My wife and I were married on the beach. In the rain. Not just rain, SIDEWAYS rain. We had rented out the beach club near my parents' house which is nothing more than a large, concrete patio with a roof over it and some restrooms.
Early on the morning of my wedding my wife to be, father and I were busy putting up tarps to shield the patio from the elements. We called the tent rental people and had them bring every available heater they had, crossed our fingers and hoped for the weather to clear. It didn't.
We had originally planned for my wife to be paddled around the point in a canoe by her father to shore where we would be married. Six foot swells cancelled that idea; instead it was a mad dash from my brother's mini van to the covered patio.
All the planning was scrapped due to the weather. Dinner was a New England clambake with lobsters and steamers and the open bar was well used! Despite the weather, which cleared after dinner was served, everyone had a good time. Too bad our Beach Wedding Invitations didn't come with rain suits!
We went on a cruise for our honeymoon and went to a special reception for honeymooning couples where we swapped stories about our soggy wedding days (we were all married on the same day). One bride from Maine shared a raucous story about how "pissed off" she was to wake up to SNOW falling on her wedding day! She'd planned her very formal wedding from 1st Class Wedding Invitations down to fancy table settings and half her guests showed up in snow boots, sweaters and winter parkas.
While couples can't choose the weather for their beach weddings, they can choose Beach Wedding Invitations to be exactly how they want them. Each invitation can be customized for style, color and comes complete with response cards, announcements, reception cards AND thank you letters. Weddings can be stressful to plan, particularly if you're into managing every last detail. If you want to take the stress out of the invitation aspect, visit 1st Class Wedding Invitations and take care of that piece of planning quickly and easily. Just don't forget the umbrellas.
Beach Wedding Invitations
Disposable Wedding Camera
We were looking at lots of old photos and videos of the family during the Christmas season and we came across a box of wedding pictures we had our guests take with disposable wedding cameras we provided for them. These are the best pictures! The candid, relaxed moments (many of them quite funny) are much more enjoyable than the formal wedding photos. I hadn't even looked at them for 10 years! Needless to say, our guests haven't seen them at all.
It's too bad, because folks would get a real kick out of a lot of these pictures. Part of the fun of providing disposable wedding cameras is sharing the pictures with the crazy guests who took them. Unfortunately for us, our pictures were snapped before the advent of the digital camera, so putting them in an online album to share would be a real pain.
Now, disposable wedding cameras have gone hi-tech. ITheeSnap.com will take your disposable wedding cameras and upload all the photos to a secure "web album" that you can share with all your friends. They'll also send you prints and a photo DVD. It's a really neat and hassle free idea for a service that I wish WE had back when we got married.
If Ignorance is Bliss, what is Wedded Bliss?
As you may know, I am married. For the second time. Some call that the triumph of Hope over Experience. I sometimes wonder what it would have been like to have a fancy, Southern Style North Carolina Wedding.
Then I slap myself and smarten up. I live in Boston fercryinoutloud. The only way I'd have a North Carolina Wedding is if I married a gal from North Carolina.
I married a Canadian Brit, we got married on the beach. In sideways rain.
Maybe we should have gone South and had a North Carolina Wedding. At least it would have been warm rain.
