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Post by ktdoesntscrap on Mar 13, 2017 12:33:02 GMT
Our legal wedding took place at a very pretty Registar's Office in Sidcup Kent. (England) There were just 4 of us.
Then we had our "wedding" at a 1930's dance hall in Kansas City. With about 200 people.
It was a lot of fun. People still talk about the amazing food.
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Post by rickmer on Mar 13, 2017 13:11:11 GMT
first wedding, in the chapel attached to the reception venue (tudor style banquet centre with lovely gardens). 2nd time... oh wait... still married.  |
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Post by Country Ham on Mar 13, 2017 13:24:06 GMT
We got married on a Monday evening in a church. We didn't send out invites. Did an announcement in the paper and a few local churches inviting anyone who wanted to witness the union. My bridesmaid and maid of honor canceled coming. The US had declared war on Afghanistan and since it was so soon after 9/11 my family/friends were too scared to come. I understood but the rules of my VISA said I had to get married within a certain time frame so we couldn't work around fear of travel and a war so we made due. My husband's sister stood with me. We didn't have a sit down reception just fruit trays and wedding cake afterwards. So stress free and wonderful. We actually had about 130 come witness it. 2 kids and 16 years later here we are.
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Post by bianca42 on Mar 13, 2017 14:32:14 GMT
Outside in my front yard. Justice of the Peace was a good friend of my dad's, who we call "The Judge".
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Post by bbkeef on Mar 13, 2017 14:38:22 GMT
Honolulu, Hawaii on a yacht in Mamala Bay with Diamondhead in the background.
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Post by piebaker on Mar 13, 2017 16:37:11 GMT
Civil wedding in judge's home in front of his fireplace, overlooking a beautiful garden. Religious wedding in interfaith chapel of a college my husband attended with a priest and a rabbi. Reception in a catering hall.
Second wedding in my parish church with a dinner for family at a restaurant. When we are married twenty years (seven years from now), I will plan on a vow renewal somewhere romantic.
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Post by carhoch on Mar 13, 2017 19:00:27 GMT
I got married in Switzerland in 1986 in a very small church that was built in 1228  its in a very small village call Villarzel , its my dad's hometown. |
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Post by flanz on Mar 13, 2017 19:12:53 GMT
Empty courtroom by a Justice of the Peace in San Angelo TX at 1pm. Our JOP wore a western "suit" and 🤠 and it took 10 minutes from beginning to end. It was me, DH, BIL, and 2 friends. My BIL filmed all our feet during the ceremony. DH was going to go back to work after but i told him he could probably take the rest of the day (he was active duty AF). Was the filming of the feet intentional?? Reminds me of our first child's baptism back in '88. We rented a gigundo, shoulder mounted Video Recorder and BIL was tasked with filming the baptism. Turns out it was on when he thought it was off, and vice versa. We have closeups of a row of boobs, lots of floor - and lots of laughs were had watching it! |
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Post by giatocj on Mar 13, 2017 19:17:05 GMT
We're getting married in July at a B & B in Gloucester MA, which is my fiancé's home town.
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Post by flanz on Mar 13, 2017 19:19:57 GMT
A very small church in the middle of nowhere...reception at the local dance hall down the road. DH and I grew up going to weddings in small churches/reception at a local dance hall with a polka band for music. By the time we got married, that kind of wedding was really dying out and we decided that we wanted a wedding like the ones we remembered from when we were kids, polka band and all. We had a blast! We were 22/23 when we got married at the Catholic church we'd both been baptized in, and we had a "small Polish wedding" with 275 guests for simple dinner and dance, complete with polka band, at the Polish Hall. DH and I were the last ones to leave our reception at 2 a.m. That was almost 34 years ago. I STILL feel the urge to dance the polka at least once a year, but most wedding dance floors don't have enough space to do it properly! |
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Post by Deleted on Mar 13, 2017 22:53:32 GMT
Hey, E!! Hope you are doing well.........
My first wedding was when I was only 23 years old. I planned every detail and it was like a fairytale wedding! I had a string quartet playing at the church. I rode in a vintage Bentley. My bridesmaid's gowns were handmade replicas of tea-length wedding gowns, with lace flown in from Italy. That wedding took place on LI/NY, where I lived, in a beautiful, formal setting.
