43 Days to Go: Thursday Giveaway

Sep 6, 2012 | 46 Comments

Because it’s been pretty much all things wedding this week, I figured a fun giveaway to tie all of this in would be perfectly suited!!

I’m obsessed with all these goodies…My Best Friend’s Wedding (which I will always think of each time “Say A Little Prayer” plays), a satin sleep eye mask (I have a leopard printed one which saves me on the plane), Blue Q’s “I’m Savin Up For My Dream Wedding” tin bank, and Hide-A-Notes which are adorable cards with different cute drawings/sayings you can give your significant other.  Nothing like sneaking a little card with a ship on it that says “you float my boat” into a back pocket :)

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To win these goodies, leave a comment below with a fun wedding story!  Maybe you caught the wedding bouquet without trying (you got that story from me last week), saw attendees do the splits (yep and splits, plural, was not a typo), or had a private John Mellencamp concert during the wedding reception (check).  Share something fun/memorable and a winner will randomly get chosen next week (as well as winners from the previous two weeks’ giveaways)!

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  • Tams Witter

    This happened when I was six and my aunty got married. I walked over to my uncle, kicked him in the shins and told him that if he “ever hurt my aunty I was going to kick him harder than that.” Unfortunately he passed away nearly two years ago, but I’ll always remember the memory of that moment.

    -Tams

  • Btejkl

    My M-in-L made a beautiful centerpiece to put on the head table. It had silk flowers and lovely candles in the middle. Well, someone lit the candles and the whole thing caught on fire. We laugh about it now:)

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=41603120 Emily Haager

    I spent the entire last wedding I went to avoiding my aunt because all she did was hound me about how I was next and I had to get married next because her family was tired of throwing all the weddings so I better get married before her youngest daughter. All this and I came solo to the wedding. Ugh. Well…turns out she’s right! I’m getting married on the 22nd!

  • Elise

    I have a good wedding story. I was the maid of honor at my sister’s wedding last year. The DJ announced all of the wedding party as they came out in pairs before the seated dinner with the best man and myself to be announced right before the bride and groom. Well the DJ goofed and announced the best man and me as the bride and groom. I think both of us screamed no at the same time. Don’t get me wrong, he’s a nice guy, but not my type. Anyway the joke is that we are now DJ married. It’s a good thing that DJ marriage is not legal!

  • KJ

    When I was 8, I was the flower girl at my cousin’s wedding. I went to the bathroom and accidentally tucked my dress into my Barbie underwear. I made it to the dance floor before my sister came to my rescue!

  • Emily

    During my wedding the pastor was preaching when a little kidin the back row let out the biggest belch ever!! I was starting to laugh and I can see the best man is about to lose it as well. My husband starts to squeeze my hand because if I laugh he is going too. I managed to keep most of it in. And out pastor, he jsut kept on preaching with a straight face. I don’t think he even heard it. Some people would of thought their day was ruined. We just laugh about it!!

  • Amanda Davis

    I woke up the morning after my little brother’s very fun wedding to find that the guy I stood up with had left a giant greasy handprint right on the back of my bridesmaid’s dress, in the “buttocks” region. I don’t even remember him putting his hand on my butt, even tho I really was hoping to have a little hook up action going on there, lol….alas he passed out in a hotel bed next to me and my best pal, lol….

  • Newlywed

    My favorite wedding………mine just a couple of weeks ago! I wore feathers in my hair, I was shaking so bad most of the guests made comments about how my feathers were just bouncing or how they thought I was getting ready to take flight. The first wedding I remember was my mom and dad’s I was four years old. By the time they got ready to cut the cake I had scraped off all the icing with my finger and eaten it.

  • Jocelyn Pagano

    In my best friend’s wedding this past Summer, right before the bridesmaids and bride were going to walk down the aisle, an elderly man rushed past us. Come to find out, he had a bowel mis-hap and left evidence where we had to walk to get up to the church. We felt horrible for him, but had to laugh at the luck and timing. Because of this, the bride’s sister went down in the wrong order and had to switch once up in front. We were all struggling to contain our giggles.

