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Post by cath4k on May 3, 2016 19:32:48 GMT
In the short time I have been here I have seen a LOT of threads related to weddings. So, I am curious.
What was your wedding like? Were you in control or did your family (or your partner's family) have a lot of control? What (if anything) would you have done differently?
I will answer my own questions in a separate post.
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Post by 950nancy on May 3, 2016 19:43:59 GMT
It was perfect! Ha. My mom pretty much planned it and it was lovely. I really didn't have a clue about most of it, I vetoed a few things, but for the most part it was pretty stress free and fun. I did have to include my SILs because apparently I wasn't the only one getting married that day.
For my next wedding… it will be in Jamaica on the beach.
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Post by myshelly on May 3, 2016 19:45:36 GMT
Didn't have one.
I despise ceremonies of all kinds (weddings, graduations, etc.) and would do just about anything to avoid them.
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Post by Nink on May 3, 2016 19:47:05 GMT
It was the traditional wedding in a church. DH and I planned and paid for everything. It wasn't extravagant, but we had a sit down dinner reception at a hotel. What would I do differently...elope in Vegas and save the $$. This is a pic with us and my side of the family.
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Post by padresfan619 on May 3, 2016 19:52:45 GMT
Elegant, tasteful, intimate, and a little untraditional. I didn't wear a white dress and no one who I told about it beforehand cared. We had Mexican food catered buffet style and everyone raved about it. I didn't do a bouquet toss and my husband didn't do a garter toss, by the time we got married most of our friends were also married so it would have been two or three single people in each group. When we got married Pinterest had just started gaining popularity but I still had no mason jars, burlap, twine, or chalkboards at the reception. We had a fake cake, the only part that was edible was the top tier and the small section we sliced into. We served Costco sheet cake to our guests.
We didn't do bridal party introductions and I didn't have my first dance with my husband until after we had done our dances with our parents. My sister-in-law wasn't a bridesmaid and my brother wasn't a groomsman, there were no hurt feelings. A close friend officiated our wedding instead of a random stranger (neither my husband or I attend church so we wouldn't have had a relationship with a clergy person and I didn't want a random public service person doing it.) the bridesmaids dresses weren't the same style or even from the same store, just the same color.
No one was controlling about anything, my mom and my mother in law were very much about what we wanted. We did include a prayer at the beginning of the ceremony because I knew it would make my mother in law happy, but she didn't by any means make any vocal demands about it. I had one aunt who was iffy about me not wearing some variation of white, but once she saw me all done up she was fine with it. But I wouldn't have cared if she wasn't. Overall we had a wonderful day and a great experience planning. I went to one bridal bazaar and it was overwhelming, but those dozens of free totes bags I got from vendors came in handy the day of the wedding for all of our crap we had to bring.
I was much more excited to be married than I was about a wedding. We had less than 100 people at our wedding and I still thought it was too big, but we didn't go into any debt over it so we were happy in the end.
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Post by cath4k on May 3, 2016 19:53:08 GMT
I was married in 1988. My husband and I paid for the whole thing, although my parents did open up their yard and purchased all the beverages and the poinsettias. We invited parents, siblings, niece and nephew, and a few friends each. We sent paper invitations with RSVP cards. I bought the material and pattern and my mother made my simple dress and veil. My husband bought a nice jacket, pair of pants, tux shirt, and bow tie. We each had one sibling stand with us and no one else. We let them choose what they wanted to wear and didn't dictate a color. (My sister was nine month's pregnant and I wanted her to wear whatever she felt most comfortable in.) We married in a church in the morning and had a lunch reception in my parents' backyard. We bought all the food and my husband and mother put all the platters together the morning of the wedding. We decorated the tent (which my parents owned) with some streamers and balloons. We had table covers and poinsettias on the tables (it was December, but a beautiful warm FL day.) We did a wedding cake and toast, but not a garter/bouquet toss. We didn't dance. My flowers were silk flowers because we couldn't afford fresh. We only did my bouquet, husband's and best man's boutonniere, and corsages for my sister and each mother. My friend took the photographs. No bridal shower, bachelorette party, or bachelor party. My husband's work did decide on their own to have a party for us which was really nice, especially because none of them were invited to the small wedding. We were in complete control. Our families expressed no opinions. We wouldn't have done anything differently under the circumstances. If we had more money at the time, we would have had the food catered and taken a longer honeymoon (we only had a weekend.) It would have been nice to have social media, but it didn't exist at the time. I did later find out that some friends' feelings were hurt that they weren't invited, but that was because they didn't know how small the wedding was. Photos on social media would have shown everyone that we didn't really invite anyone.
