What a gorgeous setting!!!!!


My wedding was in a church, but a Methodist one as the pastor would marry anyone (even those living in "sin") as he felt being under God's roof was important. The ceremony lasted about 20 minutes and then our reception was held in the backyard of the house we were living in.

For our 25th, we renewed our vows at the Catholic parish I belong to, during a Tuesday evening mass (that was our actually anniversary date). Since it wasn't a regular weekend mass and also not a Holy Day of any kind, I was able to select all three readings, our family friend who is a Deacon delivered the Gospel and homily and renewed our vows, my son did the 1st reading, daughter did the 2nd and my group provided all the music with all the songs I had selected and I actually sang with them before mass and then after communion I sang "You're Still the One". Our original wedding party was all in attendance as was our immediate family and a few close friends. We had a lovely meal afterwards at a local restaurant in a private room. I made the table settings, party favors and put together two hours worth of music on my Ipod for the dinner. It was wonderful!!!!!

I have a feeling this is going to be an awesome thread!

I am pretty close to getting engaged....i think.... but I love seeing all the pictures! We need more!

I think I am going to elope and have a big bash when I get home!

Thanks! :D I happened to accidentally stumble upon the place when i was vacationing with some friends a couple of years ago. When I saw the place, I said "this is where I would like to get married" and a couple years later I did. We're actually planning to fly back next month for our 3 year anniversary. I can't believe how quickly time flies.

Did you sing "You're Still the One" solo? If so...WOW. I much prefer intimate gathering, so I'll probably do something with very close friends and immediate family once I hit the 25th mark...still got a long way to go. I gotta give it to folks that've been married this long. :)

ooh i wish i had pictures (not to remember the day but because the setting was so pretty LOL :p )

i had a non-traditional wedding on the tee box of the 1st hole at my dads country club and we had the reception at the country club as well...they shut down golf on holes 1-9 for it and it was a saturday afternoon lol...it was sooo pretty! i insisted on having only calla lillies for all the decorations and wedding flowers and we had a harpist play all the ceremony music

my ex husbands dad is a minister and he officiated the wedding...i should have known it was doomed when he called my ex by his brothers name during the vows :eek: :yelrotflm :lol tears

Well our first wedding was at his mother's house. We renewed our vows for our 10th anniversary in the mountians in Arkansas. It was sooo beautiful. We had a cabin in the mountains with a jacuzzi facing the mountain view and a water fall into the jacuzzi. The ceremony was held outside of the cabin in a beautiful courtyard with a small spring surrounding the courtyard. It was just beautiful! I wish I had pics also. This was '99 and no digital cameras then.

Yep - sang solo with my group doing the background vocals and music. Still not sure how I made it through the whole song!!!

We too had an non-traditional wedding. We just got our house so I wanted to get married in the backyard. It was the worst summer we ever had, it rained every weekend that summer. It rained the Friday before the wedding and the Sunday after, but that Saturday mourning of my wedding the sun came out and it was beautiful. The only Saturday that whole summer it didn't rain. (I think some of my guests wished that they didn't have to go to a wedding):rolleyes:

Wow...again! I'm sure your DH was very touched by it.

More, more!!:D