Who has a great wedding story?
Posted by ExistingFun5496@reddit | GenX | View on Reddit | 188 comments
Me and my future wife went to the courthouse on Saturday, January 10, 1987 to get a marriage license. We then drove to the Funeral Home and was married by the Undertaker. We then went to our new home (a rented old trailer). New wife started her period that same day. I went and got a 12 pack and watched Dragnet reruns. We are still happily married today. lol, can somebody top that? If I don’t get too busy I’ll reply. Mostly want to hear from others.
Majestic_Orchid4651@reddit
When my husband and I planned our wedding, we decided to just do a JoP in Laughlin with our immediate families. The only thing that was really important was the specific date. My husband’s father had died a few years before we meet so he really wanted to get married on his dad’s birthday as a way of having his dad there. We drove up to Laughlin. My parents and siblings weren’t able to come up because my parents got sick with a stomach bug. To top it off, we found out that morning that the JoP decided to take the day off to go fishing. As I said the day was super important to my husband so we drove up to Vegas, got there in the evening, got our license then went to the courthouse. The JoP who married us was very good. We didn’t want traditional and her words were so wonderful. My husband and I just celebrated our 25th anniversary earlier this year.
TemperReformanda@reddit
My best friend had a 4 year old boy, as a mini-groom, at his wedding. When the wedding march started, it was so loud it startled him and he took off running up the aisle to his grandparents, right into the ass if the old photographer that had stepped into the aisle to photograph the bride.
He nearly buckled the old guys knees completely. Old guy manages to stabilize himself then just kinda shoved the kid into the pew.
I (as the best man) and my friend tried not to horse laugh uncontrollably.
ExistingFun5496@reddit (OP)
This has been enjoyable to hear other people’s stories. I apologize if I’ve missed anything, been a busy weekend.
Fried_Taro@reddit
We got married three times (once in the courthouse of the city we were living in, with a few friends as witnesses, once in his hometown country, and once in my hometown. Folks made it to which ever was closer. Used to get anniversary cards three times a year! I always say we will never get divorced because we used all our marrying energy up!
IntelligentNovel1967@reddit
We relate to this. Married in two countries, six months apart and a third time when we hit a milestone year.
Mouse-Direct@reddit
For some reason the Dragnet part is especially hilarious. I’m picturing you like Leo in “Once Upon a Time In Hollywood.”
We were 21, just about to graduate college. I worked at a decent hotel that had a sister property with a honeymoon suite (in-room hot tub, champagne). My boss comped it for us for our wedding night.
We get to the hotel and my boss had forgotten the champagne, so my husband went down the street to get a bottle. Meanwhile, I changed into a red lace bra with matching lace bottoms and sheer red stockings and garters. I heard a noise at the door and opened it to surprise my husband…and it was the night manager bringing my bouquet that I had dropped when my husband carried me over the threshold.
At the time? Mortifying. At 55? Hilarious — I was 21 years old, 120 lbs: mostly boob and still had abs. Wish I had a pic of his face and my lingerie!
ExistingFun5496@reddit (OP)
That’s funny. Also, not seen the movie. I’m a Mason buff, so I probably should watch it. Now I’m going to have to look up Leo before I watch it.
ExistingFun5496@reddit (OP)
I just realized you meant Leno, not Leo.
Kilashandra1996@reddit
We were high school sweethearts. We met at the roller skating rink. The one his parents met at and his extended family owned. I was tripping small boys. (In my defense, the young, barely teens were zooming by the little kids who jerked to avoid the teens and fell. As an older teen, I simply unexpectedly stuck a foot out when young teens passed me, wobbling them, and frequently caused them to fall.)
We dated for 7 years before getting married. We had a big pre-wedding BBQ at the local park where his family held their family reunions. We got married at my parents' house in Texas. The preacher was a family friend out of Tennessee. He pronounced us man and wife by the "powers invested in me by the state of Tennessee." Half my family still thinks we're unlawfully wed... The preacher is still going strong in his 90s, preaching in Mexico now.
Awww, this is sounding awfully sweet! The skating rink has since burned to the ground.
If you look closely at our wedding video tape, you can see me and a friend digging a fly out of the groom's cake icing. PS - family friend made the groom's cake. Groom was asked his favorite colors - red & black for Texas Tech. My groom's cake had red roses with black stems! And a spare fly...
One of my friends thought it would be fun to attach a shoe to my car's wheel so the shoe would thunk on the sidewall, and we'd think it was a flat tire. Cute... The shoe fell off early on, and the metal clothes hanger scratched my car plenty of times. : (
10 pounds of rice in my carry-on bag - no wheels back then. Ok, that was a good prank... But I was already in tears over my car that I had owned for 2 whole weeks being scratched.
Stress period. What woman doesn't get one on her wedding day?
Multiple people threatened to get a room in our hotel. Sucks to be them! I lied about which hotel we had reservations at, just in case.
Spent a few days at Uncle Buddy's cabin in Kerrville. "Save Uncle Buddy's water; shower together!" LOL; we did that! Old wine jug filled with water, blue food coloring, and flowers. Sweet! We still have the jug. I drank from the well water. Not so great and not so sweet... Unhappy tummy!
We're still married. Coming up on 35 years in May. We still celebrate the day we met - our Meet-a-versary. Well, we usually go for steaks and call it a Meat-a-versary. 41+ years this past Jan.
Bald_Goddess@reddit
We got married at the DMV. In Colorado, they have self solemnization - which is where you can be your own witness and officiant. And, instead of picking up your marriage license at the courthouse, they have you pick it up from the county DMV. So, the day before Thanksgiving, during my lunch break, we went to the DMV to pick up our license at the commercial vehicle registration desk/ marriage licenses. The employee asked us if we just wanted to sign it and have it filed right then and we said sure. Overall process took maybe 15 minutes. Afterwards we went to Red Robin for lunch.
Mugwumps_has_spoken@reddit
Hell ya to Red Robin for Lunch!
Mugwumps_has_spoken@reddit
We got married exactly one week after Hurricanes Floyd and Dennis hit NC. Since this was 1999, we all know the internet wasn't like it is today. We couldn't just easily check on our reservations at the Outer Banks, NC. We had to call after the storms to see if the house we had rented was even still standing. To see if things were still open.
The big problem was the main road to get there from home, Hwy 64 had huge portions just gone. Entire cities we needed to drive through were flooded out.
So we had to drive up to Emporia Va. We didn't think anything of it, and didn't plan ahead on that part, so we didn't make a hotel reservation. I mean who would have thought it could possibly be a problem. We got the last hotel room in the city. Turns out it was the State Troopers convention (found out the next morning when we were checking out and saw signs on the Denny's or something - Welcome State Troopers Convention).
I mean, at least our car was safe parked in a lot surrounded by State Troopers.
We had no way to check during the week if the roads we'd normally take to get back home opened, so we had to take the detour home as well. The towns affected don't get much media coverage even under normal circumstances. Found out after we got home they had re-opened.
We were married in a small little "Wedding Chapel" which is one step up from the Courthouse. Including the Minister, his wife, my husband and myself there were 13 people there.
This will mark year 27
Chesirecattywhompas@reddit
We decided to get the jp to marry us. I took a notarized statement to the courthouse to get our marriage license( you had to go together and he had started a new job and couldn't get off). Then when it was time for us to get married the jp died going to wreck( heart attack) They made his secretary the new jp and she married us. We were her first marriage. 35 years together.
