How was your wedding?

About 100 people attended.

Jewish ceremony
at the Doral on Miami Beach. Piano player during the ceremony and cocktail hour. A band for the reception, and everyone danced all night.

I wish I had picked a better menu. I was too young, I wish my mom had helped.

Chocolate wedding cake with white icing.

We did a first dance and father daughter. We didn’t stop the wedding for any of that garter and throw the bouquet stuff. They did lift my husband and I in chairs during the hora. We did do the blessing over the challah (my dad and my FIL both) and my dad did a toast.

Back to the ceremony, my mom and dad walked me down the aisle and his mom and dad walked him.

I just had immediate family under the chuppah. Our parents, my sister, my grandma, and his brother, sister, and her husband. Everyone just stood on the side of the family. His family under the chuppah next to him, and mine next to me. None of that all girls one one side and all boys on the other thing. Everyone basically wore what they wanted although all the men did wear a tux and the girls wore their own black dress. My MIL was in black and white, and my grandma in tiger or leopard print? I’d have to look back at the photos.

No wedding march (fairly typical at Jewish ceremonies).

I would marry my husband again, but I don’t need to get married to have a huge party.

Close friends and family having a good ole time in vegas. Wedding was a classy gathering at the stratosphere. Lots of fun was had by all.

I have had several. The very first one, when I was 18, was in the court house. He was 16 and his mother was there to sign for him. My mother refused to come because she was very upset about it. The second one was in my family church, officiated by my Uncle. The third one was in a forest, between the two of us and nature.

We remarried 5 years later with a group of friends and signed a license to make it “legal”.
We had a huge group wedding on our 10th anniversary, and I dressed in a beautiful, white, lacy wedding dress. I still have the blue garter I wore (30 years ago).

We had a lovely family affirmation ceremony last year on our 40th a few months before my favorite MIL passed on.

Large, Italian, and chock full of yummy food.

Which, ironically, is how I’ve been described on a few occasions.

Small (80 people. My sister had 700).
We had it in the church where I grew up. No dancing, but a nice dinner. I think the cake had different flavors on different layers.
My wife is deaf, and dancing would be awkward, especially since she dances better than I do.
Instead of rice, my friends threw M&Ms.

Shotgun was loaded…‘nuff said.

^^ Lol..)

We had a micro-wedding. We were living in France at the time, but there’s a whole lot of procedure involved in getting married in France. The UK’s rules were much simpler, so we opted to get married in London.

First, one of us had to establish residency in the UK, but this just means that you have to have lived there for at least two weeks before the wedding. So I went there alone and lived in a boarding house for two weeks (perhaps the longest two weeks of my life).

The ceremony was held before a magistrate at a town hall. We were required to have two witnesses, so we brought a couple of friends over from France. That was it for attendees.

After the formalities, such as they were, the four of us went out for a pub lunch.

Chaotic, embarrassing, and effective. The pictures came out nice, though.

^^ What do you mean by effective wedding?

By the end, I was legally married.

If I had a do-over, I’d have gone to the woods and had a friend officiate. That’s what the original plan was. I caved to appease my family, who caused the above-mentioned embarrassment, and whom I would disown three months later.

It was the worst day of my life.

First we had a very intimate ceremony, which was nice. Our invites got lost in the mail so not many people came to the reception. My dad and MIL argued the whole time and my SIL’s purse went missing and my dad went blaming different people.

Second…we eloped. Nobody new about it till the next day when we called our parents. That was soooo the way to go!

^^^ My dream wedding: slip away to the courthouse and don’t tell anyone until later.

It was exciting and beautiful. My wedding was not big. There were about 40 people, most of them are our relatives and best friends. The best moment was our first dance. We had been preparing it for a long time. Another exciting moment was dancing with my father.