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While it's true you may not have been in attendance (seeing as so many of us were likely nothing more than the proverbial "sparkle in the eye" at that point 
) -- I'm sure most everyone here has seen pics.
What did you love (and not love so much) about your parents wedding?
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Me, I *LOVED* my Mom's look. It was early 70's but her gown, veil, shoes all still hold up today, beautifully. I wish I had a pic of her to share, she was a GORGEOUS bride!
I also love that I have one of their favors - a red satiny personalized matchbook with every single match intact. It's something I treasure!
As for what I didn't love....oy, her bridesmaids gowns. I don't know WHAT she was thinking..lol...picture this: long, white pencil-style skirts (they looked STIFF in the pics) On top they wore sheer brown poofy shirt s(think Seinfeld) with a high, ruffled collar...and it looked like brown tank tops underneath...and then around their waists was a limp orange ribbon.
NOT a good look....lol....
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How about you? Share the highs and lows of your parent's wedding with us! And if you happen to have pics on your computer please consider sharing them! 
I loved everything about my parents wedding. They got married at a courthouse (hmm, just like us! and actually, Mr. MJ's parents too!). My mom wore a dress she found on sale at a department store. Her hair was down, and wavy. Dad wore a grey suit. They served Crepes at the reception. They had 19 guests. It was just so sweet.
There is only one picture from my Mom and Dad's wedding. They were married when he was in the Army. She flew out to Hawaii so they could be married before he went to Vietnam.
The picture is amazing though. He was so handsome in his uniform, and she was gorgeous with her perfect late 60's hair.
I was at my parents wedding both of them actually! (long story) I was a flower girl in the first one, but I don't remember much. I do remember the dancing, it seemed everyone was cutting a rug at their reception (including cute little 3 year old me!), I've seen it on the wedding video as well. I love how '80's my parent's wedding was, the pink dresses with the bows on the butt, the cake with the entire bridal party on it. The second wedding was 2 years ago and I loved how intimate it was, it was my parents, my two sisters and myself, my best friend, both sets of grandparents and one of my uncles. It was beautiful and wonderful, so special, I cried. Both times I do remember seeing so much love in each of their eyes.
Love, love, loved my mom's pillbox hat and adorable 60s shift. My look will definitely be a bit of an homage to her wedding day ensemble.
Hate that they just had a party at my aunt's apartment afterward. My mom despises my aunt and has bitched about that party for 40 years.
I'm really looking forward to what everyone else says!
I love that my mom rocked a Bell-sleeve dress. She's very proud of the fact that she only paid $70 for it. Front and center of their wedding portrait are her burgundy fake nails....yeaaaa notsocute
I'm loving this thread so far...so sweet! Would love to hear more about your Mom and Dad's weddings
P.S. Now I want crepes!
Since it was my mom's second wedding, and she was, um, pregnant with me, it was a low-key event. I really haven't seen that many pictures.
What I love about the wedding is where it was held. The ceremony was at Lovely Lane UMC in Baltimore ("mother church" of Methodism in the U.S.), where we have a lot of family history.
(BTW, the church is GORGEOUS!)
My great-grandmother told my grandmother, when she was about six or seven, to take her siblings and find a Sunday School program to enroll them in. So off Marmee went, walking around Baltimore for a while until she came upon that church, where she stood at the steps confused. A parishoner swooped down on them and enrolled them, and they stayed from then on. About twenty years later it was where my grandparents met and got married. About ten years later, my dad's dad was assigned to preach there, and the two families became close. When time brought my parents back together, it was only natural they have their wedding at that church.
If I wasn't getting married at my home church, that would be the church I get married in. You can see a modern wedding at the church here--love it!
(Funny sidenote: when the restoration was complete and they had the grand reopening of the sanctuary, my family was sitting at the upper level when a photographer from one of the papers showed up. We made the news; apparently they can't get rid of my family! :P)
Ohmigosh I'm being so chatty. This is why I would make a good Bee, haha.
My mom's first wedding was a winter wedding. I love that she wore a goregous blue cloak for her going away outfit and drove off in one of my grandfather's vintage Packards. I need to upload pictures.
My only "low" is that I didn't dig her loose lace 80's peasant sleeves. No thanks. And, of course, the outfits for the BMs were regrettable.
My parents got married in a wedding chapel in Reno! By Reverend Love! And my mom is wearing a hippie white dress and my dad is wearing a powder blue tuxedo. I pretty much love it all!!!!!
I love looking at pictures of my parents wedding!
Classic 70's style hehe
My moms hair was soooo long and straight and my dad is so handsome
I love that they did it all on two weeks' notice. I hate that I'm going to feel like I'm spending huge amounts of time and money on mine in comparison. I REALLY love that an older relative of my mother caught some of the younger guests smoking pot in the bathroom. Hilarious!
