Hi everyone!
I’m going insane with how slow it is in our office today, so I’d love some stories of the coolest thing you’ve seen at a wedding.
As a former venue coordinator I saw a lot of couples get married, and while they each had unique touches the coolest one I’ve ever seen was a couple that were self proclaimed science geeks and did a unity volcano! They made it spill ‘lava’ in their color (bright green!), and donned lab coats, goggles, and gloves as part of their unity ceremony. It was a great moment of levity in their ceremony.
One wedding when I was in high school many years ago ticked most boxes for unique and fun. It was the first time I had seen photos taken before the ceremony, which is commonplace now. Back then, we all thought it was odd but it worked out very well. The couple dismissed guests by rows and that went super fast. In the church fellowship hall they did all the festivities (cake cutting, bouquet/garter tosses). It was also the first time anyone had seen a fake cake for cutting with one real slice the couple never found. But they served half sheet cakes from a local grocery store in 3 flavors that were cut right in front of guests so they could choose what they wanted and go back for 2nds or 3rds in birthday cake slices. No one was offended or weirded out. After that, they went to a dance at the local community center across town. Leftover cake and fruit platters were served. No full meal but it wasn’t done in that family/circle. The couple also had the limo for a block of time (2 hr minimum) but didn’t need it after the church so the driver took all the kids for a spin around town to use up the time.
Another was a couple years ago at a local community center owned by the parks department. They served a full meal but it was catered by a local Asian restaurant. It was a variety of Chinese, Teriyaki, Hawaiian cuisine in a buffet. Everyone talked about the food being the best they’d had at a wedding. And leftovers for anyone who wanted to take some home.
1. The bride was Irish and had surprise bagpipers in kilts play a couple songs during the reception
2. Axe throwing at the reception
3. Probably the coolest and most unique was the reception of one of my best friends. The couple were both filmmakers and had their reception at a beautiful historic independent theater. They had movie posters made for their wedding which were displayed out front, and the refreshment stand serving free popcorn, candy and sodas. Then they surprised guests by debuting the trailer for their new film.
Some friends of ours had a Jane Austen meets Godzilla themed wedding. The ring bearer had a green “monster” pillow, their ceremony was a skit that referenced everything from Taco Tuesday to Shakespeare to D&D, and the centerpieces were Austen’s novel covers with Godzilla photoshopped onto one of the male characters. I also still have her throwing bouquet, which was made of pages from old paperbacks.
Another couple we know, the husband is DH’s swordmaster – he does Italian fencing. The wife is in theatre. So they had a swordfight *with each other*.
Which was hilarious, because DH and I had always planned to have a swordfight *with our friends* at our wedding. We’re both actors, and we are both stage combatants, and our director friends delight in casting us in plays wherein I beat the living snot out of DH (…his character has, always, 150% deserved it). So, for our wedding, we wanted to team up and fight other people for a change.
Soooooooo:
(That is one of our dear friends who is an amazing actor, who usually does videography for our circle, but we said, Uh, no, please come play with us, thank you! And he did, because he is a delightful human. He is also deeply hilarious and his ad libs make it very hard to stay in character. It’s hard to see here, but that’s an axe.)
