Weddings

ShallowSeas · June 2014

@beethery thanks! "Whiskey in the Jar is an excellent choice

We are doing DIY centerpieces. I wanted lanterns and found 7.5 inch lanterns at Hobby Lobby on sale, so FI and I made pedestals for them out of glass candlesticks and glass candle plates and primed and painted them. We'll place a lantern on each one and surround the base of the lantern with baby's breath. We DIY'd our table numbers too.

theartistformerlyknownas · June 2014

I'm not sure how to describe our wedding (which is in 2 1/2 months!!!!). Its definitely our own and definitely shows our personalities. Its somewhat tradition in that we have a wedding party, a traditional processional, I'm wearing a white dress, and I'm walking out to Canon in D because I've always pictured myself walking out to that song. We are having a violinist do the processional songs. Instead of having some kind of unity candle or sand, we are doing Celtic Blessing Stones since FI's family is Celtic. Our recessional song is "Learn Me Right" from the Disney/Pixar movie "Brave".

We are walking into the reception to Dropkick Murphys' "Shipping Up To Boston". We are having a cocktail hour, dinner, and then a popular band in our city who we are friends with will be playing the reception. I'm so excited about this. We are not doing a garter or bouquet toss. Definitely not a Dollar Dance which was suggested by EVERYONE we know. No thanks. But we are doing the traditional dances; mother/son, father/daughter, first dance (Tenerife Sea by Ed Sheeran). Lots of beer, lots of dancing, exactly how we wanted it.

Ooh songs! I'm walking down the aisle to an acoustic guitar version of "Fairytale Love," the them from The Princess Bride. Recessing to "Best Day of My Life" by American Authors.

WP is getting introduced to Final Countdown because that's the Detroit Pistons entrance song, and FI is a huge fan. It will change to Emeli Sande, "Next to Me" for us ("You won't find him drinking under the table, rolling dice or staying out til 3. You won't ever find him where the rest go; you will find him, you'll find him next to me." Hits home for me since FI is in recovery and if he was still drinking, we likely wouldn't have ended up together.)

Our first dance, "Fall Into Me" by Brantley Gilbert... (clicky!) the "whisper away from changing everything" line gets to me because the first time he told me he loved me he whispered it in my ear after telling me how scared he was to say it.

Father/daughter dance is "Walk With You" by Edwin McCain (clicky!)

He hasn't decided on mother/son yet... part of me would LOVE to surprise them by playing "Bride Over Troubled Water" for them on the piano (she held them all together when his dad and sister died), but I don't think I can get through it without ugly crying.

climbingsingle · June 2014

@beethery I'm making our centerpieces. I'm painting wine bottles and doing votives and vases full of corks.

beethery · June 2014

I don't drink enough to do things with glass liquor bottles, though I would LOOOOOOOOOOVE to use a whole shit ton of St. Germain bottles. FI drinks big bottles of Three Olives vodka but I don't like the style. Poot.

Processional Song:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CfYl6_f2Mdg

and I think this is the father-daughter dance song (short!!!! less ugly sobbing and burbles!!!!)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aSmGGhEWMUM

theartistformerlyknownas · June 2014

@beethery we're DIYing the centerpieces... they'll be kind of a mismatched cluster. A mercury glass flower bowl (various shapes and sizes, thrifted, mixed gold and silver) and a taller cut glass vase with flowers and succulents, two glass candle holders with pillar candles and three mixed gold and silver mercury glass votive holders. This is the general idea but with all the wrong flowers.

climbingsingle · June 2014

I don't even want to admit how many wine bottles I've collected over the last year. And it's all from us drinking and entertaining.

jenna8984 · June 2014

Well mine is only 3 months away and I'm in planning mode all over again since we decided 3 days ago to scrap our entire thing and start over hahah. There is a ski mountain 45 minutes away where FI loves to snowboard. There is a road to the top and the top is all flat/ grass for walking around so we are going to drive up and do all our photos before the ceremony. Then we will whip out chairs and an arbor from the truck and set them up. Our 15 family members will arrive and we'll do the ceremony and take a few pictures with them. Then we'll head to a private room at a swanky restaurant. Since we just decided on this earlier in the week, we have appointments at 2 restaurants this Saturday to book one of them! No DJ but I'm considering an ipod to have a first dance.

VulgarGirl · June 2014

At this point our centerpieces are going to be little signs that say "Imagine a fucking ceterpiece of your choosing here" because I can't think of a damn thing I want.

beethery · June 2014

@lolo883 even though those aren't the correct flowers, those are gorgeous. Your shit is going to be swanky as helllll

theartistformerlyknownas · June 2014

beethery said:

@lolo883 even though those aren't the correct flowers, those are gorgeous. Your shit is going to be swanky as helllll

Thanks!!!

If nothing else, I got a lot of hours of huffing spray paint in the garage out of the deal.

beethery · June 2014

lolo883 said:

beethery said:

@lolo883 even though those aren't the correct flowers, those are gorgeous. Your shit is going to be swanky as helllll

Thanks!!! If nothing else, I got a lot of hours of huffing spray paint in the garage out of the deal.

I'm wearing Miss Alyson out but she's been relevant lately.