GrumpySnarf@reddit
My husband and I were together for 13 years. We got married in the backyard with friends. One friend (Ordained in the Church of FSM) married us. Two were witnesses and one of those two was the photographer. I was in a bright yellow washable dress from Target. My husband grabbed yellow roses from the grocery store after I texted him with a request to do so. We then all ordered in Chinese food. Two other friends randomly were in town and asked to stop by. We didn't tell them we were married until they got there and I said "ahem!" and waved around my wedding ring that I and my husband picked out at an antique store. It was all very chill.
Pristine_Main_1224@reddit
You were married by a pastafarian? You win!
GrumpySnarf@reddit
Livin' my best life!
RadioactiveLily@reddit
Back in 2002, my husband and I were already engaged, living together, had a mortgage, car payments, etc. We booked an all-inclusive vacation to Cuba, our first big trip together. When looking at the resort's offerings, we saw they had wedding packages. So we thought... why not? This was two weeks before the trip. lol I ran to the mall and got the first white dress I could find, and he found a nice, linen shirt. And we got married on the beach in Cuba, just the two of us.
Meerkat212@reddit
Someone I know had a "surprise" wedding.
They'd been together for a few years, and it was obvious they were in it together forever. He booked a venue and a minister, picked out several dresses and shoes for her to wear, got a matching new suit, arranged catering & flowers, and sent out invitations to friends and family, all without her knowledge.
The big day was piggy-backed onto another event that included a large number of friends and loved ones, so as everyone arrived, it didnt set off to many alarms for her. At the end, he gets up on stage, grabs the mic and proposes, saying something thing like "...if you say yes, we're doing it now, and if you say no, it'll be be a less happy dinner..."
She said yes, and they were married later that afternoon.
Impossible_Balance11@reddit
How did he get a marriage license? Where we are, both parties have to be present to obtain one.
Meerkat212@reddit
They did the paperwork together the following week.
ExistingFun5496@reddit (OP)
She was trapped
Meerkat212@reddit
He told me me that he wouldn't have done it if he thought there was any possibility she'd say 'no.' Apparently she'd been dropping marriage hints for months :D
TelephoneTag2123@reddit
Got married in my snowboarding gear at the court house. 25 years next March!
CallMeDot@reddit
My mom and stepfather got married by a notary in the back room of a shoe store. There was a shelf over the man with a pair of dirty socks hanging off of it like mistletoe. I was only 5 but I remember both of them shaking with laughter the whole time
ExistingFun5496@reddit (OP)
I think you beat me
CallMeDot@reddit
Nah, you guys got to hang out and get buzzed while those two went home to deal with 2 kids under 5 also in a rental and a disappointed mother of the groom who said she would die of shame, lol. Keep enjoying your lives together 😊
ExistingFun5496@reddit (OP)
We will
DaddyOhMy@reddit
My wife and I are Jewish but not very religious. For family reasons, we decided to have a relgious ceremony. My MiL was very close friends with a woman who was preparing to be ordained as a cantor and asked if she could officiate. She was very touched and said of course. However, without knowing, it turned out we had scheduled the wedding for Shavuot, a Jewish holiday during which weddings aren't supposed to be performed, so my MiL's friend couldn't officiate. We wound up having a friend of my wife's cousin, who was a judge, officiate the wedding.
We still wanted to have a religious ceremony so we made arrangements with a synagogue to have the rabbi perform a second wedding on the anniversary of the day we met. Our parents and two close friends attended. Afterwards we had lunch at the bar we went to on our first date and had bacon cheeseburgers.
The following summer we went to Las Vegas and decided to have a third wedding ceremony at the Graceland Chapel. An Elvis impersonator officiated. We wore the appropriate evening wear, my wife in a purple dress with lots of sequins on it and me in a tuxedo with a matching purple shirt with lots of ruffles.
To this day, my wife refers to me as her third husband. I call her my ex-girlfriend.
Rational-ish@reddit
Bacon cheeseburgers snort
DaddyOhMy@reddit
Both of our kids' Bar Mitzvahs were catered by a great BBQ restaurant. For some reason people are okay with seafood at these celebrations but not pork. There are no levels of tref.
StepUpYourLife@reddit
They were kosher.
SamePhotographs@reddit
I had a surprise wedding. Just our traditional summer party, with a few extra guests (far away family, and others who wouldn't normally come to our party were informed of the ceremony). The wedding party all wore crocs, matching their outfits, and my dress came from the thrift store. My wedding costs were under $500, including the pig on a spit.
ebenandsnooch@reddit
For months my boyfriend had been begging me to get married. I was fine with the living together with no big wedding or legal stuff. He finally caught me in a moment of weakness (to be fair, I was in a very good mood because it was taco night). We agreed on a commitment ceremony. The venue was a bar downtown.
Over the next three years, he would periodically bring up having a legal marriage. Again, I was just fine with the commitment ceremony but finally agreed, mainly because he brought up stuff like the house and medical decisions.
Our legal wedding was like this: getting our license took 5 hours because no one in the Registry Office knew if an ordained Dudist could legally marry us in our state. Finally got confirmation they could. Actual wedding: we brought home my husband's work nemesis as his witness. My satanist bff was my witness. We were married by her husband, an ordained Dudist. Everyone was in jeans and t-shirts, except for her husband. He had the exact same bowling shirt that the Dude wore in the movie. Took 5 minutes. Signing the paperwork took longer.
We have been together 22 years overall- 18 years from the first ceremony date, 16 years from the legal date.
A_SingleSpeeder@reddit
My wife and I got married on the beach in St. Thomas and charted a private sailboat. The owners were husband and wife, he the captain and she a gourmet cook. We brought 2 of our best friends. 8 days sailing around the British Virgin Islands. Amazing. Almost 29 years later, still together and happier than ever.
Impossible_Balance11@reddit
Sounds idyllic!
A_SingleSpeeder@reddit
Thanks...it was amazing. We figured, we're only going to do it once, might as well do it right.
Adrift715@reddit
In two weeks we celebrate our 40th. On our honeymoon we went to Florida. I grabbed a bottle of sunscreen my husband had packed and slathered it on head to toe. I had a massive allergic reaction to it and I was beet red with leathery skin for three weeks. Meanwhile my spouse was complaining about his ear hurting, the plane ride home for him was brutal. We ended up at urgent care getting him some antibiotics. We were so pathetic looking.
thirteenbodies@reddit
We got married on my brother’s back deck on Halloween. Just family present, everyone wore costumes except my SIL, but who cares there, and my brother found a version of the wedding march played on a creepy organ. It was awesome
Afterwards we took everyone to a Japanese steakhouse because the younger nephew liked fire, then the nephews went trick or treating and Mr. bodies and I went to the theater to see Rifftrax’s Carnival of Souls. Best wedding day ever.
AnnabellaPies@reddit
Got married in a court house, he wore a nice suit and I had a white prom dress I ordered from the US. We did it on a Tuesday because it was free on that day. We have been married 20 years and still happy. Our reception was in a renovated carriage house on castle grounds.