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Post by Deleted on May 3, 2016 19:54:06 GMT
Justice of the peace, at the courthouse.
Perfect for us.
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Post by schizo319 on May 3, 2016 19:57:07 GMT
It was a small wedding (50 guests) in a little outdoor chapel in my town. We were on a super tight budget, so I did everything myself, from writing the ceremony, to invitations, to flower arrangements and I baked and decorated our wedding/grooms cakes.
I had complete control of the ceremony and all the details leading up to the reception. Our reception was held at a local meeting hall where DHs aunt works. She took control about 2 hours in and basically kicked us out because some of our older guests wanted to leave, but didn't feel they could do so until after we did. We ended up going home to change and then came back to help clean up the reception hall because she was such a tyrant everyone else left her with all the clean-up work. Fun...
If I could go back and do things differently, I'd have eloped and saved myself a ton of work, or at the very least held the reception elsewhere.
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Post by scrapngranny on May 3, 2016 19:58:47 GMT
We eloped in Carson City, Nevada almost 44 years ago. We went by ourselves and had to pay for witnesses. We still laugh at the absurdity of the whole thing.
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Post by Patter on May 3, 2016 19:59:06 GMT
We had 9 people at our wedding, I wore my great grandmother's dress from 1908, and it was the BEST wedding ever. Would not change a thing even after 27 years I still feel that way.
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Post by lbp on May 3, 2016 20:00:17 GMT
Very small. Maybe 50 people. My MIL made my dress and my bridesmaid dresses. Blue dotted swiss!! We had our ceremony in a church and the reception where we served cake, nuts, mints and punch in the fellowship hall.
My Dad paid for our cake and DH and I paid everything else.
We were married in May of 1980 and will soon celebrate our 36th anniversary!!
And just my 2 cents worth here...weddings have gotten out of control!!! I can't imagine spending as much money as some people are spending on wedding now days! DS's best friend just got married in October and the reception alone was $11,000! Crazy!
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Post by red88 on May 3, 2016 20:01:50 GMT
Married young, real young. No choice in anything. I didn't even get a say in my dress. I was happy to marry, but if I could go back I would have done it way different. I think we would have eloped, just the two of us on a beach Even though it was a shitty wedding & nobody supported us, we've been married 27 years this year & we still love each other like crazy. It hasn't been all roses, but we've made it this far & will continue.
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Post by Sarah*H on May 3, 2016 20:02:12 GMT
It was traditional because that's what both of our moms wanted since neither of them had a traditional wedding. It was very low key and no drama. We paid for most of the bridesmaid's dresses because having been in several weddings, I knew that the cost was ridiculous and I didn't want my friends to have to pay that kind of money to be in our wedding. The total cost of our wedding was less than many brides pay for their dresses and we achieved this through unusual methods like finding an up and coming chef looking to break into the bridal industry, using my grandfather's connections through the funeral home to identify a reasonable yet talented florist, etc.
We used the rehearsal dinner as the type of wedding we would have actually preferred - it was a large picnic, everyone was invited, we played softball and hung out with our friends and family in a casual and fun experience. The actual ceremony and reception were boilerplate with us taking into consideration how to make it be not miserable and torturous for the guests as much as possible, so lots of wine, actually good food, etc.
If I had to do it over again, we would not have done the traditional ceremony at all because it is not representative of our tastes and I think it was a waste of money.
ETA: I make it sound like it was miserable and of course it wasn't. We married in a small country chapel. My dad and his best friend (both Presbyterian ministers) did the ceremony and it was lovely and very personal. We wrote our own vows and the music was beautiful. I cared about 2 things - lots of colorful flowers and good food and that's what we spent most of our budget on. The reception was in a restaurant overlooking the Loyalhanna Gorge, one of the most beautiful places in the country. So it was all lovely, just in the grand scheme of things, I don't understand or care about the preoccupation with fairy tale weddings.
