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You may be able to tell that I drag holidays and special occassions on as long as possible! LOL!
I think celebrating happy times is important. Our Wedding/Honeymoon was one of the happiest times of my life.
My Mom always made a big deal of Birthdays and other holidays so I think thats where it comes from. They are milestones in which we mark the changes in our life. The good and the bad.
I am extatic because I really do have an amazing husband and father for my children. We have such a great relationship. One that I would be jealous of if I weren’t in it! LOL!
I hope my children find in a partner what Jason and I have together.
Jason has really supported and respected my aspirations as a wife, mother, friend and stamper.
We have been through alot together. And I think the key is we have leaned on each other through it all.
I’m just so happy to have been able to document our special day using this Smilebox. It only took maybe 20 minutes. Picking my photos was the LONG part.
So far we both look pretty much the same. I hope to say the same in 10 more years!
HISTORY-We eloped to Hawaii to get married. We decided to spend money on ourselves as oppose to a huge Wedding that feeds 100 people for 6 hours of fun. We had a videographer-so we have video of our ceremony (my kids love to watch it), and a photographer.
It felt like we were the only 2 people on the face of the earth.
We got married on a private beach, and after our ceremony we went to a Tradional Hawaiian Luau. At the Luau we were treated like ROYATLY! Still in our Wedding Attire. We got special seating, a first wedding dance in front of everyone, traditional Hawaiian Wedding cake-not as good as our wedding cake! LOL! We also got a private canoe ride through the Polynesian Cultural Center. We saw traditional Hula dancers, and flame throwers. Its was an amazing expierience-far better than a reception would have been.
We then spent 2 weeks following our ceremony traveling a crusieship and island hopping around Hawaii. Its was the most magical, and amazing time.
My favorite part of our wedding ceremony was Jason being SO STRESSED about having the rings! He kept checking and checking. He was paranoid about it.
When we arrived the Priest told us “Whatever you do, don’t drop the Wedding Rings.” “This sand is like quicksand, and if you drop it you will never find it”
We began our cereomy……………
During our vows, it came to the rings. Jason quickly realized forgot to bring them down to the archway! He left them in their box up on the beach. Once the camera cut, so he could retrieve them, he came back to restart our vows.
Vows begin again……………..
Jason got the ring from his pocket, then dropped it in the sand! It was HILARIOUS!
When we got our wedding video I thought for sure there was no way of patching it up, but the guy did, seamlessly. I almost wished he left that part in, as it was so funny. Poor Jason.
I’d love to hear a wedding story from you! It can be yours or anyone else you know. Whatever you want to share.
Thanks for watching my SmileBox creation. I hope you get to try one. Its alot of fun.
39 Responses for "My Wedding Box of Photos, and a funny story."
Happy Anniversay Lauren. I enjoyed looking at your pictures. What a great looking couple.
Renee
Awww. Congratulations to you and Jason. Beautiful pictures! What an awesome way to start your married life together. Have a great time!
Just beautiful! TFS!
Hi Lauren,
I read your blog all the time and love it. Your wedding story and mine are almost identical. Could we be long lost twins?? LOL. We got married in Hawaii too and spent two weeks island hopping too, although we didnt choose the cruise ship. We also had the ride on a really cool boat and dined in our Wedding dress and Tux on the beach with a 5 course dinner. It was amazing. I had a Wedding coordinator in Hawaii and we also have AWESOME photos and a video to watch…which we do. I thought we were the only ones who did this. I am so glad you shared your story. I don’t feel any regrets and I don’t feel one bit gulity about not having some huge wedding either. LOL. It was fun to spend the money on ourselves and not on a cold meal at a country club. AND…you should see the gifts we gave each other….NOPE… not one bit of regret here. Happy Annivesary! Hope your day is as magical as your Wedding Day!
