We got married on April fools day and so decided to do everything backwards. We had the reception first @ 9PM on March 31 and then I got on my wedding gown and we exchanged vows at midnight. We had live fish (goldfish, neon fish, etc) in the table centerpieces with a floating candle on top because my husbands band at the time had a song called “Fish in a Jar” that they really were proud of at the time There was also some family tension over who should be the ring bearer and flower girl so I asked my Great Grandma (who was 91 at the time) to be the flower girl (she’s barely 5 foot tall and the ring bearer was the bass player in my husband’s band (6 foot 7 around 400 lbs with gauge earrings and all, and he hung our rings from his gauges). It was a lot of fun! My Great Grandma almost refused to be the flower girl for us because she was afraid that we weren’t taking the vows seriously but with a little help convincing her from the family she agreed and I’m glad it was her.
Some good friends of mine got married while they were water skiing. It was great. The preacher was in the boat and they were on a boom. If your not familiar with water skiing, a boom is a long pole that goes out across the side of the boat to ski from. It is used a lot for barefoot skiing or training kids. There were two boats full of people and then the rest of us sat on the dock and watched. It was a private lake so they did not have to deal with other boats or people. It was the most unusual wedding I have ever been to, but fun!!
I have two anniversaries. The first one is the legal one, but it was held in a chapel. The second one is the one most of my family knows about because… let me back up.
I got married to an Aussie. I was 17 and he was barely 21 when we met. He had been told by the Australian embassy that he just had to be *IN* the USA when he turned 21 to be allowed over on his mom’s visa. Not quite true, so a few weeks after he and I started dating, he found out there were all these huge issues with his visa. Long story short, he wound up asking me to marry him so we could stay together and he could stay in the country. I was *BARELY* 18, had college lined up, etc. And instead, here I was going to marry this “bum” with no car, no money, no place of his own, no job, and no green card to GET a job.
So we sent out invitations for a wedding on 7/1 (we got engaged in late April after meeting in early March). We started planning. Then we learned his medical paperwork was going to expire on 6/30 and would cost TONS of money to redo, or he could go back to Australia and redo it for free, which wasn’t really an option at this point since they wouldn’t let him back in the USA if he did that.
So we ran up to a little place called Laverne’s Wedding Chapel and got hitched. It was a cute little place if you overlooked the fact that it was next door to the blood-testing facility and across the street from the courthouse… and the blood-testing facility had a sign in the front lawn that said “Start here.”
Then we had the “real” wedding on 7/1. It was a mess but hilarious. I’m not sure how we survived. My husband is a citizen now, and here we are, nine years later with two kids, a house, three working vehicles, and steady jobs!
We got married the day before Halloween in 1971, my husband had to work on Monday and we had to wait a week to go on our honeymoon to his familys cabin in northern Wisconsin. We decided to celebrate our nuptials and went to a costume party the next day – Halloween, he as the bride (in my wedding gown) and myself as the groom (in his tux). We live outside Chicago and part of the party was to go looking for Resurrection Mary in the Resurrection Cemetery, needless to say there were so many people wandering around the cemetery, someone called the police and guess who got caught – I know the police thought my husband was one ugly bride! After hearing our story they let us go – I mean who would make that up! I guess it was a good start for us, cause here we are almost 38 years later still having fun!
Well, it wasn’t our wedding that was overly interesting. It was the time right afterwards. We had a small wedding in the early afternoon on a sunny August day. We didn’t have a lot of money, so we skipped the limo, especially since the reception was at the same church. Instead, my brother-in-law had his shiny black BMW and he drove us around town for a little bit before we went back to take pictures.
The spring before we got married, my husband’s maternal grandmother had passed away and his maternal grandfather had Parkinson’s. He had been placed in a nursing home for a while and we had no way of transporting him to the wedding. So we drove out to the nursing home to see him and give him the corsage we had gotten for him.
We ran thru the common room to reach his room, trailing the cries of “It’s a bride!” He wasn’t in his room, but as we were turning around some of the staff came to the room. They had missed seeing us, but everyone was telling them we were there. They were amazed that we were there and told us that he was in the common room. We had run right by him.
