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05 Jun 07 - 02:30 AM (#2068822) Subject: BS: best wedding memories From: KT We're having a big family wedding soon. Just wondering, what are some of your fondest wedding rehearsal & ceremony memories? KT |
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05 Jun 07 - 02:49 AM (#2068830) Subject: RE: BS: best wedding memories From: Metchosin The day before our wedding, my old Aunty proudly revealed that she had fashioned the dress of the wee bride figure on our wedding cake from the covering of a sanitary napkin. LOL |
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05 Jun 07 - 08:27 AM (#2068993) Subject: RE: BS: best wedding memories From: Liz the Squeak Sang at a wedding recently where the congregation were entertained beforehand by a slide show of the sort of photographs that only come out at family gatherings and should have been buried in lead, at a crossroads with a stake through them - The baby pictures were iconical, toddler shots cute, first bikini shot was interesting, so was the first Raleigh Chopper bike... but the 'party at which my dad embarassed me to death' complete with tidy whitey pant band showing was a hoot! The bride and groom had obviously spent several years working themselves up to the actual wedding point, as the laughter of the congregation showed... but it did explain the triumphant 'hands in the air' gesture given by the bride as the vicar pronounced them husband and wife. I feel really sorry for that groom... he's got his hands full. LTS |
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05 Jun 07 - 09:05 AM (#2069023) Subject: RE: BS: best wedding memories From: Mrrzy Seen on America's funniest - the blindfolded man is putting the garter on a woman, who is quite old and having a blast as the man makes the most of the lifting of the skirt and everything - at the very last second the man decides to cop a feel, and when he does and lifts the blindfold and realizes he just groped an old woman, probably his grandmother or something, and he is so embarrassed he runs off camera. I almost died laughing. |
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05 Jun 07 - 10:52 AM (#2069120) Subject: RE: BS: best wedding memories From: jacqui.c Best wedding memory? Standing in a meadow on the bank of the Housatonic with Sandy Paton doing the honours for Kendall and me. Caroline Paton was our witness and we all ended up singing Simple Gifts to finish the day. Our rings were made by Don Meixner so it really was a Mudcat affair! Our wedding reception at the Getaway comes a very close second - all those wonderful friends singing their songs for us and Big Mick's version of Red Is The Rose, rewritten especially for us. Total magic, the whole thing. |
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05 Jun 07 - 11:17 AM (#2069139) Subject: RE: BS: best wedding memories From: wysiwyg At a wedding rehearsal plagued by warring family undercurrents, Hardi turned on his lapel mic and called for everyone's attention after normal-voice leadership failed to get the rehearsal on track. Not overly loud, the amp, just.... clear. "Thank you.... I'm sure there are a lot of good ideas here. This is the [number] wedding I've led and it is, first and foremost, a solemn sacrament in our Church. I know you can all appreciate that with the invitations out and about, you want to be SURE I'll be here tomorrow. [pause...] So I will appreciate your 'cooperation' in this rehearsal. And for [names]' wedding tomorrow to be the happy day we all want it to be, I will need your full attention this evening." All went off without a hitch. :~) Nowadays, it's "I'm just going to use my mic so I don't lose my voice for tomorrow, and so you can hear me all the way in the back when I cue the the wedding party." He's right. The sound as it goes back gets very muddy, and why shout? I've often used mine in rehearsal to gather band members up when it's time to get organized. Schmoozing is nioce, and we have time for some-- but there is a published service time, after all, and the people will be coming.... ~Susan |
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05 Jun 07 - 11:18 AM (#2069140) Subject: RE: BS: best wedding memories From: MMario my favorite personal memory is walking my Niece down the aisle in company with her father...at her specific request and with both her parents willing permission. One of the funnier wedding memories I have - watching the bride whip out her cue cards for her vows. (irritating though, of course I don't have much use for that particular woman anyway - even the lowlife idiot she married should have been able to do better) Then there is my father reeking of gasoline as he walked my eldest sister down the aisle - and taking off his jacket at the reception to reveal he'd torn the sleeves off his dress shirt - because he'd been fixing a leak in the car's gas tank about 10 minutes before the ceremony. |
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05 Jun 07 - 11:24 AM (#2069146) Subject: RE: BS: best wedding memories From: Wesley S As I was standing with the ministers about to go out and get married our caterer walked by shouting into her cell phone saying "I DON'T CARE WHAT YOU DO - JUST FIX IT - FIX IT - FIX IT." I had already had a conversation with Bretta and said that there were just too many details in a wedding for all of them to go right. So that when something did happen we had to promise to laugh about it and not get upset. There had been a power failure at our reception site. A three or four block area had so power do to some construction that had cut the line. They had to go out and buy all the candles in the area in order to light the place. It was two days after Holloween so Bretta's reaction was that it looked like a haunted house. Actually it turned out rather nice except I had to pay a DJ to just stand aroud. Eventually a friend who lived nearby went home and found a boom box so we could dance a few times. And of course just as we were about to leave - the power came back on. |
