Poll: Where did you get married?

[Mama Geek]

Title says it all...Just to add a little more fun to the board.

[Mama Geek]

I'll start, we got married in the church I was a member of. We had the reception there too.

[thescrappyhomeschooler]

Vegas, Baby! We eloped. We told no one but our two best friends who came with us. I chose my gay male best friend instead of my female best friend, because she had a young daughter at the time. We got married in the Bally's wedding chapel, wearing jeans and tennis shoes, then the 4 of us drove to Hoover Dam for the day. Came back and ate a buffet, got some goofy fake pictures of us in wedding attire, and called it a day. The next morning we called all our family and told them we weren't in Florida visiting dh's cousin after all!

[AnIslandGirl]

We had a beach wedding, so I voted outdoors. The reception was at our yacht club.

[MiniBlondes]

We got married in a teeny tiny little chapel.

[Joshin]

We got married in a conference room at the local Howard Johnson, because they had the cheapest rental rate. Just a few friends, close family, and one of our friends got licensed to perform the marriage. But, DH did wear his kilt :drool5:

[Wabi Sabi]

I voted other: it was outdoors but on the grounds of a Buddhist monastery. It was just us, the minister from the local UU church, and my cousin as witness. We weren't into having a big wedding.

[LinRTX]

We got married in a chapel.

[edeemarie]

We actually eloped out in California before dh was about to be deployed and had a big church wedding/ reception when he got back. Never had a honeymoon though because the night of the rehearsal dinner we found out he was getting deployed...again. Maybe someday!

[TravelingChris]

I said church but it really was a chapel.

[jelbe5]

We were married in the lovely chapel on the university campus my dh works on. It was a beautiful day!

[Scarlett]

I voted other...Bed and Breakfast.

[Mergath]

City hall. Neither of us felt much of an urge to spend a bunch of money on a wedding.

[dm379]

At a church. I wanted my uncle to marry us and he said he'd do it for free if it took place in his church.

[Spy Car]

We got married in a "rustic" (for being in the suburb of a major metropolis) chapel.

 

As it turned out, It was the same small chapel where Ronald Reagan and Nancy Davis were married.

 

Bill

[justamouse]

Which time? lol!

 

The first time we were married outdoors, the second time in church.

[Night Elf]

DH and I took off on a Friday to get married at the courthouse and were back to work on Monday. No wedding or reception for us.

[Dandelion]

On the beach in Jamaica. We were playing beach volleyball within 20 minutes of getting married. :-) We had a big reception at our house a few weeks later.

[chiguirre]

City hall and then church. In Venezuela (and most of Latin America) your civil marriage and religious ceremony are separate. The city hall ceremony was about 2 minutes long and we got married in shorts in the middle of moving all of our stuff into storage. The church wedding was a straight up traditional ceremony for the benefit of our parents, grandparents, assorted aunts and uncles, etc.

[Mama Geek]

We got married and I started my 4th semester of college a few days later. We took our honeymoon over spring break. Next month is our 18 year anniversary.

[Annie]

My aunt's living room at 8:30am on a Sunday morning. I think there were 12 people there including us. One of our dear friends preformed the ceremony. It was perfect for us. :-)

[DianeW88]

The Salt Lake City LDS temple.

[Parrothead]

Dh's church. Then again 11 years later in the Catholic church just after dh was confirmed.

[jar7709]

In my parents' backyard, a former horse pasture surrounded by trees. Under a arbor DH built for the purpose. <3

[Freckles]

We were married here. I think it is so pretty; I wanted to share.

 

 

[mazakaal]

We got married outside at a resort (timeshare sort of thing) that our friend's parents managed, so we didn't have to pay to rent it. The wedding dress that I had ordered was flawed, and the boutique refused to pay for the repairs on it, so I wore a plain white tank dress from The Limited, that I dressed up with accessories. Dh wore white dress shorts, a dress shirt and tie. My bridesmaids wore navy tank dresses like mine, and dh's groomsmen wore navy dress shorts with shirt and tie. It was really classy looking but super cheap. Lots of fun. And the rain shower was over a half hour before the ceremony, so there was time for the guests to wipe down the chairs before we started. :D

 

eta: I just googled the resort where we got married to see how it looks now, nearly 20 years later. I'm so sad. It ceased trading in 2006 after over 50 years in business and the new owners now have planning permission to put up a 6-story, 100-foot building with 34 residential units. It used to be an old 1 story, old-Florida style resort right on the ocean. Now it'll be just another new-Florida monstrosity.

[DawnM]

Church. My parents would have flipped if I had been married anywhere else, they are VERY old fashioned about it! Apparently God can only be found in a church. :laugh:

[dbmamaz]

I said other because I was married at home both times . . . i guess the first one was in the back yard for the actual legal part, but then it was raining so the rest was in our house (we already were pregnant w our second child). The second one - honestly, in the living room of my town house. It was ONLY close family, no friends at all. The first one was maybe 50 people. My mom made the food both times.

[MrsBasil]

A refurbished movie theater from the 1940s turned events center.

[tabrizia]

I voted Outside, but realized I voted wrong should have been other.

 

The first wedding was at the Hindu temple with a reception at a local Indian restaraunt.

 

our second wedding (2 days later) was outside on the grounds of a gorgeous old house and the reception was there as well.

 

Our third reception was in a small town outside of New Dehli in India, forturnately my FIL talked his relatives out of a third wedding cerimony.

[lexi]

We were married in a old dry cleaners which had been rennovated to a small wedding chapel. It was so cute. We were married late in the evening and had tons of candles. It was really pretty and simple. My grandpa married us.

[Impish]

Wolf's uncle married us at the church he where he was a pastor.