  • Anna W.

    First, My Best Friend’s Wedding is one of my fave movies and I feel the same about Say a Little Prayer! I married my best friend 6 years ago when we were babies (20 & 22). We are still just as hopelessly in love… we are so blessed. When we got married we took communion and had a bit of a mishap that no one besides us, the Pastor and his wife notice. When a bridge in a satin gown kneels at an alter with a gorgeous bridal white satin kneeling rail she finds no friction and begins to slide off! It was hysterical. We rushed through communion with my groom holding me to the altar so I didn’t roll off onto the floor! It’s one of our favorite memories to this day!!!

  • Laura Whitman

    That is SUCH a great movie! And those little notes? Adorable.

    I think my favorite (and most hilarious) wedding memory is going to one of my sister’s friends wedding. During the service a little 10 year old girl got up to read a Bible verse, something from John. All of sudden she starts talking about how Jesus is speaking to a prostitute and how she sinned. And it ended on such an awkward note something like, Jesus said, “Yes. Yes you have sinned.” It turns out she was supposed to be reading from 1 John. So amusing!

    xoxo,
    Laura

  • Texasgal

    My husband and I went to the wedding of his former roommate a few years ago. It was the craziest wedding we’ve ever been to! First, the pastor (who was up in years) started the wedding service before the bride walked down the aisle. The groom had to politely say, “Father, Ashley’s not here yet!” Then, he left out communion, announced them man and wife, and then had to backtrack to let them take communion. As if that was not crazy enough, a woman had an emergency in the middle of the reception. The ambulance pulled up, the EMTs had to part the food tables to get through, and they raced off to the hospital. The bride was in the other room and, thankfully, didn’t realize what was going on until it was pretty much over. (We heard later that the woman recovered.) It was unbelievable how calm the bride and groom were throughout the proceedings! We still relate the story as the strangest wedding we’ve ever attended.

  • Feline

    So, my big sister warned me that she had found a way to get everryone up dancing during her wedding, and i also knew she’d taken dance lessons with their DJ. For their first dance, they just slw danced, confusing me as to why lessons were needed. Then the DJ tells us that the couple had a surprise planned… they had choreographed a simple dance to “Footloose”! It was really cute, and they did a great job.

  • http://profiles.google.com/mandakitty Amanda Barroso

    My cousin who is a year younger than I am got married at 18, My favorite memory of her wedding was when the DJ played Friends in low places and the whole family was up there passing the microphone and singing. I also remember my mom and dad’s(stepdad) wedding, They did a justice of the peace thing, small me and my brother, 2 witnesses and them, My mom laughed through the whole ceremony, the ring for some reason even though it was the right size wouldn’t go on my dad’s finger. Then at the small reception my aunt threw at her house, my dads best man while it was cake time came up behind him and hit his elbow smashing the cake into my moms face…at 10 seeing your moms face full of cake was pretty awesome

  • Laurel

    My husband was in a wedding where the groom was a childhood friend but they were not very close. The woman he married had a huge production of a wedding, 11 attendants on each side. The wedding was very over the top and later on we found out she was already cheating. Well, we decided to go back to the room after dinner, have a quickie and smoke a hooter…we fell asleep and missed the whole reception, including pictures. The bride was furious…we just have a good story.

  • Teresa

    I guess my wedding memories was on our wedding day. I married my childhood sweetheart, my first love. We met when we were 13. Anyway: My husbands brothers had decorated our truck. They put sardines on the motor, can with one under the seat. Vaseline on the steering wheel & shifter knob. Peanut butter on the door knobs, cans on the back. We thought all was over with when we got home, couldn’t afford to go anywhere for a honeymoon, so when we went to bed we found out my brother had dumped a box of corn flakes under our sheets.We have been married for 30 years now & still chuckle over it.

