Your Wedding Day
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Your Wedding Day
Squaredsc | Saturday, February 15, 2003 - 04:57 pm     wonderful stories folks. mary, i was in tears too. |
Twiggyish | Saturday, February 15, 2003 - 05:32 pm     Me too! |
Ministryoftruth | Saturday, February 15, 2003 - 07:56 pm     We were married in a very large and beautiful Catholic church. It was the very spot, with the same priest, where I was baptized and confirmed. My husband also knealt down and proposed to me on that spot and our first and only child was baptized there three years ago. We bought a house, where we still live, directly across the street. |
Twiggyish | Sunday, February 16, 2003 - 01:05 pm     Ministry, that sounds lovely. I think it's great that you live in the same community, too. I just watched My Big Fat Greek Wedding. I was interested in the role of the church in the family. The extended family was also important. Everything they did was in their own community. It's hard to find quite that scenario in a transient place like Florida, where I live. (Maybe why I loved the movie!) |
Meggieprice | Sunday, February 16, 2003 - 02:00 pm     OK, I have to tell mine after being so moved by these stories! When Michael and I were first seeing each other, in the crazy days of falling in love IMMEDIATELY (and this is no exaggeration- see our story in the My Best Date thread) we would sit under an oak tree behind the place I worked and kiss, literally, for my whole lunch hour. When we planned our wedding we knew we would get mnarried under that tree and made plans to do exactly that in the middle of December without any thought of the weather. Perhaps it is part of the inevitableness of our union that the day before was windy and freezing, the day after was a huge storm, but our wedding day was warm and sunny. I spent the night before at my best friends house and had my hair and makeup done by my hairdresser, who was later a guest. My best friend and I met my two sisters at the hotel in downtown Palo Alto where we would spend our wedding night and we all got ready there and did some photos. It was about a 12 minute walk from there to the tree and my sisters and I walked through the streets, I in full wedding regalia, to the tree. It was one of the most wonderful memories for me, walking arm and arm with each sister (my best friend having gone ahead with a car laden with stuff for the reception) in the sunshine through the streets with people waving and honking and stopping to congratulate me. During our courtship Michael would come to my job on his scooter and ask for me at the front desk. I went upstairs to my old office (having quit my job a while back to do wedding photography with Michael) and he scootered up in his tux with my sweet son Zach, also in tux. The receptionist called me down and we met again in the lobby as we had so many times- but this time it was very different! Our loving minister, Maxine, who has made a great difference in our lives, awaited under "our" tree along with 40 of our family and close friends. Michael's mother walked him across the street in back of the building and down the path to the tree. My little 6 year old nephew Jacob walked across the path solemnly with rings on pillow, and my friend and sisters walked in to that song "Pink Moon" by Nick Drake-commonly known for a Volkswagen commercial it was in- and a song we loved. Then came the piano introduction to a live version of "Racing in the Streets" by Bruce Springsteen -which has moved me to tears for years- and my sweet Zachy walked his Mama in to "give" her away. He then crossed over to be Michael's best man. Our ceremony was so moving and memorable to me- I will remember every equisite moment for my whle life- every word and every feeling. After the ceremony we had a sheet cake with my old work mates, many of whom had come to witness the marriage by my invitation. As wedding photographers we see lots of local wedding venues for receptions and picked one of our favorites. My best friend Nina and sisters had worked tirelessly to make everything perfect. There were votive candles all over every surface, there were photos on little easels that michael had fashioned and fabricated in Photoshop of us together throughout our lives, and our wedding flag hung on the wall. Our favors were one pound bars of chocolate (you can be generous with only 40 guests) with wrappers Michael had made with photos of us,kids, and cats on one side and the ad I had placedd on Yahoo with his repliy and our first few letters on the other. We also had bubbles that the kids blew all the time, especially during the dancing. Everything was wonderful- the food, the music and dancing, the cake, all of it. Everyone lit sparklers to end the night and we left for the hotel with our cake top, which we ate for breakfast every morning of our three day honeymoon. This was almost yesterday- December 2001. We will both be 50 this year and it took us 2 other marriages each to find this happiness- so dreams do come true and soul mates do exist! |