My parents got married in a greenhouse at a bed and breakfast on Cape Cod. This was my mom's second wedding so she wanted it to be low key. She wore a beautiful white suit and drove the get away car because she was such a feminist-love it! My dad had an awesome bushy beard and shoulder length hair, haha
Their reception was at our beach home on cape cod. They did a DIY clambake (think big metal trash cans) and beach party. I love what my parents did for my wedding and everyone still claims it was the best wedding they have ever attended.
The tough part is that family kind of expects our wedding to be a re-enactment of theirs or something like that! I also know that my secretely wishes that we could do a DIY clambake/backyard BBQ. I think he forgets that that arrangement is a ton of work and stressful which is why we hired a caterer!
My parents' colours were chocolate brown (tuxes for the guys) and washed out peach for the girls...and the bridesmaids all wore big floppy hats. The pictures have not stood the test of style time, but I love how geekily they rocked their colours at the time.
Does lack of pictures count? Cause that is my big complaint. ;)
I wonder where I have these photos... i have a picture of my dad and uncle, and my mom in her dress. Both so handsome/beautiful and young! My dad didn't have any grey hair yet, haha. Maybe just got it when I was born. Though they married in the 80s, it was early so there were no crazy poofs or styles. My dad wore a nice grey suit, looked very dapper. My mom, though - she looked so lovely. They are each remarried now, but my mom isn't exactly the happiest these days (stepdad = trainwreck) and so it is really a treat to see pictures where she is BEAMING. That would be my favorite thing :)
Oh, and for my dad's 2nd marriage, I got to be the "best man" haha. That was fantastic! though i was 14 and SO awkward and nervous, it was such a good day! It also rained, which was such a disaster, but brought everybody inside and closer and everyone had a sense of humor about it. Though they have had some trouble (breast cancer), their marriage is strong - rain must be good luck!
I hope that someday our children see our photos and think these things :)
I was 5 years old at my parents' wedding. I have slight memories of being there, but I didn't realize it was a wedding at the time. In fact, I didn't realize that my parents didn't get married until 5 years after I was born until I was like 10 years old. I remember at the time people were telling me at the wedding that it was for my parents' "anniversary". Weird how they felt like they had to hide it from me - I think times have definitely changed to say the least.
Anyway, nothing was really impressive about my parent's wedding. It was very low key. My mom wore a short white dress but it was very sophisticated and elegant, which was probably my favorite part of the whole thing.
Love my mom's sweet, classic 60s look (but not her powder blue eyeshadow or pepto pink empire bridesmaid dresses with beehive hairdos). She looks so fresh and natural and innocent with her long blond hair down. Her theme was daisies--lace daisies on her dress, a daisy bouquet and chuppa-it totally matched her fresh demure look.
Don't love my dad's cigarette packs in the photos (he quit before I was born) or his SHORT TUX PANTS that SHOW HIS SOCKS hahahaha.
Another funny detail--lace doilies covering the tops of metal folding chairs. My mom's favorite part about it is her going away outfit--a red, white and blue bellbottom pants suit with vest and neck kerchief that made her look like a very stylish flight attendant. She still loves looking at the going away pics for that outfit.
Love: my mom's whole look. There's a photo of her in our upstairs hallway, and everyone who's ever seen it comments how absolutely stunning my mother looks.
Hate: My dad's LACK of moustache -eeeeeek!! My dad's had a moustache my entire life - seeing him without one in the wedding photos FREAKS me out - it's just not right! He looks great, tall dark & handsome (my parents where one of those movie-star looking couples....very hard to live up to) but he looks like a stranger with my dad's eyes!!
Love: How understated, classy (and I don't necessarily mean formal) and true to it's roots it was. As much as I'm looking forward to our wedding and want it to be a super fun party, I'm a bit disenchanted with how commercial and ostentatious the whole thing has become. I grew up doing theater and spent my life on the stage until my mid-20s, and I really hate all the parallels I can draw between THAT and a lot of the weddings I’ve been to. They really shouldn’t be quite the same thing…My parents were able to have a kickass party without turning it into some hoopla production. It was the beginning of something for them, not the "something" all itself.
I love that I have a picture. My parents got married at the Courthouse in the middle of the week. My mom was wearing a pink sweatshirt and my dad, his work clothes. They got divorced very soon after I was born and my mom saved a pic for me.
My parents got married in my grandmother's backyard and had a brunch reception. It was so pretty! My mom wore a yellow sundress, wore her hair down with a daisy in it and their cake had daisies on it. My dad rocked a bellbottomed suit and some serious chops. They both look so young and very sweet. I love the pictures!
OMG @Stripes your parents and my parent's wedding sounds EXACTLY THE SAME! after getting frustrated with the planning process, my parents got married at this Chapel in S. Lake Tahoe in a red velvet room by the "reverend love"!! My dad's brother John and John's wife Connie were their witnesses.
