S/O Wedding (From UO)

Whenigrowup

The UO thread got me thinking.  What is one thing that you did or that happened at your wedding that was unique/special?  I'm a little sentimental since we just had an anniversary and I've been unpacking all of our wedding pics from the move.  

FYI--I had a Friday wedding. :-/  We had a destination wedding and it made flights cheaper for pretty much everyone.  That's not what made it unique, tho.

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I honestly can't even remember our wedding song.  DH always ends up correcting me.  

Littledeer84

We didn't have a big wedding cake. The centerpiece at each table was a small cake. There were a bunch of different flavors, so we had tables bartering for different cakes.

myskyegirl

I got married in front of the Swan Boats in The Public Gardens and there were only 11 of us and that includes myself and hubs.  

my5sons

We didn't have a traditional wedding either (though we did have cake! lol). It was church ceremony and then a sit down dinner at a nice restaurant. No DJ, dancing, etc. What really made it special was how the ceremony was performed. It was done by both our pastor (of the church we were attending back then) as well as my dad. My dad became a notary for the sole purpose of being able to officially marry us. That's something I will always treasure, especially since he has since passed away.

NeneCakies

I didn't throw my bouquet, as is tradition around here, I presented it to my only remaining grandmother at the reception. Six months later she passed and at her funeral my family asked me to put the first rose on her coffin to honor that gesture she loved so much. So it became an extra special moment in retrospect.

klondikebar

We got married in a historic building. No dancing or any traditional wedding stuff. Small guest list. Short and sweet. Plenty of alcohol and good food. That stuff doesn't make it unique, but I guess it's not the norm.

littlestjerry

When we first started dating in college we "had" a song, Three Days by Pat Green. I secretly burned it on a cd and surprised DH by having the DJ play it randomly during our reception.

littlestjerry

pobrecita said:

mcbenny said:

pobrecita said:

We didn't do any of the traditions besides the actual wedding and first dance. No bouquet toss, no cake, etc.

We played the song Fuck You.

Uh....can't remember anything else atm.

U no like cake?

Oh @mcbenny don't you worry. We had six different kinds of dessert. Creme brulee, peach cobbler, berries with cream, chocolate mousse, tres leches. It was cheaper and yummier.



Omg. Best wedding ever.

jorkz821

Got married outside at a ski hill. Not sure if that's unique in general but the no church/separate venue is unusual round these parts.

wesleycrusher

It was the first time in 10 years when me and my siblings were all together to take it a picture- and it turned out great!

We haven't been all together since and won't be for a very long time. 

Whenigrowup

We were very traditional. The unique was where: a very small, beautiful stone church in Colorado (we chose it because we didn't want to get married in either of our home states, and it was sooooo pretty). The special was that we flew out DHs childhood priest to perform the wedding (we had to coordinate the Catholic diocese from three states to make this happen). Also, my something borrowed/old/blue was my grandmother's hankie that had her (and my) first initial embroidered on it. The florist wrapped it around my bouquet.

ShakeyJakey

TheEmpireNeedsYou said:

We got married on my grandparent's 50th anniversary.

One of our colors was gold, we got them a special cake and had their seats decorated. My grandpa was also the one to give me away. They were super involved in raising me so it was really awesome.

That is soooo sweet! I might steal your idea because my grandfather will also hopefully walk me down the aisle. But they've been married like 64 years? I think

Littledeer84

I hate the dollar dance. ..is that a uo? We didn't do one, but it is huge where I live now

Littledeer84

mcbenny said:

I've never heard of dollar dance.

People pay to dance with the bride or groom...money goes to the couple

Littledeer84

Whenigrowup said:

We were very traditional. The unique was where: a very small, beautiful stone church in Colorado (we chose it because we didn't want to get married in either of our home states, and it was sooooo pretty). The special was that we flew out DHs childhood priest to perform the wedding (we had to coordinate the Catholic diocese from three states to make this happen). Also, my something borrowed/old/blue was my grandmother's hankie that had her (and my) first initial embroidered on it. The florist wrapped it around my bouquet.

Can I ask where in CO? We were married there as well.

Whenigrowup

Outside of Estes Park, at St. Malo (Chapel on the Rocks). 

Here:

https://www.flickr.com/photos/rogerblakey/6228757071/

What about you?