Oh Lauren……how absolutely gorgeous !!! I visit your blog everyday and this is the first time I’ve left you a comment….I was so moved by your photos. I cried looking at this pictures….just knowing the incredible journey of both pain and joy that you’ve been on these last years just made these photos all the more incredible. I’m so thankful you two have each other. I’ve been married 22 years and know what it means to have the right person in your life…..you’ve found yours
God bless you all richly
Corinne
Lauren, boy…I sure wish we would have done something like this…While I liked my “big” wedding, it was totally for everyone else…not us. One of the memories from my wedding is kind of not good. At the reception, our best man got up and toasted us…and then my sister (the maid of honor) was supposed to get up and do a toast too…but she refused. Just said she didn’t want to do it. WHAT??? I got over it quickly…at her wedding a made up a silly limerick about refusing to give toasts…everyone laughed…she didn’t. Oh Well…
Oh Lauren, thanks for sharing these pictures and story with us!!! Your wedding looks and sounds like a fairy tale wedding.
My maid of honor forgot the rings in the dressing room and we had to stop the ceremony so someone could go run and get them. It was so embarrasing, but ended up being a pretty funny story later. At the time it wasn’t so funny though. Our video guy did great and cut it out of the video (thank goodness).
Now, though, I wish we would have ran off and got married. I love the idea of it just being the two of you. Happy Anniversary. My 10 yr is next week!!
Thanks for sharing your INCREDIBLE photos…what a magical day! You two are a beautiful couple, with a beautiful family, and a wonderful story behind it all…blessings to you always!!!
Lauren, Happy Anniversary to you and Jason.
Your wedding sounds like it was a fairy tale. What beautiful memories you have and can share with your children.
May the next 10 be just as blessed.
Thanks for sharing your wedding with us. I read your blog often. Your art work is incredible and very inspiring. As are all of your stories.
We have never met or talked but I wanted you to know how much I enjoy your blog.
Thanks for taking the time to inspire others.
Sorry I don’t have a unique wedding story to share. While it was an amazing day ~ July 5, 1986 ~ no funny story behind it. Oh now I remember something.
Mark and I were married in the church I was christened in, made my cummunion and confirmation in also. We had our reception at a friends of my parents beautiful place – the Birchwood Manor. He only scheduled our wedding there for that day – leaving many ballrooms empty so they would concentrate on my wedding. that was special. He loaned us his cars for the bridal party and his antique card for Mark and I . He would drive us. Well on the night of the rehearsal the priest made it very clear he would like the ceremony to start on time. Please do not be late. Not a problem we said! Only live 2 seconds from the church! What can happen!
Well in pulls the beautiful antique marroon car with gorgeous white interior! To my surprise it was a convertible! My hair – quickly got over that – I am not one to get rattled about my hair being a bit astray!!!!! My parents and I get in the car and off to the church! get about 200 yards from my driveway and we stop?!?!? What’s the matter I ask. Oh no – no one put gas in the car! OOPS!!!!!!!!! Yes here I am in a convertible with my parents and no gas in the middle of the intersection!!!!!!!!! There were people coming out of their homes – watching – taking pictures of us. I felt like a goldfish in a bowl – everyone looking. i was just laughing. We one very nice man went to the gas station and returned with some gas! Off we went to the church to find everyone wondering where we were. Seems no one went to tell them why we were delayed – after the priest said make sure you are on time!
So needless to say I made quite an entarance to my own wedding! I can remember walking up the isle with my dad and just laughing I was so happy to have arrived!
Just a little funny mishap!
The last 21+ years have been wonderful! Mark and I as just meant to be as you and Jason seem to be. Isn’t God just amazing ~ he has created someone for all of us.
May your life be full of blessings
Hugs!
Lauren, sorry I can’t look at your pictures, because I don’t have enough memory to upgrade my flash player. But at our wedding, one of the groomsmen was singing a solo (playing a guitar) and as he was singing, the microphone in front of him was slowing sliding down. He was sort of stooping to stay with it and you could hear snickers and giggles before someone stepped up to hold it and tighten it on the post. We still laugh about it.
Lauren, thanks for sharing the gorgeous pictures! I’ve been reading your blog for months now & this is my first time to post, too! Your wedding/honeymoon looks magical…what a great idea! My husband & I also “ran off” to get married! It was a second wedding for both, so we decided to skip the formalities & went to Vegas for our wedding/honeymoon! In fact, our 10th anniversary was yesterday! It was a great, fun experience with just the two of us. Our “glitch” was that we flew in on the morning of the day we were getting married. We had all day, with our ceremony being in the evening. We relaxed, I went & got my hair done & the day is passing without our luggage arriving in our room! We came to find out, in Vegas all the luggage goes in a truck & they just drive down the strip dropping off at each hotel (our luggage didn’t come with us to our hotel, like usual)! I was starting to panic, because I was really excited to wear my dress, but tried to comfort myself by remembering that it didn’t matter what we wore, just that we got married! In the end, our luggage finally arrived about a half-hour before the limo picked us up…whew!!!!!!!!! It was a close call…definitely something to remember!
