Question of the Day, Sunday, 6th of June, 2021

[Mia6]

Hello and Happy First Sunday of June!!, month of many weddings

What was your wedding like, or if you've never been married, tell us about a funny incident at a wedding you attended. There is always some drama at a wedding.

I got married at a casino in Lake Tahoe, Nevada, beautiful setting. Just my husband (now ex) and the Chaplin and another witness.

At a wedding we attended, the bride was very angry because her new husband allowed someone to bring a TV so we could watch the World Series Game, Cleveland was in the series!! They loudly argued but the TV stayed.

Do you have a story(s)?

 

[Tik cat's mum]

Here goes my first wedding was a family wedding registry office then big party I wore a skirt suit. Second registry office family wedding and celebration I wore a gorgeous red dress I don't even really count it as it was a huge mistake that lasted 3 years and 1 year of that I was trying to get him to sign the divorce papers. The one that matters most was my 3rd wedding to the love of my life, just me and my kid's and him and his mum, and his brother. Registry office again I wore a suit then we went for a lovely family meal. That was the best I never wanted a big wedding so 3rd time was a charm and definitely not a mistake.

 

[gilmargl]

Best forgotten! Once bitten twice shy! My two daughters were my very big gain!

 

[NY cat man]

Both Michele and me have large extended families, and while we would have preferred to simply elope, her mother would have none of that for her oldest daughter, so a traditional church wedding it was. On our wedding day, it was over 90°, and the church had no a/c. There was Michele in her self-made dress of 7 layers of material, and me in my tux, complete with cummerbund, and both of us were dying a slow death. Fortunately, nobody keeled over then, and we also survived the reception at the local- also non-air conditioned- fire hall. It is a good thing our marriage has lasted for so long, as neither of us would want to repeat that ordeal.
Edit: The next day, when we drove the 7 hours to my uncle's cabin in the Adirondacks, it was 90° again- and then it rained every day, except the day we drove home, when it was hot and sunny again.

 

[klunick]

We eloped 3 months after meeting . Our families did not know about it until it was done. Got married outside at the Courthouse and went up to Steamtown in PA for the weekend for a honeymoon. The mom of the Sheriff of our town married us.

 

[denice]

We were married while stationed in Germany. We were married at what would be called in the States City Hall. At least at that time everyone was married there and then people could have a Church wedding after that if they wanted. We didn't. We went with our two witnesses to McDonald's afterward.

 

[verna davies]

Got a special licence on Wednesday, got married Friday in a registry office. We told no-one and had two strangers as witnesses. I would have hated a big wedding so it suited me just fine.

 

[di and bob]

Like NY cat man, our wedding was performed in 90 degree plus heat, in a Luthern church because he was Methodist, I was Catholic, and we didn't want to make anyone mad. The AC had broken down. Bob swayed a few times but did not fall over, due to the hangover from the bachelor party the night before. (where he also lost his billfold falling down an embankment at the lake) I came close to passing out also. It was also very windy and when we ran out of the church, there is a picture of him catching me as the wind wound my dress around my legs and I couldn't walk. No one had told me that the day before when they were bringing my dress down from the neighboring town that the flowers had tipped and got dirty water all down the front of it! They got it dry cleaned before the ceremony. All in all, it worked out and is still working 42 years later the tenth of this month!

 

[Maria Bayote]

My husband's local tradition required me to be bathed in the river before the wedding, with several people looking on. I remember feeling so confused, amused and also very embarrassed.

 

[susanm9006]

My sisters wedding was hilarious. There were two of us bridesmaids that were a few months pregnant and we were both concerned about getting nauseous or feeling faint during the long catholic ceremony. But the problems turned out to be on the grooms side.

A short while into the ceremony I look over just as my brother in law to be started to sway. The priest quickly brought over a chair. A few minutes later he gets up walks out of the church side door. The priest follows and we wait. Some minutes after that my sister, the bride, leaves as well and we all wait maybe ten minutes . Eventually they all come back and they finally get to their vows.

Then a big commotion and I look over to see two of the grooms men are dragging a third to the nearby chair because he has passed out. Turned out the guys had been out the whole night before, the dummies.

 

[Lari]

My wedding was fairly drama free. Catholic church ceremony (not full Mass, as my husband and his family aren't Catholic and I didn't want people to feel left out), reception in a hotel. We got married in November, so no worries on 90° days! I think it was in the 40s and sunny and felt lovely!

The biggest drama was before the wedding when I'd given our food totals and later realized I hadn't added my husband and myself to the list and was pretty upset with myself! But he called and got our meal totals fixed, and everything worked out.