PrincessCo-Pilot@reddit
Had been with my husband a couple years (living together). Had a baby together already. Met him for lunch at a crab shack on my day off. We were discussing our schedule for the following month. I had some vacation days I needed to kill, and told him I was looking at taking a 5 day weekend. He suggested we go to Las Vegas and get married. Sure, why not? Arranged babysitting (mom was ecstatic we were getting married and no longer living in sin, so agreed immediately to watch our baby). I went to AAA to get a travel book for Nevada (anyone remember those?). Read up on getting married in Vegas. We pulled into town late on a Thursday night. Guide book said the license office was open til midnight so we decided to get the license right away so we wouldn’t have to worry about it the next day. We paid cash ($35) for the license, and the clerks were really friendly so I chatted with them a bit and asked what time the courthouse opened to marry people. They said oh they’re the same hours as us, open til midnight. They were across the street so we walked over to get married. Fee was also $35, which we didn’t have since we’d spent all our cash on the license. I sat with the officiant while husband went to an ATM to pull out some money. Heard some great stories about the wedding biz in Vegas. Husband came back, paid the fee, we were married with the security guard watching us thru a camera as our witness. He was in jeans and a ratty T-shirt and I was wearing my shirt overalls. Married almost 30 years. We still say best 70 bucks we ever spent.
Appropriate_Ruin3771@reddit
My bf and I were planning on getting married. We wee in Alabama, visiting his family, before he went to boot camp (and I was about 12 weeks pregnant). Late afternoon, the recruiter finally gets back to him and says to hurry up and get married before he ships out on the 25th. It was the 19th. There were horrible thunderstorms that night, and a few tornados. Find a courthouse that could marry us the next day. Went to the courthouse in the next county, and there was a trail left by one of the tornados a good part of the drive there. Called my parents collect on the way back to our apartment (it was 1996) will you accept a collect call from “first name, maiden name, married name”. They were pleasantly surprised. Unfortunately, following the path of a tornado to your wedding venue is not a good omen.
AZTerp1080@reddit
Not my story, but a friend’s wedding we attended. The groom planned to “arrive late” by having a helicopter pilot friend fly him in and drop him at the end of the aisle. Unfortunately, his mom was actually late, so we all sat outside in the summer heat waiting, slowly roasting and getting sunburned.
At the end of the ceremony, we were supposed to release butterflies from little boxes placed on our seats before it started. Turns out the heat got to them first. Most didn’t make it.
The reception went fine, but the bride decided on the honeymoon that this wasn’t the life for her. They divorced shortly after getting back.
RocketDaisy77@reddit
I was thrown-up on, in my gown, twice.
First time was my niece who had too many sugary drinks. I walked into the kitchen to try to clean up and was swarmed by aunties pouring club soda down the front of my dress
Second was my husband, who had been handed many, many tequila shots from family and friends. I was trying to get him out of his tux before he threw-up.
I hold out hope that in some cultures, this is considered good luck.
bizzylearning@reddit
We missed our wedding... twice. That's how it goes when unorganized procrastinators try to plan it themselves.
The first time, we forgot to get a marriage license,
The second time, we forgot to get an officiant.
We had some awkward conversations. "You sure you want to do this? I mean, I'm all-in..." But it was all good.
Third time really was a charm. We even remembered to invite people, get food, an officiant, a license. Like adults or something!
I found out about 20 years later, and five kids in, that the preacher who performed the ceremony failed to file the paperwork. Go figure.
Impossible_Balance11@reddit
You might wanna remedy that, even after all this time. If one of you should--God forbid--shuffle off this mortal coil, not being legally married (as in registered by the county clerk) could seriously mess up your rights of inheritance, survivor benefits, all that. I saw a woman who'd been common-law married to her man for MANY years lose her house this way, and she was fighting to try and get window's benefits.
bizzylearning@reddit
Yeah, agreed. We spent about three years trying to get it rectified. (And if anyone does run into a situation like that, push on it. Gah. It's stupid difficult to do.)
We ran into dead end after dead end. The State would only accept a written affidavit from the officiating officer to sort it. The church doesn't have any record of the booking, which tells me he probably had some generally shady practices beyond poor follow-through. Of course, by that time, I didn't have those bank records to show we'd paid him for it. I did track him down, eventually, but couldn't get him to respond to my written requests or take/return my calls. Eventually I ran out of steam. We've since moved back to our home State, and it's on my list to take up again now that I can go into a State office in person.
In the meantime, we went through and made sure all our beneficiaries/accounts are lined up, joint tenant accounts with right of survivorship in place, the wills are clear and up to date, and we've got notarized letters from the folks who were in our wedding party. That's all we could think of to do from a remote location with an uncooperative officiant.
ExistingFun5496@reddit (OP)
I’d say you’re hitched.
bizzylearning@reddit
Yeah, we figure it stuck. Coming up on 30 years, now.
-Granby-@reddit
Not a great story but the universe just winking at us. We were married and checked in to our Hotel. We stayed in a nice room with a Jacuzzi tub. Anyway we get there and I start scoping everything out and open the closet and there was a can of Wedding soup left over from the previous guest. We got a kick out of that.
ExistingFun5496@reddit (OP)
I’m old and not with it. What is Wedding Soup?
-Granby-@reddit
Italian Wedding Soup is a classic Italian-American soup featuring small, savory meatballs, green vegetables (like spinach or escarole), and tiny pasta (usually acini di pepe) simmered in a savory chicken broth
ExistingFun5496@reddit (OP)
Sounds good.
Impossible_Balance11@reddit
It IS good. Non-Italians like me can get a reasonable facsimile in glass jars at Walmart, brand name is Rao's.
Boring-Community-100@reddit
I had a backyard wedding with my grandmother as my Maid of Honor. She had been widowed about the time I was born and remarried when I was about 4, with me as her Flower girl.
I have two photos, one of each of our weddings, being married by the same Undertaker, wearing the same suit, 16 years apart.
Also, as the ceremony commenced, my cat marched across the lawn with a hognose snake writhing in her mouth. I should have taken the hint and called it off right then. 🤣
Ok-Set5065@reddit
I had no idea you could get married by an undertaker. That would've made the best day of my life even cooler! Btw, still happily married to the love of my life almost 25 years later. We've been together for nearly 30.
Impossible_Balance11@reddit
Yeah, they're generally ordained ministers.
ExistingFun5496@reddit (OP)
Did he have a black suit on like the old westerns?
IamchefCJ@reddit
How we met: blind date. He was separated from his first wife; no one told me he was married (everyone who set us up or knew about it thought someone else had told me).
How we got engaged: I was tending bar. He came in with a friend, had a couple, chatted with me. Set a ring box on the bar. I tell everyone he left it as a tip.
How we got married: We booked the wedding in my family's old church. Between the booking and the wedding, the pastor we worked with left and the new pastor didn't know about our wedding. Got that sorted. One of the groomsmen, who was also doing a reading, was on a business trip, missed the rehearsal, and arrived back in town just in time for the wedding.
The reception was held at a new banquet hall. We had visited it during construction and ended up with some nice extras because we booked the first event at the new hall. I asked the owner about decor, which was to be maroon, black and gold. I complained literally that every hall in town was in some form of red and gold with black, but at least this was maroon instead of red. When wedding night came, the hall was beautifully decorated in natural wood, etched glass and brass. No red or maroon in sight!
This was over 45 years ago. Hubby still makes my heart go pitter-patter.
Flat_6_Theory@reddit
We were married in the living room of our newly rented house (no furniture moved in yet) by our banker who was also an ordained minister. Location was chosen because the weather didn’t suit getting married on the footbridge over the pond at the office where we both worked.
Have long since left the house (state as well) and employer. The banker is divorced now. But it’s still us vs the world.
Impossible_Balance11@reddit
Be glad you didn't get married on the bridge over the pond. Have heard too many stories of dropped rings...
ExistingFun5496@reddit (OP)
Bingo, fight it together.