  • Keri

    My husband and I were married October 10, 2010. We had a costume wedding and encouraged the guests to dress up as well! I was a hot vampire (naturally) and my bridesmaids were and angel and devil which cracked us up all night! My groom was a Warhammer 40K character, and his groomsmen were a thug and a Corbra Kai (the bad karate guys from Karate Kid!!) Batman married us and attending the wedding were several pirates, Frankenstein and his bride and doctor, Woody from Toy Story, a gorrilla and his baby gorilla, Optimus Prime, Spider Man, Venom (evil Spidey), a Tooth Fairy, Joan Jett, Paul Bunyon and Babe the Blue Ox, a logger turned tree hugger (his wife was the tree, very adorable), Huuterites (our version of Amish folks), Catwoman, some cops, some nurses, gansters (their daughter was a bag of money, totally hilarious) and my favorite was my parents who wore Hawaiian shirts, shorts, tall black socks and cowboy hats and boots. They called themselves Montanans on the Beach (we are in MT and it was COLD that night). It was a ton of fun, the zombie walk was that day and zombies were outside the reception which just made it better than I could have ever planned myself. Great memories!!

  • shylomicorizon

    One of the first dates my husband and I went on was to one of his friends wedding. It was held at a historical museum so my husband and I were looking around and found ourselves in a showroom that was being used as a kind of changing room for the participants of the wedding. We didn’t know there was anyone else down there, but the brother of the groom was there changing, when he heard our voices he started playing a nice slow song on his saxophone. It was such a sweet moment to share we started slow dancing, all alone, in the dark. It was VERY romantic!

  • Judy B

    Fighting over the bouquet? Hardly! Apparently we had no stereotypical “girls desperate to get married” in attendance at my sister’s wedding reception. When she tossed the bouquet just short of the clump of ‘single ladies,’ it landed splat on the floor, and we just stood there looking at it. We were all “I’m not gonna get it–YOU get it.” I shoved her new sister-in-law forward, and she picked it up. Whew! Dodged that bullet.

  • Deborah Derr

    My boyfriend and I went to a good friend’s wedding. We both love to dance. He’s a great dancer and I just make my stupid dance moves look awesome. Apparently we were so awesome that we cleared the dance floor and everyone watched us rock out to some tunes from the 90s. I wish I could remember the song! So my friend now has a whole collection of photos from her wedding with us as the only people on the dance floor! It’s kinda awesome.

  • Jaclyn

    Most romantic moment at my wedding: first dance was a song my husband wrote for me. Funniest moment at my wedding: watching the priest who married us break dancing!

  • Margo Slaby

    When I was little, I never liked wedding receptions. They were always too dark, too loud, too much dancing, etc. I would always just sulk in a corner and wait until my family got tired. One year, when I was about 16 or so, I surprised everyone and danced to the Cupid Shuffle like a boss. Everyone was sooo surprised that I was doing anything but sulking and looking like a pro at it! After that, I never sulked during a wedding reception, ever.

  • Kathy

    At the time it was funny. Looking back, it is one of those too much to drink stories that I am glad the authorities weren’t called. Here it is….. my girlfriend (it really was her) who liked a plant at the hotel where the reception was beeing held, took the entire plant out of the pot upon leaving. My husband, being the designated driver, was upset. She managed to get soil all over the back seat & we were cracking up. Oh, to be that young & carefree again. I wonder what she ever did with the plant?

  • Vanessa

    My brother (the groomsman) and his fraternity brothers serenaded my sister-in-law on the dance floor during their wedding. It was so beautiful that it had most people in tears by the end. Absolutely amazing!

  • bones

    During a game of charades a couple years before my sister’s wedding she drew “playing the tampourine” which she acted out by shaking her hips and slapping her booty…so prior to her & her new husbands wedding exit from the church everyone was handed a mini tampourine (unknown to the bride & groom) to shake when they came out. Laughter ensued even for those that didn’t know the charades story.

  • Caitlin

    At my mom’s wedding 21 years ago she experienced an embarrassing moment! As she was walking down the aisle her slip skirt started to fall off! The further she got down the aisle the farther it slipped until she had to just step out of it and leave it. Thankfully a little old lady reached behind her and grabbed it out of the aisle. The whole event was captured on video so I have been able to watch it :) Although I’m sure she was mortified at the time it makes for a great story!

