GTKY 6/5 - Wedding

and_peggy

bumpybump said:

@Mango517 I'm assuming "elephant" is a typo???

She did say it was the Jersey Shore...you never know.

Mango517

Nope. Not a typo. We actually got married inside an elephant:

tova24

@Mango517 that is awesome! 

smallbutmighty77

OMG @Mango517 that is amazing!! 

imwithbaby

Omg @Mango517 bahahaha that's incredible!!!!!

Mango517

Thanks guys! I loved our elephant wedding, it was the perfect place for us to have our non-denominational inter-faith wedding. The ceremony was my favorite part and one of the things that I wouldn't change at all.

lewliv

I can't find any of my wedding pics 
I came to the US on a fiancé(e) visa and had 90 days to get married or get out. We got married in a gorgeous historic (1846) courthouse in West Chester, PA. I wanted to get married the day we met and started dating, one year later, but the judge was completely booked. I convinced his secretary to talk to him and marry us during his lunch break  After the ceremony we celebrated  at a local restaurant with family, friends, and the judge. A few months later, during the summer, we had a proper party. My mom is still waiting for a religious wedding in Brazil but it will never happen (I'm an atheist for her complete disappointment). 

SpotConlon

@lewliv Non-religious high-five! I didn't get married in a Mormon temple, much to the disappointment of my parents. It's never going to happen (not the least because husband grew up Catholic).

taylormarie923

That's elephant is amazing. 

We go to married September 2010.  We had a small wedding (~50 people) at this little lodge venue in the mountains outside San Diego.  We rented all the rooms for two nights so our guests had a place to sleep and no one had to worry about driving. It was very laid back and fun. We kept the ceremony short, played our own instruments in place of having a band, and had even more fun at the after party with the employees who help with the wedding. It was so much fun! 

It was sort of western themed in that we wore boots and took a champagne carriage ride through town after the ceremony. 

knottiee689565f63838b35

We got married May 2016 at the local fair grounds. Not our first choice but having grandparents able to attend was important and they would have been able to at some of the ranches we looked at as golf carts were impossible to get through the mud at that point. The lilac bushes were just about to bloom though so the fair grounds had the perfect setting. Being 90% family that came, we still had about 100 people, maybe more. We had our dogs be the flower girls and ring bearer and they were walked by our junior bridesmaids/groomsmen. I got to ride in on horseback, used my brothers horse as mine was unruly that day and my brother almost dropped me getting on and off of her lol. My uncle officiated and was the deejay for the reception so we literally got to pick everything. It was perfect!
I don't have the professional picture on my phone of me on the horse  and yes, even in a dress I had a leg on each side because it was too long of a walk for me to try to ride "sidesaddle" while bareback lol