October 2009 Weddings
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hijacked from my local board- Fav non DH wedding moment
Someone posted this on my local board and since we're a little slow, we could use a couple awwwww... posts I think. 
So - what is your favorite non DH related wedding moment.
Re: hijacked from my local board- Fav non DH wedding moment
Mine was with my Mom. I don't even remember what was said, but we had a little excited moment while we were taking pictures before the ceremony. This is my absolute favorite picture:
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Our officiant is a close friend who got ordained online for our wedding. He has big-time fear of speaking in public, but agreed to do it anyway because he loves us so. During the reception, a little gust of wind blew his paper over, but he couldn't fix it because he was also holding the microphone and our rings in his other hand! DH and I each held one side of the sheets down so he could continue, and it was a sweet moment for the three of us with lots of giggling.
Good idea witty, this is FUN!
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Ooh... this is a tough one. I'd have to say speeches though. Our MOHs and BM gave their traditional toasts then we opened it up to anyone that wanted to talk. I don't know how I wasn't bawling the whole time... I'd say close to ten people spoke and there were so many tears and so much laughter -- it was a beautiful thing. My parents said it reminded them of the good parts of a funeral, only we were there to hear it. I know that sounds wack, but it was absolutely beautiful.
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getting my kids dressed. they were 5 and 2 at the time and soo cute! my son loved his suit and my daughter twirled around in her dress.
oh and here's another one. I drove home in my wedding dress:)
I really, really loved the moment when we told everyone that it wasn't just a Halloween Party but also a wedding. The looks on everyones faces was beyond priceless. However my very favorite is going to be awful and you're all going to be like..ah, WTF. But pretty much at the end of the night when we were all pretty drunk my friend comes up to me and says I'm so sorry, I didn't want it to end like this. And I was like, what, what happened and he's like i'm so sorry. I was so confused and then my other friend comes in from outside and says Friesen just puked over the deck. I was like what, like over the side of deck or all over the deck. He's like over the side and I was like oh, ok, whatever. I was so out of it from running around all day and trying to keep everything secret that I didn't even care anymore, I was just so relieved that everything else had went ok!
It wasn't so great the next day though when The Mr who was totally hungover had to hose frozen puke off the recycle bin
Toward the end of the night my best friend figured out I hadn't been able to get any dessert, so he hijacked some from the caterers and grabbed me to take a minute to hang out, slow down and eat. We ended up sitting on the beautiful staircase overlooking the reception, munching on cheesecake and berries and having one of those "I don't know where I would be without you, thanks for being there" sort of conversations. He put his arm around me said "I want you to know that just because we are both married now doesn't mean you can't talk to me and lean on me for anything you need." Sweet right?
So of course, never one to pass up an opportunity to totally mess with my friends
, I say "I'm really glad you said that, do you know what the rules are for getting an annulment?" (terrible, I know!!!) Well the poor kid about has a stroke before he realizes I'm just messing with him, and we ended up laughing so hard about it that we were crying. Still can't believe he bought it for even a second!
Freaking him out was probably a bit twisted, but hey, that's what friends are for! It was by far my favorite non-DH moment!
My 6'3" son has always teased NotFroofy (who is 5'1") about her height. He's claimed that she was a hobbit.
My son has Aspergers, which makes him very nervous about anything that will draw attention to himself in public. He was nervous about being dude of honor, about giving one of the blessings, and about giving a toast. I had to work with him to emphasize how important these things were to making NotFroofy feel accepted as part of the family, and he ultimately agreed to do all of them.
When we got to the reception, he gave us his wedding present. It was addressed, "To Mom and Hobbit." NotFroofy and I just cracked up. In his own backhanded way, he made NotFroofy feel like she really was accepted as part of the family.
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Mine is when we were on the dance floor, maybe 5 of us girls, all friends from high school. I turn around and my MOH/best friend from 6th grade is doing the running man then starts "shuffling" side to side moving her shoulders like MC Hammer. I laughed SO hard and was SO happy to be with all of my closest friends. We all love to dance and that was the perfect moment... I have the best pic too...
awe! we are pretty sure my son has aspergers too.
so sweet & so funny! guy friends are the best.
I love love love your mom's outfit for the day. What a great dress! hehe, and yours is nice too of course. :-)
Doesn't she look great? She looked and looked and looked with her girlfriends, even going as far as Boston, but didn't find anything. And then on her first trip out with me, we went to a local boutique and found this little number!
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I have a couple:
During the reception FIL sat down and looked at the programs for the first time. The "In Loving Memory" page brought tears to his eyes (3 of the 4 were his family members). He hugged me and thanked me for putting them in there.
After the reception when everyone was gone, DH's grandma called to welcome me to her family and to tell me she loved me. She had been in and out of the hospital and on Dialysis so she couldn't come to the wedding. She passed away in November and that'll probably be one of the biggest things I always remember about her.
We had some of those too!! Our DJ bounced them.
Second favorite was arriving to the wedding site and seeing all the family and friends working together to get everything set up. Our wedding was a complete "community effort" and seeing everything come together brought so much joy and such a feeling of love to my heart I almost couldn't contain myself.
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It's hard to narrow it down, but I think my couple of favorite moments were on the dance floor. "Girls Just Wanna Have Fun" was playing and all my girl friends and special women in my life were out there dancing to that song. It was pretty cool. I have this pic of a conga line that formed at the end of the song. Totally not planned, but it was so fun!
I also remember looking around the dance floor during one of the slow songs and seeing all of these couples surrounding us. One of my big worries was that no one would dance. I just remember feeling loved and surrounded by all of our family and friends- even more so than during the ceremony (I think nerves had a lot to do with that).
Just awesome!
The good news is, he's doing very well. After constantly being on the verge of flunking out of high school, he took a couple of years off, then got straight As in college. He has a job as a computer programmer, and is engaged to the woman he's been dating for the past five years. Having been identified so young, he has found ways of working around the areas in which he has difficulties, and using his strengths.
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