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Post by luvnlifelady on May 3, 2016 20:02:26 GMT
Our wedding was nice. We got married on Mother's Day (what was I thinking)! Our anniversary (22nd) is Sunday which is Mother's Day again. It doesn't always coincide though.
It was small, outdoors and at a retreat center. My mom paid for the venue and simple reception. About 60 guests or so. Only 1 attendant each. I had to use my sister (who I am/was not close to) as my friend flaked.
DH is Catholic and I am not so I was able to find an "American Catholic" priest that could perform ceremonies outside. It was Catholic enough for his side and non-Catholic enough for mine.
I wore a peach, tea length Gunnie Sax dress and we had a simple sheet cake with a raised heart on it that held our baseball boy/girl cake toppers. It was perfect for us. Ironically, the baseball boy fell and the leg on the figurine broke..and it was DH that broke his marriage vows. However, we are going to a Marriage Encounter weekend next month so hope to right the ship.
I walked in with my dad to "Pachabel Cannon in D." Perfect. We also had a harpist and heard rave reviews about that.
If I had to do it again, we would get married with just immediate family inside a luxury box or on the field at a baseball game and then invite everyone to a game and pay for their food/drinks!
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Post by littlemama on May 3, 2016 20:02:56 GMT
20 years ago today. Church wedding, 90 invited guests, around 70 came. The wedding was the focus for us, so the invites just said Reception to follow. The wedding itself was short, only about 15 minutes, which I was not expecting, although I wasn't expecting it to be as long as, say, a Catholic Mass. We were very late to our reception because we had so many pictures to take. No limo, no alcohol at the wedding, and too many uptight people who wouldn't dance. The food was amazing and I ate - lots of brides I have known have not eaten at their own weddings! The reception was at a hotel and we spent the night there. If I had to do it again, I would still get married in a church, but the reception would have been a big BBQ.
DH wanted his cousin to be his best man, but MIL insisted he ask his one full brother, who proceeded to give a toast that insulted me. We controlled most things, but that he couldn't get out of because she would still be nagging him to this day. Our wedding was inexpensive - my dress was a preseason sample, the food was quite reasonable if you didn't buy their "wedding package", we did splurge on the photography, and I am glad we did.
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Post by luvnlifelady on May 3, 2016 20:03:12 GMT
We eloped in Carson City, Nevada almost 44 years ago. We went by ourselves and had to pay for witnesses. We still laugh at the absurdity of the whole thing. My sister went there too! Funny story!
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Post by dewryce on May 3, 2016 20:06:12 GMT
Lovely. We had a Christmas time wedding (Dec 22nd) at The Driskill Hotel is Austin and held the ceremony and reception there. It was a fairly formal event at 6pm and we had passed appetizers and champagne during the photos as well as a petit fours station, a plated meal of filet mignon, shrimp, potatoes asparagus and salad. It was a smallish wedding with 125 guests and everyone was family or very close to family so we knew enough and were able to have great substitutions for vegetarians, etc.
Our families were wonderful, no control issues at all. We worked very hard to include everyone, but because we are close to our families and wanted to.
Things I would change? Of course fashions change and I would make different selections now, but I don't look back to 1995 and shudder so at least there's that LOL. We had a friend of the family officiate and I regret that now because he turned out to not be the family man we thought he was. I would have had my mom walk me down the aisle instead of my stepdad. She has always been my rock and I really wish I could change that decision.
I would have gone crazy with Pinterest, but overall we are both still really pleased with how everything turned out.
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Post by cath4k on May 3, 2016 20:06:34 GMT
Very small. Maybe 50 people. My MIL made my dress and my bridesmaid dresses. Blue dotted swiss!! We had our ceremony in a church and the reception where we served cake, nuts, mints and punch in the fellowship hall.
My Dad paid for our cake and DH and I paid everything else.
We were married in May of 1980 and will soon celebrate our 36th anniversary!!
And just my 2 cents worth here...weddings have gotten out of control!!! I can't imagine spending as much money as some people are spending on wedding now days! DS's best friend just got married in October and the reception alone was $11,000! Crazy!
