Weddingbee Blog

One of the funniest momments in our wedding was during the ceremony, in a particularly serious part. The officiant switched our names around a bit and said “Brenny & Jent” instead of Brent & Jenny….needless to say everyone laughed. For the rest of the ceremony, anytime he would say both of our names he would say it very slowly so as to get it right….this brought on a lot more laughter each time he’d go to say. Our poor pastor was sweating fiercely for the rest of the ceremony!

My fiance and I had picked out the engagement ring a long time before he actually proposed. I finally thought the day had come, we were going to have dinner in ‘the city’ New York of course. I got all dressed up for dinner and no proposal. We took a walk in Central Park, freezing, still no proposal. He asked if I wanted a ride in horse and buggy and when I saw him reach in his pocket I dont think I even let him finish asking. .. I’m very impatient.

Not really laugh out loud, but cute, at my fiance’s brother’s wedding, we couldn’t find the flower girl, age 6. After a few minutes, we found her sleeping on 2 folding chairs. She always sleeps when she feels like it, nothing can stop her!

The funniest moment at our wedding was watching the kids dance the night away. I wish we had video to embarrass them when they get married!

I was engaged in Greece! Most of my family still lives there so my husband proposed while we were there and later we celebrated with my family. He proposed on the beach and all of the tourists thought they were experience something “authentic” and starting taking pictures. Later they heard us speaking “American English” and were sorely disappointed.

The thing that got people laughing at our wedding was our first (second? third?) kiss as a married couple. We didn’t really do that bit at the rehearsal so then-groom, now-husband had no idea how that was going to happen. As far as he was concerned, the kissing happens after “I now pronounce you man and wife” which was apparently not how it goes with our officiant so there was kiss#1. Kiss #2 happened after “Presenting Mr. and Mrs. N”, still not the right time. We finally got it right after “You may now kiss the bride”. Of course by then he’s already done that twice. We have awesome pictures of people’s reactions that range from laughter at first then to slightly increasing embarrassment. I did not mind all this though since 3 kisses are always better than one

This isn’t really funny, but it was at the time, everyone was having a really good time at one of my friends weddings and they decided to “slide” across the beer covered floor later naming it “beer sliding” (this was at the very end of the night when all of the older folk had gone home and it was just us youngins having a good time)

When my future husband proposed, he brought me to a private building that was special to both of us at midnight the day of our anniversary. He had cleared it with the owners beforehand (who were some members of our church), and used his own key to let us in. I was blindfolded, but I heard him yelp in surprise and then start talking to people. Apparently, the building- which is always empty at night- was being used that night by a college group on a roadtrip to volunteer in New Orleans as a place to sleep. The owners had forgotten that my fiance had asked to use it that night. So when my fiance took off the blindfold and proposed, the entire thing was witnessed by a random group of people from Minnesota. One guy even woke up in the middle of the proposal and yelled really loud, “Hey man! What’s going on?!” But they clapped and gave us high-fives after I said yes, and the guys even helped my fiance clean up all the rose petals, silk, and candles that he’d used to decorate, while the girls stood around and admired my new ring.

It was really funny to watch my roomate jump 10 feet in the air to catch the boquet and then have my sister-in-law make the biggest “you gotta be kidding me” face since she didn’t catch it!

When my fiance proposed, we were on the beach just before sunset. We were sitting in low beach chairs, relaxing with a glass of wine and chatting. All of a sudden, the winds changed and brought the flies down to the beach. The flies immediately started biting our legs and ankles, which of course happened to be around the same time my fiance was waiting for the right moment. Finally, I had enough and got up, cursing the flies and walked down to the water. That just so happened to be the same moment he was going to propose so he called out to me to come back. Naturally, I’m stubborn so I refused and couldn’t imagine why he insisted on sitting there. The happy ending is that he realized his moment was right in front of him and came down to the water and got down on one knee and the rest is history!