Interesting weddings

Creyo

I was just watching the video on the right side of the screen and saw kilted groomsmen. (Granted, I work at a renaissance faire so thats kinda a norm for me, but I was caught off guard seeing them at my real job computer desk. )Anyways, what are some of the most unique/interesting/weird things you've seen or heard about in weddings? What odd themes made you go "eh?"Personally, I loved that video of the wedding party doing that dance down the aisle. It was groovy.

loopy82

A friend's family member had a PJ wedding and got married in PJ's. I also recently saw pictures from someone who got married on a baseball field on the pitchers mound. (this was a field in a rinkydink little town not a major league field.)  

cutiepie74745

My cousin and her husband eloped to Las Vegas (just the two of them on a whim) and wanted to have an actual wedding back home for all the family, so they (appropriately) did a Vegas theme. It was pretty awesome, their cake emulated dice and was on a green felt-looking table cloth. The minister who married them (also a family friend) dressed up like Elvis, and they had black jack tables set up at the reception. It was really fun! (and a nice change from the 'generic' wedding)

chosen175

We're down to 2 options for our venue and one is our local zoo. We can do the ceremony by the fountain, and then cocktail hour is INSIDE one of 6 exhibits. Then the guests would ride the zoo tram to a more "typical" restaurant/room for dinner and dancing. For an extra $500, they will let you get married IN one of the exhibits, such as in front of the dolphin underwater viewing windows.

Acrosthec

Chosen~ I don't mean to pry, and feel free to tell me to butt out, but I remember you from the Savannah board...did you have so many contract issues that you finally just gave up on them?

oceana919

I was at a wedding once where the bridal party literally danced down the aisle like Soul Train. It was pretty neat, save that the bridal party was like, 10 women, and they sashayed so slow down the aisle that they had to repeat the song.

chosen175

Yes, we had to give up on the Savannah wedding.  Our venue was so unprofessional, and I really wanted to give them the benefit of the doubt because the place was GORGEOUS!  But when they had the nerve to call me and leave a voice mail, asking for the website and name of the person who had written a review that mentioned a negative aspect so they could CALL the person and ask why they were spreading untrue lies, I thought "OK, this is it - we're done."  We moved the wedding back home and I'm a little sad, but I know that I couldn't handle a venue like that and we couldn't afford to go back down there to interview more venues.  I know we'll visit Savannah in the future, but not for our wedding.

Acrosthec

That's unfortunate.  I'm sorry about the way your venue acted, but I'm glad it didn't tarnish your feelings on the entire city. 

Sooles

zoo wedding sounds awesome!! some cool weddings ive seen in my city: - medieval wedding - every guest was in costume (my mom's wedding!)- halloween costume wedding-wedding on a 50-passenger cruise boat touring the harbour oh, and i have a cousin who ran away to vegas and got married in a white bikini.

chosen175

Oh, I absolutely ADORE Savannah! I'd love to live there, but couldn't handle those brutal summers y'all have. lol We even chose Savannah as dd's middle name. I'm hoping we'll get down there in a year or 2 after the wedding is over.... if we do, I'll post on the Savannah board and see if we can rustle some knotties up for a GTG.

ngiguere

I was in a wedding of a friend of mine a few months ago. She and her husband are both German, and even though they were married in America (most of their friends and family are here), they decided to have some German traditions. So, I guess in a German ceremony, the couple has at least one "first task as a couple." And a really traditional one is for the couple to use a back-and-forth two-person wood saw and saw a log in half! It was actually kinda neat, and definitely nothing I had ever seen before. These two formally dressed people, looking their absolute best, completing this somewhat difficult physical task together. They managed to do it pretty quickly, too! I don't know if there is symbolism behind the log thing or if it's just a tradition, but regardless, I thought it was kinda fun. Not exactly your run-of-the-mill ceremony.