How did U have your wedding? Do U mind share your big day story and the proposal?

HisPresence

Hi, just a positive thread.

I'm a newlywed, 3 months into marriage. So I have alot to learn from all the marriage couples out there. Those who are married for long time or currently married. If there any marriage tips you can give, it be greatly appreciated.

And do you mind share your wedding story? Like did you have a wedding reception? How many guess invited?
Was both side of the family give their blessing? Was the wedding planning stressful?
I didn't have a wedding, we both just decided to get married. So I guess I want to hear other people experience in their wedding planning and their big day.
And how did your husband propose to you? Or how did you propose to your wife? Please share your happy moment proposal story.

I hope these questions are not too personal. I apologize if it is.

HisPresence

I guess I go first.
I got married with my then boyfriend now husband in a simple and quick City Hall/Courthouse ceremony. With two witness: his mother and my older brother.
I married him with nothing, without an engagement ring, without a wedding reception, without a honeymoon. In defense of my husband, it was me that choose not to have all that.
I did all these to protect him, IF one day he regret this marriage, at least there wasn’t much of any money spend on it.
I have No regrets though. He is an awesome awesome husband!!

There was no point of me having a wedding because nobody on my sides of the family going to show up.
My abusive Chinese mother didn't approve me dating my husband. She is a controlling mother. Both me and my older brother have move out more than a decade ago, we live on our own but as mommy she still trying to control who her children married.
I didn't have my parents blessing in my marriage, I do feel like a part of me is missing. In my Chinese culture, having parents blessing is very important, but this lifetime I won't ever get that from my mother.
Pretty much mom disown me, she have not talk to me since the day I got married. Now I only phone back home to talk to my old father. I do miss my father very much.

Eventhough we didn't have a wedding. Marriage is fine so far, we both are happy. Husband is working 12-14 hours everyday so we can have enough money for a small house down-payment. We both working and if Financial go as plan, we can move out of this cheap rent bad area neighborhood in 2016

As for the proposal.
I never got an 'official' proposal from my husband. Back then, every couple days he would bring up the sentence: “Baby. If you want, we can go register for marriage tomorrow”. His “whenever you ready, I’m just waiting on you” attitude talk. Maybe this was “his” style of proposing. He knows my mother disapproval of him.
I drag it for couple months, and I agree to let get married. We tied the knot at the City Hall/Courthouse on February 6th
It was quick and simple and cheap, but I have no regrets at all. He is an awesome husband, and I feel very blessed.
We not young anymore, I'm 30 and he is 29, it about time to get married, lol

Georgie.Girl

My former love proposed more than once... my fave was when we were dancing and he would whisper it... and it makes me cry thinking about it all... his last proposal was in a phone call from the Visayas islands, where he had spent two years (whence our contact had been limited to monthly snail mail). He sang me a song he'd been practicing on a friends guitar (which wasn't permitted in his field of service) then asked me to meet him at the airport and get married directly, before heading home. Unfortunately...we never did marry.

the song I cannae listen to anymore: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AeoisQWTg60

Shenshen

I guess mine would be a little unusual in that I proposed to him.

It's a bit of a long story - we were dating, and were out for a meal sometime in February 2007. He asked me over dinner if it was a leap year - I told him it wasn't and he grinned and said so he'd be safe for another year. Now, I'm not from the "anglosphere", so had no idea about the traditions around the 29th of February here. He explained them to me, and went on to say that if he hadn't proposed by the next 29th of February, I should dump him anyway as that would clearly show he was an idiot.
Well, 2008 rolled around, as did the 29th of February. I came home from work that evening and when he came home I told him he may be an idiot, but I didn't feel like dumping him, so he'd now have to marry me.

We had a civil ceremony in a beautiful hotel in Dingle, I had a wonderful purple dress (which himself had found online), and we had 15 of our closest friends and family celebrate with us.
There were a few grumbles, as both of us are vegetarian, so we had decided the wedding meal should not contain meat of fish, but once everyone was tucking into the gorgeous food it was happiness all round really
I didn't really go in for much planning - I drew the motive we put onto our invitations (the back of two cats sitting on a fence together, looking at the moon with their tails entwined), we printed them ourselves. And I hadn't ever thought of flowers until some girls at work mentioned them, so I got it in my head to have waterlilies both on the table and for my bouquet. Not all that easy to find, it turns out!

All in all, it was a great day

SparkySpitfire

Shenshen wrote: »

We had a civil ceremony in a beautiful hotel in Dingle, I had a wonderful purple dress (which himself had found online), and we had 15 of our closest friends and family celebrate with us.
There were a few grumbles, as both of us are vegetarian, so we had decided the wedding meal should not contain meat of fish, but once everyone was tucking into the gorgeous food it was happiness all round really
I didn't really go in for much planning - I drew the motive we put onto our invitations (the back of two cats sitting on a fence together, looking at the moon with their tails entwined), we printed them ourselves. And I hadn't ever thought of flowers until some girls at work mentioned them, so I got it in my head to have waterlilies both on the table and for my bouquet. Not all that easy to find, it turns out!

All in all, it was a great day

Sounds wonderful

CathyMoran

I proposed to him after a cancer diagnosis and he was in the airport. Still a bit emotional all of these years later. We had a tiny church wedding.