We found him and told him that we had gotten married and gave him the corsage. He cried and told me that I was beautiful. We didn’t spend much time but I know it was meant a lot to him for us to come.
He passed away that Christmas season. It’s been almost 11 years since we got married. And while I remember the ceremony and the reception, that little trip to a nursing home dressed in our wedding attire will be what I remember the most.
We had been dating about a month and a half and were talking quite seriously about marriage and a very long engagement. One night I decided we should elope in Las Vegas instead, and we did! We were a mess driviing and flying there and back, and almost got mugged once! But it was all worth it. We got hitched at the first wedding chapel we could find (Since the marriage beaureau was closed for lunch). Four years later, we’re still happy and together.
My husband and I got married on our dating anniversary at the exact place where he proposed, which happened to be where, as he puts it, fell in love with me. Its the gazebo at our university, which also happens to be in the middle of the campus, and next to some pretty big buildings. We got married with just us, a minister, and a photographer at 9:15 as to avoid the in-between-classes crowd, but just as we finished the ceremony, I looked at the buildings, as EVERYONE was watching! Very silly, we had tried to avoid a crowd, and we still got one!
After a 30+ delay and many stupid reasons, my High School Sweetheart and I were married in the balcony of the school where we first met. It was just us, three of our “kids”, a friend as the photographer and another friend that was a notary. The notary wore our oldest “Sons” graduation gown so she looked official. We snuck into the balcony after a school day had ended and got caught by the Drama teacher. He was kind of angry that “No one had told him” and we told him that was because No one knew! We begged for 5 minutes and got permission. Several of the girls in the drama department sayed to watch. We said our vows, took a few pictures and ran outside the building before anyone else could snag us. Kind of silly for folks almost 50 but coming full circle after all the years apart, totally worth it.
We got married at the bottom of a lovely little waterfall near our house. The day it was all scheduled for it rained. Buckets. Normally it doesn’t rain much in June and on our wedding day it rained twice that of a typical month’s worth. We sent someone out to buy a bunch of umbrellas so all our wedding photos have us under multi coloured, enormous umbrellas. The waterfall, normally fairly quiet and burbly, roared so loudly that the family members standing 10′ away from us under the park shelter couldn’t hear our vows as we said them. I now believe that rain on a wedding day truly is a good omen since our love/marriage is pure destiny.
We got married on Leap Day last year. We get a lot of comments about only having an anniversary every 4 years – that was the plan. We get to celebrate every 4, while everyone else celebrates every 10 years, maybe every 5.
Oh, and we were both 30-something with full houses, so we registered at Home Depot. I was so excited to see a brand new toilet sitting on our gift table. That confused a lot of people, so I had to put a picture of it (from the wedding) in our wedding album.
i certainly don’t have a crazy wedding story, but my anniversary does happen to be may 30th. we’ve been married 5 years now. high school sweethearts…i know, so sweet. i just posted some of our wedding pictures on my blog.
Well…not sure quite interesting but quite spontanious. My husband proposed to me in December. And we started planning this whole big huge wedding. But then I found out I was pregnant, so I didn’t want to be an 8 1/2 month pregnant woman dressed up looking like Moby Dick. Besides a waddle in a wedding dress is so unattractive.
So on a Wednesday morning (my then fiancee’s only day off), he woke up and said lets go get married. He wore a band shirt and jeans, I wore a white gauzy shirt and jeans. We packed up our other daughter and off we went to the license place. Then off to the magistrates office where they said that we COULDN”T get married because we didn’t have two witnesses over the age of 18. That presented a huge problem. Where were we going to find these witnesses.
So we called my moms house (my parents were both at work) and talked to my sisters. They’d be my witnesses but we had to get to their town over an hour away by a certain time. We got there, and we went to get married. My grandmother, my cousin (who were both living there at the time) and my three sisters saw us get married, along with our daughter. The magistrate was just laughing with us when we said we didn’t have rings, we didn’t have vows written, and we were pretty good. And we got married. It was special and I guess “done” in our way.