ETA: link

studyinpink

We got married in a conservatory that used to be in London.

We found this awesome place and did everything ourselves for 5k.

The place blew up for weddings after that and they charge 4x what we paid now.

We want to London for our honeymoon.

Littledeer84

Whenigrowup said:

Outside of Estes Park, at St. Malo (Chapel on the Rocks). What about you?

I bet that was so beautiful! We married at our hometown church, St. Peter's near Colorado Springs, and reception was on the Air Force Academy. A friend of mine married in Grand Lake, on the other side of the park from Estes...such a beautiful place!

Littledeer84

Before you posted the link I totally creeped on St. Malo on Google earth. So gorgeous! I hadn't heard of it before.

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We had fire dancers and peacocks and a steel pan drummer.

And the cops wearing Obama shirts shut down our wedding early.

It was awesome.

bcbuzzafsu

We had a Saturday-morning-the-day-before-Easter wedding then had brunch after.  I walked the aisle to the Princess Bride theme song.

No dancing except first dance and father/daughter.

This Publix cake, but with three layers, not four. Yum.

LucilleAustero

We had a pretty non-traditional wedding from start to finish, as least as far as the typical gaudy Long Island weddings go. From my dress to my husband's Sanuks, to our song choices, nothing was typical wedding. I kind of hate typical LI weddings and knew that I wanted my wedding to be nothing like it.

allonsyalonso

Ours was very non-traditional. We wanted to just do the town hall thing, but then my mom wanted to be there so we would have to invite all the parents and it just snowballed into what we ended up doing. It wasn't a huge wedding at all. We got married on our two year anniversary at a beach where we used to go for coffee dates in the overlap time between our jobs. We had our parents and siblings there as well as a couple of friends and extended family members. Afterwards, we all went out to dinner at the restaurant where we had our first date. As simple as it sounds, it was actually very perfect for us. There were no expectations for gifts or anything like that. We didn't have a real reception, just dinner and cake with those who came to the restaurant, so we didn't have a bar of any kind but there was wine and people ordered drinks. My dad and my brothers picked up the tab.

We really didn't want anything big at all and what we had was bigger than we had originally thought we'd have. It was kind of wonderful. Also, our JOP forgot us and ended up being a half hour late so he married us for free. So that was a nice surprise.

ShakeyJakey

TheEmpireNeedsYou said:

ShakeyJakey said:

TheEmpireNeedsYou said:

We got married on my grandparent's 50th anniversary.

One of our colors was gold, we got them a special cake and had their seats decorated. My grandpa was also the one to give me away. They were super involved in raising me so it was really awesome.

That is soooo sweet! I might steal your idea because my grandfather will also hopefully walk me down the aisle. But they've been married like 64 years? I think

We actually were engaged like a year longer than we intended to make it happen, but it was so worth it. It is one of my favorite memories of something I got to share with them. I will warn you, it is super bittersweet now though because my Grandpa died a couple of years later. I always call to talk to Grandma on our anniversary and it's a pretty choked up conversation, but at the same time I think it makes it a little easier for her because it's an extra happy thing about the day even though she's obviously missing him even more that day.

I imagine it being very bittersweet. I'm already kind if dreading whatever we plan because my dad died when I was 17 so no matter what kind of wedding I'll have I'll just be thinking about him not being there. I could just do a JP wedding but if I can make memories with other family members, I think I would take the chance.

ppants

We had wedding pictures of DH and I's grandparents and parents displayed at the reception.  I hadn't seen it before or since.

hellopartyof5

We got married in the church thats in the Marlon Brando movie "On the Waterfront".  It also happened to be our parish so that was extra special.  MHs whole family (probably 20 people) ate hot dogs from a cart before the ceremony and we have pictures lol Those hot dogs in Hoboken are HORRIBLE!

rin89

I had a picture of my nana who passed two months before the wedding next to a memorial candle at the back of the chapel. And hubby surprised me by performing our song (Andrea Bocelli's version of Can't Help Fallin' in Love)  in the middle of our ceremony. 

My nerves were shot by the time we actually got married, I basically planned it by myself and between our 2 families there was a ton of drama. So, I laughed through most of the ceremony. I mean, the pastor had to stop the ceremony twice so I could pull myself together. Among our friends I'm now referred to as the "giggling bride"

Edited for typo's 

Kewii

We rode a camel into our reception.