I agree! They have gotten out of control! One of our daughters got married 2 1/2 years ago and the other one is getting married this month. Neither of them wanted large weddings and definitely went non-traditional in many ways. Even so, it is difficult to do a wedding on a budget. It is even more difficult to not offend people because everyone has an opinion and a lot of people don't seem to care what the BRIDE and GROOM want. I'm not talking about things like photo perfect armpits, but things like size of guest list.
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Post by Deleted on May 3, 2016 20:06:38 GMT
Married at entrance to park at 9 am. approx. 25 attendees Hiked 2 hours to place where DH and I went on first date, had champagne toast, people had to carry their own drinks and bring their own sandwich lunch. Hiked back to park (another 2 hours)Approx 12 attendees.
5 pm open house, buffet style bbq on our lawn. Bocce, Horseshoes. fire pit and dark night time view of Persid meteor shower (mid August)Approx 50 attendees.
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Post by Deleted on May 3, 2016 20:09:29 GMT
First time - the whole in a church, everyone including people I barely knew invited thing. Traditional long wedding dress, reception with a DJ. I did it that way because that's what my Mom expected. It was implied that if I didn't include the future SILs as bridesmaids, they were going to hate me forever. Um, they didn't care for me in the first place. Adding them to the wedding party didn't improve things. They ignored my invite to get their hair done with me and my friends. They waited as long as they could to get their dresses. And they were late. Not late as in they held up the wedding but late as in they didn't eat with us, nothing. It was like, then why in the hell did you agree to be a part of the wedding party?! All the usual bridal party fun was me and my friends only. Same with ex. Because he and his mom more or less insisted I include them, ex had to include his BIL and his stepDad to even things up. They didn't participate in the whole getting ready thing either. Plus, we were forced to accept a family friend's offer to do the photos as a gift. I didn't get some of the pictures I wanted and others were crappy.
Second time - it was parents and grandparents only. Actually, it was supposed to be parents and grandparents only but somehow we got sucked into inviting his aunt and uncle (that he doesn't like) as well as one of my aunt and uncle, simply because my cousin (their daughter) was going to the wedding too because she was her caregiver and would've been the one who took my grandma to the wedding and home. The only person that was not related to either one of us was my BFF who was my maid of honor. We had a simple ceremony in a park, had dinner at a restaurant, and then went to the local casino. I wish I had picked out a different dress. I wish we hadn't done the stupid casino. Neither one of us even liked it. All it did was remind us that we had no friends. I would've been happy to go home after dinner, pack up the car and headed out to go camping with the boys. Part of me wishes we had waited a couple more months and got married elsewhere and just sat around the campfire with the family.
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Post by cath4k on May 3, 2016 20:10:07 GMT
20 years ago today. Church wedding, 90 invited guests, around 70 came. The wedding was the focus for us, so the invites just said Reception to follow. The wedding itself was short, only about 15 minutes, which I was not expecting, although I wasn't expecting it to be as long as, say, a Catholic Mass. We were very late to our reception because we had so many pictures to take. No limo, no alcohol at the wedding, and too many uptight people who wouldn't dance. The food was amazing and I ate - lots of brides I have known have not eaten at their own weddings! The reception was at a hotel and we spent the night there. If I had to do it again, I would still get married in a church, but the reception would have been a big BBQ. DH wanted his cousin to be his best man, but MIL insisted he ask his one full brother, who proceeded to give a toast that insulted me. We controlled most things, but that he couldn't get out of because she would still be nagging him to this day. Our wedding was inexpensive - my dress was a preseason sample, the food was quite reasonable if you didn't buy their "wedding package", we did splurge on the photography, and I am glad we did. Happy Anniversary!
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Post by Deleted on May 3, 2016 20:20:17 GMT
We were married in 1984, long before pinterest perfection. It was about 100 people at a Catholic Mass, then a reception at a nearby hotel. Dinner, drinks, and dancing. Pretty traditional, but it was lots of fun. I wore my mom's wedding gown, and I still love it. The bridal party was my two sisters, my SIL, my BIL, and two of DH's best friends.