Bakerygirl | Sunday, February 16, 2003 - 02:05 pm     My husband and I were married June 16, 2001 in Eureka Springs, Arkansas. It's about 3 hours from where I live.. A major tourist attraction because it is so beautiful there. We met on the internet exactly 1 year before we got married. We hit it off great right away. I planned the whole wedding by myself and I managed to get everything I wanted without spending alot of money. It was a very stressful few months for me, hoping everything would work out okay and that I did not forget anything. So I was releaved when it was over, but also wishing it could last forever. There were about 20 of our closest relatives there. Everyone made a little weekend getaway out of it. It was at a little chapel, mostly glass, so pretty. We were both so nervous, I was afraid I would cry through the whole thing, but never did. It couldn't have gone better.. We did have one disaster though. The best man got sick and was unable to attend. So my FIL had to step in, he did not match the others, but it still worked out okay. We stayed at a bed and breakfast next to the chapel, other than the birth of my two children it was the happiest day of my life. After the wedding we all went out to this restaurant to eat and some had drinks. My husband's grandmother paid for everyones meal and drinks at the restaurant and gave us $1000. I really like her!! I hope everyone's wedding day can be as great as mine was. A very embarrassing thing happened while we were on our honeymoon. We were in the hottub, which was located at the front door. We were getting pretty cozy in it and suddenly the door opened and there stood a girl. She walked into the wrong room, not sure why we did not have the door locked. I would hardly leave the room the rest of the time there afraid I would see her. It was for sure the most embarrassing moment of my life. SO FAR!! |
Twinkie | Sunday, February 16, 2003 - 10:24 pm     My darling hubby and I have been living together since Aug. 1995 and married since Oct.12, 1996. The day was absolutely beautiful. We were married on the steps of the HUGE art gallery with about 70 friends and family in attendance. We were married by an old friend of hubby's who a couple of months later became a NY state supreme court justice. Our friends came from all over the US to take part in our special day. After the wedding ceremony and picture taking everyone went across the street to the Deleware Park casino ( not a gambling type casino but an indoor park pavilion) for the reception. The hall was decorated gorgeously and the food was awesome (the caterer became a good friend) and it was open bar. There were many toasts made and lots of clinking of glasses. We had a great band playing and lots of dancing by all. We spent several hours having fun with our friends and family before heading off for our honeymoon in Niagara Falls. We had a room overlooking the Falls and I had a great time. Hubby passed out still in his tux so I turned on the fireplace and filled up the hottub and got the remote control and the huge stack of cards and soaked in the hottub and went thru the cards(counting money!) and watched TV! LOL After I got out I managed to get hubby undressed and under the covers. Not very romantic but fun still the same! The next few days we did all the fun touristy things one does in Niagara Falls. |
Bandit | Wednesday, February 19, 2003 - 12:31 pm     My sweetie and I have been living together since September of 1998, and I am still waiting for a wedding! I've come to the conclusion that when the time is right, it will be right. We've talked about it a ton, and it's going to happen. I just think he wants it to be as perfect as it can be for me, so that's why the delay. It really doesn't bother me all that much. I'm just so glad and thankful that I've got someone who loves me so much, that who cares what a piece of paper says? Or maybe I'm just in denial. |
Bandit | Wednesday, February 19, 2003 - 12:32 pm     P.S. Your stories are so beautiful! Thank you all so much for sharing them with us! |
Weenerlobo | Thursday, February 20, 2003 - 10:31 am     My dh and I love history. So it makes sense that our wedding ceremony was in a white wood steepled church in a small historical village. Many of our wedding pictures were posed in the gazebo and on the small bridge in this village. September 11, 1993 was our wedding day and the Michigan weather actually cooperated! We lived very close so we had a horse and carriage pick up dh and his mother for their ride to the church and then it turned around and picked up me and my parents for our ride to the church. (I wrote about the same horse and carriage in the Best Date Thread too) I felt like Princess Di because people were congratulating us from the sidewalks and other cars. One of my happiest memories is waiting in the carriage outside the church, before the ceremony, and watching guests cross over the bridge into the village and waving and smiling back and forth. We had a dulcimer player for all of the music at the ceremony. We kept decorations simple. After pictures and more congratulations dh and I got to ride together in the carriage back to our condo where the limo was waiting. Our limo was an Excalibur, which looks like a long low old Packard. (Gotta stick with that historical theme!) We snoodled and honked and generally had a great time and met up with our photographer, who is a friend, at an historical train depot for some cute pictures (dh is a train buff). Our reception was in a small town "hotel." It hasn't been a hotel for about 50 years, but that's what it started life as, about 150 years ago! (Yep, you guessed it, more historical stuff) Everything was wonderful. We know the hotel owner and he did a great great job for us and our guests. My aunt had given me the best piece of advice at my wedding shower and I repeat it to every girl planning their wedding. Basically, it's not to sweat it. She said, if the cake is the wrong flavor or the DJ plays the wrong song for your first dance (which he did in our case), don't make a fuss, don't make a scene, it's not the end of the world. Your guests won't know that anything went wrong and you'll have more fun if you brush it off. She was right too. Little things did go awry and all we did was smile and laugh. People have since told us they remember us as being one of the happiest wedding couples. they've seen. Flowers, favors and cakes are not as important as celebrating the fact that you just married your best friend. |
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