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05 Jun 07 - 11:41 AM (#2069156) Subject: RE: BS: best wedding memories From: Bill D Well...Rita & I had an outdoors ceremony at a local horticultural garden. First, we were lucky enough to ask just after a cancellation..(but we had to plan FAST for the date that was available!) Then, the morning of the ceremony was grey & overcast, making us worry about rain and dreary pictures....but just as the music started ("Southwind", played on dulcimer & concertina) for her to walk |
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05 Jun 07 - 12:23 PM (#2069197) Subject: RE: BS: best wedding memories From: Mr Red none come to mind in my case - somewhat fogged by the ensuing years. I remember the years after divorce though. |
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05 Jun 07 - 01:59 PM (#2069278) Subject: RE: BS: best wedding memories From: Bee After the wedding, we held our reception in a big field in the foothills of the Cape Breton Highlands. The scene was in full late July splendour, the sun shone, there were tents everywhere for people to sleep over, dogs and cats running about. We parked at the top of the hill, and my favourite memory is walking barefoot in the grass, still in my wedding dress, down to all our friends cheering and playing music and generally enjoying themselves. It was a major party. ;-) |
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05 Jun 07 - 02:21 PM (#2069304) Subject: RE: BS: best wedding memories From: SINSULL My sister-in-law hates when I bring this up but...she wept all the way down the aisle and all the way back begging her family "Don't forget me." Then after a few glasses of wine, she went upstairs and changed into a blue plaid Granny dress with white pinafore (it was the 7os). As she drove away, she leaned far out the window and shouted to one of her bridesmaids "Hey Becky! I'm gonna get laid!" |
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05 Jun 07 - 02:30 PM (#2069315) Subject: RE: BS: best wedding memories From: Liz the Squeak My own wedding day - walking into my usual Chinese takeaway in full wedding regalia, 5 minutes before closing and asking for a pancake roll and special fried rice. I was bloody starving! LTS |
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05 Jun 07 - 02:37 PM (#2069321) Subject: RE: BS: best wedding memories From: pattyClink I remember a borrowed old house to stay in, handpicked flowers tweaked by our florist friend, handmade dresses, punch doctored by old relatives, supper catered by other relatives, a lovely summer day. There were some logistics to getting people together, but once there, it was pretty simple. It was simple and fun, uncommercial and unreligious. No rehearsal. I shudder to see the overwrought extravaganzas people put themselves through. I mean, it's just a gathering to solemnize a ceremony, and make a celebration of a new family being started. That's it. Nobody needs to be impressed with spectacular music, food, cars. I guess we were avoiding lingering memories of other weddings: staying up all night making an overambitious menu the bride was way too involved in, fussing over elegant decorations til the last minute, melting too-high cakes, stressing about things running late, wedding 'managers', flubbed floral dyes, sick singers, bad singers, toddlers too small to behave in a wedding party, heavy expenses.... |
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05 Jun 07 - 03:17 PM (#2069356) Subject: RE: BS: best wedding memories From: Jim Lad My mother in law tried to pass on her old wedding garter to my wife for the "Something borrowed" thing. Yuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuk! |
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05 Jun 07 - 04:26 PM (#2069399) Subject: RE: BS: best wedding memories From: gnu Mine.... August 18, 2000. Got my final divorce decree. That was a party. |
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05 Jun 07 - 10:32 PM (#2069659) Subject: RE: BS: best wedding memories From: JennieG At my brother's wedding the church cat strolled in during the ceremony and sat just behind the bridal party. After a while Puss became bored with the proceedings and wove around the legs of the aforementioned party, finally finishing up under the bride's train which was part of the back of her dress (girls will know the style I mean). Eventually Puss emerged and was evicted by one of the choir boys. As the groom's family we were sitting in the front pew with a great view of Puss's perambulations - our shoulders were shaking as we thought it probably wasn't good form to laugh out loud. But it was funny. I don't think my sister-in-law ever forgave that cat. Cheers JennieG |
