GTKY: Wedding Edition

Re: GTKY: Wedding Edition

• thescarletmom member

  September 8 edited September 8

  Accidental dupe thread! Ignore the posts sorting it out. 

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• thescarletmom member

  September 8

  @admin can you delete this thread? Accidental duplicate. Thanks!

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• emeraldcity603 member

  September 8

  thescarletmom said:

  @admin can you delete this thread? Accidental duplicate. Thanks!

  I did this last time I made a weekly thread. Just edit your post and make it a different thread. Like a GTKY or something else. 

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• thescarletmom member

  September 8

  @emeraldcity603 oooh good idea. Thanks!! @admin you can leave this.

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• midnightatsunset member

  September 9

  I love this GTKY!
  
  Hubby and I got married at 22, on a chilly but sunny January day in 2017. We were fresh out of college and so excited for the rest of our lives together. We both have very simple tastes and had a very small budget. Because my husband was working at a church at the time, we got the church space for free. We went for a traditional ceremony with cake/coffee/candy in the fellowship hall afterwards. There were speeches and time for us to talk with our guests. Because neither of us really likes dancing and everything was in the afternoon/early evening people naturally filtered out when they wantd to eat dinner. Perfect for us! We got Raising Cane's on the way back home.
  
  

  Our wedding colors were navy blue and deep red. I managed to get my wedding dress at a steep discount, which was a huge win. I handed each of my four bridesmaids a sample paint swatch and asked they get a a dress that fell under those colors but they had complete freedom for style and where to buy so it would be in budget (since many were in/just graduated college). The guys just rented navy suits.
  
  I have to admit, even as simple as our wedding was, I got sooooo stressed out planning. Threatened multiple times that we should just elope (but I wanted to maintain good relations with my in-laws who I think would have been really put out if there wasn't SOMETHING for them to be with us to celebrate). The wedding day ended up being perfect and beautiful and I felt so happy and at peace. 
  
  Such fun memories to re-live! I can't wait to hear other stories!  
  
  (For privacy reasons I don't want to post pics without anyone's face in them but I was so in love my dress I have to show at least a photo of the back)

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• RoseShadow873 member

  September 9

  I'm not sure what all to say about the wedding. It was in September and we had it outside of a hotel right on the river in Portland, OR. Wedding colors were orange, purple, and red. It was medium size I guess, less than 80 people I think. My mom did most of the planning since she worked as a catering sales manager for hotels as her career, so it was her thing and she knew all the people to hire and stuff. We paid the guy that married us in whiskey. I did request karaoke at the reception, and that was fun.
  
  I don't know what I really regret but I guess I felt pretty embarrassed and awkward on the wedding day, I don't like being the center of attention like that, so maybe a smaller wedding would have been good in hindsight, but my mom was excited to do it that way. I also think strangers came by the reception room and wrote crude things on my guest book, which is terrible. I had a special wine glass my friend had made for me that must have got thrown away or something, so I regret that those things occurred. Oh yes, one other thing I would do differently would be to not let the maid of honor forget my husband's ring in the hotel room when we went to the ceremony. I had to marry my husband with my brother-in-law's ring that we borrowed. He ended up losing the ring forever anyway though a couple years later. And he still doesn't have a ring. I only had two bridesmaids because one of my friends was too pregnant to attend and apparently I'm a loser with only like two friends. So it was lopsided with my husband's three groomsmen and that bugged me I guess.
  
  What else to say.... Oh my dress was like a ball gown style with lots of tulle and kind of a curly bottom, sadly I don't have my professional wedding photos, they are packed already in storage for our big move. The only ones I have right now have faces and I agree I don't want to post my face right here. I can post a snapshot I took of the bouquet, I wish I had the better photos. We were on a river boardwalk for the wedding ceremony and a ton of daddy-long-leg spiders crawled up and were in the top layers of my wedding dress! I wasn't scared though. Spiders in your wedding dress are supposed to be good luck. My brothers walked me down the aisle because my dad died a long time ago. We had custom colored M&Ms that we gave out. That's all I can think of now.
  
  
  
  
  
  
  

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• fifilala516 member

  September 10

  We got married in November 2019 in Long Island, NY at the same place where my husband’s parents got married and where my husband had his Bar Mitzvah. It was freezing cold - probably the coldest of the year. 

  
  

  My bridesmaids wore shades of grey, we had burnt orange and red flowers with lots of branch accents. 