 

[neely]

I wanted a small intimate wedding with close family and friends but my mother-in-law wouldn't hear of it. Not the best start with my in-laws but I've been married to the same guy and somehow survived his family too. The only funny story to tell was when we tried to return one of the wedding gifts. We went to the store on the name of the gift box but low and behold it didn't come from that store so we were stuck with the gift. Neither one of us liked it so we ended up selling it at one of our yard sales.

 

[MoochNNoodles]

Our 18th anniversary is tomorrow so nice timing on the question!

We had a big traditional wedding at our church with about 150/200 people. It would have been bigger if we lived closer to my very large family. I didn’t want my dad to walk me down the aisle because we weren’t close at the time. So we came up with the idea that both my dad and DH would meet me near the end and I’d walk with them both.

Our church is lop sided seating wise; so there isn’t as much room on the brides side. My stepbrothers had never been ushers and somehow seated my paternal grandparents on the grooms side and their grandparents on mine! I KNOW my grandma was fuming!! She’s a stickler for things like that and I’m sure everyone heard about it later. Especially her sisters! So I tried to cover by thanking them for standing in for DH’s grandparents who were too elderly to travel to attend. She never said anything about it to me! And if you could have heard the drama the time I used some free address labels that misspelled my maiden name you’d know that thats an absolute miracle!

If I had been older I might have forseen the seating issue and could have purposely asked my stepdad’s parents to stand in for DH’s grandparents.

It rained the whole day we got married so my bridesmaids and I left the salon with plastic bags covering our heads. That got a lot of attention.

The groomsmen tried to decorate DH’s car with whipped cream and ran out so it said “Just Hit” instead of “Just Hitched”. That’s got DH’s (very sothern) best man all over it.

 

[DownTheLane]

I've only ever been to 1 wedding, when I was like 10 years old my teacher got married and invites the whole class. We went through a lot with her, a very stressful time in her life. The year prior she had given birth to her daughter prematurely, and it was the question whether she'd survive it. It had a happy ending luckily, and the kid was there as well, holding the rings.

I was supposed to go to a wedding of 2 close friends last year, but it got cancelled due to restrictions. It'll probably take place this time next year, so I'm excited for that!

 

[strider rose]

nothing fancy , justice of the peace married Jon and I . our anniversary is coming up on june 17th

 

[fionasmom]

Interesting how many small weddings there are here. Mine, too. Local judge at the courthouse attended by my dad, (mom was deceased), MIL, FIL, SIL, BIL. Went out to a nice restaurant afterwards. If you think that letting a restaurant know that it is your birthday can be embarrassing, it is exponentially worse when they find out it is your wedding day and everyone in the whole danged place feels the need to get involved.

 

[MonaLyssa33]

I'm not married. My friend though got married 4ish years ago and she loves Halloween and always wanted a Halloween costume wedding, which she did. I was a bridesmaid (went as Mary Poppins) and so was my sister. We kept my brother-in-law's costume a secret though, so when my friend walked down the aisle, she'd see my brother-in-law in the audience as one of those giant blown-up dinosaurs.
Here he is with my niece who was Dorothy from Wizard of Oz.

Here's the wedding party. I'm on the far left.

 

[Willowy]

^^Lol, if you're a head teller than anyone else, Paul Bunyan is the only appropriate costume, I guess!

I'm not married but I've got my parents' story. My parents wanted to just go to the courthouse but my maternal grandma decided that wouldn't do for someone of her social standing. So, with very little notice (my parents were only visiting for 2 weeks and didn't tell her until they got there), she called her minister and arranged a fair-sized wedding.

The poor minister didn't know either of my parents and told a lovely story about Mr Spider meeting Mrs Spider and they built a web and had little spiderlings (which is not how spiders work but I digress). Unfortunately, he didn't know that my dad's nickname was Spider so everybody in the audience was giggling, he was really sweating it for a while, thinking that maybe his fly was down or something else embarrassing was happening. He was most relieved when they filled him in after the ceremony.

 

[MonaLyssa33]

^^Lol, if you're a head teller than anyone else, Paul Bunyan is the only appropriate costume, I guess!

I didn't realize how much taller he was until I saw that picture again. I'm trying to figure out how tall he actually is. I'm 5'10" so my guess is he's at least 6'6".

 

[lizzie]

We got married March 7,1970 during the solar eclipse.Going into the church it was daylight and when we came out it was dark as night.We had a small wedding,one bridesmaid and hubby's oldest brother was his best man.Might have had 30 people there,and everyone who wanted to came back to my folks house for cake.My Dad took us out to dinner later in the evening.