The only thing I would change would be the fact that I had to plan everything myself. I was pretty stressed out from all those decisions. It would have been nice to have someone else deal with all that. My parents paid for a good part of it, and we paid for the rest.
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Post by workingclassdog on May 3, 2016 20:22:39 GMT
I had a very nice wedding.. I think the cost was about $20,000+ (21 years ago). I had almost no control and that was fine by me!! My step-mom really did most of the planning. All I did was pick my dress and colors. She found the church (we lived out of state) and reception place. She went WAY over what I would have ever picked. She insisted on the best, I didn't argue. I just went along with it. Besides she paid for it and I didn't care really. What would we change? We (her and I) would have not gone cheap on the photographer. Why we (she) went cheaper on this is something we both still question to the day. The photographer was the worst. Thankfully my dad got a bunch of decent pictures. Otherwise I don't think we would have changed a thing. There was no option to take the money and put down on a house or something like that. Which would have been smarter but that is a mute point. I loved my wedding and people still talk about it today... Edited to add after reading comments: It was a small wedding.. 100 people total invited including the wedding party So the plan was (per my step-mom, small wedding but elegant was her thing)... okie dokie with me... Only one attendant for each of us... both best friends. My sister and steps were other things at the wedding.. I can't remember exactly what... (Why I didn't have two bridesmaid's is beyond me and not having my sister stand up or my DH's brother stand up either)... BUT no one was mad or anything like that at all (heck I didn't attend my sister's wedding at all... she was married in Caribbean.)
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Post by Deleted on May 3, 2016 20:23:16 GMT
Mine was 21 years ago, completely traditional church wedding with the sit-down reception, band, etc. There was some family influence but not a ton. About 120 people. It was very nice.
What would I do differently? Everything. If I had to do it again I would rent a B&B at my favorite seaside town for the whole weekend; and have maybe 30 people.
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Post by tuesdaysgone on May 3, 2016 20:24:26 GMT
We had a simple small wedding with about 100 guests I planned most of it (DH and I paid for almost everything) We were married in my in-laws' church. My MIL really pressed the issue and insisted that the ceremony be in a church. DH and I are not church goers but I bowed to her wishes (i.e. demands). I wish I'd stayed with my original plan to have the wedding at a hotel.
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Post by Basket1lady on May 3, 2016 20:36:17 GMT
We got married in 1990, straight out of college. I'd say that 90% of the wedding was my ideas and plans. The other 10% was my parents. It was a huge wedding--over 300 people. That was my parents. I come from a huge Catholic family and we went to all of their weddings, so they came to mine. Dad said that if he was paying for it, he was inviting whomever he wanted. And he did pay for it all. I made my dress, which was very Princess Diana with huge sleeves and a huge skirt--about 15 yards of satin. DH wore his mess dress (active duty Air Force.)
It's been 26 years, so we must have done something right. If I had to do it all over again, I'd do a much smaller wedding. But I was very happy with my big dress and big church wedding.
The only thing I really remember arguing about was the photographer. I picked a photographer that I'd worked with previously (I worked in publishing.) Dad thought it was too expensive, but she threw in a second photographer and her photos were amazing. I knew that was what would last and it was important to me. Dad gave me $10,000 and I only went $53 over budget. Pretty darn good for feeding all of those people a sit down dinner and a dance after.
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Post by snappinsami on May 3, 2016 20:55:33 GMT
Now-DH and I were living in Florida while he got his Master's degree. He was scheduled to graduate in May 1992 and we planned on getting married that fall in Philadelphia (where we're both from). We started planning a wedding for 50-60 people, and then decided we didn't want the "big" wedding and didn't want to wait. So we moved it up to January 4th - my mom's 50th birthday - in Florida, and only our immediate family would attend. My grandmother's response when she heard we'd move it up? "Does Samantha HAVE to get married?" Dear god... (And just to prove that we didn't HAVE to get married, we made her wait 9 years for her first great-grandchild to be born. LOL!) As for our wedding itself, it was perfect. I wore a white suit. My boss performed the ceremony (she was a notary), which was held in a suite in a hotel (where we wound up spending the night). After the ceremony, we had champagne and noshies, and then all 12 of us went to the Italian restaurant in the hotel for dinner. I had a cake that came from the local supermarket. 24 Years later, we're just as married as we would have been if we'd had the bigger wedding. And we both look back on that day and think it was perfect.
