said if I didn’t elope it would be my sisters and they said they would plan the bachelorette). They showed up to the wedding in business suits, and were rude to everyone, especially my two youngest sisters and my poor mother with the possible concussion. My husband’s cousin sent us a videotape of our reception and she was unfortunately standing next to them during the first dance, so I have audio of them being bitchy to everyone around them. They stayed and danced the Macarena and left. Haven’t spoken to them since - I don’t give a crap if they were mad at me, (although they had 9 months to address it) but you don’t mess with my family.
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Post by julie5 on May 2, 2021 15:04:52 GMT
This year will be our 5th anniversary and our day was so full it’s hard to pick one memory. But if I have to pick one it would be looking over at the cake table and seeing my youngest child helping the staff serve our cake. We had paid them extra to do it so we didn’t have to worry about it and there’s my child, serving away. It was so cute and my photographer caught it on camera so we have pictures of it.
Oh and that same kid doing the whip and naenae and a tiny little boy (who was only 3) behind her following her every move. It was hilarious. Oh am another kid telling me congratulations by head butting me. His mom was so embarrassed but I thought it was hilarious. Man we had a fun day.
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Post by ghislaine on May 5, 2021 21:12:22 GMT
It'll be 14 years this summer. Our wedding was ... eventful! An insect swarm, rain, the minister mistaking the local military range shooting for thunder, an interrupted ceremony resulting in an ambulance, a power outage, and the neighbors dog crashing the party. But nothing can stop a wedding, right?
My favorite memory was that I decided to go barefoot for the ceremony to protect my shoes from the wet grass. My shoes had been stashed under sweetheart table under the reception tent but I forgot about them until my husband's 3 year old cousin asked her grandma why the princess wasn't wearing any shoes!
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Post by dexter on May 13, 2021 21:15:44 GMT
My first wedding was the whole she-bang. What I remember is the flower girl having chicken pox and spreading it to 3 others. And the DJ calling my husband David "Mike" the entire night even after correcting him. Also, the DJ didn't have 'our' song and my brother drove to my apartment to find my CD. It was fine, but that marriage wasn't meant to be!
Second wedding for both my current husband and I - on our pontoon in the middle of the Mississippi River. Our families and friends with 5 boats anchored and tied together in the backwaters. I wore a white swim cover up and my hubby wore his swim trunks and a white shirt. His brother officiated. Then we docked on a sandbar, had drinks and snacks. PREFECT and free.
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Post by Fidget on May 14, 2021 12:29:57 GMT
DH and I bought and moved into our first home about 4 months before our wedding. A couple of the neighbors were outside when I walked out of the house in my bridal gown, they were stunned, they all thought we were already married!
DH passed away in Oct 2019 - we had been married 36 years, this year would be 38 if he were still with us.
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Post by lbp on May 14, 2021 13:18:04 GMT
I got married at a church that wasn't my home church because it was too small and had no reception area (low budget wedding) When I got there there were no receptacles' in the Sunday school rooms where we were getting dressed. There was one in the tiny bathroom that I used for my curling iron. Me and the Bridesmaids curled our hair one at a time!
Also on our way from the reception to the hotel, our marriage license flew out the window! we didn't stop to get it!
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Post by huskergal on May 14, 2021 14:18:09 GMT
Super hot and humid. I got married in June in the Midwest in a small town and our reception was as the old Legion hall. The upstairs was not air conditioned. During the reception around 9 or 10 a wicked summer storm came rolling through with tornado warnings and everything. It cooled off after it went through.
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Post by scrapsotime on May 14, 2021 14:51:28 GMT
On a Friday at the end of September dh said "We Should get married." We were married the next Friday. We've been married 35 years.
We got married in my parent's house with just family, but our families are large. lol My mom picked up a cake on her way home from work. My dad cooked (he was an awesome cook). one of my sisters brought flowers.
The funniest thing that happened is after the ceremony the phone rang. I was the closest so I answered it. It was my brother who was in the Navy and stationed in San Diego. When I answered he was like what's up? I told him I had just gotten married and he said oh, you did not. I had to have my dad talk to him because he would not believe me. No one had talked to him that week to let him know.
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