Ellisrsp@reddit
I attended a cousin's wedding in NYC. The party I was with had to split into two taxis outside of a restaurant. Sensing a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity developing, I quickly ran into the trailing cab, demanded the driver to FOLLOW THAT CAR! while pointing dramatically to the lead taxi.
To say the cabbie was unimpressed would be an understatement.
Solid-Wish-1724@reddit
Not sure if this is that great but here goes. We got married at the old Wayfarer goass church in Palos Verdes. It was gorgeous. At the small reception we had an open bar, no DJ, just a playlist.
Well, all the alcohol kicked in. Like, all at once. Somehow my 5 ft mother was dancing with my 89 YO 6 foot grandma and she pulls her to the floor. My grandma thought it was hysterical and I sat on the floor with her laughing for 15 minutes. Later my mom (who calmed down with the wine) droved off a curb, she was okay but eyebrows were raised... Later at our hotel room my new husband and I got in some stupid argument I don't remember and I ended up out by the harbor in my pjs and at some point running naked down the hall of our 4 star hotel. We are still married, incredibly.
125acres@reddit
After a night at the bars, I broke out the ring and told her I bought this for you.
I woke up at about noon. Sat next to her and said let’s get married.
Getting ready to celebrate our 24th wedding anniversary and she still resents the way I proposed.
ShortySmooth@reddit
My husband proposed in the driveway of my parents’ while he was still in the doorway of his truck. I feel your wife’s pain. ;)
125acres@reddit
Resentment may not be a strong enough word.
reachers_toothbrush@reddit
Not my wedding but my best friends wedding. I had a role playing the music at the wedding but the night before the brides family plied me with more whiskey than I should have drank. Coffee and determination got me out of bed and to the venue but the second I got there I knew everything was about to go wrong. I went straight from hotel reception to the bathrooms and spent the next two hours in a bathroom stall puking my guts out (by the first hour my stomach was empty, after that it was coming from my intestines). I missed the entire wedding.
After feeling like I was completely, physically and mentally empty and had regained control of my legs I show up at the reception (luckily held in the same hotel) with everyone giving me the death stares. After what I went through in the bathroom I'm too delirious to care but I do apologise and take my seat. So being an Irish wedding someone kindly puts a drink in front of me to help me recover and of course I start drinking, I wouldn't want to be rude.
Almost immediately everything goes wrong again. I excuse myself and wander through the hotel in a waking coma operating on nothing but instinct desperately trying to find a door that leads to the outside world. I'm pretty sure I exit through the hotel kitchen and climbed over a fence. My "get home now at all costs" reflex kicks in and I call a taxi. I have to get out of the taxi several times to throw up before finally getting home. I get in the house into bed and pass out until the next day.
The brides parents hate me now but she laughs about it (that's why she's my best friend) and her brother knows not to give me any whiskey. Best wedding I've ever went to, 10/10
sedona71717@reddit
Lol amazing
Competitive-Fact-820@reddit
Mine is pretty boring really. It is also long.
Future husband played in a pub band and they were playing one Saturday night but had to get their gear out that night instead of the following day which was what usually happened. This meant I had to stay sober to be able to drive as a drum kit is a bit hard to carry.
Festivities finish, we load the car up and take everything back to the pub they practised in and unloaded everything, then go upstairs for a lock in - IYKYK.
We are sat on the stairs leading up to the living accommodation and I am on my first pint and he has got a good buzz on as he has been drinking for a few hours. I am all pissy because I'm the only sober one and we are having a bit of an argument when he turns to me and says "I want to ask you something, want to get married?"
Answer was a resounding yes.
Rang my boss on the Sunday and told him I would not be in on Monday as I had a wedding to book.
Went to the Registry office on the Monday and booked the first available date - 5 week wait.
My parents insisted on a fancy meal after the wedding and then a night function - we would have been happy to get married and just go to the pub.
On the day we had an absolute blast. The night function was literally a 10 minute walk from my parents house (we lived with them for the first 3 years) and we rolled up with two carrier bags full of vinyl and went up to the DJ and said once it's past 9pm you are playing exclusively selections from these (these being everything from Bon Jovi to Slayer).
DJ gave us a discount because he had so much fun. Apparently he'd never seen a mosh pit at a wedding.
Ended up with people from the wedding in the downstairs function room migrating to our party as we were having a LOT of fun.
Loads of photos of me in wedding finery and a bottle of Newcastle Brown Ale in hand.
Dated 8 months, married 35 years as of last week.
lemonscent513@reddit
Happy belated anniversary!
MrChristopher23@reddit
We had been together for 5 years and already had a kid, so we decided to get married. We didn’t want anything big or traditional. We flew to Colorado Springs, hiked, went spelunking, meandered around. Stayed at an awesome B&B and the owner was a certified minister. Then we found out in CO you don’t need anything. Just buy the marriage license which I think was $40, and don’t even need witnesses. We signed it twice as ourselves and witnesses. We ended up just sitting under a tree in a park and talking to each other for a few hours. Exchanged flowers and kissed and signed it. We never had wedding rings. She had an engagement ring but we decided we didn’t care or we would maybe get bands later. She wore a hippie-ish dress she bought in town that day and I wore black shorts, 14-eye Docs, and a Skinny Puppy shirt. We lasted around 18 years total. Had 4 kids. The last one was a surprise and then oh hey, twins. I got snipped immediately.
greydog2008@reddit
My ex-wife and I got married in 1992. Went to the courthouse in downtown Reno and got our license. Went across the street to the wedding chapel and got married. Got a limo to the Adventure Inn with themed rooms and 4 different porn channels. Stayed in the Cave Room. The limo took us to have breakfast the next morning with my mom and my new mother-in-law. Went back to our apartment and started our life together. Lasted 10 years.
Sheriff_Mills@reddit
Hubby and I were living together. We were just going to the courthouse with a few family members. That morning when we woke up I noticed what I thought was a mosquito bite on my thigh. It was August so it made sense. We didn't go on a honeymoon. But a couple of days later we celebrated during my grandpa's birthday. Everyone noticed the bite on my thigh. It was getting bigger and really itched. My aunt called me the next day and said she didn't think it was a mosquito bite. By then I could see a red line of venom going up my leg. I went to urgent care and it was a spider bite! They immediately gave me 2 IV bags of antibiotics and I had to go back the next day for 2 more bags, plus oral antibiotics.
When I first told the doctor I noticed it the day we got married, he said "that's not a spider bite. It's an infected hickey". 😁 I still hate those 8 legged freaks!
Pristine_Frame_2066@reddit
Got license in October, realized we had to use it, got married on NYE after work at a friend’s house by another friend who wore an archbishop’s cap. At 9 pm PST so as the US entered a bew year, I was married in the previous.
Wore red dress, borrowed viws from friends who own a comic book store, and got legally married. My 3 yo did not think it was real bc I did not look like a Princess.
Parents were not invited. I got a roast duck from the Chinese grocery and a friend baked a cake.
People just “heard” and came over bearing champagne. All the adults enjoyed the evening and we did sparklers and little confetti poppers outside until New Years countdown.
No one from our families were invited. My dog was there. It was so lively and mellow.
I have very few pictures but a very pleasant memory.
I have also heard that having a wedding in your home is good luck, so our friend was happy too.
Naasade@reddit
We eloped to Scotland. Got our marriage certificate first, then fiancé stayed up late to call the Justice of the Peace in Inverness, because they have to post the Banns ahead of time. I had bought Tartan material & spent months making my own kilt. Then she realized she didn’t have a wedding dress. Used the same catalog I bought the fabric from & ordered a Scottish dress, blouse, vest, & sash rush order. We realized afterward that they were rushing them from Scotland, and then we would be taking them right back again.