When we got out it was pouring down rain, and we drove to my parents work and got married. We’ve been together a total of 11 years and married for 6.
i’m not married, but i was the maid of honor at my best friend’s wedding. as they were doing the vows, you know the “in sickness, in health” stuff, my best friend proceeds to run to the bushes, i run after her, grab her veil as she leans over and she throws up in to the bushes. yup, that pretty much sums it up.
side note: wish i would have put those breath mints in the groom’s pocket before the ceremony…
We go married on December 23 in Michigan, and winter had been slow coming that year! I didn’t snow all of November (Unusual) and we had not gotten any snow in December up to that point(VERY unusual!). So that afternoon, of course, it began to snow big white fluffy beautiful snow flakes, which, if you are have a winter wedding on purpose, seems like a good thing. Well, the roads quickly got bad, and I had a great deal of trouble getting from the hotel to the lodge where we were having it. I was piled into my brother’s back seat with dress piled to the roof, and could not wear a seat belt as the car slipped up the road. I arrived in one piece, but we were all late -groom too! Half the guests weren’t able to come because of the weather! Then on the way back to my sister’s house, my parents hit a guard rail with their BRAND NEW car -seriously! They had it for 5 days! Then as my in-laws helped my husband’s grandmother into the downstairs apartment they were staying in, she missed a step and broke her ankle. Did she EVER break it! I think she ended up with something like 6 or 7 pins and lots of surgery! But the mission was accomplished! When everything goes wrong, if you are still married at the end of the day, then it was a BIG success. Any it really was a lovely wedding -followed by a marriage full of blessing!
Our interesting thing is we meet at an on line dating service. We find it very very funny that we were both on for free. It was a new site at the time and had offered 2 weeks free. That is the reason we had tried. LOL So we started talking on line, then on the phone. Since we both had our children and no babysitters it took over a month for us to have a date. In the end we had to take the kids. We just said we were meeting a friend and met at Dave & Busters. The kids had a blast and you haven’t been able to seperate us since. That was April 2nd, 2006. On Oct 10, 2006 (my bday) he asked me to marry him. On April 2nd, 2007 we were married on the beach in Florida (the location of our first vacation together).
I know this sounds strange but I made a secret wish about the mate I wanted before I met my husband. A wish only God and I know. It is very specific and off beat. I wanted a man that collected coffee cups. It was an idle wish made while watching TV….but my husband collects coffee cups (I have the boxes in the garage to prove it) so this is how I know he is my mate sent here from God. There are many many examples of this since then too.
My husband and I have two anniversaries, the day we met and our wedding day. DH and I both play in the Society for Creative Anachronism, and we met at an event held the first weekend of May 1999, Beltane. (No we are not Pagan, that just happens to be the name of the event) Four years later I asked him to marry me, as he was taking to long to ask me, at the same event. In October of 2004 we were married in a ceremony officiated by two pastors. We had the pastor of our Lutheran church as the official pastor signing the documents and such, and his Uncle, a pastor of the Presbyterian Church, as a guest. The rite was passed between the two of them seamlessly. My sons from my previous marriage walked me down the aisle, and instead of ‘giving me away’ they walked up with me and joined in the vows. We all made our vows to be a family together. It seems like this all happened just yesterday. DH and I marvel almost every day that our son is now almost two and that it still seems like we just met. My husband is the best thing that happened to me, and I truly thank God for letting me stumble across him.
We were married 6-7-08 at a lighthouse in 98 degree heat with no shade. One of the groomsmen just about passed out. The only thing that saved him was the cane all the boys had with their Tuxs. When my husband went to “kiss the bride” all of his salty sweat ran forward down his face and into my mouth. Everything was beautiful and we had a great time, but all anyone else remembers is how hot it was!
A friend of ours got married a couple of weeks ago. The wedding was beautiful. At the reception the groomsmen put on a show. General Zod (from Superman II) came to claim the bride. The groom came to her rescue dressed as Superman. The bride had no idea what was going on! I have a picture on my site. I also have video, but I am waiting for the lovebirds to get back from the honeymoon to ask permission to post it.
