Wedding fun

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Fun post but get a lot of traffic here, AIBU to ask - when you got married, where you honeymooned, what you/bridesmaids wore, flowers, what mothers wore?, approx how many guests. Any nice stories out there 😀

Married in hotel.
20 people invited to wedding.
Step son and daughter were best man and bridesmaid.
I wore 50s style dress.
Big party in evening for approx 200 people.
Honeymoon should have been Caribbean cruise. Hurricane meant all cancelled. Booked last minute flight to Vegas. Had a win which covered all wedding costs/ both honeymoons and more!

Wedding 1 - 2005
Honeymoon: Two weeks in the Maldives
My Dress: A diamond white strapless Maggie Sottero with A LOT of crystals. Worn with white flip flops.
Bridesmaids: Cornflower blue empire line chiffon
Flowers: Stargazer lilies
Mothers: I can't honestly remember
No. Of Guests: 50ish for the day, an extra 20 for the evening.

Wedding 2 - 2014 (different groom!)
Honeymoon: A long weekend in Whitby
My Dress: A dress I wore as a bridesmaid at my best friend's wedding a few months earlier that was handmade by her MIL. Silver grey, full circle skirt covered in sequins. Worn with red heels.
Bridesmaids: None
Flowers: A bunch of red roses bought from Sainsbuggers that morning. Two for his lapel, the rest for me.
Mothers: Only mine & she wore a cream and pale green ensemble.
No. Of Guests: My mum and her partner, my sister and her husband and their daughter.

My husband is American and we got married cheaply and more quickly than we otherwise would have for visa reasons so we could live together. The plan was for us to have another, bigger wedding/blessing when we can afford it in a few years time over in the States so his family can come. Not sure whether it will end up happening though.

Married in 2016
Honeymoon was Rome
I wore a 50s style wedding dress with pink shoes and flower in hair. Bridesmaids wore 50s style dresses in different colours.
My mum wore baby and cream, mil wore cream with pink accessories, she matched me almost exactly!

It was a really lovely day

• navy not baby!!

My first wedding was in the 1980s so my wedding dress had a huge skirt and big puffed sleeves. My bridesmaids wore light blue satin and both had dodgy perms. My mum and mIl wore brightly coloured long dresses with matching hats. We invited all the children and there are happy memories of me doing the hockey cockey with all the kids. I look back on the photos fondly as exh and many wedding guests are no longer alive. It was a big traditional, white wedding and we had the honeymoon in a country that we both loved visiting.

My second wedding was 9 years ago and I wore an ivory lace shift dress with a matching jacket. We had no bridesmaids but our teenaged DDs all wore brightly coloured dresses and one of them dyed her hair to match her dress. We had an afternoon tea with piano music playing in the background. Although it was a low key wedding we still had 100 people there including a few young children who made it a fun occasion. Our honeymoon was a few days in the Cotswolds at a lovely cosy hotel.

Wow - @GameOldBirdz post seems to have hit a raw nerve with a few of you ! I wonder why?

Got married 7 years ago in a semi-ruined castle by the sea. I remember playing there as I child, so it was wonderful to get married there.
I wore a Grecian style dress with a short train and a shoulder length veil.
Bridesmaid wore a blue knee length dress in the same style.
DM- scruffy trouser suit but at least she turned up.
MIL- flowery dress.
Flowers were sweet peas.
We had a celidh and Indian food for the reception.
Around 100 guests.
Honeymoon walking in Austria.
It was a bloody good day actually

I'm in full wedding mode at the moment so I'm loving this thread

Wedding 1:

Married in autumn 2006
5 bridesmaids, 4 friends and a sister, they all wore cheap red dresses bought on ebay.
I wore a random dress bought online that didn't fit properly, after the snooty women in the bridal shops put me off shopping for a wedding dress. They were so rude and nasty and I was young and pregnant. The judgement was palpable. No veil.
Can't remember what the mothers wore, some kind of pale coloured suits I think.
Married at a church on a main road opposite a fast food place, reception at a random sports hall.
About 100 guests, most of whom were friends of my parents who I didn't particularly want to invite.
I had 3 red roses and some green foliage as a bouquet, no other flowers.
Had a weekend in Europe as a honeymoon.

Wedding 2: (planned for 2020 so not all confirmed but my ideas are as follows)

Getting married in spring on a very special date for us, in a beautiful garden with a hog roast/BBQ for our meal.
About 50 guests, only very close friends and family.
I'm wearing an absolutely stunning dress with a big train that a very lovely MN helped me find (I started a thread about it ). I'm making my wedding crown and jewellery.
2 bridesmaids, just mine and dp's sisters - I'm going to say they can wear any pastel coloured dress they like, I want them to be comfortable.
DSS and DSons will be wearing pastel coloured suits, hopefully they'll be ringbearers and DNiece will be a flower girl.
DIY invites.
Growing my own seasonal flowers for my bouquet.
I'm going to make a simple 'naked' cake.
2-3 weeks on Route 66 for honeymoon.

Got married 20 years ago next month
Honeymooned in Paris (4 nights - was all we could really afford!)
My dress was ivory sleeveless v neck with lots of beading and pearls on the bodice, and a long train. Also wore my friend's veil (something borrowed) and long elbow length gloves, I thought they were lovely at the time but now I look at photos like what was I thinking!!
I had 7 flower girls (mine and DH's nieces) who wore lovely little yellow dresses with white sashes - our colour theme was yellow
We had about 80 guests for the daytime, family only (we have big families) but including all kids. For the evening I'm not sure but I think over 250 - we invited all cousins, workmates, wider circles of friends etc.

schrodingerstwat
I am not sure where you get that from a few posters mocking the ridiculous post from the grump.