Lesson: if you get married in Las Vegas, carry your clothes with you on the plane! 😉
Nice to finally “meet” you! Thanks again for all of your time, sharing your beautiful stories &, of course, creativity & talent with all of us!
Happy anniversary! What a great little photo tour. Hawaii looks like such an amazing place. It’s been on my list of places to visit for so long. My hubby and I wanted to do the same thing you and your hubby did, but we ended up having a small wedding in our hometown anyways. We’ll get to Hawaii one day.
Happy Anniversay Lauren. Today is mine too!!!!!
Our wedding was a super-fun day. We gathered all our friends and family at the lakefront, and had the reception FIRST! We ate, drank wine and had a grand old time, while children played in the water and on the playground, until almost dusk when we changed into our wedding clothes and (barefoot w/ matching toe rings) walked together up the candle lined dock over the water to say our vows and be married. Then we REALLY had a grand time. The beach pavillion was threaded with white x-mas tree lights, and our candle luminaries were left lit on the dock and everyone ate the 3 tiered cake (that I made MYSELF), and danced and had fun all night. *sigh*
I can’t believe it was only 4 years ago today.
Ahhhh Lauren,you’re such a beautiful couple!
You’re pictures are awesome,Happy Anniversary! and many more!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Oh Lauren, thank you for sharing your beautiful pictures with all of us.
When planning our wedding – all by myelf, as my mom lived 200 miles away at the time – I didn’t realize that my (now)husband and I would be required to “pose” at the front of the church while my best friend sang The Wedding Song – and have to stare soulfully at each other for the entire 3 minutes it took her to finish!! I was entirely stunned (and embarrassed) when it dawned on me (2 words into the actual song) that our poor friends and family had to sit and listen and watch us watch each other for the whole 3 minutes! I guess a planner would have caught that BEFORE it happened.
I did distract myself, though – I looked so limpidly and lovingly at my husband – and then, I winked, oh so, s-l-o-w-l-y. He liked to have died! He had to bite his lip to keep from laughing out loud in the middle of the song. THAT was funny.
Oddly – no one ever complained about having to sit through that; I guess either no one else thought it was dumb or else my friends and family have really good manners!
Zanne
Hi Lauren, I love the pictures and I love the song!! When my husband and I got married we were in a Catholic church w/ the traditional mass. If you have ever been to one you know they are very long. When it came time for us to say our vows, I went first and then just before my DH said his, I noticed he had a tear rolling down his cheek. I reached up to wipe it away and there was a collective “Oh!” from the audience and you could hear several people start to cry. Well, as you can imagine that got me started and the whole thing was captured on video. It is my favorite part of the entire ceremony. My children watch that video and they always say right before it happens, “Look Dad’s fixin’ to make everyone cry!” Thanks for sharing your special day with us.
Angie
Your pictures are lovely. You looked beautiful and Jason looked very handsome on your special day. Thank you for sharing your pictures with us.
Mary
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You were a beautiful bride! Thank you for sharing your story – so wonderful!
Have a beautiful day Lauren! A happy marriage to the person you love is one of God’s amazing gifts!
Thanks so much for sharing your wedding pictures with us! It was really nice to see them so we can see what your wedding was like. You still look the same as you did back then!! I think that was a great decision to spend the money on yourselves rather than a big reception. The reception thing never made much sense to me, and Hawaii looks like it was fabulous!!
Hope you guys both have a great day and a wonderful anniversary!!
Sounds like you got and deserved a fairy tale wedding. You were a lovely bride and from the sound of things got your prince.
Happy Anniversary Lauren!