Toured Glasgow, Orkney Islands, down to Inverness where we got married, then Edinburgh before home. The Justice of the Peace office was in a small cul-de-sac with a parking ramp, the library. a bus station, and a nightclub. The office was actually underneath the parking ramp. Fiancé’s friends were on separate vacation & were supposed to meet us on the day to be witnesses, but were running late. At one point we got the nightclub manager come over to be a witness, but then her friends showed up. Had a nice meal w/ them afterwards, then toured Cawdor Castle as a group.
We ended up flying back & getting home late on September 10, 2001. Woke up the next morning and the world had changed. Wife’s friends who witnessed the wedding got stuck in the Reykjavik airport with nothing to eat but Icelandic candy while all flights in & out of US were cancelled. It took them 3 days waiting there before they could finally get a flight home.
Dogmomma2231@reddit
Got married 3 weeks after 9/11. Husband was active duty so flew cross country and arrived at 8pm on a Friday night during the rehearsal dinner. Wedding was Saturday. He flew back out Sunday morning at 10am. Still married today!
introvertednurse75@reddit
Not as interesting but when i married my 1st husband, we got married at thr courthouse and stopped at McDonald's for dinner on the way home.
My 2nd husband, the wedding was great but he was distracted when it was time to come stand next to me. My dad walked me up and the pastor asked, who gives this woman to be married and my dad said he did and then we turned to my husband he was like standing and staring off. Later at the hotel we stayed at, my husband walked through a screened patio door and broke it, and a picture nearly fell on me in the elevator. But he and I have been married 27 years this year.
face-mcsh00ty@reddit
I hooked up with the photographer's assistant at my good friend's wedding. Was staying at the groom's house and brought her back with me.
Superb-Butterfly-573@reddit
Ok i have a similar story! Good friend (we're both f and hetero - this becomes relevant - asked me to photograph her very unconventional wedding as my gift. Now I do sports photography as a hobby, but she was firm that anything better than cell phone images was delightful. So, I made the 5.5 hour trek, cross-border and all. Grabbed a motel in the nearest large town. She had one condition for the groom: don't get drunk. (He did) Well, she was some kind of pissed. She packed an overnight bag, and off we went to the motel. My room had two queen beds, so we stayed up half the night watching movies, eating snacks, and having a great time. The reaction when she'd tell people she spent the night with the wedding photographer was priceless!
bikramchick@reddit
Decided to ditch the typical wedding and put about $20K on credit cards to spend 3 weeks in Europe to get married without family or friends. Doc Martens and biker leather jackets with jeans was the attire atop of a beautiful mountain in St. Moritz Switzerland on a December day. This year will be 33.
ExistingFun5496@reddit (OP)
Wow, I didn’t even think about something like that.
bikramchick@reddit
The successful marriage is the best story. Always. Congrats to you.
platypus_farmer42@reddit
My first wedding. My wife’s sisters were her bridesmaids. One of them never showed up. Turns out she had been arrested for prostitution the night before.
Pristine_Main_1224@reddit
Not my wedding, but one I’ll never forget. College friends of mine. Bride had been my suitemate, and I was dating one of Groom’s frat brothers. Groom and groomsmen got absolutely plastered, like knee-walking drunk, after the rehearsal dinner. They were incredibly hungover during the Catholic ceremony the next evening. . Two groomsmen had to lay down in the pews. The groom excused himself 3x to throw up.
Amazingly the bride took it all in stride. Their 30th anniversary is this summer, I believe.
tg1024@reddit
My mother is a planner, I am not. I picked a couple of things that were important to me and then let her run with it. It was an epic 3 day party. My hair was bigger than it had ever been before and my husband was totally rocking his mullet. We are still together, and people are still talking about the party.
ExistingFun5496@reddit (OP)
I had a mullet
DueStory5@reddit
My mother-in-law crashed our elopement. We’d been living together over 5 years, didn’t want a big wedding. Decided to book a time at city hall. About 48 hours before the event my husband calls his long divorced parents. We’re getting married at city hall. Not inviting people but we’ll be in their town in a few months to visit. His dad says, congrats! His mom gets off the phone and drives straight through for over 12 hours to show up. It’s been almost 25 years since that day, and while my relationship with my MIL was complicated at times, we’re still married.
CTTK421@reddit
The first or or the second second? 🤣
Deep-Promotion-2293@reddit
Got up, got dressed, went to city hall to get the license then the commissioner to get married. Went out to lunch and then I went to work at 4pm. We were married 2 months and 2 days shy of 21 years when I lost him.
LayerNo3634@reddit
Not the wedding, but husband "proposed" (let's get married) in the Walmart parking lot. The ring was in the glove box. Kids said, "Dad, that's awful!" His response, "she said yes." Happily married for over 35 years.
Individual_Corgi_576@reddit
Blew out my back at 4 am the day of.
My best man had to take me to the ED. It was so bad I couldn’t sit, stand or lie down. I had to kneel in the footwell of his car facing backwards.
The ED doc took pity on my and gave me IV morphine and Toradol. Then he sent me out with prescriptions for Vicodin and Flexeril.
I told my family to keep it to themselves and make sure my wife didn’t know.
I’m GreekOrthodox so I didn’t have to do anything during the service but stand there. I was so stoned I was taking little naps.
She only noticed that I passed on alcohol at the reception. I didn’t tell her I was hurt until we drove away from the reception.
Wedding night was rough, but the honeymoon went well.
Oddly enough, the combination of strong pain meds and light movement and a little dancing and I recovered faster than any other time I’d hurt myself before that.
Canoearoo@reddit
I know you meant ER, but ED in addition to a bad back makes this story even funnier.
in-a-microbus@reddit
I know right?
When he started with "Blew out my back" I thought he was a she and this was the urban dictionary definition of getting your back blown out. Then they start talking about erectile dysfunction and I'm even more confused
Five_String_Serenade@reddit
Many from other countries use “ED” (Emergency Department)
Entire-Flower1259@reddit
People from the US use ED, too. However, when I worked for the military, I found out quickly that there often many meanings for the same few acronyms, depending on context. ED when you’ve got a hurt back is not like ED when you’re on your honeymoon. 🤣
Canoearoo@reddit
Poster I'm replying to is in the US though.
OTguru@reddit
I’ve been working in health care in the US for the past 30 years. The jargon changed relatively recently (like within the past 5 or 6 years I’d say) from ER to ED to more accurately reflect the scope of emergency services. It took me a while to warm up to the new terminology. It really is more of a “department,” than just a “room.”
coquettemom106@reddit
Married at the Queens, NY Courthouse. After the ceremony, we had to walk down a hall where both sides had a line up of arrested individuals...the entire hallway, about 100 ft. So we had an interesting reception line...
Numerous-Relation-17@reddit
Lifetime group of friends and, wait this is a great funeral story. I'll wait for the proper time.
ExistingFun5496@reddit (OP)
A lot of people have told me that it is a fitting end.
Meekanado@reddit
My husband and I eloped on a whim one weekend in our backyard. We wore jeans and tshirts, and while we were saying our vows, our daughter and our friend’s daughters were screaming with glee in the backyard while being chased by our goats. It was really chaotic and totally us. We’ve been together 18 years, and neither of us can remember what day our anniversary is. Match made in heaven! 😅
ExistingFun5496@reddit (OP)
A few years ago my recently departed mother wished us a “Happy Anniversary” on facebook. Both of us had completely forgot. Incidentally, my dad’s birthday is Jan 11, so we frequently forget the exact day.
