A nice chat about your wedding

My DH to be and I paid for our wedding. My parents were separated and I hadn't seen my father and mum couldn't afford to contribute and my in-laws to be had just bought their first house in their 50s and were struggling financially. We were married in the local church. My MiL made mine and the bridesmaid's dresses. We hired my old school hall with a bar run by willing aunts and uncles. We had a sit down buffet as we couldn't afford a hot meal and a big knees up in the evening. It was a wonderful day full of family and friends. With the deposit for a small flat and the cost of the wedding, there wasn't any money left for a honeymoon but, having never 'played house' before, it was a lovely time off work. Mind you,in the 46 years since, we've been lucky enough to have enough lovely holidays to make up for it.

We have been married nearly 50 years. There were 8 of us at St Pancras Town Hall. No parents. Our friends came back to us for champagne and cake. My husband says he paid 14/9d for the licence. It was Easter Saturday and I went back to work on the Tuesday. I would be too embarrassed to say how much my son and daughter in law paid for their wedding!

I had known my OH for 6 months when he was posted to Cyprus so we got engaged. 9 months later when he came back we got married in church, white wedding and 3 older bridesmaids, one 3yr old and a page boy. All in blue. It was a beautiful day, seeing as it was October! My father walked me down the aisle. We missed half of our reception and also missed the train to take us on honeymoon so FIL rushed us in his car to catch it at the next stop. Our guest house lady met us at 1am at the station and took us to the guest house and in the morning she knocked on the door and walked in with two bowls of cornflakes...! Our son was born 9 months later. When the wedding photos came I was horrified to see that on every one of me I was holding an 'L' plate that someone had sneaked in to my hand.....I was not amused! Lucky for me now my son has photo-shopped that out and I have one of OH and me and one with my bridesmaids and one of me on my own without the 'L' plate in a frame which he presented for my birthday.

We got married in the husbands local town hall in Frederiksberg, on the outskirts of Copenhagen. It was 25' on the 1st October so the mother didn't need the big heavy coat she'd dragged over!
I just wore a smart dress from Monsoon.

As we had to do the deed at 11am (just the ways things work over there) we went for a brunch at a nearby restaurant ... only invited immediate family, I think about 14 of us altogether.

With it being such a beautiful day, we went home to change into normal clothes and took everyone from my family sightseeing in the afternoon.

We came home here a couple of days later and set off on honeymoon to Mauritius the next day.

This was the 2nd wedding, for the first we just went and did it with 2 witnesses and told everyone later.

We were married in a village church, my father paid for everything ,this was only eight months after one of my sisters had married but he wanted this for us . No disagreements on guests, only stress was finding a deep cream wedding gown because I wouldn't/couldn't wear white. We married in January so because we wanted to take communion it made the service longer and the guests got rather cold ! The children in the village tied the Lychgate so we had to throw money to have the gate untied. The reception was in a hotel three miles from the village which was lovely . We left the hotel and drove eighty miles to our new home , unpacking the car we found my mother had packed my hot water bottle !

We had 8 years, 1 month and 1 day of a very happy marriage

The best wedding I've been to lately was organised in two weeks as the couple were moving to China. All the guests chipped in. They were married in a Registry Office. A friend provided a garden, another a small tent in case of rain, I picked up some food in the supermarket, another did a BBQ. The Brides sister took photos, others hired glasses and bought wine. We had a great day.

Love it GK. I think most people get married in a fever, I know we did and I consider myself lucky that we have lasted this long.

I think, like lots of us who married in the 60/70s, the wedding was more about what was 'right' than what we wanted or if your mother was Mrs Bucket it certainly was!

So, we had top hat and tails, long white dress, sit down reception with all the people my Mum wanted to impress. Mum made the cake and had it iced, I had one bridesmaid and DH's brother was banned from wearing the top hat and tails because his mardy wife hadn't had them at her wedding!!!

And, my brother almost came on honeymoon with us because he got on the train to say goodbye and it started to move out of the station.

As I say, I'm not quite sure how we made it to 46+ years, but we have!

"We got married in a fever" , still here many moons later.

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Enjoy a happy day and to you.

All of them. I am on a mission to only hear and read happy things for the rest of my life.

Best miss the first one out then

I'm sorry to hear that bellasnanna --it sounds as though there are many happy memories.

My first wedding was the white church do but not expensive cant remember now and I hated every minute of it as I didn't want to do it but mother instead- she seemed to regard me as some kind of unexploded bomb. The marriage lasted a couple of years (he drank) but I did get my lovely daughter from it so not all bad.

The second one was very low key as we were personae non grata- he was divorced and a bit older and I left No1 for him so it was registry office I did a small buffet at home- cost £10 for the food and whatever the licence was +£15 for the ring which I still wear. No honeymoon juts a meal at the pub. 39 years later we are still here.

We had a very low-key, registry office wedding as my DH had been married before. We also had two baby girls who were left with babysitters while we went to our wedding. My mum and her partner were our witnesses. We all went for a quick drink before I had to get back to feed the youngest baby.
Maybe not everyone's idea of a wedding, but we were happy as could be, very much in love and went on to have two more babies, and 35 happy years before cancer took him from me last year.

All of them. I am on a mission to only hear and read happy things for the rest of my life.

Which one would you like to hear about Flossieturner? I have had three !