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Post by tc on May 3, 2016 21:07:34 GMT
First wedding was fairly traditional. 1997. I was 21. I was the first of my friends to get married so I didn't really know what I was doing. We stumbled our way through it so I'd say I had as much of the control as I could handle. I did include my future SIL as a bridesmaid. We had five attendants on each side and two flower girls. Even a week later I realized that was far too many people in the wedding party for my taste. Catholic church ceremony. Buffet and dance reception at a hotel ballroom. About 250 guests, but catering later told me that 50 people never showed. That made me livid - I paid for 50 extra people that didn't show up. Long-long train on my dress. I didn't realize how long until I went to pick up the dress the day before the wedding. They had the dress hanging from the rafters and I saw it and said, "Who would ever get a train that long?" Lo' and behold - it was me. It was my dress. It was a full day that started at 6am and ended around midnight. I was exhausted by the end. I did change out of my very heavy, off the shoulder dress part way through the reception and the DJ thought I had left even though I was right in front of him for hours. I'd do a lot of things differently looking back. I certainly wouldn't spend so much on invitations and response cards and maps, etc. What a waste for something that people just throw away. I definitely would have gotten a different dress. When I chose it I was naive and thought the dress shop would order one in my size. Nope. They took this dress off the rack that was multiple sizes too large for me and charged me almost as much as the original cost of the dress for alterations. The alterations weren't fantastic. The corset eventually left my ribs bruised and my arms were bloody under the sleeve cuffs by the end of the night.
Second wedding was completely different. For one, we paid for it ourselves and we ended up spending about a quarter of the cost of my first wedding. We ended up having it in a movie theater. We wanted somewhere fun. There's a theater here in town that has multiple lounges and a beautiful vestibule that looks out over the city. I got a very simple dress. We were married by my husband's uncle. Our reception was in a lounge on the upper most floor of the movie theater and some of our guests went with us to a movie after the reception ended. We limited the guest list to 50 people - only immediate family and really close friends. The only thing I'd do differently knowing what I know now is to try to be on time. I was driving my mother and me there in my mother's car. I still maintain that it was the other person's fault, but we got into a car accident on the way there. As a result, we were VERY late. We didn't get any photos done before the ceremony so we had to take most of our photos during our reception. We only attended about half an hour of our two hour reception. That was disappointing. Oh - and the place I ordered the cupcakes from (we had cupcakes, no traditional cake), lost our order. I went to pick them up that morning and they had no record of my order at all. They quick whipped some up (I think we ordered five dozen), but I was pretty perturbed at the time because I had to get my sister to alter her schedule for the day to go pick up our late cupcakes. Oh! One more. I would have invited my close friends from the town I'd recently moved away from. We had our wedding in the middle of a weekday (because the date meant something to us) and I thought they wouldn't drive the 3 hours for a midweek, midday wedding - plus we were trying to keep the guest list small. I regret not including them.
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Post by Anita on May 3, 2016 21:13:03 GMT
We were living in Long Beach, CA. We drove out to Mesa, AZ and got married by the Justice of the Peace. Spent the night in Apache Junction, and drove back to CA the next day. One of DH's friends witnessed. Our announcements arrived at our family's houses a few days later. I wouldn't change one darn thing. I never liked ceremonies.
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Post by Rainy_Day_Woman on May 3, 2016 21:13:16 GMT
We got married last month at City Hall (it was about time).
It was my parents, my kids and my grandmother and my best friend, DH's mom, brother and his two best cousins flew in from England. We all went out for high tea on a weekday afternoon and it was lovely. I wore a red wrap dress, nothing fancy and I will wear it many times again.
A couple of days later we had about 30 friends and family members to the bar by our house and partied. The second party appeased some of DH's family that we didnt invite to city hall but lots of people are still pretty pissed at us. Ah well, they will get over it eventually.
Dh's family is indian and they do weddings... Big. His brother had 1200 people at his! His cousin that came from England for the wedding spent 100,000 POUND on his first wedding. Insanity. We spent 1% of that, LOL.
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