Spicercakes@reddit
My ex and I were together for 10 years, engaged but I never really cared about getting married. We ended up tying the knot because we had planned an expensive vacation and realized that everyone would probably give us cash if we eloped and called the vacation a honeymoon. It worked, but the marriage did not.
Pointedtoe@reddit
Similar story except we opted for a judge at the courthouse. Avoided the trip to the funeral home, even though my dad worked there. 1985!
ExistingFun5496@reddit (OP)
About 30 years ago we decided we didn’t have a wedding song and adopted “Stuck In The Middle With You” by Stealers Wheel.
Throttlechopper@reddit
Had a destination wedding 22 years ago in Kauai, our second day we went for a hike on the Kalalau Trail and foolishly didn’t bring enough water but some kind strangers gave us a bottled water to help get through the last couple of miles (you now need a permit to hike it), a couple of days later we signed and picked up our marriage certificate at a market and deli, the next day we were married on a small beach. We are still married today and went back to Kauai for our 20th anniversary. We still love the island and the great memories made there!
LadyBertramsPug@reddit
Where on Kauai did you get married? We did it at Poipu.
Throttlechopper@reddit
Lae Nani Beach in Wailua. The original plan was to get married at Anini Beach, but it didn’t make logistical sense. We had our reception at Roy’s in Poipu.
ExistingFun5496@reddit (OP)
Great. 😊
pocketdare@reddit
Never married. Best story ever! lol
WaterwingsDavid@reddit
Same! My parents were a horrid example of marriage-they fought like 2 rabid cats in a concrete cistern! Plus I've watched marriages in the church I used to attend crumble as well. The only smart decision I made was staying single!
MNConcerto@reddit
First one of my cousins to have a low key wedding with only 20 people invited on a Friday evening.
My husband's relatives crashed to ceremony, my relatives crashed the small dinner reception.
All family weddings before that were like 200 guest all day Saturday affairs with a huge church mass.
Everyone was unhappy with our choices, except my dad, but we didn't go into debt and when it came time to buy our first house my dad handed us a 20,000 dollar check because he didn't spend that on our wedding. Thst was a lot of money in 1995 for a down payment.
Still going strong almost 36 years later.
WaterwingsDavid@reddit
Thats very cool that your marriage has endured. And a very wise decision not to spend a bunch of money on a wedding ceremony.
Nelle911529@reddit
I got married at a beautiful lodge. Just us and my father and the 2 people who stood up with us. It was in front of the fireplace. Half way through the ceremony you hear on the over head speaker!! SMITH PARTY OF 2. SMITH PARTY OF 2.
ExistingFun5496@reddit (OP)
Life is full of surprises, and never on time.
alex_dare_79@reddit
My college friends had stayed together and after another 5 or 6 years they bought a small house together. They had a housewarming party. Low key, in and out between the kitchen/dining area in the back of the house and the patio area/backyard. At some point when it was getting going good, they made an announcement they were getting married. Then and there. And some guy married them, I think he and a few family members were the only people that knew. Craziest most fun housewarming / wedding ever
--Uberwench--@reddit
Ours was similar. We didn't tell anyone except our witnesses that we were getting married, which we did in our backyard with a JP. We'd organized a BBQ and as friends arrived we told them we just got hitched. There was a lot of drinking, exuberant dancing (a window got broken, lol). I thought it was a great day.
PahzTakesPhotos@reddit
My husband and I met in high school, in Alaska. Both of our dads were career Army. My dad retired when I was in 10th grade, so I got all four years at the same high school. His dad was still active duty. He had graduated and was 19 when his dad got orders for Fort Jackson, South Carolina. Because Alaska was considered an "overseas tour" back then, they would pay for him to return to their home of record (North Carolina). So that's what he decided to do. Except, what about us?
We discussed things on the phone- I was a senior in high school and 17. He said I could go with him, which obviously wasn't going to happen, because still in high school, under 18. So, he said: "We could get married."
I laughed, because of course he was kidding, right? He wasn't. We went ring shopping- because he didn't know the first thing to do. After the ring was purchased, we talked to our parents. Mine first, since I was 17. They did not like the idea. We wanted to get married before they left the state, because back then, airline tickets were still very expensive and they were not going to be able to afford to come back after having to move with the military.
My parents reluctantly agreed to let me get married at 17, as long as I stayed in school (duh, I was almost graduated). He was 19, I was 17. We got married the day after Thanksgiving (I had that day off school) and it was a nice, small, simple wedding in a chapel on the Army base. We were originally going to do the courthouse thing, but someone who wasn't us didn't like that idea (I honestly don't remember if it was his side or mine).
He ended up joining the Army himself, so we eventually ended up stationed in Kansas, then in Georgia. In between he went to Desert Shield/Storm. He was in for 8 1/2 years.
We've been married over 39 years now. Three kids, one grandgoblin. Too many cats, too many dogs. I was born in an Army hospital and my husband was discharged on my 25th birthday (and the joke I always tell was: "I spent 25 years in the service, only changing my MOS once!" From dependent daughter to dependent wife).
My parents got married in traffic court in 1966 because he was the only judge available that day. They were married for 45 years (till Mom passed away).
Boring-Community-100@reddit
Thank you (both) for your service, long live the Big Red One!
PahzTakesPhotos@reddit
My dad and husband have the same combat badge. My dad was a combat engineer in 'Nam and of course, field artillery for the husband. After I was born, dad ended up in a desk job (supply) after a lawnmower accident. The husband switched to ammunition supply for his last four years.
Boring-Community-100@reddit
My ex-husband was an Armorer and served in Kuwait in '91. We had a house we rented in Manhattan to KSU students. Ended up back on the East Coast when he discharged. Best wishes from the Little Apple!
ExistingFun5496@reddit (OP)
I hope my son and his new wife will have kids soon before I get too old to play with them.
PahzTakesPhotos@reddit
Our first came along when our daughter was 31 and I was 51. I thought I was going to be the "young mom" when I had her at 20, but I wasn't. Then I thought I was going to be a young grandma- but I'm not. I have to pick her up from preschool sometimes and I'm not the youngest grandma there. (my daughter is a scientist in a lab, son-in-law is a firefighter/paramedic, so if daughter can't escape work on time, I pick up the goblin and, in the goblin's words: "we have a hang out".
The best part about grandchildren is that they come out really boring and not fun to play with, so you have some time to establish your type of grandparenting before the hard stuff happens!
ExistingFun5496@reddit (OP)
I missed that about you parents, that’s hilarious.
Twizt1Up@reddit
My lady and I ran a restaurant in a local winery. We got married at the Renaissance Festival on a weekend when the restaurant had 2 daytime catered events and a wedding reception planned for that evening. Let's be clear, we told the owners 4 months in advance when we were getting hitched and the days afterwards we would need off. They loaded up the weekend anyways. Long story long, after the wedding my new bride and I called in to the kitchen just to check in. (We were hella drunk). Turns out my sous twisted her ankle running the lunch rush, and my 18-yr old dish/prep had to lead the reception. So, wife and I got on insta chat and expo'd the dinner from 150 miles away. My call was with my sous, wife's was with the maitre d. We fucking killed it!
ExistingFun5496@reddit (OP)
My son and his wife pulled off a last minute change. Outside wedding and a storm came in at the last minute.
