Where were you married?

[Squatch]

My wife and I were married 7 awesome years ago in Cape May, New Jersey (Actually on the beach at the 2nd Ave Pavilion)

[Burma Jones]

1. Chappaqua, New York

[kwassa]

70. wrong spot!

[SarahB]

2. Negril, Jamaica

Best. Time. Ever.

[Pale Blue Dot]

52. Hey! Me too!

Did you have a problem getting your official marriage license? We're still waiting for ours. :grr:

:loveya:

[SarahB]

66. Same problem here.

:grr: :(

[taterguy]

3. In the back of a Greyhound bus

Or was that where I was born?
I don't remember.

[AllegroRondo]

4. Disney World

me and the wife ran off alone, and eloped.
We just sent an email to all our family and friends the day we did it.

[catmandu57]

5. Amazonia Missouri

First church I've been in for years.

[seemunkee]

6. The in-laws back yard

Middle of August in the DC area and it was a beautiful day with pleasant temps and no humidity. We lucked out.

[Aristus]

7. Tacoma, Washington. The City of Destiny.

BTW, love the pics of Cape May. I've been right there where the photo was taken.

Me and a beautiful Jersey girl fell in love right out on the breakwater there. B-)

[malta blue]

8. Las Vegas

Yes - so cliche - but my husband's dad lives there and his stepmom can't travel long distances.

It was a blast!

[Left Is Write]

51. I'm glad SOMEONE said Las Vegas.

I'd've been disappointed otherwise. :D

[seemunkee]

64. My grandmother did that once

Might have been twice I don't remember. She outlived a few husbands.

[ronnykmarshall]

97. We did too.

If they ever legalize gay marriage, we'll do it again LEGALLY in Vegas. Or possibly City Hall in San Francisco.

[ohiosmith]

9. In the living room at the home of the UBC Librarian in North Vancouver, British Columbia.

[GoddessOfGuinness]

10. I want to take the Cape May/Lewes Ferry sometime...

They're both lovely towns!

We had our ceremony here:

But the marriage started before we had the paperwork done. :-)

[CaliforniaPeggy]

11. San Jose, California....

In a beautiful historic little round church....

The First Unitarian Church of San Jose....

It was amazing...

[azmouse]

12. Pottstown, PA

We have our 20th anniversary in just 2 wks.

Time flies when you're having fun!

[Broken_Hero]

13. in our yard, about three years ago. nt

[trackfan]

14. Van Nuys, California

by the County.

[RubyDuby in GA]

15. In our living room

You have no idea how I cleaned house on the days leading up to it. You could have eaten off of any portion of any floor in there and off the fireplace too!

Now, we have a 10 month old and I'm lucky if I can run a load of laundry on a weeknight.

[NC_Nurse]

29. Same here. married in our living room.

It was great!

$50 dress from the PTA thrift shop, my daughters made our wedding cake,
my dad took us all out for dinner.

I had a wonderful time. No stress, just family and close friends.

[Tikki]

102. In my dear in-laws living room....

in a small town in Eastern Washington State....40 years ago this August.
My grandfather-in-law was the minister who married us, there.



The Tikkis

[hellbound-liberal]

16. Unity Christ Church in Gaithersburg, Maryland.

It will be 12 years at the end of this month.

[qwertyMike]

17. Belfast, Ireland

Then Nova Scotia, then Nova Scotia again

Yeah I had three

Live alone now
GuessI'm not good at relationships

[LostinVA]

18. Ooooo -- the Pavilion is so nice!

Cape May is a nice place to get married!

[GenDem]

19. My parents living room - LeRoy, NY - 28 years ago

It was in January and there was a pretty good snowstorm, but we didn't have many guests -- only our closest friends and family members.

My Uncle John had just been elected Town Justice (democratic party, of course) and we were his first marriage. We've now been married 28 years.

[unpossibles]

20. Columbus Music Hall in Columbus, OH

I was going to say, "in the butt, Bob" but decided against it.





I think someone put something in my coffee.

[CharmCity]

21. Seville, Spain

[Kerrytravelers]

41. Welcome to DU, CharmCity!

:hi:

[av8rdave]

22. #1 Kalkaska, Michigan #2 Sun River, Oregon

[scarlet_owl]

23. We were married at the Unitarian Universalist church in Urbana, IL.

[Critters2]

25. You owe me a coke. (see below)

Who was the minister there when you were married?