[Heather in Neverland]

Well let's see... I was raised Pentecostal and the church I attended burned down about 6 months before we were married.

 

Dh was raised catholic but since he was divorced and planning on getting remarried to a non-catholic, his church was obviously out of the question.

 

So we found some random church called "The First Congregational Church" and they married us for a fee... No questions asked.

[Joyofsixreboot]

Married by a judge in our apartment.

[Elinor Everywhere]

We were married on a friend's sailboat in the basin near our yacht club.

 

I was nervous because February in San Diego can be dicey for an outdoor wedding, but it was a beautiful sunny day.

 

My dh was nervous because he was afraid I wouldn't show up. :laugh:

[thessa516]

Outdoors right next to Niagara Falls. It was gorgeous!

[AdventureMoms]

Outside at Niagara Falls! The best part was that the city of Niagara Falls set the whole thing up and paid for it all!

 

But we did up and go with 3 days notice with three kids under 3, so it was pretty much an elopement. My parents and one set of relatives who live close by did show up though. It was fun!

[FaithManor]

We were married in my parents church under protest. Not protesting getting married...but the THEIR CHURCH part of it and THEIR PASTOR (control freak, woman hating, legalistic, my way or the highway type individual). However, my parents were paying for it and the church we wanted to get married in could not seat all of the people my parents were determined to invite. Since they were paying for it and prepared to be brutally disappointed in us if we didn't let them invite all 350 people who attended their church, blech..we let it go.

 

Sigh...it had 70's orange carpet and well, it was just ugly. Our pictures are awful from the ceremony. The pics we had blown up were all taken elsewhere that day.

 

DD is not getting married in our home church. It's dark and dreary. The decorating committee, following modern trends, painted a sanctuary that seats 500, purple (greyish and fairly dark) and taupe. The carpet is purple, there are too few windows and not enough lighting to compensate, purple pew coverings, walnut woodwork, and wrought iron type wall crosses. It looks like a cave and since this is a small wedding, 80 people, we'd be swallowed up in there. She's marrying in a different church. Oh, and the narthex/foyer is purple and taupe and the committee members all chipped in to buy two leather couches, a couple of leather wingback chairs, paisly curtains, and a gas log fireplace. Seriously, it looks like a hotel conference center. If it weren't for the Bibles and what not around, you'd never know you stepped into a church.

 

I wanted to get married outside. However, my grandfather's health was very, very poor and he couldn't sit in the sun for any length of time. Since he was walking me down the aisle along with my dad, indoors was a must. It was a good trade off though because grandpa only lasted one year after we married and I have a marvelous pic of us together waiting to go down the aisle.

 

Faith

[justLisa]

We got married in a teeny tiny little chapel.

 

 

 

So did we! It was lovely with a little white picket fence outside and all. The outside was covered in roses everywhere, including climbing over the trellis where we had pictures taken. I loved it.

[Mama Geek]

We were married on a friend's sailboat in the basin near our yacht club.

 

I was nervous because February in San Diego can be dicey for an outdoor wedding, but it was a beautiful sunny day.

 

My dh was nervous because he was afraid I wouldn't show up. :laugh:

 

If we ever renew our vows this sounds perfect.

[mommaduck]

We got married at the Baptist church we were both members of (I had switched from my Independent Fundamental Baptist church to his Southern Baptist church when we started dating).

 

Four years into Orthodoxy and I'm still waiting for our marriage to be blessed. My stefana is in the office of my former priest :( I would like our current priest to bless our marriage. My nouna is in PA and had bought the stefana. Just at an awkward position all the way around. I'm wondering if I should just wait till we settle before we deal with it, but I would like for our friends to attend.

[VeganCupcake]

The Salt Lake City LDS temple.

 

Us too. :)

[somo_chickenlady]

We got married at a country club that my aunt and uncle were members of. We were supposed to get married at the church I grew up going to, but they neglected to tell us that there was a deposit to pay, and two weeks before our wedding they gave away our spot to an "emergency" wedding and we had to scramble to find somewhere else to get married. It ended up being great, though, b/c we were already having our reception there, so we (and our guests and attendants) didn't have to travel between the wedding and the reception. :)

[Elizabeth in MN]

VEGAS BABY! We got married at the Graceland Wedding Chapel, and Elvis gave me away. No family, two friends, and a whole lot of fun. Afterwards I got very drunk, stuffed myself at a buffet, and my now ex made back all the money we spent by counting cards at The Sands.

[KrissiK]

Church. Very traditional wedding.

[Jeannie in NJ]

we got married at city hall with just our parents and our friend that had introduced us to each other 9.5 years prior. We then had a fairly big reception at an oceanfront condo that we rented for the night. There was a huge deck right over the ocean.

 

My dd says when she gets married, she wants it to be either on the beach or at the chapel at the Grand Floridian at Disney World.

[Jayne J]

At my mother's home, under a little rose covered arbor outside. Right on top of the septic mound. The grass was so very green... :)

[Mrs Mungo]

We were married in my grandparents' living room. We had a church wedding later. :)

 

Eta: like several others, it was due to dh's army training schedule, not anything else.

[Farrar]

In a fancy city-owned (in other words, it looked like a many thousands of dollars venue, but was only $75 to rent) rose garden, under a trellis. My mother is an ordained minister - she did the ceremony.

[Crimson Wife]

We moved up our wedding by 18 mos (not a "shotgun" situation but because DH and I decided 1 month into his Army Officer Basic that we were miserable without each other) and our denomination had a strict 6 month waiting period. We didn't qualify for any of the exceptions even though we had already been engaged for over 6 months and had started the pre-wedding requirements (counseling, etc.) So we went over to the courthouse and had a civil ceremony. Later we had a renewal-of-vows/blessing ceremony in our church.