Twizt1Up@reddit
***my instacall was with my dish/prep, not sous
RoninRobot@reddit
Not mine but friends of mine: Wedding held in a camp ground in a canyon, surrounded by 20-30 foot cliff faces. During the ceremony, there was a lightning storm happening overhead. No rain, no ground strikes, just constant lightning shooting through the clouds. The whole ceremony took 7 minutes. Both bride and groom cried. The grooms mother was a caterer and had tons of finger food under a roofed picnic area 20 feet from the ceremony. Also two kegs of beer and a live band. Best wedding ever.
tc_cad@reddit
My step brother’s wedding featured a lot of candles. Someone set the table cloth on fire at the head table. Two people set their pants on fire by stepping on candles that were out on the patio on the ground. And I, backed into a candle on the patio railing and set my shirt on fire.
LadyBertramsPug@reddit
We eloped to Hawaii and got married on a bluff overlooking a beautiful Kauai beach. We picked a local minister because he was the only one whose website did NOT offer “Elvis Blue Hawaii” weddings. He said some magic Hawaiian words over us. They apparently worked.
The more dramatic story is actually the one about getting there. We had booked flights that went from Seattle to San Francisco to Honolulu and then a separate interisland flight to Maui where we were starting our trip. There was weather, we were delayed for hours in Seattle, and by the time we got to SFO our connecting flight had gone. We were going to miss our flight in Honolulu and, since we hadn’t booked all the flights together, we were going to be stuck there and probably have to buy new tickets to Maui.
There was a ridiculously gigantic line for rebooking (this was in the pre cellphone paper ticket days). I waited in it while my future husband scouted around. He found a gate with a flight going directly to Maui. When we got to the front of the line, we were very friendly and sympathetic to the poor beleaguered desk agent. We explained our situation and asked if there was any way she could possibly rebook us onto that Maui flight. She could and she did; we got the last two seats on the plane. They were literally the last two, in the very back, just in front of the bathroom, but we were very happy to get them.
Our checked bags with the wedding clothes caught up with us in a day or so.
thatotterone@reddit
invited both of our moms (we are both from single parent families) we had 50% attendance
the day we picked to go to the courthouse was a city election so we drove across the state line to Arlington and got married there. Then we went to the Smithsonian and ate in the garden cafe..looked at art and animals and work continued
we planned to have an "Apology dinner" the next year. We were married in Sept 2000. The dinner was going to be Sept 2001. Needless to say, it didn't happen.
still going strong 25 years
Snoringdragon@reddit
The officient's rec room, all river rock fireplace and Hummel figurines, my two friends and the tag along boyfriend for best man. Groom stuttered the vows. Bride in 20 dollar dress. 1988, still going strong!
Snoringdragon@reddit
Oh, the man's last name was Pastor so I felt we covered the religious aspect nicely...
WNJohnnyM@reddit
We had met online in a chat room and 6 month later (September1998), we got married.
My wife and I had trouble sleeping the night before and had to get up early for the wedding photos. Photos went well and the ceremony (other than the priest giving a rambling sermon) and reception also went well.
Because we were exhausted, my wife and I left the reception at 8:30 for the hotel. By 10 PM, we went to bed. No wedding night shenanigans. Just "good night, dear" and our heads hit the pillows.
6 AM...the fire alarm in the hotel went off and everyone mustered outside. Once we were allowed back in, we showered and went for breakfast.
Cranks_No_Start@reddit
We also online in chat room 1989…Quantum link.
We were married on the beach as squirrels came down to eat the cake, a busload of Japanese tourists stopped to take pictures and 2 divers walked out of the ocean like Creatures from the black lagoon.
The original “minister” cancelled on us last minute so a friend who got a lisc to marry people out of a Rolling Stone magazine filled in.
While we were celebrating a motorcycle cop showed up to tell us we were drinking in a dry county and we had to wrap it up…he is in our wedding picture.
And last but not least our marriage certificate was witnessed and signed by Cinderella.
ExistingFun5496@reddit (OP)
Plenty of time for shenanigans later.
elliotsilvestri@reddit
My wife and I got married under a stuffed moose head in a restaurant with ten of our closest friends and family.
Still married 30 years later.
11systems11@reddit
I have to wait for the statute of limitations to run out before I can talk about my story.
dysteach-MT@reddit
Not me, but a college bestie. Totally low cost - we made everything - wedding. I was her personal attendant and my sole job for the day was to make sure she didn’t get high before the wedding. After the nuptials in a beautiful local park, we moved to a picnic area set up with a pasta bar (always good to have friends that are chefs!), and she wanted me to drive her home to change her shoes, since it was only a few blocks away. We stopped a local gas station so she could get smokes, in her wedding dress. The cashier gave her free “wedding” smokes and as we left, a dude on a motorcycle pulled up. She laughingly said she was left at the altar, and he offered to take her wherever she wanted. I convinced her to get back in the car and we got to her house. She changed shoes and since we’d been gone for a bit, I convinced her to smoke out in the car on the way back. We are laughing and toking, and all of a sudden I smelled something burning. She had set her veil on fire. Got that put out and we left the veil with huge burn holes in my car, and got back to the reception.
Also, she got the bridesmaid dresses for $15 a piece at an after prom sale. We were going to make a pillow out of them as a keepsake for them, but they were so trashed with red wine stains, etc, they ended up tossing them.
Best Wedding Ever!!!
ChickenOneDay@reddit
I wanted to elope, my SO wanted a wedding. Compromised on a ceremony with only our parents attending. We didn't know when or where or have a date. I happened to have an annual winter birthday trip to the beach planned by myself. We thought, well, what if we just get married right before that, add SO to the flight and resort, and call it a honeymoon? So we hurried up to get a ring and venue, went out to dinner after the ceremony that was at a local greenhouse. Went to work the next day until the trip started. And no one knew we even did anything until they saw our pictures online. I still think there were too many guests.
imzadi111@reddit
Well, we got married in the morning at the courthouse with just our witnesses plus one of their partners. The judge reeked of alcohol and was red-faced. He did, however, read something very beautiful during the short ceremony. He also mispronounced my husband's name during the repeat after me portion and my husband repeated it the same way therefore mispronouncing his own name. Between the alcoholic judge and a incorrect name, are we even married? 🤣🤣
Afterward we took our friends to eat some place nice for lunch. The craziest thing is we both went to our afternoon shifts after lunch.
whats1more7@reddit
Remember Dessert Storm? My husband and I got married at the courthouse in 4 days because he was supposed to go. Luckily the war ended before he went.
My mom still hosted a reception with 30 people in her living room with a ton of goodies even though we didn’t give her a lot of notice.
We’re still married 35 years later.
A_Tom_McWedgie@reddit
Forgive me, but I’m giggling at your typo.
Dessert Storm sounds delicious.
whats1more7@reddit
Haha I’m keeping it like that!! I too would like to try a Dessert Storm!
ExistingFun5496@reddit (OP)
Have not tried that one. I’ll talk to the wife later. Lol
ExistingFun5496@reddit (OP)
I’m having a good time reading this stuff
johnbr@reddit
Summer of '96. My girlfriend C and I had been living for a couple years as a common-law couple, until she got frustrated because I couldn't read her mind (her own admission later on) . I wasn't any good at dating or socializing in any way, so I just lived alone. A few months later, her younger sister got knocked up. Well that just wouldn't do, so C basically stormed back into my life and demanded that I marry her and get her pregnant. We got married in mid-January of 97, at the courthouse. Wearing my nicest suit, I had to stand in line with all the felons for a license from the clerk of gun and marriage licenses. Our oldest was born in late November of 97.
Not still together, but that is a story for never.