We got married on April fools day and so decided to do everything backwards. We had the reception first @ 9PM on March 31 and then I got on my wedding gown and we exchanged vows at midnight. We had live fish (goldfish, neon fish, etc) in the table centerpieces with a floating candle on top because my husbands band at the time had a song called “Fish in a Jar” that they really were proud of at the time
There was also some family tension over who should be the ring bearer and flower girl so I asked my Great Grandma (who was 91 at the time) to be the flower girl (she’s barely 5 foot tall 
and the ring bearer was the bass player in my husband’s band (6 foot 7 around 400 lbs with gauge earrings and all, and he hung our rings from his gauges). It was a lot of fun! My Great Grandma almost refused to be the flower girl for us because she was afraid that we weren’t taking the vows seriously but with a little help convincing her from the family she agreed and I’m glad it was her.
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Some good friends of mine got married while they were water skiing. It was great. The preacher was in the boat and they were on a boom. If your not familiar with water skiing, a boom is a long pole that goes out across the side of the boat to ski from. It is used a lot for barefoot skiing or training kids. There were two boats full of people and then the rest of us sat on the dock and watched. It was a private lake so they did not have to deal with other boats or people. It was the most unusual wedding I have ever been to, but fun!!
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I have two anniversaries. The first one is the legal one, but it was held in a chapel. The second one is the one most of my family knows about because… let me back up.
I got married to an Aussie. I was 17 and he was barely 21 when we met. He had been told by the Australian embassy that he just had to be *IN* the USA when he turned 21 to be allowed over on his mom’s visa. Not quite true, so a few weeks after he and I started dating, he found out there were all these huge issues with his visa. Long story short, he wound up asking me to marry him so we could stay together and he could stay in the country. I was *BARELY* 18, had college lined up, etc. And instead, here I was going to marry this “bum” with no car, no money, no place of his own, no job, and no green card to GET a job.
So we sent out invitations for a wedding on 7/1 (we got engaged in late April after meeting in early March). We started planning. Then we learned his medical paperwork was going to expire on 6/30 and would cost TONS of money to redo, or he could go back to Australia and redo it for free, which wasn’t really an option at this point since they wouldn’t let him back in the USA if he did that.
So we ran up to a little place called Laverne’s Wedding Chapel and got hitched. It was a cute little place if you overlooked the fact that it was next door to the blood-testing facility and across the street from the courthouse… and the blood-testing facility had a sign in the front lawn that said “Start here.”
Then we had the “real” wedding on 7/1. It was a mess but hilarious. I’m not sure how we survived. My husband is a citizen now, and here we are, nine years later with two kids, a house, three working vehicles, and steady jobs!
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I don’t have any real interesting stories but I LOVE yours Evelyn!!!!!
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We got married on the River Walk in San Antonio Texas. Me, him, his Aunt and Uncle and the preacher. Cozy and beautiful! Almost 17 years later
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We got married the day before Halloween in 1971, my husband had to work on Monday and we had to wait a week to go on our honeymoon to his familys cabin in northern Wisconsin. We decided to celebrate our nuptials and went to a costume party the next day – Halloween, he as the bride (in my wedding gown) and myself as the groom (in his tux). We live outside Chicago and part of the party was to go looking for Resurrection Mary in the Resurrection Cemetery, needless to say there were so many people wandering around the cemetery, someone called the police and guess who got caught – I know the police thought my husband was one ugly bride! After hearing our story they let us go – I mean who would make that up! I guess it was a good start for us, cause here we are almost 38 years later still having fun!
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We’re still married 18 years later…I think it’s remarkable.
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Well, it wasn’t our wedding that was overly interesting. It was the time right afterwards. We had a small wedding in the early afternoon on a sunny August day. We didn’t have a lot of money, so we skipped the limo, especially since the reception was at the same church. Instead, my brother-in-law had his shiny black BMW and he drove us around town for a little bit before we went back to take pictures.
The spring before we got married, my husband’s maternal grandmother had passed away and his maternal grandfather had Parkinson’s. He had been placed in a nursing home for a while and we had no way of transporting him to the wedding. So we drove out to the nursing home to see him and give him the corsage we had gotten for him.
We ran thru the common room to reach his room, trailing the cries of “It’s a bride!” He wasn’t in his room, but as we were turning around some of the staff came to the room. They had missed seeing us, but everyone was telling them we were there. They were amazed that we were there and told us that he was in the common room. We had run right by him.
