For those who have ever tied the knot around here, what kind of wedding did you have? A big fancy shindig? A private ceremony on the beach in Jamaica? Big? Small? Expensive? Cheap?

I have to win for the smallest wedding. There were three of us: me, my fiance/husband, and the justice of the peace. We were in the planning stages of a kind of medium/biggish sized church wedding, but things were getting planned by other people that we didn't really want. My older sister was being a pain in the @ss because she didn't want me to marry who I was marrying, and in the end it came down to I didn't want her in my wedding party, but didn't want to try to explain to my mother why not. :rolleyes:

So we arranged to meet at the county courthouse in Annapolis at lunch time and eloped about seven weeks before the scheduled wedding. When the J.P. said the part about being gathered with "these witnesses", Bill & I looked around the room kind of confused, and the J.P. just whispered "It's OK." We went out to lunch at the place where we first met, then went back to work for the rest of the afternoon, and met up again at home that night.:)

I have never regretted the way we got married either. It was the right thing to do at the time. And almost ten years together later, we have proved my sister wrong.:p :lol:

Well, when I was married it was just a justice of the peace ceremony. Nothing fancy, just me and him. My parents didn't even know about it till after it happened. That date was January 2, 1991 (we wanted to get married on New Year's Day but the courthouse was closed). We got a divorce on November 12, 1995.

Mine was your average church wedding with limo, family and friends.

We had some trouble with the father-in-law during the planning because he tried to butt his nose in a few times trying to make demands and threatening not to come to the wedding if a few things weren't done the way he wanted it.

BOY did I have to bite my tongue! Had to agree to his terms (But of course we did it our way anyway and there was nothing he could do about it then because it was too late! :D) And he never got away with anything like that again!!!

Well, we were married by the Mayor of a nearby village on May 21. I wanted May 17 (My father's birthday), but that was the Mayor's anniversary, so I went with the year my father was born instead of the day. My good friend Tammy went as witness, as well as my 5 1/2 month old son. (Yes, I am a sinner, premarital sex, YAY! :lol: )

My hubby asked me to marry him just 2 months before I got pregnant. He got lucky, because if he'd have asked me after, we'd still be living together. I told him (we had a scare) that I would marry him and have his baby, but I wouldn't marry him because I was having his baby. That wouldn't have been fair to either of us.

And in May we'll celebrate 11 years of marriage.

We had a large church wedding with 12 in our wedding party, no limo, but at our reception party we had a tri-level cake with a fountain in between the first and second level, and 400 guests. You could have a wedding like that in 1974 for about three thousand dollars, not these days though.

In May we will be celebrating 28 years of marriage.

Sarg, 28 years of marriage!! That is so GREAT!!!
Val, I tell ya the similarities between you and I are downright scary!!
Most of my wife's family didn't care for me much, they thought I was just after sex. So, we paid for own wedding and did everything our own way. It was a small wedding with a justice of the peace at a local activities center. We were married on May 4, 1991. Our flower girl was our 5 month old daughter who couldn't walk yet!! Our honeymoon consisted of a weeklong tour of a couple of Texas cities: Austin, San Antonio, Galveston, my hometown just outside of Houston, the home.
Here we are closing in on 11 years of marriage and two more kids added to our family and still proving everyone wrong about us being together!!

Where was I when I got married? With my head up my ass apparently! What a bnad decision. The only thintg good about it is my two beautiful children we had.

But, we got married in the break room at the county court house. I have a few photos of us, and we are standing there, scared stiff, and you can see a coke machine in the background. I know, HOW ROMANTIC! LOL! Our "limo" was my 1984 Honda Prelude which my wife could not get out of by herself (8 1/2 months pregnant) That was August 4th of 1991. (We are currently seperated, and heading for a much needed divorce. )

Well I can't really comment too much on this as I have never been married, nor do I want to be married. I have been engaged twice, was EXTREMELY close to getting married once, but other things came up.

My live in (what a word, eh?) has been married once (she is a couple years older than me), and has no desire to try again.

Out of all of my friends who were married, only 1 of them is still with his wife, and only because they have a kid. You can just sense they aren't happy.

I once had a teacher tell me that anybody who has sex before they get married will never last. What a fool. Like sex has anything to do with you lasting??? Well...maybe for some.

Anyway, most of the couples I knew are no longer together. Maybe they want their freedom. I think if you are happy being together, and don't mind shelling out the $$ to get married, then go for it. I have no desire to.

On top of that, breaking up is usually free. Even if its not, in many cases its cheaper and faster than divorce! :)

Ok so I didn't exactly answer the question, but I've never been married, only seen it happen. I even tried to talk 2 of my friends OUT of getting married. They were convinced it was the right decision. Now they both regret it. <ahem>

I got married the first time on Aug. 27, 1983. It was a nice small church wedding. I wore a beautiful white sleeveless eyelet gown with a matching hat, simple but yet beautiful.
The marriage was a rough one. I was 11 weeks pregnant with my 2nd son when my husband accidently drown in Oct. 1989.
I remarried June 1,1992 by a justice of the peace, my mother, little brother and my oldest son who was 7 years old witnessed the ceremony. I gave birth to my 3rd son Oct. 1993.

I was married in Haverhill in England on 31st August 1991.

