Wedding Graduates
We took a group of fifteen people to a bar at midnight because no one wanted the evening to end. It was the kind of wedding I didn’t think I was worthy of, and the kind I didn’t think I could throw.
Sharon + Jason
I thought that the best part would be the music or the food (you get into the kind of frame of mind while planning I think). But what blew me away was how much love was emanating from so many people.
Kate + Phillip
I felt at once both alone and together with Mark, committing ourselves to this shared vision of our future and so held up by everyone who was there to love us and the baby family we are building together.
Kaleigh + Mark
No matter what age you get married at, it will never be the “grown-up” wedding that you see in magazine spreads, because that is not you. You are youthful, you are free and bright and you want to dress only in flowers.
Laura + Tim
When the wedding was over and while we walked home, we got tons of congrats, marital advice, and even a group of construction workers singing “Here comes the bride!”
Bridget + Kevin
We were worried all along that our “imperfections” wouldn’t be what people expected in a wedding, but on the day we just felt surrounded by so much love.
Sunny + Phil
Having planned the wedding in tandem, the day was a genuine reflection of who we are as a couple. I can’t think of a better way to commence our married life.
Georgina + Salvatore
We ordered about 15 pizzas and probably hundreds of buckets of nips and danced to Robyn, Carly Rae, Collective Soul, you name it. All in all, it was a blast and we’re so lucky to have such awesome friends.
Emily + Colm
A fun, urban, arty party with a few romantic moments thrown in.
Emily + Nate
I had no time to worry. I had no time to be upset. Hangnails are worth getting upset about. Hurricane Sandy ripping apart easily laid wedding plans? That’s just something you plow through.
Anya + Csanad
Being surrounded by so many people we cherish who have been an integral part of our marriage throughout the years was the perfect way to celebrate our long relationship.
Karen + Stephen
We aren’t very good at staying up late or being the center of attention, so a low-key, midday lunch reception was just our style!
Philippa + Bryce
For me, getting married at home in Malaysia was what I needed to take me back to reality. It made our marriage real, because it embedded it in the context of my—now our—family.
Zen + Cephas II
In the end, making the food for our wedding took on a greater significance. It became a measure of our ability to stay true to how we would live: making things with our hands and our minds.
Amanda + Shaun
We wanted to tell our own story in our own words to make it clear that marriage was something we were choosing to do, and not something that was being done to us.
Anna + Daniel
What I want to say is that even if you are depressed you are still allowed moments of joy. So embrace that moment of pure love when you say, “I do.” It means you have a future despite your past.
Anna + Bean
And, it turns out, on the day, there were so many people wrapped up in all those little details, that I literally felt surrounded by love. Because it’s never about the details you get out. It’s about the love you put in.
Sam + Stew
I will always remember slow-dancing barefoot, while one of our friends was singing “At Last” and looking around and seeing everyone dancing, talking, or sitting with their feet in the pool. It was exactly what we wanted.
Robin + Rob
When I think back, what made it such an awesome day was less the grand sweep of the party, etc, and more the little snippets of memory and remembered emotion that still stick with me.
Elisabeth + Amin
A day we thought we would be about caring for our guests instead became a day when everyone cared lovingly for us.
Meg + Andy
Fictional grandchildren, this post is for you. What I’d like you to know about our wedding is that we loved each other, we wanted to be together, and we made it happen in the course of one daunting, magnificent year.
Madeline + Brandon
We’ll always remember how it felt to look out over the sun setting on the valley mountains and think “we got married today, aren’t we lucky!”
Caitlyn + Adam
As nice as the details were, as fun as some parts of planning were, everything that made the wedding the event it was did not come from the things we did, but from everyone else.
Zen + Cephas
I was tearing up before I could even make it down the aisle, but everything about it was perfect. The connectedness that I felt to all the family there supporting us was incredible.
Beth + Spencer
If you ever wonder about how many people love you and how much, have a wedding. You’ll know.
