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Greetings, all - my wife, Mrs. DaLump, is on a little vacation trip until early next week. I got to thinking that the story of our wedding might be worth a chuckle.

She and I were together for many years before the official wedding, and didn't see any need to "fix" our relationship if it wasn't broken. Then, she lost her job at the feed mill. No fault of her own, they had been using meat and bone products to make ingredients for animal feed, and with the advent of mad cow disease, well, you might say that the line of work she was in was declared illegal. She got a very nice severance package, but was having trouble getting placed anywhere. Her severance finally reached the point it would expire soon, and she still didn't have any prospects. At that point, we decided we'd need to get officially hitched so I could move her onto my insurance.

Now, she's diabetic, and has foot problems. We told the head wound care nurse at the facility where we get her feet treated that there was a wedding coming up. Well, the head nurse went bonkers and just HAD to throw us a wedding. So, one afternoon a week later, we were all there. One of the other nurses played the organ, the hospital chaplain married us, and cake and punch were had by all.

After watching "The African Queen" with Humphrey Bogart, I always like to tell the story by finishing up like this: "I now pronounce you man and wife. Proceed with the debridement."

All right, kind of boring, but she and I get a laugh out of it.

LOL! That is funny.

My DH and I were married out in the sheep pasture and our shearer did the honors. Afterwards we all had cake - sheep shaped, of course, and with black jelly beans artfully arranged at the "business" end of the "sheep".

These stories are so cute! Here's mine: we both have Scottish heritage that we are really proud of, so we decided to get married in Scotland. We found the old church that my husband's clan had attended for hundreds of years in his native clan area and were married there (yes he wore his kilt and yes it was damn sexy!). It was so cool because in the church graveyard almost every headstone had our last name on it.

Only my mom and his mom could go to Scotland so they were our witnesses, etc. (we had a reception party back in the states later)

For our honeymoon we backpacked and rode the train all over Scotland for 3 weeks. It was a blast--the funniest part though was that because we had booked all the hotels in advance, they thought we weren't a couple (diff. last names) and so ALL the hotels had rooms for us with 2 twin beds! We still laugh about it; every night we had to shove two little beds together and sometimes one of us would fall through the crack.

Who else wants to share their story?

I'm loving these wedding stories. Louie, that is so cool that the nurses threw you a wedding. Llyn, as a former cake decorator, I love the sheep-shapted wedding cake and Kinderfrei, a Scottish wedding and honeymoon is so cool. We love Europe!

Our wedding was more typical than any of yours, so while it was a wonderful day, I don't have much to tell.... Let's see...

We love Phantom of the Opera, so we had The Music of the Night played as our attenedants walked down the aisle and All I Ask of You as our wedding march. I walked down the aisle (alone) and he walked up the aisle and met me in the middle & we walked down the aisle together. That was one thing I really liked that we did.

We also had our various cultures represented by serving Italian and Mexican food and having an Irish priest and Spanish style dresses, the bridesmaids carried fans, the reception was in a beautiful Spanish-sytle building and the church was a replica of an old European church. Hubby's father is Spanish and his mother is Mexican. My mother is Italian and my father is Irish.

We got married on a beach here in Noosa (google Noosa main beach and you'll see how awesome that is), and had our reception in Richard Bransons favourite restaurant. Funniest bit was when the photographer had us walk along the beach to get some pics. We were so busy kissing we didn't see the wave coming in.... hubby was wet to the knees, I was drenched, and we couldn't stop laughing. It got better when we found the dye from his new shoes had turned his feet blue!! Made for some great wedding pics

I have a similar wedding party story. DW and I had been living together for 10 years beforehand. DW and I got married mainly because she was let go from her out of the house job and needed insurance, so we got married literally on the spur of the moment (within a week or so of that decision). I told my boss about it, and he told the secretary for the department. She organized an impromptu pre-wedding cake and mini-party thing before a 2 week-long getting married mini-vacation (which we ended up not going anywhere, but that was OK by us). That was the only "party" we had. We never got around to having another one for my parents and/or her parents. The pictures that were taken then are the only ones that I have of any celebration. We have to pretend that they were taken 'old fashioned style' because of the graininess on them.

I was nervous as hell as how I would act, because I do ***NOT*** like to be the center of attention. Luckily, I survived that and went on about life.

The wedding ceremony was just us and the wedding person (no witnesses needed in Virginia). The ceremony and officiant was totally non-religious, but the location was nice and pretty. No church for me for a wedding -- which shouldn't surprise anyone who has been around the forum a bit . Both DW and I had fancy digital cameras at the time, but did we remember to bring those? NooOooo .... so our wedding pics of the ceremony were taken on a disposable film camera.

Only bad thing is that during the last week of the time off, I was sick all that week, so it was not a time of easy relaxation. And the day after we got married, I lost my ring. The ring was too large by half a size, and it fell off in a Walmart DVD bin (after taking aforementioned disposable camera to get the ... ugh... film.... ugh ... developed) after the ceremony before I could get it resized. Oops

That's my story.