A wedding mem found via RaisingWEG

1.  Where and how did you meet your current spouse?
At a sweet 16 party for a mutual friend (I had gone to elementary school with her, and he went to high school with her.  We started talking because this friend’s cousin thought he was cute, but was afraid to talk to him.

2.  How long have you known each other?
16 years

3.  How long after you met did you start dating?
One week

4.  How long did you date before you were engaged?
Of and on for 7 years. We weren’t technically dating when we got engaged.  In fact, we hadn’t even seen each other for a few months and had only started talking to each other again a week or two before.

5.  How long was your engagement?
A few months.  We tried to elope, but that turned out to be harder than we thought it would be.

6.  How long have you been married?
9 years this December

7.  When is your anniversary?
New Year’s Eve   

8.  Where was your wedding?
Philadelphia, at a hall.  We were married by a non-denominational minister in the same place that we had our reception. After the reception about 40 of us, went to a club to celebrate New Year’s Eve. I wore my dress:)

9.  Describe your wedding costume.
Standard white dress.  I’ll try to find a pic to upload.

10.  How many people were in your bridal party?
Too many.

11. Are you still friends with them all?
About half of them.  Sadly, the guys my husband was friends with growing up have all drifted away.

12. Did your spouse cry during the ceremony?
I don’t know. Honestly that part is kind of a blur. 

13.  Do you wear wedding bands?  Are they engraved?  If so, what do they say?
We do.  They are not engraved.  In fact, they are not the ones we were married with.  Turns our neither of us actually liked them, but agreed to them because we thought the other one did. We make that mistake more often than we probably should.

14.  How many people came to your wedding reception?
About 100

15. Who paid?
We received some pre-wedding financial gifts from my parents and grandmother, and we paid for the rest. We skipped the rehearsal dinner, instead we went and had few beers with some of the bridal party and went shopping for music for the wedding (yes, the night before)

16.  What kind of cake did you serve?
My husbands cousin made our cake.  It was white with butter cream icing, and amazing.  It’s the best cake I have ever had. 

17.  What did you serve for your meal?
No idea.

18. What was your first dance?
Shania Twain, You’re Still the One

19.  Most special moment of your wedding day?
Dedicating a song to my parents for their first dance.  They didn’t have a big wedding, and never did the first dance thing, so my sisters and I decided to do that for them.  I think it was If I could write a book by Harry Connick jr.

20.  Any funny moments?
Right before the ceremony I was pretty much ready to bolt, and my Dad, sensing this looked at me, and lifted =the leg of his trousers to show me the Marvin the Martian socks he was wearing.  It worked (obviously as I am married)

During the ceremony I’m told that the DJ had arrived to set up for our reception, which was in the adjoining room, and tested the equipment by playing the theme song to Charlie Brown.  Everyone but me heard it.  See above about everything being a blur.

21.  Any big disasters?
None that I know about.

22.  Where did you go on your honeymoon?
We stayed at a hotel in Philadelphia for a few days, where we both came down with the flu, and then rented a U haul and moved to Georgia.

23. How long were you gone?
In Philadelphia, 2 days.  After we moved, 7 years.

24. If you were to do your wedding over, what would you change?
I’d have a live band., fewer attendants, more twinkling lights and there would be something outdoors.