[scarlet_owl]

28. Reverend Gherman (sp?). I forget her first name.

It was back in 2000.

[Critters2]

30. Elaine Gehrmann, a friend of mine

We were married by a Presbyterian pastor (also a friend) from Normal, when the UU Church was between ministers. It was my then-husband's church.

[Critters2]

24. Green Street UU Church, Urbana, IL

and divorced a few blocks away, at the Champaign County Courthouse, Urbana, IL.

[Left Is Write]

26. Burnsville, Minnesota.

[Drum]

27. City Hall, NYC nt

[REP]

31. The Stanford Barn, Palo Alto California (25 Days Ago)

[petronius]

94. Congratulations!

:party:

(Although as a Cal grad, I have to question your choice of venue... ;))

[S n o w b a l l]

32. On the ocean

On this boat. An evening cruise in Marina Del Rey. Too bad the marriage ended but I'll always cherish the memories & don't regret spending the extra money to make it special.

[Xipe Totec]

33. In our own house,

that we bought while we were engaged.

And watched being built.

And where we raised our children.

[RetroLounge]

34. Married twice

first time in a hotel ballroom in Evanston, IL.

second time at the First Unitarian Church in Milwaukee.

RL

[SmokingJacket]

35. In my parents' back yard.

It was a perfect day.

[Shell Beau]

36. In the Episcopal church I grew up in!! Take a look!!!

I got married in my home town to a man I met in the 10th grade!! We moved away (not too far) but came back home to get married!!

[Maddy McCall]

57. Gorgeous. You ARE DU's Tinkerbell.

I think I called you tinkerbell just a couple of weeks after you joined DU, after you posted a wedding photo :D

Others may try to claim the moniker, but it truly is yours...YOU are Tinkerbell.

:D

[Shell Beau]

103. AWWWW!!! You are soooo sweet!!

;)

[achtung_circus]

37. Fort Smith, Northwest Territories, Diocese of the Arctic

20 years ago this August, with the Slave River and the Rapids of the Drowned in the background, I can pick out the church only because I know where to look in the trees north of the water tower.

Divorced the bitch 3 years ago.

[bullwinkle428]

38. Olde St. Ann's Church, Long Grove, Iowa...built in 1853!

[dropkickpa]

65. I have a whole lot o family from there

Many were married, baptised, or buried via St. Ann's.

[bullwinkle428]

69. Small world! It's a beautiful building, and a

very pretty setting - the Pioneer Village makes a neat backdrop for photo opportunities...

[dropkickpa]

74. I've never been there,

but I would love to; I'm a bit of a genealogist and have been dying to get photos and rubbings to put with the tree, not to mention just the thrill of visiting and being where my ancestors stood.

I tend to avoid the family trips back to Iowa when possible (many reasons), but I really should make an effort to go in summer soon.

[stuntcat]

39. In a field out in the country

It started out beautiful but it rained for the ceremony so the whole thing was moved into the little shelter that was just for the food. It was okay though :)

[Kerrytravelers]

40. St. Luke's in El Cajon, CA (in San Diego)

It's a liberal parish, although we live in Los Angeles now and no longer attend Mass there.

[RiffRandell]

42. Norwich, CT

The reception was great.

[Missy Vixen]

43. Marina Park, Kirkland, WA

Same view as the Woodmark Hotel up the street at 1/100th of the price ;-). :woohoo:

Julie

[wildhorses]

44. did the dirty deed twice

once in long view, nc ---cancun honeymoon

once in cherokee, sc ---horse show honeymoon

[MedleyMisty]

45. In a drive-thru chapel in Gatlinburg, TN

[yewberry]

46. Outside of Edinburgh.

Then in Maine (for the US east coasters). Then outside of Seattle (or the US west coasters.) Yes, three times within three weeks.

I'm pretty damn well married, I guess.

[QMPMom]

47. Almost 22 years ago we were married at

Saints Peter and Paul Catholic Church, Haubstadt, Indiana
I can't find a photo of the outside right now, though there are some somewhere in the house.