We found him and told him that we had gotten married and gave him the corsage. He cried and told me that I was beautiful. We didn’t spend much time but I know it was meant a lot to him for us to come.
He passed away that Christmas season. It’s been almost 11 years since we got married. And while I remember the ceremony and the reception, that little trip to a nursing home dressed in our wedding attire will be what I remember the most.
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We had been dating about a month and a half and were talking quite seriously about marriage and a very long engagement. One night I decided we should elope in Las Vegas instead, and we did! We were a mess driviing and flying there and back, and almost got mugged once! But it was all worth it. We got hitched at the first wedding chapel we could find (Since the marriage beaureau was closed for lunch). Four years later, we’re still happy and together.
And it’s our anniversary today!
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My husband and I got married on our dating anniversary at the exact place where he proposed, which happened to be where, as he puts it, fell in love with me. Its the gazebo at our university, which also happens to be in the middle of the campus, and next to some pretty big buildings. We got married with just us, a minister, and a photographer at 9:15 as to avoid the in-between-classes crowd, but just as we finished the ceremony, I looked at the buildings, as EVERYONE was watching! Very silly, we had tried to avoid a crowd, and we still got one!
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After a 30+ delay and many stupid reasons, my High School Sweetheart and I were married in the balcony of the school where we first met. It was just us, three of our “kids”, a friend as the photographer and another friend that was a notary. The notary wore our oldest “Sons” graduation gown so she looked official. We snuck into the balcony after a school day had ended and got caught by the Drama teacher. He was kind of angry that “No one had told him” and we told him that was because No one knew! We begged for 5 minutes and got permission. Several of the girls in the drama department sayed to watch. We said our vows, took a few pictures and ran outside the building before anyone else could snag us. Kind of silly for folks almost 50 but coming full circle after all the years apart, totally worth it.
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We got married at the bottom of a lovely little waterfall near our house. The day it was all scheduled for it rained. Buckets. Normally it doesn’t rain much in June and on our wedding day it rained twice that of a typical month’s worth. We sent someone out to buy a bunch of umbrellas so all our wedding photos have us under multi coloured, enormous umbrellas. The waterfall, normally fairly quiet and burbly, roared so loudly that the family members standing 10′ away from us under the park shelter couldn’t hear our vows as we said them. I now believe that rain on a wedding day truly is a good omen since our love/marriage is pure destiny.
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We got married on Leap Day last year. We get a lot of comments about only having an anniversary every 4 years – that was the plan. We get to celebrate every 4, while everyone else celebrates every 10 years, maybe every 5.
Oh, and we were both 30-something with full houses, so we registered at Home Depot. I was so excited to see a brand new toilet sitting on our gift table. That confused a lot of people, so I had to put a picture of it (from the wedding) in our wedding album.
Heh.
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i certainly don’t have a crazy wedding story, but my anniversary does happen to be may 30th. we’ve been married 5 years now. high school sweethearts…i know, so sweet. i just posted some of our wedding pictures on my blog.
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Well…not sure quite interesting but quite spontanious. My husband proposed to me in December. And we started planning this whole big huge wedding. But then I found out I was pregnant, so I didn’t want to be an 8 1/2 month pregnant woman dressed up looking like Moby Dick. Besides a waddle in a wedding dress is so unattractive.
So on a Wednesday morning (my then fiancee’s only day off), he woke up and said lets go get married. He wore a band shirt and jeans, I wore a white gauzy shirt and jeans. We packed up our other daughter and off we went to the license place. Then off to the magistrates office where they said that we COULDN”T get married because we didn’t have two witnesses over the age of 18. That presented a huge problem. Where were we going to find these witnesses.
So we called my moms house (my parents were both at work) and talked to my sisters. They’d be my witnesses but we had to get to their town over an hour away by a certain time. We got there, and we went to get married. My grandmother, my cousin (who were both living there at the time) and my three sisters saw us get married, along with our daughter. The magistrate was just laughing with us when we said we didn’t have rings, we didn’t have vows written, and we were pretty good. And we got married. It was special and I guess “done” in our way.
When we got out it was pouring down rain, and we drove to my parents work and got married. We’ve been together a total of 11 years and married for 6.