My mom wore a white Gunne Sax dress with a blue and white fake flower crown and my dad wore a dark blue tux with a ruffle shirt and bow tie!! They were 19(mom) and 20(dad) so they had my uncle buy them champagne and a cake from safeway and they had their reception in the hotel room while watching the world series!! (1981)
I honestly love EVERYTHING about their wedding, so sweet and simple and understated. My mom is kind of driving me crazy with all of this planning so I am trying to KEEP IT SIMPLE just like she did.
Also, when my Grandmother and her second husband(my AWESOME papa) got married, they eloped at the Little Church Of the West in Vegas where the wedding scene in Viva Las Vegas was filmed! It was 1963 and she wore a white shift dress and looked so chic and happy!
Also, my dad totally had "Chachi" hair and a SWEET mustache, he's a CHP officer now so he's a little more "cleaned up" but I'm really hoping the my FH doesn't cut his beard becuause I want our future kid to giggle and smile when they see that their dad was really just a mountain man!
AWESOME post!! Mine were married in May of 1960 (mom was 20, Dad was 25) so all the picts are black & white. I LOVE the classic look of everything - mom's boatneck, long sleeve dress and my dad's 1950's military style crew cut. It all looks so perfectly 50's with the skirts, the cars, the pillbox hats w/ birdcage veils on the bridesmaids, the white gloves - the old school champagne glasses and the formal family pictures. There's one picture in particular that's my absolute favorite of my mother. They're standing in almost Prom-pose and my dad's cracking up while my mom's got her eyes crossed & her tongue sticking out - my mom's not really a "silly" person but it's fun to see what she must've been like back then.
A while back Scissors posted awesome picts of her parents wedding. It makes me really want to do the same - I'll try to scan pics when I'm at my parent's house this weekend.
Oh & does anyone else's parents have the "shoes" picture? I guess it was the thing to do back then - to take a picture of the bride & groom with their shoes off, like it was a very risque thing? I know my parents have it - here's a pic from an Aunt & Uncle (they had their 50th anniv & someone scanned in the pics) - they were married in April of 1954.
i love that it was in my grandma's living room at christmas. dad was a superdork in his navy blues and mom was super mod in her knee length dress, which she earned selling pantyhose door to door.
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@Dancy905 Your aunt & uncle look like royalty! They are just so gorgeous.
I like that my mom was a total rebel and wore a little white mini dress with platform heels.....ahh, the 70s!!
I loved that my parents were married on a Friday evening - on Valentine's Day. =)
I hate that my grandmother forbade my grandfather from attending. My mom is still a little heartbroken that he wasn't able to walk her down the aisle - he passed away a few years later. Her brother ended up giving her away instead.
My mom's BM dresses were these peach chiffon monsters. But even funnier was the fact that my mom and dad wore matching burgundy suits the day after their wedding on their drive down to Daytona, FL for their honeymoon.
My parents got married in 1969. What I love most about their wedding is that I am getting married in the same church, so we'll have the same pictures! We're going to recreate some of the posed photos. I'm also using their cake topper and my Mom's purse.
I loooooved the bridesmaid dresses. Long, yellow, with a rufflle on the bottom and sheer sleeves, and they all wore a silly hat! It was like, a flower with a pouf of tulle coming out of it. I asked my Mom what happened to them and she said we ruined them all playing dress up as kids.
What I don't love is my Mom's dress. It was boatneck with short and utterly shapeless. It was basically a caftan.
I loved how 70's cheesalicious my parents' wedding was. And how STUNNING my mom looked.
That shoes pic thing is hilarious! You think it was like.... "the shoes are off... you know whats coming off next!"??? haha. I kind of want to do that now....
I love how well my parents rocked the 70s look. My mom wore her hair down and naturally curly, my dad had a brown suit with ruffles. I love that my grandma made my mom's dress and the yellow bridesmaid's dresses. I love that my mom had a midnight curfew on the night before her wedding(!)
I don't love that my parents had almost no control over their wedding. My mom got pregnant when she was 17 and my dad was 20, and they wanted (or had) to get married before she started showing. The wedding was planned in less than two months by my mom's mom and each of my parents was "allowed to invite 2 friends." Their reception was in the back of a VFW hall that was still open for business so there were random drunks there. My mom got to pick her dress and the bridesmaid's dresses, and invite her two friends, and that was pretty much it. I wish it had been different for her, and that she'd gotten to enjoy being engaged or planning a wedding like we do now.
There are so many things I love about my parents wedding. I would hate it even they happened to me but they have made hilarious stories over the years!
1: My mom put my dad in charge of getting the thank you notes for his groomsmen and his side of the family. He went to the store and bought the first thank you notes he found without bothering to read the inside. It said: thank you for your sympathy during my time of need. Yup...all of his realitives got those thank yous. Note to self: either do all thank you's myself or proof read them.