During the Mass


The New Mr. and Mrs. with the Wedding Party


Mr. QMPMom


Soon to be QMPMom

[Left Is Write]

50. Wow...

You look absolutely radiant in that bottom picture.

[QMPMom]

60. Thanks! It was a very happy day,

The reception, IMHO, sucked, but it had a couple of good moments.

[femmocrat]

48. Columbia, SC

by a justice of the peace

[nickinSTL]

49. In a friend's back yard in St. Louis, Missouri

on a BEAUTIFUL day in November (2006).

Unseasonably warm and sunny, it was perfect. :D

[Godhumor]

53. Tokyo, Japan

We then got to honeymoon in Kyoto--very fun time.

[davsand]

54. Ogden Illinois. The church was hit by a tornado the following year.

I looked for a picture of the damage and couldn't find one. It was very bad--the majority of the town suffered damage in that storm.

You can read about the tornado here:

http://www.wfn.org/1996/04/msg00052.html

We are still married in spite of having been married on April Fool's Day.

:)


Laura

[Critters2]

56. Which church, davsand?

I preached at Hope UCC in the country a couple of times. But I think that's technically rural Armstrong.

[davsand]

75. That is the Methodist church.

My folks are members there still.

I remember watching a kid try and take his brother out with one of the wood kid-sized chairs at Bible school there. Seemed like an "up-close" demonstration of Cain and Abel when it was happening--ya know? We had snacks right after...

Hope is just up the road from us, and you probably preached to some of our neighbors when you were there. Now, if you'd been at St John's Lutheran church you'd have been preaching to the majority of Royal...


You coming down for the CCHCC dinner April 20?



Laura

[Critters2]

89. Maybe there's a Methodist church named "Hope" too,

but the one I preached at is United Church of Christ. That's why I was preaching there. I had the feeling the neighborhood was pretty Lutheran, as that looked like a big church--and I know that neck of the woods is pretty German.

I had in my calendar that the dinner was the 28th, which is the date of my Association Meeting. I never actually got an invitation to the dinner. A volunteer or someone called to check my address, and I asked her when it was, and put the 28th in my calendar. And then I never got a notice in the mail.

I have to make a presentation at the local community college that afternoon--on religious perspectives on environmetal issues, but could go down to C-U after that. I'll have to see if it's still possible to get a ticket.

Thanks for letting me know!! Hope to be there!

[scarlet_owl]

73. I remember that tornado. I was living in Allerton at the time.

[davsand]

76. We may be the only people on here to know where Allerton is.

Kind of a strange feeling--isn't it?

:hi:

In my life I have seen three tornadoes hit Ogden with varied levels of damage. A lot of people just gave up and left Ogden after this last one--and I can't really blame them for feeling they wanted to leave. That last tornado was a bad one, and I don't think you ever really get over it when 80% of the town gets flattened--ya know?

To this day, if you are in Ogden and a tornado watch comes out those folks are creeped out.


Laura

[kath]

88. I know where Allerton is - hubby's grandma lived in Tuscola. Her dad was minister

of the presbyterian church there (way back - this was hub's great grandpa)

[davsand]

91. I was in a wedding in that Presby church in Tuscola!

This was back sometime in the 80's. Now THAT is strange...


Laura

[Tuesday_Morning]

92. I know where Allerton is too!

:hi:

I went to school at U of IL. We'd sometimes go out that way to the Allerton estate on the weekend.

[qnr]

55. In some little house in Bangor, Maine - just a simple fifteen minute

ceremony. I went to boot camp in Cape May though!

[Kutjara]

58. The London Eye

[Mz Pip]

59. In a vacant lot

next to my in laws vacation house 32 years ago in May. It was on the lake and it was a beautiful day. Lake Almanor is a beautiful place.



Mz Pip
:dem:

[VenusRising]

61. Delta, Ohio.

A very teeny town in northwest Ohio. Zodiak Ironfist and I were married at my grandparent's old farm house. It's like the family homestead. We were married in August on the wrap around front porch.

Here's a picture of us by a tree with a corn field right in the background.

[LaurenG]

62. Heh - honestly we were married in South Park - Colorado

(South) Park County. We picked up our license in Fairplay and were married outside with about 50 or 60 friends and family members, nearly 14 years ago now.