It was awesome

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JGY

We had a very small wedding as well.  Total of 24 people including us, all family.

Two brides, so already not-so-traditional.  We really just wanted to celebrate family especially since most people had to travel to get there.  We rented a giant cabin and had the ceremony by the pond, and reception under a tent next to the cabin.  Everyone who traveled stayed in the cabin.

We had our caterer pass out Champagne/Cider at the end of our Ceremony so that we could toast our guests for coming to support us, and say thank you.  Our dog led us down the path to the ceremony site (I admit, probably not so unique for a lesbian wedding) .  The dog wore a bowtie made out of the same fabric as DW's pants. At the reception we didn't want anyone feeling like they were unable to sit with anyone else in particular, so we set up 4 tables to make a big + sign, and we all sat around the perimeter.  So everyone could see everyone else.  My family is big on wine and cheese, so each of the 4 tables had their own stinky cheese tray.  Everyone ended up getting up and sampling the other tables' cheeses.

The average age of the guests was probably about 62.  They all danced to Joss Stone.

Oh, and we wrote to all of the older couples ahead of time and asked what "Their song" was, if they had one.  They all did.  We mixed each of their songs into our dance playlist.  It was a big hit, they all felt really included and we got to witness some GREAT old dance moves.

It was awesome.

Disneygeek77

Nothing really out of the ordinary.

We had different flavored cakes ?  Does that count ?  White cake, german chocolate cake and carrot cake.

steponalego11

We got married in an old chapel by the beach and had our reception at a winery. My Dh loves old cars so we rented a vintage car to take me to the chapel and to drive us to the reception. The reception was about 30 mins away. Our wedding planner convinced us to leave our cells phones in our car that was waiting at the hotel. Well our vintage car broke down, we had no cell phones to call anyone to get us and because of pictures all of guests were ahead of us. An  older couple saw us in our wedding attire, picked us up from the side of the road and drove us to the winery. They had clearly been drinking because we could smell it on their breath and the car reeked of stale cigarette smoke but we got there in once piece.

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theimpossibleastronaut

The best man and maid of honor did what appeared to be a choreographed dance to Love by the Dashboard Light, but they really just winged it and it looked like they had planned it. It was so awesome!

Whenigrowup

JGY said:

We had a very small wedding as well.  Total of 24 people including us, all family.

Two brides, so already not-so-traditional.  We really just wanted to celebrate family especially since most people had to travel to get there.  We rented a giant cabin and had the ceremony by the pond, and reception under a tent next to the cabin.  Everyone who traveled stayed in the cabin.

We had our caterer pass out Champagne/Cider at the end of our Ceremony so that we could toast our guests for coming to support us, and say thank you.  Our dog led us down the path to the ceremony site (I admit, probably not so unique for a lesbian wedding) .  The dog wore a bowtie made out of the same fabric as DW's pants. At the reception we didn't want anyone feeling like they were unable to sit with anyone else in particular, so we set up 4 tables to make a big + sign, and we all sat around the perimeter.  So everyone could see everyone else.  My family is big on wine and cheese, so each of the 4 tables had their own stinky cheese tray.  Everyone ended up getting up and sampling the other tables' cheeses.

The average age of the guests was probably about 62.  They all danced to Joss Stone.

Oh, and we wrote to all of the older couples ahead of time and asked what "Their song" was, if they had one.  They all did.  We mixed each of their songs into our dance playlist.  It was a big hit, they all felt really included and we got to witness some GREAT old dance moves.

It was awesome.

So sweet!  I love this idea.

MrsLaLaBug

We did the second line.  It's a "thing" down here in NOLA. 

LuckyDad

Littledeer84 said:

We didn't have a big wedding cake. The centerpiece at each table was a small cake. There were a bunch of different flavors, so we had tables bartering for different cakes.

Yeah we did multiple cakes of different flavors. It was slightly cheaper and variety is awesome!

LuckyDad

MrsLaLaBug said:

We did the second line.  It's a "thing" down here in NOLA. 

Like a second line of coke?

I have no idea what this is.

Whenigrowup

MrsLaLaBug said:

We did the second line.  It's a "thing" down here in NOLA. 

What is the second line?

MrsLaLaBug

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second_line_(parades)

It's like a mini parade