The happy wedding vowes
May 28, 2018 1:29 AM   Subscribe

 
Respect for making a Princess Bride reference at what was really the perfect moment.
posted by Joe in Australia at 3:10 AM on May 28, 2018 [1 favorite]


Aw, look at them blush!
posted by The Underpants Monster at 5:49 AM on May 28, 2018


Oh my god what is this laugh-cry thing my face is doing? Make it stop!
posted by loquacious at 6:28 AM on May 28, 2018


That kind of silliness was just what I needed.
posted by mystyk at 6:57 AM on May 28, 2018


I think if a bride laughs like that at any wedding mishap - and there are ALWAYS mishaps, even if they're really minor - that's a good sign. One of my favorite photos from my brother's wedding was when they were at the altar; they were in the bride's parents backyard on what was a windier day than anticipated, and throughout the service my SIL's veil was blowing around like a flag. And at one point she just looked back over her shoulder at it streaming out behind her and laughed; she has a fantastic smile, and I caught her mid-laugh. It's a gorgeous shot.

Another one of my favorite weddings I've attended was a Jewish couple I know, who were both raised more reform but opted to have an Orthodox service to satisfy a grandparent or something. There are a lot of elements of a traditional Orthodox service which the bride was finding funny - from the veiling of the bride before the service, to the robe that the groom wore, to the bride circling the groom seven times - she had a huge train that kept getting tangled up around him, and her bridesmaids had to scoot along after her the whole time unwinding it. So she basically was laughing like this throughout the entire service.

Both these weddings I mention were 10 and 20 years ago respectively, and the couples are still married. I think laughter like this bodes well.
posted by EmpressCallipygos at 8:01 AM on May 28, 2018 [2 favorites]


I can testify that wedding crack-ups can be a very good sign indeed. When Hubby and I got married at San Francisco's beautiful City Hall, we were wearing the best clothes we already owned, a Thai silk suit for me, and a jacket, slacks, and freshly laundered shirt for him. After the judge finished the wedding vows, Hubby's sister took a few photos of us standing on the lovely marble staircase, me clasping my bouquet and Hubby ... peering at his jacket cuff. Like a magician with a silk handkerchief, he pulled a fabric softener sheet from his sleeve. His sister caught the moment in our favorite wedding photo - Hubby staring incredulously at the ridiculous thing in his hand, me with feet planted and head thrown back in laughter.

We'll be celebrating our 25th anniversary this August.
posted by Quietgal at 9:53 AM on May 28, 2018 [9 favorites]


When GCU Sweet and Full of Grace and I got married, we somehow thought that getting married in an indoor topical botanical garden in August was a good idea. The minster performing the service was a larger gentleman, dressed in a bright maroon robe, and he was sweating audibly. To the point where droplets were flying off him periodically. We'd also asked for a secular ceremony, so anywhere he had something religious in the service, he replaced it with "power and beauty"...after the tenth or so "power and beauty",, combined with something about Niagara Falls turning into rubble, and the sheer volume of perspiration coming off the beetroot-colored (and shaped) fellow, my beloved and I had to studiously avoid looking at each other, and in fact one or both of us may have had to clear our throats, to avoid cracking up during our own ceremony.

Reader, we're still happily married 16 years later.

(I loved this video)
posted by biscotti at 10:08 AM on May 28, 2018 [5 favorites]


Obviously, this guy's mind was on the waffle stacking record.

If I knew the couple, I would send them a bottle of maple syrup every anniversary.
posted by nubs at 10:42 AM on May 28, 2018


we somehow thought that getting married in an indoor topical botanical garden in August was a good idea

I think mostly we thought that:

(A) This turn-key, just-show-up-it's-all-taken-care-of wedding shop in Niagara Falls met our K1 visa needs, and eggzackly where the wedding was wasnae so important, and

(B) I refused to get married in a helicopter because chickenshit though to my credit mostly I was only afraid of spraying you with vomit.
posted by GCU Sweet and Full of Grace at 10:49 AM on May 28, 2018 [4 favorites]




This is great, thanks!
posted by Johnny Wallflower at 7:55 PM on May 28, 2018


Me, during our ceremony: "I pledge to you my faithful plow...."

*We were not farmers....
posted by mightshould at 6:12 AM on May 29, 2018 [1 favorite]


I do know my Bible sir. "On the night of their betrothal, the wife shall open to the man as the furrow to the plow and he shall work in her, in and again, 'til she bring him to his fall and rest him then upon the sweat of her breast."
posted by Johnny Wallflower at 8:52 AM on May 29, 2018 [2 favorites]


The beau and I aren't terribly religious, but we decided we wanted a kind of ritual during the ceremony, and settled on a candle-lighting.

...you can tell where this is going, right?

First, the lighter we had brought would not work. Then the lighter we procured from a guest also did not work. Finally a different guest just so happened to have matches in her purse, and those worked. But it was windy and the candles wouldn't stay lit.

Eventually everything stayed in place for the requisite thirty seconds necessary to actually conduct the ritual, and after that we just... moved on. To the cake. Where the Funko pop figures we'd bought to put on top of the cake WOULD NOT STAY ON TOP OF THE CAKE. (Peggy Carter, you are too damn top heavy with your teeny tiny heels. Captain America held up far better.)

It was still a perfectly lovely wedding.
posted by PearlRose at 9:50 AM on May 29, 2018 [1 favorite]


Nothing funny happened at our wedding, but for the rehearsal, we each went out and bought a funny plastic ring; as we went through the rehearsal, our officiant said "And now you guys give me your rings" and we both plopped big plastic rings out and handed them over. He thought it was very funny.

What amused me the most, though, was that the wedding was taking part in a rural area where my family has some property. My parents were having everyone over for dinner after the rehearsal (and, of course, the in-laws - not to be outdone - had to bring things that needed some prep), so everyone rushed off from the church post-rehearsal, leaving me and my bride to be standing there, alone, without a ride. It was a pleasant walk back for dinner.
posted by nubs at 10:21 AM on May 29, 2018


Me, during our ceremony: "I pledge to you my faithful plow...."

Sounds like a harrowing experience!

Y'know, I've never seen a candle-lighting ceremony where they didn't have trouble with the lighter/matches.
posted by The Underpants Monster at 11:02 AM on May 29, 2018 [2 favorites]


When I smoked, my trusty Zippo was the candle lighter for two Jewish weddings (a guest is supposed to supply the match or lighter). After the second time, I referred to it as the Mighty Flame of Moses. When I quit smoking, I gave it to the second couple.
posted by Johnny Wallflower at 1:15 PM on May 29, 2018 [1 favorite]


I suspect people may like this - Moment Junkie is a photo blog that collects lovely and unique moments from wedding photo sessions. You see a fair share of tender and heartfelt "parents hugging their kids" things, but you also see things like "I was taking a random picture of the guests and a kid in a horeshead mask walked in and I thought it was too weird not to shoot the photo".
posted by EmpressCallipygos at 1:55 PM on May 29, 2018


I was tempted to start a new FPP for this, but it probably is better here -

What's better than having your intended say "yes" when you propose? This is.

Video!
posted by EmpressCallipygos at 11:37 AM on May 30, 2018 [3 favorites]


Oh crap - THIS is the video.
posted by EmpressCallipygos at 12:30 PM on May 30, 2018 [1 favorite]


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