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We got married in a garden right in front of the gazebo at the Hale Koa Hotel in Waikiki. We decorated the gazebo with purple, blue & white flowers and strings of purple & silver paper cranes (a Japanese tradition for good luck). We had a no camera policy for the guests so only our photographer and videographer had cameras out. We asked our guests to hold our rings and pass along their blessing or good wishes. After the ceremony DH and I walked to the beach (right on the other side of the hotel) and took sunset photos. We spent a few minutes alone before heading to the reception. Our Emcee was amazing and all of our guests said they had a lot of fun. We definitely had a blast. I surprised my hubby and sang to him "I Love You, I Do" (a song from dream girls) during the reception. The whole thing was travel themed so each table was a different City, Country. The favors were little suitcases with cookies from Big Island Candies. If the uploader worked I would show pictures. It was so beautiful and at the end of the day, I ended up married to the most amazing guy I've met. It was perfect.
Here is one of my faves, and then one of my girls and I.
Sept 13 will be our 5 year anniversary so I’ve been looking through all our pics. I loved my wedding. We got married on Friday the 13th ( my FAVORITE day) and had a black and green wedding. So many people talked crap but it was everything I wanted! We popped a tent on my in laws land and did everything there it was awesome! One thing our dj did that I had never seen and absolutely loved was play a song, I really can’t remember which one and told us to try and “photo bomb” each table before the song was done. Our photographer followed and we got a pic with every single table at our wedding! I seriously LOVE it!!! I will edit with pics when the bump decides it likes us enough to let us upload again! lol
Our wedding planning process was drama, drama, drama, lol. But the actual day was perfect. It’ll be 5 years in May, we got married on my Grandparents anniversary. Colors were plum, blush pink and gray. We had a traditional catholic ceremony, followed by a big reception with tons of food, booze, and dancing. Our wedding was so fun, seeing our family and friends letting lose was really cool, we were so happy all day. We had dancing lessons before the wedding and danced to John Legends, “All of me.” The day was such a blur, but I loved that we did a sweetheart table at dinner so that we actually ate and enjoyed the food lol.
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It poured rain all day on our wedding but it was the best day ever. No drama, no issues or at least everyone kept them from me, everything was perfect. We had a church wedding and a big reception, our colors were black, oxblood red and gold. I have a classic Audrey Hepburn style and everything was kind of old Hollywood. Our wedding planner was a godsend. My dads speech made everyone in the room cry. Literally, the bartender at the venue came up to him afterward and said she cried, and our photographer emailed me afterward and said I have the most adorable Dad in the world - I do, and DH is so much like him which is why I have no doubt he will be a wonderful dad.
I have honestly never been happier then when I walked down that aisle and said I do. I was convinced I’d be a hot crying mess but we both kept it together and it was exactly what we wanted.
The ceremony was in an old stone church that we picked because it was right behind or reception location and then the reception was in a Victorian mansion.
It rained like crazy with super high winds right before the ceremony (which affected the poor couple who were having their reception in the grassy area behind the church pretty badly since all their stuff was getting thrown everywhere). But it cleared up and was gorgeous just in time for our wedding to start.
Everything was fantastic, except that a handful of DH's family members (SIL and some others) decided to disappear and "explore" the mansion (which they weren't supposed to do) during our first dance/the start of dinner. They even went in my dressing room and snooped around in there. I'm still pissed about it to this day.
Biggest drama, though, was our best friend's then-girlfriend showing up horribly underdressed, getting drunk at the open bar and spilling a drink down the front of my dress. I had the bartender cut her off after that and thankfully the stain came out when I had my dress cleaned after our honeymoon.
The reception venue also threw out the remainder of our wedding cake because we didn't pick it up quickly enough (they never said what the time limit was, but it was less than 24 his before we went back for it). I'm still sad about that.
And the photographer used crappy paper that faded super quickly on all our photos, so we only have one good picture left now.
I'm spite of all that, though, I think it was an amazing day. It's been 13 years since then and I still remember it like it was yesterday.
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One thing that was absolutely ridiculous that we spent money on was an extra hotel room to hold all of the flowers. The florist wasn't open on Sundays and we had a Sunday wedding. We got all the flowers on Saturday and kept them in their very own hotel room since it wouldn't fit anywhere else.
@ashkee05 - I love your black and green color scheme.
@emjohn517 - Your dress is beautiful! We also had a sweetheart table and it was such a good idea to do it.
@highsteaks - I just saw your picture too! So beautiful!!!
Two pics from my wedding day.
We got officially married about 3 months after getting engaged, and two weeks before he left for a 9 month deployment. The whole thing was very small; just parents, grandparents, and siblings. I hand made all the decor and a family friend just starting a photography business did our pictures to help her portfolio. In hindsight, I wish this was all we did. However, I’m the only girl, so I agreed to do a second wedding (vow renewal is what we ended up calling it) exactly a year later.