[fight4my3sons]

63. Mohonk Mountain House, New Paltz, NY

We got married eight years ago this September out in the gardens. A horse and carriage carried me out to the gardens. It was lovely, my dream wedding.

[trof]

67. 38 years ago yesterday in Crystal Lake, IL.

[GalleryGod]

68. At the Historic Unitarian Universalist Meeting House in Provincetown, Mass.

My Bride @ the 1996 U.S. Open.



Cape Cod Christmas


Breaching Jon Stewart's Security for THE Photo-Op !

[kwassa]

71. Our reception was at the Women's National Democratic Club

How democratic is that?

:kick:

[book lady]

72. St. Rita's Church in Milwaukee, 36 years ago

[CottonBear]

77. Twice:

First time in the rose garden at the state botanical garden here in Georgia. It was mid-August and by some miracle it was a cool and sunny day as opposed to 95 degrees and 90% humidity! Family and friends attended and as reception was held at a very nice, local, lakeside reception hall.

Second time took place in my living room with just me and my soon-to-be husband, the lady judge, my stepdaughter and two girl friends, one of whom was the photographer and one served as maid of honor.

I'm getting divorced now which is a good thing for me.

I got divorced the first time in the upstairs courtroom (sort of like the one in 'To Kill a Mockinbird') in a 19th century county courthouse in the county seat of a rural Georgia county.

I suppose I'll be divorced for the second time in the county courthouse here in the city where I now live.

[Crabby Appleton]

78. New York City, Broadway United Church of Christ

when it was at 56th & Broadway; a beautiful old church

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Broadway_United_Church_of_Christ

http://www.bwayucc.org/BwayHist.pdf

[mentalsolstice]

79. Cropwell, AL...anyone else?

We were wed at Our Lady of the Lake, across the street from the Big Bull Motel & Restaurant!

[BuddhaGirl]

80. The Alta Mira Hotel - Sausalito, CA

We were married on the outdoor patio, under an arch woven with flowers, with the SF bay in the background.

It was so beautiful!! :-)

[Roon]

81. At my parent's country club...by a Judge

We honeymooned at the shining hotel in estes park!

[bertha katzenengel]

82. As much as I hate to inject politics into a thread on a political message board --

I am waiting for it to be legal in MD. Then we will be married at the Charles County Courthouse in La Plata.

That is a beautiful photo!

[MountainLaurel]

101. You have every right to, BK

And we're looking forward and working for the day when you and Mrs. Venation can go to that courthouse.

[Bullwinkle925]

83. San Mateo, Ca. - a million years ago!

[cloudbase]

84. Northport, NY

almost 28 years ago.

[KamaAina]

85. On Tralfamadore

sadly, Earth hasn't yet caught up with that particular time frame...

[dysfunctional press]

86. on this beach on kauai...

[Just-plain-Kathy]

87. Bronx, NY

The reception was in a Knights of Columbus.

[Capn Sunshine]

90. Big Sur, CA

Right near here.


Our chuppa was made of rather large hemp plants. Minister had dreads. Pretty cool, man.

[ronnykmarshall]

96. Groovy, daddy-o!

[lizziegrace]

93. At a Methodist church

in Memphis, Tennessee

It would have been 24 years ago next month if the marriage had lasted that long.

[ronnykmarshall]

95. Las Vegas!

Walking down the aisle with our two best friends.



Cutting da cake.



My mom crying.



Moi in our FABULOUS suite at Bellagio.

[LeftyFingerPop]

98. At the business end of a shotgun...

in a haze of alcohol and fear, looking at my pregnant bride who I never met, while "Festus" (the father apparently) grinned toothlessly while holding the shotgun, while "high-fiveing" "Cletus", supposedly my best man.

Funny how life can be.

:evilgrin:

[MountainLaurel]

99. Amberly, New Zealand

At a gorgeous inn and working sheep ranch:

http://www.claremont-estate.com/

[opiate69]

100. Thurston County Courthouse, Olympia, Washington

April 1, 2006.

[Bzzzz]

104. Our Re-Affirmation In 2002...

New Castle, Indiana at Memorial Park...22 years and still in love. We were married in Knightstown, Indiana at my brother-in-laws home in front of a justice of the peace who happened to be the mother of a guy I graduated with.