Funny thing, my husband and I were just talking about our wedding. As we had to push it forward due to immigration issues. So we got married on February 24th 2005, instead of March 5th, 2005. During the wedding preparations, we had disagreements about what kind of wedding we want, I wanted small, just couple people, he wanted big where he can invite all his friends and family. So we both ended up getting our way. We got married on the 24th in the living room of the family I lived with at that time. It was the most romantic thing. My husband’s mom wasn’t able to come due to a huge snow storm…LoL…so we didn’t have any relatives present. LoL…we got married on the front of the fire place. Candles, snow storm outside…Our closest friends…One of Sean’s (my husband) groomsmen got lost in the neighbourhood, as he couldn’t find the house in the storm LoL, so he never made it.The best man’s wife was 9 months pregnant and about to give a birth any moment.
So she gave birth on February 26th. We has the second reception and wedding kind of ceremony thought we were married on March 5th (no way canceling the church etc and telling everyone to not come, cause we are married). Then when we went to Macedonia in April, 2006 (where I am from) my mother thew us an wedding reception, lol.
Congratulations on your anniversary. I loved reading & seeing all the pictures of your wedding. You and Jason are a beautiful couple and I am happy that you have found the. love of your life.
Wedding Story: My reception was held in the basement of my parent’s house – they live in the country. My Dad had to go and milk the cow he had at the time and invited the wedding guests to trek out to the barn to watch. Several of our “city” guests took him up on it. Our best man even got into the act and did a bit of milking while wearing his tux.
DH & I have been married for 36 years, have 2 children and 2 adorable granddaughters. We still love each other very much and have had our ups and downs but have always leaned on each other for support. We are also each other’s best friend and enjoy spending timie together.
Lauren,
I really enjoy reading about your family…it’s wonderful how God brought your Knight-in-Shining Armour, Jason, into your and Alexa’s lives and how He’s blessed you with Noah and Amber…I think your wedding was perfect for the both of you…Happy Anniversary! Thank you also for sharing your wonderful artwork with us! God bless…
Lauren,
What a gorgeous memory. Jason looks great in Purple. Love it! I wish you a lifetime of happiness! Chris
Happy anniversary! What a treasure in your love you have found. Thank you for sharing your story and your pictures. What a blessing. I have a man like yours that my friends all envy and wish they had a man like him. Isn’t it a wonderful feeling to know you have a blessed marriage? Yes I love Jason in the purple too as others have mentioned. LOL Very handsome. You look gorgeous!!! Many happy returns of this special day! Blessings of peace, joy, happiness and wedded bliss all the days of your life!
Tammy
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Congratulations on your wedding anniversary.
Brian and I celebrate our 27th next month – we were engaged 5 months after we met at work, married 2 months later and everyone said it would never last!
What a Fairy Tale wedding and honeymoon you had. You make a Beautiful couple.
My husband & I, were married in my parents front room, by the pastor of our church. We raised 3 beautiful children and now have 10 grandchildren. Life is good and we feel God has blessed us.
Hi Lauren…your wedding photos are SO beautiful. What an amazing experience.
Our wedding was wonderful but the only flaw was luckily before the ceremony. This was my second and LAST wedding 🙂 and my sweet 5 year old daughter was to be the flower girl and wanted to drop rose petals and the whole deal. Well as we were having our practice run before, she decided that she wasn’t going to walk down the isle and started crying. We tried and tried and finally convinced her that my niece could walk down with her so we had to go find a dress similar to my daughters and get my nieces hair all curled up and looking nice. It ended up okay but that was an hour before we were to be married. The rest of the night was wonderful. I guess we all have to have excitment! 🙂
Congratulations! My wedding was not as warm. To begin I now live in Florida and have for 35 years. My wedding 48 years ago, was on Long Island. Since it was to be the middle February it had to be on Valentin’s day. This being on a Wednesday that year, we planned a large evening candle light ceramony and a sit down dinner at the Milleredge Inn. All very beautiful except for the snow strom that began early that evening. The curch had high very steep steps, my brother in new shoes slid down the entire flight of stairs. Leaving the reception the snow was getting deep and we were driving to NYC for our honeymoon and could barely see the road.
Happy Anniversary, Lauren! Thank you for sharing your pictures of your beautiful wedding and your story!!!
Hi Laura, your wedding pictures are really beautiful and together you people made a great couple. Well your wedding story is like a fairy tale, I just read it two times. Thanks for sharing you story with us…
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