I'd known my wife a long time before that but we'd only been going out with each other for just over a year before the big day.

We had a kind of a When Harry Met Sally situation and it took us a long time to get together, which was kind of good as we got to find out a lot about each other as good friends, until it all became clear that we were meant for each other.

We married in the place that her parents were living at the time and it was a great day, about 110 people came from England, Scotland and Canada which helped make it a truly memorable occassion.

The bride was stunning and made me feel the happiest man alive.

After the meal at the reception, the first song we danced to was Endless Love.

The whole day was just exceptional and we couldn't find fault with any of it, everything just seemed to run so smoothly and everybody was friendly on all sides of the families, we both realise we were very lucky to have such a good day. We privately called it the wedding of the millennium and of all the weddings we've been to since, they have only re-inforced that belief.

We're still together now with two lovely girls aged 4 and 3, I wish it was still as rosy, but you face a lot of tough problems, hopefully we'll ride them out and happier times will return.

I married my college sweetheart on September 5, 1998 in Denton, Texas. It's a small college town about 35 miles north of Dallas. The chapel was a charming little place on a college campus called "The Little Chapel in the Woods." We had over 100 guests and 12 total in our wedding party.

We got engaged in the very same room where we first met on the anniversary of the day we first met. It was in a TV room in the dorm where we both lived. Our wedding day was exactly one year later.

Since we were planning a wedding and building a new house all at the same time, we couldn't afford the honeymoon we wanted so we just took a week off from work and did things around Dallas (Six Flags, Palace of Wax, Dealy Plaza, 6th Floor Schoolbook Depository, etc). We got to do the honeymoon we planned at Disneyworld two years later.

We have no children but have a bird, a dog, and a fish. They are our children for now. We have lots of fun together since we both love hotrods, motorcycles, and playing music. I'm the loud and crazy one, he's the quiet coolheaded one. You know what they say about opposites.

My first wedding was a large fancy church wedding in March of '93. I had a beautiful satin and lace gown w/ puffy sleves, lots of beadwork and a train that went on forever. It was a beautiful wedding! Too bad the marriage ended 3 years later.
I remarried in Nov. of '98. Our best man worked for one of the NASCAR Winston West pit crews at the time and was going to be in Las Vegas at that time for a race, so we decided to tie the knot in Vegas. We got married at the Graceland Wedding Chapel. There were 2 bridesmaids and 2 groomsmen. The only attendees were my mom, my father in law and some friends of my husbands' who lived in Phoenix and came to suprise him. It was a very interesting ceremony to say the least. I still want to send the video in to Americas Funniest Home Videos.

Well, let me see. It was during Desert Storm, damn that war. We were afraid he was going to be deployed so we rushed it. Also, I was 8mos pregnant. We got married at a Ft. Polk chapel on Feb. 16, 1991. My son was born March 11, 1991. Needless to say, my husband did not get deployed and I was married. To look at it now it was a mistake. We should have waited.

Originally I wanted to wait until after my son was born. But with the pressures from the war it just happened.

We ended up seperating twice and divorced in 1996. The sad thing is now we have nothing to do with each other what so ever. I think I could have stayed friends, but it just didn't work.

I'm so sorry it didn't work out. So, I take it your son has nothing to do w/ his biological father? I hope you at least get child support!
There were a lot of reasons why my first marriage didn't work out. One of the main reasons was that he decided (after 2 years of marriage and announced at my 26th birthday party) he didn't want any kids afterall. Who the hell marrys a nanny and then decided he doesn't want kids?

Originally posted by Red
Sarg, 28 years of marriage!! That is so GREAT!!!
Val, I tell ya the similarities between you and I are downright scary!!

I know!! LOL Freaky!! Except you have three kids. And got a honeymoon, you BadWord!! LOL And most of my family didn't like my husband, either. Funny how I'm still with him and most of them are eating their words and working out their divorces.

I'm not married but I am engaged and my girlfriend(or should I say fiance[I can't spell])wants this big Midevil wedding with costumes and all the crap.Hell,I'd be happy with her,a priestess,and a keg of MGD,but I guess I'm doomed.

Cultleader, welcome to hell my friend, remember, it is HER wedding day, you just have to show up!

I got married at 15 so we really didn't have a big wedding but it was one to remember.
My step family rented the gazebo at the Carriage House (fancy hotel) in Kentucky. They decorated it very nice. We had about 100 people there. I had a nice big cake.. wow it seems like just yesterday. WHat happens to that happiness? What happens to that love you felt that very first time? If I only knew then what I know now!!

Sorry,, :cry: just to painful to think about right now:cry:

I got married for the first time on October 31, 1994 (I was 19, he was 24) at the District Courthouse in Annapolis. I was 8 months pregnant. It was me, fiance, J.P., both sets of parents, sibs, & my grandparents. We had wanted to get married on Halloween & it was really cool actually... I wore a black dress I bought at Motherhood Maternity. We went on our honeymoon to a b&b in PA and came back to have our reception (5 days later) Unfortunately, we separated in March of 96 & divorce was final Fall 97...

Fast forward to Nov 99...remarried this time in a church with flowers, attendents, limo, 80 guests & my 4 yr old as the ring bearer. We had our honeymoon in the Bahamas.. almost three years later & we've added a daughter to the mix

~Yankee Rose