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21 Responses to “Calling Weird Wedded People”

1. chasmyn
   February 16th, 2005 at 10:37 pm

   

   We had a wedding at a Renaissance Faire in full costume, does that count?

2. Janece
   February 17th, 2005 at 1:37 am

   

   11 years later, I wish that I did. I was young and didn’t “know”. While I loved my wedding because I married my love, my best friend, my playmate… I would have loved to create a ceremony that was different from the norm.

   Maybe for our 15 anniversary, we’ll get married again, and this time, we’ll do it in a way that expresses us!

   Good luck with your book - I’ll read it for inspiration as we plan our next wedding.

3. Erin
   February 17th, 2005 at 4:19 am

   

   Ariel - I had asked you for wedding advice last summer, I’m not sure if you remember, but anyhow, I got married in November in a somewhat non-traditional manner, so feel free to email and ask away, I’d be happy to help in any way.

4. Michelle
   February 17th, 2005 at 5:30 am

   

   I’m currently planning a non-traditional non-wedding for my girlfriend and I. Our ceremony will be in October. DOn’t know if that’s too late for your book or not.

5. tamara
   February 17th, 2005 at 6:35 am

   

   It wasn’t the most untraditional but it was planned in 5 days and we spent less than 200$, a conch blowing was involved as well as a blood red sky and whales spouting in the distance. I like to think of it as the perfectly stress free felt planned but wasn’t weding. T ps can’t wait to see you both!

6. donut
   February 17th, 2005 at 6:56 am

   

   Compared to yours, my wedding was positively stodgy. But we did jettison the traditional dancing in favor of playing volleyball. And a boy caught my bouquet.

7. allie
   February 17th, 2005 at 7:06 am

   

   I am very interested to see the stories that come out of this book. My bf Chris & I have been together for 4 years now, and I don’t plan to get married until we can craft the best possible setting for us, our family and our friends… Eh, screw it. I don’t even want to talk about the ‘M’ word yet

8. mark
   February 17th, 2005 at 8:40 am

   

   Among other things our wedding involved zuccini bread made from our garden (in lieu of rings) that a hungry squirrel spent most of the ceremony trying to poach, a delay in the ceremony while the best man ran back to our apartment to try and find the groom’s (that would be me) wedding earrings, and a trip to the wedding reception on a Metro bus. All of this followed the miraculous discovery of a pearl in the bride-to-be’s scallops at the rehearsal dinner.

9. Uma B.
   February 17th, 2005 at 9:59 am

   

   I got married last september in Madrid at the town council and the party was held at an animal reserve. And i bought my wedding dress on line.

10. Anita Rowland
    February 17th, 2005 at 10:43 am

    

    we had a wedding that combined family, my lindy hop friends, and our science fiction fan friends. We were married by a fan-friend who did have a sidney greenstreet look to him. He wore a fez. Roscoe, the fannish beaver ghod, was on stage with us. The venue was the Century ballroom and we had the ceremony on the stage, then had the reception right there.

    That doesn’t seem *too* strange to me, but some family members and friends asked what religion the officiant was, and the beaver really puzzled them.

    More about Roscoe
    http://www.fanac.org/fanzines/.....oscoe.html

11. chump
    February 17th, 2005 at 10:48 am

    

    i was married in alaska by a retired logger with only nine fingers.
    during the cerimony my wife laughed at me and afterwards my dog rolled in a dead fish.

12. Sophia
    February 17th, 2005 at 12:25 pm

    

    Hi Ariel-
    I had a fantastic wedding (though a crappy marriage following it) several years ago. It was a combination Jewish-Quaker ceremony on the east coast with both a Lesbian Rabbi (from her side) and my entire quaker meeting (from mine) as officiants. We had the 1st Chuppa ever in our meeting house. We combined the traditional quaker wedding certificate (all attendees sign as witnesses) with the Jewish traditional katuba document, but with the added spice of self-written vows as the body of the document.
    I’m very proud to still have it, it was a beautiful ceremony where we brought a lot of really disparate people together for a brief, shining moment.
    You’re welcome to write & ask about it.
    -S.

13. Terry
    February 17th, 2005 at 3:53 pm

    

    I got married in 2003 in a non-traditional, beach-front ceremony. I’d love to help out with your book so any questions you may have feel free to ask away!

14. rebecca
    February 17th, 2005 at 3:54 pm

    

    I got married on a beach in Mexico with just my husband and family.

15. paisley jane
    February 17th, 2005 at 4:54 pm

    

    our wedding was a bit on the odd side
    feel free to ask me anything you want

16. sarah
    February 17th, 2005 at 7:10 pm

    

    hehehe..some of you guys have great stories! my wedding was pretty normal (family bickering about who pays for what, how over the top/under the top our plans were, ect). the only really unique things in our wedding were 1)i had my dress hand made by an Applilachan dressmaker and 2) the 100 year old church we were married at is on the grounds of a mental hospital (we didnt care…the place was GORGEOUS). things we did not do: have a huge reception, throw bird seed, have groomsmen or bridesmaids, or bore our guests with a long drawn out ceremony. it was short, elegent, and sweet…just like we wanted it.

17. Sharyn
    February 17th, 2005 at 7:58 pm

    

    Our marriage “ceremony” consisted of going to Seward Community Cafe for lunch with a few friends. One of whom was ordained online through the Universal Life Church (legal in Minnesota) and who hastily scrawled his signature on a few forms while eating his hash browns. That was it. But I wouldn’t have it any other way.

18. Caitlin
    February 17th, 2005 at 11:19 pm

    

    I got married in October in a decidedly nontraditional ceremony. We wrote it mostly ourselves, using various sources– I have a script online– and it was an interesting combination of the normal and the fannish. The ceremony music was from Star Wars, Star Trek, Lord of the Rings, and The Full Monty musical. The ringbearer was literally the Ring-bearer– he had the rings on a chain around his neck. No costumes, though.

    But our wedding cake was Minas Tirith. Or a reasonable approximation thereof.

    Feel free to email me with any questions you have.

19. ginchy
    February 18th, 2005 at 5:55 am

    

    Hi Ariel,

    I lurk here often. I didn’t have that weird a wedding, but we did have a lego them (yes the toy). I figured we needed to give people something to play with in the boring bits. happy to answer any question
    Ginchy

20. dr. dave
    February 18th, 2005 at 5:56 am

    

    Sorry - my wedding was a textbook excercise in whitest of Whiteyest, upper-middle-class, suburbany, traditional, Bride’s Magazine whiteness.

    Although I did perform at my OWN wedding reception in a 4 song jam-session with an all-star lineup of former bandmates. Narcissistic, but fun. Looking back, I can’t believe my wife agreed to let me do that…

21. simone
    February 21st, 2005 at 9:07 am

    

    I’m not sure if it’s weird–but weird by LA standards if that counts. I’m Catholic, he’s Jewish-ish, we were married by a Presbyterian very pregnant minisiter near an “energy vortex” on a shaman’s land in the hills of Mailbu. Our wedding cake was pies and a tower of ding dongs, twinkies and powdered donuts. I wore purple, he wore white (we surprised each other). I guess we love suprises because almost everything was a surprise–songs from friends and family, the vows, the rings.