doeintheheadlights
Snowy Owl
Joined: 17 Aug 2010
Age: 35
Gender: Female
Posts: 136
Location: Cornwall, UK
07 Feb 2011, 2:07 pm
The owner was very efficient. She showed us samples of table linens, asked us what colors we wanted, and typed it up while we were there. She asked us who needed to be escorted before the ceremony as far as relatives were concerned, if we wanted a seating chart, how many kids would be there, etc.
Later we had a meeting with the DJ, and he was great. He brought his laptop with him to show ideas for songs, got a feel for our personalities, and helped us figure out what we wanted. He even asked us what songs we didn't want played so nobody requested anything wildly inappropriate or music we didn't appreciate.
The best part was the catering. The place called us to schedule a tasting. We sat down, took notes on the foods we liked and didn't like and came to a decision. We were also given advice by the owner to avoid things like the breadsticks, Mexican menu, and Italian menu, and found out why at the tasting.
The bar was done in a way that the bartender was just there to serve, meaning we brought our own liquor. The place gave us a list based on the number of guests and said it was to give a general idea of what was needed.
The only things I would have changed was that my mother in-law insisted we invite 120 people; my husband was thinking 50 max, and I was thinking no more than 80. I also would have put the option to wear a costume in the invitations (it was the day before Halloween, so we got the wedding party to dress up).
Ha, my husband's Buddhist and I'm Wiccan too. We really wanted a Wiccan priestess/priest to marry us, but my parents got their way in the end.
07 Feb 2011, 2:31 pm
I had a Soviet-style secular wedding in Volgograd (AKA Stalingrad) in Russia. The only thing missing were the Lenin portraits, otherwise everything was Soviet. According to custom, we placed flowers at the memorial to the soldiers who died fighting Nazi Germany.
I loved it! Coolest wedding ever in my view (I'm from California so it seemed really exotic)
Too bad it turned out to be the high point of my marriage... 
07 Feb 2011, 5:01 pm
Small with minimal fuss. No flowers, speeches, flash cars etc. My wife, myself and my three children all wore red and black (and asked that none else did) red shirt and black trousers and tie for me and my youngest son and black shirt and trousers with a red tie for my wife and older son. My daughter had a black shirt and skirt and red scarf and hair band. I wore my doc martin boots 
07 Feb 2011, 6:29 pm
Dione
Pileated woodpecker
Joined: 23 Jan 2011
Gender: Female
Posts: 194
Location: A house in a galaxy far far away
09 Feb 2011, 12:14 pm
That's really cool; I didn't know there were many like us out there.
Our minister was nondenominational Christian, but that's because we had some friends who were ordained ministers and none of them could come. Also, for my hometown being a hub for the New Age movement and having a lot of hippies, it's very hard to come by a Wiccan priest/priestess.
It turned out for the best, though, because the minister we got really researched and wrote an amazing ceremony for us. In her little speech before the vows she mentioned how love lasts through the seasons and evolves with them.
Microwench
Yellow-bellied Woodpecker
Joined: 24 Jan 2011
Age: 40
Gender: Female
Posts: 60
Location: Olathe, KS
15 Feb 2011, 2:09 pm
15 Feb 2011, 2:11 pm
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