My 2nd marriage took place in 2010 in NJ (where we lived). It was extremely informal (just for his family). I wore a gown that I had, did my own hair and makeup. My son "walked" me down the aisle. My daughter was my maid of honor. DH's son was his best man. I did all of the catering, flowers, decorating, everything!
Two days later we went to LI to have our other wedding (for my family). This one was more formal--I wore a traditional wedding gown, but I still made all of the bouquets. We had our reception in a beautiful place on the water. It was a small wedding, but perfect in every way!
Yours sounded quaint and sweet!!
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Post by Delta Dawn on Mar 13, 2017 22:54:44 GMT
Did you get any backhanded compliments about your wedding. My former MIL said our wedding was nice enough seeing how exDH was a second son. Had her first son gotten married they would have had to have had a HUGE wedding for him. It's all about the status and all. Ok so I got a shitty wedding compared to what he would have gotten. ExBIL is single and always has been. I gave them a grandson as a boy is so much more desired than a girl. Oh right. I am useful for that.  I wish I were kidding these conversations didn't take place but they happened all the time. |
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Post by AnastasiaBeaverhausn on Mar 13, 2017 23:47:10 GMT
We snuck into the Bishop Garden at the National Cathedral in Washington, D.C. last year. I have great wedding pics!
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Post by gorgeouskid on Mar 14, 2017 4:51:37 GMT
Awahnee hotel in Yosemite! We had 100 people and it was awesome. That's where my grandparents went for their honeymoon! |
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Post by Deleted on Mar 14, 2017 5:49:53 GMT
We were supposed to get married in my parents backyard.
My husband has never really told me what my mother said, but that wedding didn't happen and we went back to college.
We got married by the jp in a court room.
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Post by birukitty on Mar 14, 2017 6:08:36 GMT
Which time?  We got "married" 3 times. Not legally but it was real enough for us in 1995 in Negril, Jamaica at a resort with just the two of us plus hotel staff. I was divorced but was collecting alimony from my ex-an abusive SOB. If I remarried that alimony would stop, or it would stop in 6 more years. I decided after what my ex put me through (the abuse) he deserved to pay for those 6 years so we got married "unofficially". Everything was real except the paperwork. Some might frown on this, but it was my decision. We had a gorgeous wedding the hotel staff put on for free (part of their resort package that they offer guests) and it was incredible. Everything was first class including my bouquet of orchids. We did our own photography since I was a wedding photographer although they offered us a photographer for free too. We consider this our wedding date. Legally we got married at the courthouse when the time came to do that after the 6 years had passed. Time number 2. This was just for the paperwork to us. When I joined the Catholic Church in 2001 my priest married us in a private ceremony (again just the two of us and the priest). Time number 3. Personally I loved getting married at a destination wedding in the Caribbean. It wasn't my first wedding although it was for DH. However both his parents had passed and he isn't close to either of his much older siblings, so for him it made sense too. |
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Post by Spongemom Scrappants on Mar 14, 2017 22:25:13 GMT
First marriage (1985) was a big, over-the-top church wedding with eight attendants, 150 guests, and a dinner/dance reception at a different location.
Second marriage (2011) was in the backyard of the home we bought together as we liked the symbolism of starting our lives together there. No attendants. Just family and closest friends. Simple and perfect.
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Post by huskergal on Mar 15, 2017 0:20:21 GMT
At the courthouse in Sidney, IA.
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Post by StephDRebel on Mar 15, 2017 1:34:20 GMT
On the docks in Fredericksburg VA. We were like it's hot, let's make it short and sweet. I ran late because he hired a white house and carriage for me and I had to chase the house around town.
The reception was on a historic paddle boat. So much fun, but man the wedding was HOT!
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Post by elaine on Mar 15, 2017 2:26:00 GMT
On the docks in Fredericksburg VA. We were like it's hot, let's make it short and sweet. I ran late because he hired a white house and carriage for me and I had to chase the house around town. The reception was on a historic paddle boat. So much fun, but man the wedding was HOT! House or horse? I do like the image of him hiring the White House, but you chasing it around town is a little confusing.  |
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I wish I were kidding these conversations didn't take place but they happened all the time. 