The vow renewal was the big traditional wedding. I took a year to plan it and I hated 95% of the planning. I was planning and NC wedding from TX and it was awful. My mom insisted on throwing a shower, so we did a “virtual shower” and I Skyped into the party back in NC since that’s where all our friends and family are. It was a hot mess. No one could hear each other, internet was spotty so video was fuzzy. But it made my mom happy, so... hah I didn’t do a bachelorette with my bridesmaids either, so that kinda sucked. The actual wedding day was perfection though. My coordinator and photographers were absolutely amazing at making sure I didn’t stress about a single thing and just enjoyed the day. We had so much fun and they are so many wonderful memories from getting to celebrate with everyone.
Still would have rather eloped and just threw a big party though!
And to make our anniversary even more special, we found out we were pregnant 2 days before our 2 year anniversay which happened to be the morning of my mom's wedding
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LO arrived 11/9/2018! We have a baby!
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Me: 33 | DH: 41
Married: March 2016
TTC #1/IUD out January 2017
PCOS dx January 2018
Medicated cycle 2.5mg Letrozole CD3-7 February 2018
BFP 3/10/2018!
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Our wedding was a blast-- we wanted more of a party so had a private ceremony and then a huge party. Heavy apps, lots of dancing, nacho cheese bar.. it was great! Perfect for us
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While we were doing formal photos, the photo booth was being set up and my brother saw the horse head and genius struck. He first just popped up in a side window as DH and I were walking by outside doing couple pictures (in spoiler thanks to my photographer’s quick reaction skills), but then he got the idea to photobomb. Everyone around us was trying to keep it together while he danced about behind us until someone finally cracked and my parents and I turned around to see him there.
Never ever a dull moment
After the reception was over we all went to out cabins and continued the party but campfire. by far my favorite day so far!
Pics in spoiler but they are screenshots so they are a little blurry (don't have any pics saved on my phone and only ever bump on mobile)
We got married in November 2016 the Saturday after Thanksgiving. The ceremony and reception were both at a mansion nearby where I grew up. Our colors were burgundy and gold and everything was decorated for Christmas so we saved a ton on decorations and there was such a warm and cozy atmosphere. We got married in front of a fire with our friend officiating. The food was great, lots of dancing, and overall it was an amazing time. Looking forward to celebrating our second anniversary with LO this year!
Our wedding was so sporadic that our families thought it was a shotgun wedding. (Six years went by before DS joined us, so obviously it wasn't!
We were married in June 2006. We celebrated our 12 year a few months ago. It’s crazy because it feels like both yesterday and forever ago. It was a perfect day. What I loved the most about it is the little bubble we were in- we didn’t worry about anything that day and everything fell into place with the ceremony, the reception- we just focused on each other and we were both so stinkin’ happy.
A few of my favorite things.... Our cake was yellow cake with a strawberry filling in between layers that was AMAZING. My flowers were beautiful and we got them from the Giant grocery store florist! I adored my flower girl dresses, they looked like little fairies. We also set up this gorgeous candy bar with all kinds of red and yellow candies and chocolates with different varieties of take home boxes and bags. It turned out adorable... and is the one thing I didn’t get a picture of
Fun story... like 3 weeks before our wedding, my oldest brother sprained his wrist playing softball, my middle oldest brother contracted spinal meningitis and almost DIED( he was actually in a wheel chair for most of the wedding and wasn’t able to attend the reception) and my youngest older brother broke his Shoulder playing softball. I was like... guys... if you didn’t want me to get married there are way less dramatic ways to tell me.
MH and I got married in April this year, on the one year anniversary of the day we first met. We decided to get married in December, and didn’t want to spend a heap of time or money on the wedding, so having just a few months to plan worked out perfectly. We had the ceremony and reception at a local restaurant with a covered courtyard, so it felt like we were outdoors but didn’t have to worry about the weather. They provided all the food and drinks, were great to deal with, and everything was delicious. I did the flowers for the tables myself and got a florist to do the bouquets, buttonholes, etc. I gave her pretty vague instructions but our arrangements ended up matching super well. We had our photos taken before the ceremony so we could spend time with our guests straight afterwards. They were all taken 5 minutes walk from the venue, which is in the middle of the city, but I love how much great foliage our photographer managed to capture. My dress was off the rack from a favourite NZ designer, and I fell in love with it and bought it before we even decided to get married. I was 9w pregnant at the wedding but fortunately it still fit fine! It was a really lovely time - I feel like we managed to have an event that reflected what we really wanted from our wedding and that our guests enjoyed as well.
All in all it was a good day, and the important thing is, we still love each other and enforce our partnership on a daily basis. My wedding was featured on offbeatbride :-)
DH and I got married last October after being engaged for a little over a year. We had been dating since high school, so everyone was so excited we were finally tying the knot after 14 years. We got married on a lake, with our reception in a big Victorian tent. The day flew by and even though we took 10 minutes to stand off to the side to "take it all in" we still feel like we missed so much. So many people tell us that they had so much fun at our wedding and that was all that we really wanted!
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