How about some wedding pictures!

What a beautiful couple, Squatting Dog! Your mother looks so much like my cousin at that age.
 

Pappy said:
I'll have to look for the wedding picture. I was home on leave so time was at a premium. This was a day later at our little reception. My step-dad, wife, me and mom.
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awww nice picture pappy..:D.I got married on my ex husband's 48 hour leave, everything had to be arranged in such a hurry
 
I still can't post pictures (and believe me, I've tried everything), so I'll have to describe it. I had bought my wedding dress and veil in Vienna, Austria two years before (no plans to get married, just saw the dress and had to have it). As my fiancée wasn't getting in on leave in time to get blood tests and get the marriage license, I had to meet a sergeant from the local army base at the license bureau who brought the proper paperwork for me to apply for the license sans bridegroom. Really romantic, huh? Fiancee got into town, we dashed down to pick up the license and go get some wedding rings, which we got for $20 each. Picked up the tuxedos, picked up the groomsmen at the bus station. Got married..typical church wedding with reception in the Fellowship Hall (cake, punch, nuts, mints). Went on a short honeymoon and then he took off for overseas. I finished the college semester.

His entire family boycotted the wedding with the exception of his oldest brother, who was so delighted to be replaced as the family black sheep that he would have come to a nude Satanist wedding on top of Mt. Everest.
 
I just love this thread! So happy to see everyone's photos. I hope others will post. I can't, as I told my new grand-daughter on the 7th, at her wedding, my brother-in-law was drunk and forgot to bring his camera! I was wearing a blue suit with a fur collar and my husband was wearing a suit he borrowed from his drunk brother. We were both skinny enough we looked like we hadn't eaten in ages. Today, almost 51 years later, we both look well fed. Just take my word for it.
 
I'm loving looking at these pictures too. I'll have to take a picture of a picture and post too. You look at your wedding picture and say where did those people go ya know?
 
Thats a gorgeous pic Seeker. A true romantic at heart. How long have you been married?
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41 years in June, this picture was about a month after prom picture.....I turned 18 in May, graduated in May, got married in June...Go figure.......(No I was not pregnant) LOL:eek:
 
Seeker said:
41 years in June, this picture was about a month after prom picture.....I turned 18 in May, graduated in May, got married in June...Go figure.......(No I was not pregnant) LOL:eek:
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Sure! Sure! Lol. So you definitely KNEW he was the one. 41 years. Congratulations!
True love is wonderful ain’t it? Thank you Seeker. I’ll stop stalking you now. :lol:
 
We practically eloped. My hubby to be picked me up at my house,my mom snapped a couple of pictures and we went off to the church and was quickly married in the parsonage. We were so dumb we didn't know we needed a witness so the minister dragged in the gardener who happened to be working that day. My hubby was so nervous he forgot my first name. We will be married 46 years this April 22nd. My daughter can't get over the fact that I got married in a mint green dress. wedding (781x800).jpg
 
A customer once told me about his second wedding: His girlfriend was driving him to the airport for a two-week business trip and they decided to stop off at the courthouse and pick up his divorce papers, which were supposed to be signed by the judge that morning. He knocked on the judge's door (the judge was a friend of his) and the judge signed the papers quickly and gave them to him. Judge asked him when they were getting married. He explained he was on the way to the airport and that they'd get married when he got back. Judge says, "Well, I have 20 minutes before I have to be in the courtroom, so let's go down and get you a marriage license. I'll sign to waive the blood test and the waiting period and then I'll marry you here in the office." So that's what they did.

He said his only regret was that it would have been nice to have at least a half hour to savor being a bachelor again.....LOL.
 
Capt Lightning said:
Forgive me asking, but what is this about a blood test? No such requirement in the UK.
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Depending on the state, you used to have to have a blood test done before you could get a marriage license to prove that you didn't have, I guess, a social disease. Montana is the only state that still requires one.

There was also a waiting period after the issuance of the license before you could get married. Some states (Florida requires a 3-day wait if you haven't completed a state-approved marriage course in the last 12 months and Wisconsin has the longest waiting period...6 days) still require a waiting period, ranging from 24 hours to 6 days. I guess that gives the bride or groom adequate time to back out....LOL.

Back in the early days, there were two ways to get married: by license or by bond. If you were married by license, you had to wait a period of time, usually three weeks or so, to give anyone who had objections to the marriage to show up and, well, object. "By bond" meant that the groom or a member of his family posted a "bond" that would go to the bride if, by chance, some previous wife showed up six months later with five kids in tow to claim her wandering husband (it wasn't uncommon back then for men to have more than one family tucked away in a distant hamlet; we're pretty sure my great-great-grandfather was one of those). Then the new bride got the bond money as "damages". My cousin, the family historian, has a copy of a marriage bond for a some-number-of-greats-grandfather that was signed by Patrick Henry when he was Governor of Virginia.

And now you have a short history of marriage in America.
 
Thanks for the explanations.. In the UK, you need to register your intention to marry at least 28 days in advance, for either civil or religious marriages. Until 2006, under Scots Law, you could be married "By habit and repute" - ie you lived together and were to all intents and purposes, married. In years gone past, people from outside Scotland would elope to Gretna Green which was the first village over the Scottish border. There they were married in the Blacksmith's shop.

This is still a popular venue for civil weddings, although the requirements for marriage in Scotland are now similar to the rest of the UK.
 
I remember that German measles was a big thing for the blood test to make sure you had either had had it or were exposed to have built up antibodies. Children conceived when a parent contracted German measles were born blind and other problems.
 

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