There's something very sad when someone thinks their mortgage is a bigger commitment than their marriage and looks down at other people's big day. I am thinking someone is having big regrets on missing out.

"someone thinks their mortgage is a bigger commitment than their marriage"

What an odd thing to say. For many if not most people, a secure marital/family home is essential to a happy marriage and family. I don't regret for one second that we spent £13000 savings on a deposit for our first home, rather than blowing it on one day (or a few days if you count the honeymoon). And twenty years and three DDs later, the reassurance of knowing that we now own our current house outright is priceless.

Not everyone has the income to spend tens of thousands of pounds on both an extravagant wedding and honeymoon and a property, so yes, faced with choosing one or the other, we chose to sink the cash into getting on the property ladder and buying a home for ourselves and our future children. Our simple and inexpensive wedding was still special to us. No regrets whatsoever.

Id love to see photos

Well, I had 4 mortgages and am still on the same husband! (Not fully paid mortgages, but we sold, moved and got new mortgages).

There's nothing wrong with wanting a small intimate wedding, by all means, but being bitter against the ones who decide to splash on a big day smells of jealousy.

I had a nice wedding, a luxurious honeymoon (even more luxurious than the one originally planned thanks to the generosity of our wedding guests) and I don't regret a minute of it. It will be years, possibly decades, until we can spend so much selfishly on ourselves, now most of our money and savings goes to our kids.

Still a big chunk of mortgage to pay on my current home, but it's only a house, at the very worst we could downsize. My mortgage is definitively not a bigger commitment than my marriage, which is what the grumpy poster came up with!

when you got married - 2001 in Vegas (By Elvis)
where you honeymooned - San Diago
what you/bridesmaids wore - simple cream dress, no bridesmaids
flowers - nope
what mothers wore - didn't come
approx how many guests - 0

Did have a big party back home 4 weeks later - 150 guests, 1 small child in a frilly frock (step daughter) and my mum wore a lilac pants and a floaty top!

Bump

when you got married we’re getting married July next year

where you honeymooned we won’t be having one - we can’t afford it after paying for the wedding!

what you/bridesmaids wore I’m wearing a traditional ‘A’line dress, ivory with a champagne coloured satin lining and DP (same sex wedding) is wearing a traditional ‘A’line ivory dress with a grey/purple satin lining. Not sure about veils yet. As it’ll be winter I’m toying with a full length ivory hooded fur or velvet cloak. Chief bridesmaid is in dark purple, other two bridesmaids in lilac. Groomsmen are in black suits with black shirts and purple ties, page boy is wearing a bear suit.

flowers bridal bouquets are cream and purple roses, bridesmaids are cream roses

what mothers wore? no idea, that’s up to them

approx how many guests 70 all day guests, not having extras for the evening

I got married in 1969. My Mil wore a lovely, peacock blue, two-piece shot silk ‘costume’. She is very tiny and decided to top it with a huge white hat, carry a enormous white handbag and wore a fur stole around her shoulders.

My bridesmaids, poor things, wore peach satin flimsy dresses. They were poorly made by someone my mum knew. The temperature was minus 2 and we all froze. My mum had a row with the photograph .
because he was taking too long.

We had a weeks honeymoon in Majorca. Having never been abroad before we assumed we were heading off to the sun. We froze all week, the hotel was miles from anywhere and full of elderly people.

We got married in July 2013.
And honeymooned in Venice a week later, my two cousins were my bridesmaids and they wore matching cornflower blue dresses, although they were given a choice of any dress they liked. I had minimal flowers - white avalanche roses and freesias. No clue what my mil wore but my mum wore a lovely champagne dress covered in huge flowers and looked fantastic! We had 80 guests for our reception and 160 for the evening. I deliberately didn’t have any flowers for guests (I refused to pay for something that would just die - my mum inisisted on buying the bouquets) but my mil took it into her head to order some for herself.
My flower girl was 5 and wore a gorgeous cream ball gown of a dress and a sparkly tiara. The entire wedding centred around her dress, so mine was chosen accordingly. We had a great day and really enjoyed ourselves. We are still told today we had the best wedding ever!

@Izzywigs love 60s style, can you post some photos on here? Even just the outfits if you cover the faces??

Any more from the 60s,80s,90s?

Honeymoon- the Lake District
Bridesmaids- knee length claret dresses
Bridesmaid's flowers- lilies
My flowers- bright pink gerberas.
Guests about 150

My dress was Aline champagne colour with lace detail, still love it!

Was a fab day full of laughter and good friends/ family.

Married in 2010 in a Scottish keep (like a laird's house).
I wore ivory, a beautiful corseted, asymmetrical layered dress I bought off the rack at the Scottish Wedding Show (and in continuing tradition my new sister-in-law also got hers there last year). No veil, I had a custom made miniature hat.
Groom in kilt and jacket.
2 bridesmaid's, my sister and my best friend in burgundy dresses from BHS.
26 day guests so we could have dinner in the dining room.
Swing band in the evening.
Cake was decorated with toadstools.
Fairy decorations on the glasses and little faeries in the three bouquets. I had lilies and the bridesmaid's had roses (I think). All synthetic so no need to dry them or anything.
And in the evening my bridesmaids and I had fairy wings.