What was unique about your wedding?

[Anonymous]

Over 600 people attended my wedding.

[Anonymous]

At my wedding, my ring bearer got stage fright and backed out at the last second, while throwing an on-the-floor tantrum. Everyone could hear it.

[Anonymous]

We had a destination wedding, our minister was drunk, at least everyone there thinks he was.
He completely screwed up the "Our Father" but my very catholic family corrected him

[Anonymous]

DH's aunt brought a gigantic 4 ft x 3 ft. charcoal portrait of me and DH to our wedding ceremony. Then somehow lost it between the ceremony and the reception. Then FIL kept asking me about its whereabouts during the entire ceremony, as if I'd have any idea.
The priests who officiated my wedding were so old (my uncle and his buddy, who had an oxygen tank) that some guests were worried they would not survive the ceremony. My uncle's friend passed away a few months later.

After the wedding, my photographer emailed me just to tell me how wonderful it was to see such a big family (I have 9 siblings) all together and happy, and it really touched her. I kept that email and reread it from time to time.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:We eloped and got married in Fiji. There was a coup d'etat the day after we arrived, and the country kind of shut down. We were at a tiny resort on its own island so it didn't seem to matter at first - although no guests could arrive (and no one there could leave!) Most of what we had planned for our wedding got cancelled because it was supposed to come in from other islands. But we had a great time, a simple ceremony and a lot of fun watching to news and wondering when we'd how long we'd be "stuck" in paradise.

Hey cool, we were in Fiji at the same time.

[Anonymous]

We had a Hindu ceremony Friday night in place of a rehearsal dinner, and the Catholic ceremony Saturday morning. My MIL was absolutely insistent that I wear huge gaudy earrings, but the problem was, I had let the holes close up years earlier because it turns out I have super-sensitive ears and can't handle earrings. So she got clip-on earrings instead. Those huge heavy things KILLED my ears--my poor sensitive ears! So they turned bright red, and stayed that way through the next day, and all my pictures. I can still feel the pain.

Also, during the Hindu ceremony, someone handed me a piece of paper and a microphone and said "Read this.". I obediently read a whole series of Hindu wedding vows, including "bearing a thousand sons" and such, but when I got to the part that said, "You are my lord and master," I burst out laughing. The crowd was not pleased.

They were even less pleased when my husband passionately kissed me when the priest said "you may now kiss the bride" at the end of our catholic ceremony. South Asians do not like PDAs!

[Anonymous]

I had a hindu ceremony too and nobody made me read any vowels. The priest said everything in Hindu, Kannada and English and explained to me the meaning of every aspect of the ceremony.

I cried A LOT! The peak was when we walked outside to pour the water back into the well to thank God for all the blessings and give him back when we got more than what we needed to share with others who don't have enough.

We had the Hindu ceremony 6 months after the civil ceremony in the US. 600 people were present and I only knew my ILs there and still I had SO MUCH FUN!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Walking down the aisle after the ceremony to White Wedding by Billy Idol.

Were you pregnant?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I had a hindu ceremony too and nobody made me read any vows LOL. The priest said everything in Hindu, Kannada and English and explained to me the meaning of every aspect of the ceremony.

I cried A LOT! The peak was when we walked outside to pour the water back into the well to thank God for all the blessings and give him back when we got more than what we needed to share with others who don't have enough.

We had the Hindu ceremony 6 months after the civil ceremony in the US. 600 people were present and I only knew my ILs there and still I had SO MUCH FUN!

[Anonymous]

We got married the weekend after 9/11. Lots of people couldn't make it, and we had to come up with a plan B honeymoon the night before the wedding because flights were grounded. We still had a good time. We also had an Elvis impersonator perform at our wedding.

[Anonymous]

I too had a fit of giggles during the ceremony. My husband-to-be was squeezing my hand so hard throughout the entire ceremony I thought he was going to break it. At one point, while I was laughing, I said "I can't do this." The look on my husband's face... wow. But I calmed down and we got married.

Our dog was our ring bearer.

[Anonymous]

We had a Dixieland jazz band for the processional/recessional. They also played about half the reception. I never tried on wedding dresses. A friend of mine in Thailand had a dress made for me using measurements I sent her. I told her she could pick any color/any style she wanted except white and that it couldn't be long. She chose a champagne color that was perfect. I also had a ring made for my DH that he didn't know about but pretty much every one of our 50 guests did. The best man and priest swapped it for the 'cigar band' that my DH thought he was getting. When the priest held out the rings for the blessing, my DH saw it and said 'that's not my ring'. It was pretty funny.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:At my wedding, my ring bearer got stage fright and backed out at the last second, while throwing an on-the-floor tantrum. Everyone could hear it.

I'm sorry but this isn't unique. This is quite common and it's why a number of us don't ask children to participate in our weddings.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I got married at the Wren Chapel at William and Mary. We had a bag piper lead the guests from the church to the reception site three blocks away.

There were some Colonial Williamsburg tourists who thought this was a tour or event, and joined in. We had a fair number of "wedding crashers" who stayed at my reception.

I remember your wedding! I danced with a Scottish guy who was part of the crashers. Great wedding. I remember wondering why there were so many people in jeans.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:At my wedding, my ring bearer got stage fright and backed out at the last second, while throwing an on-the-floor tantrum. Everyone could hear it.

I'm sorry but this isn't unique. This is quite common and it's why a number of us don't ask children to participate in our weddings.

Really? This hasn't happened a single one of my friends.