2: My grandpa (dad's dad) interrupted the ceremony because my mom's veil was on fire. They were lighting the unity candle and they turned to walk back to the front of the stage and apparently mom's veil touched the flame. My grandpa was the first to notice and you can tell in the video that he was torn because he did not want to be THAT person who stops someones wedding but he knew he had to do something before her hair caught on fire.
3. The church was (and still is) gorgeous. I wish it was in our town so we could get married there.
I didn't love how my grandma was such a control freak that she forced my parents to open every single gift they recieved at the reception. Apparently it was common to have a gift receiver/opener at the time of their wedding and my parents didn't like that trend because they (rightfully) wanted to open their own gifts. My grandma threw a fit and said that if they wanted to open their own it had to be done during the reception, before dinner.
Well i have never seen ANY pictures from my momma and daddy's wedding BUT i did get to see her dress this past weekend and i was so pretty. My aunt (her sister) made it for her!!! i loved it and it was so her... since i've never seen pictures i dont know what my dad looked like but i'm sure he was SOOO handsome...
My parents had a backyard hippie wedding in California in August. It was HOT and that is all anyone ever says about it. My mom wore a cream cotton hippie dress and my dad wore an ambroidered hippie shirt. She wore her hair big and curly, but my dad's hair was longer than hers! That is the thing I love most.
That they probably didnt spend more than 50.00 yet they were happy and still are happy 31 years later still flirting and acting like teenagers together.
I have seen very few pictures of my parents' wedding. They were married in 1951, and it was a very small ceremony.
However, I loved most of the stories I heard about it. They were married in Germany, where they both worked for the CIA. This meant they had to have a civil ceremony. They chose to have a religious one as well, two weeks later. This, of course, gave them two anniversaries. The way they dealt with that was that the first anniversary was "his" (she gave him presents), and the second was "hers." He figured that gave him two weeks' notice of when he needed to remember an anniversary.
My mother wore a pink knee-length dress, which raised some eyebrows. Because it was in Germany, and both families lived in the US, the only family members there were her mother and her brother. The church they were married in later got stolen! Yep, it was a military chapel made from two quonset huts. The military later tried to move it by putting it on a train--but somehow, it got diverted en route.
My mother's boss at the CIA expected her to quit her job when she had to let out the first notch on her belt during pregnancy. However, she continued working through most of her first pregnancy. She talked about how he always looked at her as though she was likely to give birth right there in the office if she didn't get out of there.
The one thing I always hated about their wedding was that although the normal marriage ceremony at that time called for both husband and wife to "love, honor, and cherish" each other, they chose to go back to an earlier version in which the wife would "love, honor, and obey" the husband.
My mother later became a virulent antifeminist. She considered it her duty to stand by her husband--even though he was an alcoholic who molested both of her daughters. She was horrified that I had sex before marriage (although in fact, she had, too, but only with the man she ended up marrying). Instead of being proud of the daughter who raised two wonderful children while being a partner at a major law firm, she accused me of abandoning my children by having a career. She was horrified when she heard me say something to my husband along the lines of, "Why don't you do the dishes while I get the laundry started." What I was supposed to say was, "You big, strong, helpful man, could you possibly help me with the dishes?" Yeah, barf. But of course, when he left me, she told everyone who would listen that the only thing she didn't understand was why he hadn't left me years before.
With all that, the stories of their wedding, and of the time immediately afterward, gave me some flicker of hope that somewhere in her was the rebel who did her wedding all "wrong."
It is, however, amusing me that so many are talking about their parents' weddings in the 1970s. My own first wedding was in 1977. Here are the official seventylicious photos (the first just the two of us, the second with his parents):
I loved:
-that my mom had both her parents (mom and stepdad) walk her down the aisle.
-her practical attitude about the whole thing. She had the reception in the church hall because it was close and she didn't want people to have to drive in December.
-the fact that they got dance lessons and choreographed a waltz for their first dance.
-some of their reading choices for the ceremony were unusual but very good. For example, mom chose the rainbow at the end of the Noah's ark story instead of the thing about God making the woman from Adam's rib. It was about a covenant, not a hirerarchy of the sexes.
I hated:
-the big poofy sleeves on my mom's dress
-the maroon and pink bridesmaids dresses
-the MUFFS that her bridesmaids carried instead of flowers
My fave part of my parents wedding, are my mom's hand made invitations. Our cousin drew them for her, it's of a rose. They're quite pretty. I also love looking at one of their photos, where it looks like the minister is in on the kiss action lol. it's rather funny :)
I remember watching outside the door because I wasn't allowed in fro smoe reason. (My Mom married my step dad just before I was one). It's a really random memory. haha. I'll have to find pictures so that I can share.
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