gettin married... the broke way

Wooohoo, I'm so excited. Any ideas on how to have a wedding when you're REALLY, REALLY broke?

 

get it done at the court house and just have a pot luck afterwards.

or you could charge for admittance and try to make some cash off of your family.

 

i don't know but i'd share like to attend.

 

haha, parents won't help.. theyre as broke as I am. Anyway... i was thinking somm outside, but it's in december, and it might rain since it's in washington.

 

a dirt road with lots of booze.

 

wait until you have money?

 

maybe you should go to vegas

 

i have a feeling that would be a little more expensive

 

well then stick to the dirt road and booze idea, only this time get a friend to get licensed over the net to marry ya all, it doesn't get cheaper then that.

 

have the wedding at city hall and then surprise all the government people with everyone bringing pot luck food

 

oooooo yeah, good idea, a pot luck.

 

Last time I got married...we had a minister come and do the ceremony in our livingroom...then had a little party afterwards.

 

have you started planning your next wedding?

 

Baby...2 times was enough for me.....Im not going for 3 !!!! haha

 

broke weddings are way more fun. no getting all churched up and sitting around trying not to wrinkle your clothes, everyone brings something to eat and drinks beer or soda. my wedding was huge, elegant and expensive and i STILL didn't get the food fight i wanted.

 

you guys did brighten my day, luckily my father is licensed

 

have a picnic in the park.

ask your guests to bring a picnic basket with them to enjoy with you after the ceremony.

 

I like the idea of each guest bringing a flower either for table arrangements or an arch covered with greens and scatter the flowers in.
I went to one wedding/reception (15yr ago) where the bride had spent $1,000 on the dress & served tea sandwiches & fruit no music or bar. The only problem I had with that was it should be written in the invitation that lite fair will be served so people don't show up expecting a meal.

Any way you want to do it is good and congrats.

 

wifie and i had our baha'i wedding in the parklike space behind the meetingroom space in the appartment complex where one of our friends was living. the meetingroom itself served for the banquet and reception. one of those kind of tent top with poles and no sides, like you put over your table at farmer's markets, served as the pavillion/arch.
the banquit was all potluck donations. we had one guest who was experienced at organizing such things and she did an excellent job of it.

the one inevitable mess up, i think it's regulation somehow that there has to be one, is that no one brought a bottle oppener or could find one when it was time to poor the martinelli's grape cider.

the left overs, mostly the tuna roll ups and the p-nut buter and jelly roll ups, were what we nibbled on the bus going to our 'hunnymoon'.

we also had a live choir who were all friends wifie had made their choir robes for. and the person who'se appartment was in the complex was also a musician and played/sang with her accoustic gutar for part of it.

baha'i weddings don't involve a priest or a church, we don't have either, but two witnessess from the local spiritual assembly. and the only part that is specificly required is for the couple to recite "we will all verily abide by the will of god", just that one line, and then sighning of the merrage document.

of course there were also no judgement emparing substances, but i think everybody had a pretty good time, maybe even better then if they'd been christers or something else that had them.

oh there was a throwing of the boquet, but no maids of honor or any of that kind of stuff, no tuxes either, just everybody wearing what they thought looked really classy and cool of their own that they already had.

my and my wife's each one surviving parrent were there, and then bunches of our friends from every sort of each of our many contexts of interests. all of whome brought or donated something.

=^^=
.../\...

 

Why make a bad deal worse.