Chris + Eric
When my husband was diagnosed with appendicitis the night of our wedding, all my expectations for a beautiful, fun, relaxing wedding weekend and honeymoon were replaced with a surreal mix of emotions.
Viv + Len
In an instant we were awash in our friends and family and at the same time suspended, just the two of us, outside, with the sun, and wind, and our promises.
Brooke + John
We had a very small wedding. The intimacy of the ceremony was so special. Everyone contributed to help make our wedding more amazing than we could have ever imagined.
Dana + Kris
Our relationship felt somehow more real now that it was a marriage, more in need of protection, and it broke my heart to be away from my husband.
Allison + Tyler
We wanted to make sure the 46 people in the room knew that they were our nearest and dearest and that we would not be the same, or even together, without each one of them.
Anna + Kevin
We already felt partnered up, but we really didn’t know how to progress from our private commitment to each other to a more public and socially accepted version of our relationship. So we tried on a lot of ideas.
Kari + Mike
That day, we stood in pride, humility and amazement that after the wild ride of a relationship, we still had: each other, our amazing families and most beautiful friends.
Leeann + Jacob
The conversations I had with Rachel about our ceremony were the vehicle to do the real work of being engaged: figuring out what this step meant to us, and how we wanted to begin our married life.
Erica + Rachel
We had to have some hard conversations. But I never even expected to have the opportunity to have those conversations, so in the end it didn’t matter that they were hard, just that we got to have them.
Sarah + Jen
Bottom line is that I worked my butt off to have an easy, relaxing wedding day. But it was neither of those things, but because planning a wedding and getting married (like anything worthwhile) are a steep uphill climb.
Melanie + Ben
Initially having a destination/secular wedding was met with a great deal of opposition, but when the time came for everyone to pack their bags, everyone was in love with our wedding as much as we were.
Szerdi + Andrew
Paco and I were surrounded by the warmth of those who care about us and who showed their support for our new union through so many different ways. These are the details that mattered at our wedding.
Laura + Paco
We wrote our vows the morning of the wedding on striped cocktail napkins while sitting next to each other. In the end we picked the perfect tone and words that described exactly how we felt.
Lindsay + Josh
It meant that, for one time in our lives, Ben and I were going to be the center of attention and we were going to use that as a platform to tell the people in our lives what was important to us, and that, to us, was social justice.
Kaytlin + Ben
Favorite thing about the wedding: My wife.
Tracy + Lauren
At the last minute I felt compelled to add details, but in the end the only details that I remembered or anyone commented about were the ones that we had an emotional connection to.
Kelly + Soren
I still thought the wedding was something BIG that would change me. Now I realize that being a wife rocks, even if it doesn’t feel all that different.
Amanda + Jess
We had only twenty-five guests, and my mother officiated the ceremony, which included a ring blessing, where our rings were passed around and each guest made a silent blessing/prayer/thought before we exchanged them.
Evangeline + Adam
We had a bunch of events so that people could get to know one and other and make real connections throughout the weekend. By the time the wedding rolled around, all the guests were like old friends!
Nicolle + Paulie
In hindsight, it didn’t matter how much notice we gave. Feelings were still a little hurt. Everyone says “it’s your day,” but we learned it’s a day for everyone else, too.
Mandy + Luke
All I want to say is that I was a groom who was involved with the wedding. So I wore the groomzilla label as a badge of honor in order to keep my voice heard. Wearing the label empowered me to not slink back.
Dave + Ruchi
Perhaps one Indian woman + one Jewish man = two weddings, but we only had one marriage and one life together and there was no playbook for how to have a Hinjew wedding
Ruchi + Dave
We wanted to have a big party to celebrate not only our relationship, but all of our friends and family. We had the party at an art gallery where the exhibit was “modern interpretations of wizardry.”
Brandi + Joe
That feeling bled into the rest of the day, letting all the attention feel loving and fun and silly, instead of make believe and over the top.
Callie + San