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i’m not married, but i was the maid of honor at my best friend’s wedding. as they were doing the vows, you know the “in sickness, in health” stuff, my best friend proceeds to run to the bushes, i run after her, grab her veil as she leans over and she throws up in to the bushes. yup, that pretty much sums it up.
side note: wish i would have put those breath mints in the groom’s pocket before the ceremony…
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We go married on December 23 in Michigan, and winter had been slow coming that year! I didn’t snow all of November (Unusual) and we had not gotten any snow in December up to that point(VERY unusual!). So that afternoon, of course, it began to snow big white fluffy beautiful snow flakes, which, if you are have a winter wedding on purpose, seems like a good thing. Well, the roads quickly got bad, and I had a great deal of trouble getting from the hotel to the lodge where we were having it. I was piled into my brother’s back seat with dress piled to the roof, and could not wear a seat belt as the car slipped up the road. I arrived in one piece, but we were all late -groom too! Half the guests weren’t able to come because of the weather! Then on the way back to my sister’s house, my parents hit a guard rail with their BRAND NEW car -seriously! They had it for 5 days! Then as my in-laws helped my husband’s grandmother into the downstairs apartment they were staying in, she missed a step and broke her ankle. Did she EVER break it! I think she ended up with something like 6 or 7 pins and lots of surgery! But the mission was accomplished! When everything goes wrong, if you are still married at the end of the day, then it was a BIG success. Any it really was a lovely wedding -followed by a marriage full of blessing!
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Our interesting thing is we meet at an on line dating service. We find it very very funny that we were both on for free. It was a new site at the time and had offered 2 weeks free. That is the reason we had tried. LOL So we started talking on line, then on the phone. Since we both had our children and no babysitters it took over a month for us to have a date. In the end we had to take the kids. We just said we were meeting a friend and met at Dave & Busters. The kids had a blast and you haven’t been able to seperate us since. That was April 2nd, 2006. On Oct 10, 2006 (my bday) he asked me to marry him. On April 2nd, 2007 we were married on the beach in Florida (the location of our first vacation together).
I know this sounds strange but I made a secret wish about the mate I wanted before I met my husband. A wish only God and I know. It is very specific and off beat. I wanted a man that collected coffee cups. It was an idle wish made while watching TV….but my husband collects coffee cups (I have the boxes in the garage to prove it) so this is how I know he is my mate sent here from God. There are many many examples of this since then too.
Thanks for reminding me Ryan.
Sheila
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My husband and I have two anniversaries, the day we met and our wedding day. DH and I both play in the Society for Creative Anachronism, and we met at an event held the first weekend of May 1999, Beltane. (No we are not Pagan, that just happens to be the name of the event) Four years later I asked him to marry me, as he was taking to long to ask me, at the same event. In October of 2004 we were married in a ceremony officiated by two pastors. We had the pastor of our Lutheran church as the official pastor signing the documents and such, and his Uncle, a pastor of the Presbyterian Church, as a guest. The rite was passed between the two of them seamlessly. My sons from my previous marriage walked me down the aisle, and instead of ‘giving me away’ they walked up with me and joined in the vows. We all made our vows to be a family together. It seems like this all happened just yesterday. DH and I marvel almost every day that our son is now almost two and that it still seems like we just met. My husband is the best thing that happened to me, and I truly thank God for letting me stumble across him.
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We were married 6-7-08 at a lighthouse in 98 degree heat with no shade. One of the groomsmen just about passed out. The only thing that saved him was the cane all the boys had with their Tuxs. When my husband went to “kiss the bride” all of his salty sweat ran forward down his face and into my mouth. Everything was beautiful and we had a great time, but all anyone else remembers is how hot it was!
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A friend of ours got married a couple of weeks ago. The wedding was beautiful. At the reception the groomsmen put on a show. General Zod (from Superman II) came to claim the bride. The groom came to her rescue dressed as Superman. The bride had no idea what was going on! I have a picture on my site. I also have video, but I am waiting for the lovebirds to get back from the honeymoon to ask permission to post it.
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Marriage scares me. A lot.
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your blog.
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digital kitchen scales are the stuff that i always use on my kitchen when i weight things “.
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