I'm gonna need to hit Costco and try to order a pallet of duster when it comes time to actually hand off the money for all the wedding shit. How else am I gonna walk on sunshine??????

lkristenj · June 2014

ClimbingBrideNY said:

I don't even want to admit how many wine bottles I've collected over the last year. And it's all from us drinking and entertaining.

FI's mom and step-dad are super wine people. Seriously. When they travel, it centers around what wine they can drink there. She's a member of seemingly a million wine clubs and gets cases sent to the house on a regular basis. She attended a sale for the Houston Rodeo's Wine committee (getting rid of unused inventory) and brought home probably 10 cases of wine. Also, she's ordering no less than 3 cases for the rehearsal dinner (50 people - big families, many from OOT) when my side doesn't even drink! It's not uncommon for family gatherings at her house to kill 5 bottles of wine at least, sometimes before dinner. They love to entertain. It's amazing for me to stop and actually think about how much money they must spend on just wine. But they love it. I think between them and FI's homebrewing, we'll have all the bottles we could possibly need for our 28 long tables.

LadyMillil · June 2014

Our wedding was traditional with an evening reception. However, we did a lot of things that aren't common in my hometown. I wanted a lovely spring wedding with the spring bulbs out, cherry blossoms, and new leaves on the trees. Unfortunately, the weather didn't cooperate. We had to move our outdoor ceremony indoors at the last minute. This caused a slight "gap" because the hotel needed to change the ballroom from ceremony to dinner set-up. We did a receiving line with our parents at this time and mingled with the guests. A 20 minute gap with no food and drink was definitely better than the standard 3 hour gap that every wedding I've been to has had. I walked down the aisle by myself to Canon in D. This caused a lot of drama with my parents. I told them months in advance that I was walking alone and they thought I was kidding. We were married by my childhood minister. She did an amazing job personalizing the ceremony. We played "Love Story" by Taylor Swift while we signed the papers and "All of Me" by John Legend for the recessional. We only had DH and I introduced at the reception. We walked in to the theme from Game of Thrones (DH picked). Dinner was a 3 course meal with dessert. During dessert my best friend, who was a bridesmaid, gave a toast, and both DH's BMs gave toasts. MOH was bridezilla sister and we didn't trust her with a mic. Somehow she managed to spill her dinner on my dress. It was a plated meal and we were both seated so I'm not sure how she managed that. After the toasts we did our first dance to the Piano Guys cover of "A Thousand Years". That was followed by a combined father/daughter and mother/son dance. I didn't want to do this but DH did. He picked some sort of instrumental piece from Star Trek for the dance. We had some dancing earlier in the evening, but most people ended up talking and drinking. We didn't do a bouquet toss or garter toss because we had 1 single guy and 1 single lady. We did cut the cake and feed each other. The cake cutting was about 2 hours after dinner and was when the "late night" snack of build your own poutine was available. We had take out containers available for anyone who wanted to bring a wedding cupcake home. This made our favours homemade cupcakes and apple cider. ETA - I swear I have paragraphs!

pinkcow13 · June 2014

I will be walking down the aisle to Canon in D also. The way I envision it is to have the bridal party all enter to the song, and I enter during the big "flare up" of the song. Not sure if that will work out, I guess we can figure it out as we get closer to the date.

I have no idea what to do about centerpieces.

loveislouder · June 2014

@inkdancer JOHNNY CASH DOES A COVER?! I absolutely LOVE that song and I wanted to use it but now that I know there's a Johnny Cash version... it's happening. Stupid office computers with no speakers so I can't listen to it right nowwww

Inkdancer · June 2014

loveislouder said:

@inkdancer JOHNNY CASH DOES A COVER?! I absolutely LOVE that song and I wanted to use it but now that I know there's a Johnny Cash version... it's happening. Stupid office computers with no speakers so I can't listen to it right nowwww

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HlhcyWLORes For when you get home.

CamiSelene · June 2014

We're going fairly traditional with fun bits of our personalities mixed in...

Our ceremony will be in a park in the city by a waterfall. FI's parents are accomplished musicians and will be playing the guitar and violin during the processional, then his dad is going to play while his sister sings during the signing portion. I am also having my mom and grandma walk down the aisle first to begin the processional. GM will be meeting the BM's at the back and handing them their bouquets before walking down the aisle.

The reception will be at a swanky hotel in the city (they've even set aside a room for us in case it rains). The bridal party is walking in to "The Final Countdown" and will change to "You're my best friend" for when we walk in. Shortly after walking in, we'll be cutting the cake so we can include it in our dessert buffet. The cake is going to be awesome! It'll look like a galaxy with Han and Leia toppers and we'll be using a diy lightsaber cake knife because we're nerds like that.

Our first dance song will be "Smile" by Uncle Kracker, father/daughter dance is "I loved her first", and mother son is "Blackbird".

To open the dance floor, we are planning on playing a song by my grandma's favourite singer and FI plans on asking her to dance (since it is her also wedding anniversary and the first big event she'll be going to since my grandpa passed) while I ask my grandpa to dance. We will be doing a bouquet and garter toss but it will be for all, not just singles.

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