Who else is tired of the same ol’ wedding? These wedding goers share the most unusual, yet impressive thing they saw at a wedding that they couldn’t help but share on the web. Content has been edited for clarity.
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Her Own Touch To Everything
“At my first wedding, I couldn’t find a dress I liked, so I had one made out of ivory shantung silk, with an overdress made of sheer white burn-out satin. It cost about 400 dollars. I talked my fiance into spending 1k on a suit (with two pairs of pants) because he’d have lots of opportunities to wear it again, whereas I could wear the overdress as a nightie, but I was still not sure what I should do with the silk sheath. I hate impractical stuff like wedding dresses that cost 5k. Just couldn’t go there.
We walked down the aisle to Bron-Y-Aur (Jimmy Page instrumental). I had too many close girlfriends to pick bridesmaids, so my brother was my Man of Honor, and as I walked down the aisle, I collected flowers from my ten closest girlfriends. My mom tied them up with a ribbon for me when I reached the altar.
Instead of cake, my fiance’s parents had pitched in for a weekend of pie-making, and we had 22 raspberry pies, which we had frozen until the wedding, and the night before the wedding, a friend delivered them to 11 friends to bake and bring to the wedding. This was a huge hit.
My friend Tom performed the Haida wedding dance for us at the end of the ceremony. So beautiful. It moved me to tears.
At the reception, a performance-artist friend and one of her friends performed as costumed stilt dancers. The kids loved it.
In addition to bubbles and disposable cameras on each table, we put little envelopes of wildflower seeds at each guest’s seat.
The thing about improvising to put your own touch on a wedding is that you become a stage director, in addition to all the other stuff you’re already doing.”
This “Beats” Any Other Dance Routine
“I was a groomsman at a wedding last February. The groomsmen, groom, and bride set up this Thriller/Beat it dance montage that no one else knew about.
About 15 minutes into the dancing at the reception, the groomsmen scattered to various corners of the hall. Then, the Thriller intro started. We had about 20-30 seconds to lurch and act like zombies until we all came together in the middle of the dance floor, then we broke out into the Thriller routine which lasted about 90 seconds.
As that ended, the groom and best man started to ‘argue’ over the bride. They ended up on opposite sides of the dance floor and split the groomsmen up between them. Then we did a ‘Beat it’ dance montage for about 30 seconds.
It was short, sweet, uncoordinated, and unforgettable.”
An Addition To The Ring Exchange
“At my sister’s wedding, she and her husband gave her daughter, who was seven at the time, a necklace after the exchanging of rings. It was really sweet that they made sure to include her in the whole thing, and acknowledge the fact that the marriage wasn’t just affecting my sister’s life.”
No Music, No Problem
“When we did our wedding we did EVERYTHING ourselves (the family) and so it was all very fun and interesting. An aunt was a wedding coordinator so we had most things covered.
Now the entire THEME of our wedding was family and closeness, my family had flown in from the east coast and hers from the middle and west coasts and we really wanted everyone to know that the wedding was for THEM, that the party was for them, and that we loved them and were glad they were a part of our lives.
Now when it came time for my wife to come out and walk the aisle, we had no music. Everyone sort of assumed someone else was doing the music, so nothing was ready. My friend was DJ’ing and had gigs of music but nothing had been selected or prepared.
But everyone knows the wedding march, RIGHT?
So I addressed our friends and family and told them, ‘Look, we couldn’t agree on any music so you guys are going to be the music. I need you all to hum the wedding march, and I need you all to do it now, so thanks, begin.’
And that was it, BAM 120 or so people just started humming the wedding march. For a few bars, it started to sound like the star wars imperial march but there was this contingent of hard-core old ladies on my wife’s side in the back who kept everyone going right on time and tune. My wife walked the aisle to the sound of 120 of her closest friends and family gently humming the wedding march for her.
It was magical. The wedding planner aunt said in all her 300+ weddings she’s never seen it, but she stole it to use in future weddings because it was just magical. Everyone felt like a part of the ceremony and it was terrific.”
Boo-tiful Wedding Theme
“My fiance and I planned on getting married at the courthouse on a Friday, then having a ceremony and reception on Saturday. We met at a haunted house and ended up getting together every October for a few years, so we decided on getting married on Halloween weekend and having a costume party at our reception.
Also, our friend who was officiating us, did a Gob Bluth-style ‘magic trick’ to seal our union. It was something like holding up a sheet in front of us and tossing confetti around, then pulled it away with a flourish and shouting, ‘AND THE COUPLE IS NOW MARRIED! BAM!’
One of my friends got married in front of the giraffe habitat at the zoo, and then they had their favorite Greek restaurant do a lamb roast for the reception, completed with a little memorial shrine to the lamb because they have a delightfully sick sense of humor.”
A Trade
“My brother recently got married to a lovely girl in Japan. When the bride and groom were preparing to leave, the bride made a short speech about how grateful she was to my parents for raising a man like my brother.
She had made a teddy bear and put ball bearings in its tummy to add weight to it. It weighed exactly the same as my brother did when he was born. The bride presented the bear to my mother as a ‘trade’, since she was taking away her baby.
My mother didn’t let go of that bear for the rest of the night.”