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05 Jun 07 - 11:22 PM (#2069691) Subject: RE: BS: best wedding memories From: Rapparee We got my MIL when we asked my FIL to read -- she got up to leave church (she NEVER went to a service where he was a Reader) and couldn't flee! Then we got MY mother by noting that my father was also sharing the day -- at the time he'd been dead for 23 years and my mother nearly burst into tears. But the party following was the best. First, the Bride and Groom showed up (who are we to miss a good party?) and then my brother, the drama major, was more than half in the bag and pantomined an automated brewery for the crowd. He remembers very little of it, only the part where he laid on the floor as a fermentation tank, going "bloop! bloop!" and blowing spit bubbles. The next day my wife and I left for Quebec, and when we re-entered the States she tried to bribe a customs agent with a banana. But that's another story entirely. |
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06 Jun 07 - 11:14 AM (#2069990) Subject: RE: BS: best wedding memories From: Midchuck As we drove off from our reception, with rice flying and all that, Mizchuck-to-be leaned out of the car window and yelled at her mother, "How do you cook?" Peter |
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06 Jun 07 - 03:48 PM (#2070181) Subject: RE: BS: best wedding memories From: ClaireBear Lots of good memories, but the first one that comes to mind is one I only heard about later: Chanteyranger happened to phone me to confirm my band's upcoming Hyde Street Pier appearance while I was making my bridely way down to the meadow on our land where we were shortly to get hitched. My soon-to-be-husband, still in the cabin putting the finishing touches on his weddingwear, answeered the phone and got to say "She can't come to the phone...she's busy getting married." I understand that Chanteyranger was suitably kerfuffled. 15 minutes before that, I'd been up to my elbows in potato salad (I catered the wedding myself), so it's actually just as well he didn't ring earlier. |
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07 Jun 07 - 12:45 PM (#2070821) Subject: RE: BS: best wedding memories From: Rapparee Then when my youngest brother got married he asked the Best Man to check for the ring, and he dropped it. Into nice, thick, shag carpeting. With the bridal party already on the way up the aisle. Fortunately for him they found it just in time. He also shook hands with the groomsmen during the ceremony, saying to each of us as he did so, "Peace on you." |
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07 Jun 07 - 06:17 PM (#2071017) Subject: RE: BS: best wedding memories From: SussexCarole Seeing the look on the Registrar's face when we started waltzing into the registry office to the music of Michael Turners waltz being played live by our folkie friends...and then, after songs from our friends and a very happy, relaxed and informal ceremony with lots of laughter hearing her say 'That made a change from Handel' - and Andrew's reply - "More like off the handle" But to share our special day (and the rest of the week)with so many of our folk friends including (including the Mari Lwydd) was the best memory ever possible. |
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07 Jun 07 - 06:30 PM (#2071031) Subject: RE: BS: best wedding memories From: Rapparee Something my wife and I still discuss is the simple fact that our marriage license expired about 90 days after we were married. |
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08 Jun 07 - 07:01 AM (#2071247) Subject: RE: BS: best wedding memories From: JennyO up to my elbows in potato salad The mind is boggling! Oh well, whatever turns you on... ;-) |
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08 Jun 07 - 09:09 AM (#2071341) Subject: RE: BS: best wedding memories From: John MacKenzie Sorry only been married and divorced 3 times, still waiting for the good memories! Giok ¦¬] [It's a wee joke BTW, for those who suffer from an underdeveloped sense of humour!] |
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08 Jun 07 - 05:28 PM (#2071738) Subject: RE: BS: best wedding memories From: Mrs.Duck Geoff and I got married at Whitby folk week. There must have been about 200 people including three morris teams outside the registry office and inside it was standing room only. All the men had raided the local charity shops for 'Sunday best' hats and we all processed down the hill to the pub via the park for photos accompanied by a Highland piper and other dancers and musicians. I was even more touched when we were presented with a video of the days events from the then landlord of the Tap and Spile who had filmed it all without our realising. That together with the wonderful photos taken by Raggytash are very treasured reminders of a wonderful day. Even now we occasionally get locals saying 'you're that couple that got married aren't you'! |
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08 Jun 07 - 07:25 PM (#2071815) Subject: RE: BS: best wedding memories From: Don Firth Small wedding (about 35 close friends and relatives) in a big church. Music? No organ or singer(s). Music was provided by a lutenist. Don Firth |
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09 Jun 07 - 06:12 PM (#2072396) Subject: RE: BS: best wedding memories From: Anne Lister Impossible to summarise our wedding weekend - it's one big happy memory and almost three years ago now! But let me see... the moment when we opened the boxes (from Waitrose) containing the wedding cake and were almost pinned against the far wall with the intensity of the chocolate aroma ....the moment when I turned the corner to process up to where my husband was waiting for me with the registrar and realised all my friends were indeed there and in fine fettle ...no, there are too many good moments there. But none of it would have been possible if all my family and so many friends had been less generous with their money, time and effort. Anne (a little misty eyed with the memories) |