  
  

  Our recessional was the “Curb Your Enthusiasm” theme song.  

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• RoseShadow873 member

  September 10

  @fifilala516 I love Curb your Enthusiasm! Funniest show ever. That is great. That dining room picture is so pretty too. I want that bread.

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• lizdiane456 member

  September 11

  Ooh I love this! Hubby and I had a COVID wedding which ended up being lovely. I'm not one for large crowds so having a ready-made excuse for a small wedding was ideal. No cousins or distant aunts getting their feelings hurt! It was end of July, husband and I did a sunrise hike to a mountain top with our photographers for our "first look" then we hiked back down and had a small morning ceremony in front of a beautiful alpine lake (that was adjacent to a parking lot for grandparents). We just had parents, Grandparents, and siblings. Our best friend officiated and his fiancee handled playing music as I walked down the aisle. After we went to brunch, we rented out a beautiful local restaurant and the food was incredible. For our honeymoon we spent three nights at a bougie mountain resort then spent three weeks rock climbing through western Canada. 
  
  I wouldn't change a thing. I have so many perfect memories, like DH and I giggling in a grocery store parking lot decorating our own cake with flowers before dropping it off at the restaurant because the bakery forgot them. (We did a kick ass job too if I say so myself). My MIL showed up late to our ceremony in street clothes, my one BIL showed up after the ceremony finished, we don't speak to my FIL anymore, but I don't care. I wouldn't change one thing. 
  
  
  

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• thescarletmom member

  September 12

  We got married at 21 and 22 on a bright Saturday afternoon in mid-March of 2019. It had just snowed for days earlier that week, which sent me into an utter panic because we were having an outdoor wedding. But the spring smiled upon us, and not only did all the snow melt in time, but the ground wasn't a big mud puddle and it was a beautiful day. We had a small wedding of about 35 with mainly just our immediately families, my closest friend and my husband's. My dad had died in May the previous year, so my sister's husband walked me down the aisle (they got married when I was 7, he was always a big brother to me). Our oldest son is not biologically my husband's, but they have known each other since the day he was born - we were best friends for years before starting to date right after he turned 1. He was 2.5 at our wedding and was our ring bearer. 
  
  Our wedding colors were gold, white, sage green and blush pink. Our wedding budget was extremely tight, so we held it in the early afternoon and served cake and wine after the ceremony while everyone mingled, then after the crowd left, my mom and sister took our son so we could go out to dinner alone at a local authentic French restaurant. We had been up since the crack of dawn that morning, so I barely stayed awake through dinner. By the time we got to our hotel, we don't even remember taking our wedding clothes off before falling asleep, though we know we did 😂 we then road tripped to Chicago for a few days and I got my period several days early the first night there (spent all our luck on the good weather day of).
  
  Our wedding was beautiful for being so quickly planned and so cheap, and I wouldn't change it for what it was, though if I could go back with just a bit more money I would definitely have had more of a party. I am a hopeless romantic at heart and displays of affection are very meaningful to me. But at the end of the day, the most important part was just getting to marry my best friend. I actually had proposed to him in July of 2018. My dad had died 8 weeks earlier when I was only 20, and when I finally came up for air from the crushing grief, I realized how important it was to me that my then-boyfriend had carried both me and our not-even-2 year old through those last two months without one single complaint. I knew instantly that he was the one, because I could search all my life and never find someone who understood me as intimately as he did, because he had sat by my side through the most world-ending pain I had ever experienced. When I proposed, we didn't rush to set a date because our lives were still very much in turmoil. In December I got a wild hair and said, I want to be married RIGHT NOW,  let's go to the courthouse. And my darling husband said "....no, you would hate that decision a year from now. We can get married whenever you want, but we need to make a plan that you won't regret." And damn him, he was right. So we landed on March, and I planned my heart out for 3 very stressful months. And here we are, 6.5 years later! 
  
  Here's one of my favorite pictures from the day, everyone is just going to have to agree to be cool about our side profiles of our faces lol

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• lakshmisg563 member

  September 12

  <p>Absolutely loved my wedding day, but whew—if I could go back, I’d <em>definitely</em> spend less time stressing over tiny details no one noticed (looking at you, napkin fold drama 😅). What I’d do again in a heartbeat? Our first look—just the two of us before the chaos. It was such a calm, emotional moment I’ll never forget. 💕</p>

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