JJQuantum@reddit
My niece scheduled her ceremony at my grandparents’ beach front cottage. The groomsmen built a little shelter for the beach the day before and assembled it there that morning. The minister ended up not being able to make it so my other niece’s husband was online frantically trying to get his license to marry them. In the mean time the tide was relentlessly coming in and the waves were lapping at the shelter so it was decided that the husband would just perform the ceremony without being licensed and they’d make it official later.
After the ceremony we were all on the deck eating shrimp when this guy in Bermuda shorts and a Hawaiian shirt comes up off the beach and talks to my brother in law. He says he’s a minister and hearing the ceremony realized it wasn’t official. He offered to redo it and they said yes. So they go through it again on the deck but right before the very end the minister makes a little speech about early Christians and how they used to call God’s attention to the union. He then grabs this ~6’-8’ long ricola horn and blows it hard, the sound echoing down the beach. Lastly he pronounces them as married and we all party and have a good time.
It was crazy.
Taodragons@reddit
Our officiant charged a fifth of Jose Quervo to perform the ceremony, which my mother in law had to buy because we were too young lol
ExistingFun5496@reddit (OP)
I think simple is better sometimes.
Taodragons@reddit
lol, now we are racking our brains to figure out where the hell we found the guy....this was way before Craigslist lol
ExistingFun5496@reddit (OP)
One of will figure it out later and then forget it again like I usually do.
CitizenChatt@reddit
Good or 1800?
Enquiring minds want to know.
Taodragons@reddit
He wasn't picky lol
funkytownup@reddit
Eloped to the keys. Wife was afraid I was going to leave her at the altar ( after flying out with her;-)). We were booked to go fishing the day before. I told her well, if you expect me to marry you, you better out fish me. She caught a giant grouper longer than she was. We head to the beach the next morning to get married- she had to change into her wedding dress in a hotel bathroom. The guy marrying us was a big fat guy in a tropical shirt. The boom box music was horrible. So while this guy is trying to do his job- we’re snickering about the music. He finished up and we took off. Got drunk going through Hemmingways house, and wound up smoking Cuban cigars on some guys balcony over duval street while his mom rolled cigars behind us.
r7ndom@reddit
We did not want any drama or a big event, so we scheduled a vacation to Hawaii, booked a wedding with an amazing guy named Captain Howie, showed up, got married, and then drove into Honolulu to file the paperwork. I had flowers delivered to all of our parents on the day we got married with a card announcing our marriage, which is how they found out.
ExistingFun5496@reddit (OP)
I would have liked to went somewhere. All we could afford after renting the trailer was a 6 mile trip. Lol
Impressive-Shame-525@reddit
Just after our vows, my wife dropped her handkerchief.
I bent over to pick it up.
RRRIIIPPPPPP
Pants ripped from zipper to belt.
Gathered up every safety pin I could find and had to gently sit down the rest of the evening.
ExistingFun5496@reddit (OP)
At least you made it through the vows first
jollytoes@reddit
We paid the elevator fee of $10 to go to the top of Reunion Tower in Dallas, gave $40 to a minister that showed up drunk, and had the ceremony outside on the observation deck. We were so broke back then. We bought her wedding dress, an actual beautiful wedding dress, for $20 at a garage sale.
ExistingFun5496@reddit (OP)
We were broke also
Ok-Set5065@reddit
Nothing wrong with swimming in the red river! Just don't drink from it! Lol
Impressive-Shame-525@reddit
Ok-Set5065@reddit
That's hilarious!
iwastherefordisco@reddit
I've never married but you gave me pause with this line:
"We then drove to the Funeral Home and was married by the Undertaker. We then went to our new home (a rented old trailer). New wife started her period that same day."
Good to hear you're still happily married OP. Wedding day sounded like quite the ride lol.
ExistingFun5496@reddit (OP)
Her sister had put the old man through the wringer with 3 weddings. She felt he had suffered enough.
juggsymalone911@reddit
Thought my husband was gay when I met him. His pick up line was Hey, girl! We will be married 34 years in June.
Boring-Community-100@reddit
Superstar DJ, here we go!
GreenSalsa96@reddit
I was coming off of a really bad divorce (she left me $30K in debt, gave my truck to her boyfriend, and had my dog put down).
Started volunteering at a local church. One lady there kept telling me that if I met her coworker and the bookstore she worked at--we would get married. I blew her off because I needed to get "right with myself".
At the same time, she kept telling the woman she worked with that there was this guy at the church she goes too that would be a great match for her--the coworker didn't want to be "set up" and have it happen "organically".
The mutual acquaintance set us up on a blind dinner date (inviting both of us without telling the other to a homemade dinner at her house).
I came for spaghetti and left with the love of my life. From that dinner, 35 days later we were married. We cross 30 years this fall.
ExistingFun5496@reddit (OP)
The old church lady knew what she was doing.
GreenSalsa96@reddit
Yes she did!
FoleyV@reddit
My hubby and I went to the courthouse and got our license, then had a neighbor officiate, then we went to a local fishing pier at a pond in our neighborhood and shared a cupcake. It was the best! (I had a big wedding in my 20’s and never wanted to do that bullshit again! ❤️🤣
ExistingFun5496@reddit (OP)
Hope you are still having fun
FoleyV@reddit
Hell yeah we are! We are away this weekend for someone else’s wedding and having a blast!
ExistingFun5496@reddit (OP)
But, me and you got off cheap.
FoleyV@reddit
We did! Though I am one to believe the happiness of a couple is inversely proportional to the money they spend on a wedding. 🤷♀️
daydreamersunion@reddit
Attended a wedding in a rural park in early 90s. The whole thing was done on horseback. One of the horses was suffering diarrhea and the ring bearer fell off of his little pony and had to be chased down mid-cry. Did I mention diarrhea?
ExistingFun5496@reddit (OP)
😂😂😂
djsmurphy@reddit
I never got married, it's great!
ExistingFun5496@reddit (OP)
You need to try it. It’s irritating and fun all at the same time.
Ray_The_Engineer@reddit
Not a great story per se but I'll share; I ask my wife to marry me in 1995 on top of Roan Mountain along the Appalachian Trail, with snow everywhere and an unbelievable view. (6000ft) We drove home (making a stop to get her a Bride magazine) and then stood in my future m-in-law's foyer for several minutes making small talk and waiting for someone to notice the ring on her finger. We were married at her childhood Episcopal church, a gorgeous, classy place filled with beautiful wood and stained glass. About to celebrate 30 years, later this month.
ExistingFun5496@reddit (OP)
Hope you have many more years
whatsupgrizzlyadams@reddit
Im an officiant. The groom, "Tom" was divorced from "Mary" because he cheated with " Betty". During Tom and Betty's wedding, Mary showed up with a colman blow torch and a hammer. Mary proceeded to light decorations on fire and smash everything in sight.
Mary got hauled off to jail. Tom and Betty were married, and the food was fine.
The wedding cake, however was destroyed. Someone drove to Walmart and bought cupcakes, cakes, cookies and etc.
auntieup@reddit
That’s not a wedding, that’s a Lifetime Movie of the Week
ExistingFun5496@reddit (OP)
Upset was she?
whatsupgrizzlyadams@reddit
Just a titch.
avidinha@reddit
I own a hearse. A couple who lives near me put out a request on a hearse page I'm on wanting a hearse instead of a limo for their wedding. They got married on Halloween and had a costume party for their reception. I drove them home in the hearse after the reception, it was fun.
ExistingFun5496@reddit (OP)
That sounds fun.