  • http://www.facebook.com/ambre.sautter Ambre Sautter

    I ordered what looked like a pretty garter off of E-Bay. It was a basket garter though for a HUGE basket! We tucked it into my real garter during the reception so when my husband went into my skirt and came out with that and a fake baffled look, everyone errupted in laughter. :)

  • Maggie

    My favorite wedding was on a boat! It was so beautiful and so serene!

  • Celeste!

    At my wedding, some fireworks were shot INTO the reception tables. One gentleman saved his shrimp, not his wife!

  • Savannah Fowler

    One of the family weddings, everyone was told to wear pastel colors, one aunt apparently didn’t get the memo. She was wearing a fushia pink dress. In all of the pictures she stands out so much because of how bright she looks compared to everyone else. We still make fun of her for that.

  • emily

    Wow, I must be going to all the wrong weddings; either that or I can’t think of anything funny at the moment! But memorable; certainly that would be my own wedding, for me. I have chronic migraines, and my wedding day was one of my last without pain that I’ve had in 8 years or so. It was an amazing day & I will always remember it fondly — my husband has 6 aunts & I felt like I kept meeting one after another after another! I thought I would never keep them all straight. Now, 8 years on, I know them all & am so grateful they’re a part of my life!

  • Brittney

    The best memory is probably my little cousin, maybe 8 years old, catching the bouquet at his sister’s wedding. He was sitting next to the dance floor and it landed right in his lap. He was pretty surprised. He then gave the bouquet to our oldest cousin. She brought her boyfriend to the wedding so everyone could meet him, and they did end up getting married too. :)

  • http://www.facebook.com/caroline.horne.56 Caroline Horne

    When my older sister was married I sang at the reception. The song that we all chose was ‘Sunrise, Sunset’ from “Fiddler”. I got to the line ‘when did she get to be a beauty’ no problem. However, the next part of that line is (and I was looking at the couple) ‘when did he get to be so tall’…problem. It didn’t click until then how tall her husband was at 6’4″ and so I looked up, and up, and up and almost burst out laughing with the rest of the room. Totally unintentional but very funny.

  • Stephanie Vasconcellos

    Not a fun story, necessarily, but I was at a wedding where the groom accidentally elbowed the bride in the mouth during the hokey pokey, and knocked out her two front teeth! what a mess.

  • allisonm

    When I was a toddler, my mom always put me in tights with ruffles on the butt. At Christmastime when my cousin & I were two and one someone tried to snap a picture of us in front of the Christmas tree. I stood up & stuck my butt in her face, and she decided my wedding would be a great time to get even with me for “The Rufflebutt Incident”. She talked my other cousins into picking up some cheap boxers and lace. They somehow got the lace on the butt of all these boxers. Later on in the evening, I was requested to come up to the DJ booth. He put the song ‘Baby Got Back’ on and all the groomsmen and bridesmaids came out to dance. Next thing I knew, the guys were pulling their pants down & the bridesmaids were pulling their dresses up. They ALL had on those boxers & were sticking their butts towards me! It was my favorite part of the reception!

  • Marci

    At my wedding, our Master of Ceremonies (my older brother) thought it would be funny to announce the names of all my past boyfriends. I had had quite the history with boys as a teenager and consequently I froze in my seat at the head table and my face turned white when he said this at the reception!! Fortunately, it was all in jest and he had the crowd laughing pretty hard. :)

  • julie

    I did a student teaching program in Cameroon and attended a wedding with my host family there. When it was time to toss the bouquet, they gathered all of the single ladies, but called them spinsters. I tried to go unnoticed, but my host mother shouted, “We have another spinter here!” Hey, I was only 21! :)

  • RainnKenyon

    At my wedding No One would catch the bouquet. All of the women jumped back as if a raw chicken were thrown at them. Marriage didn’t last a year…

  • ElizS

    I was the guest book girl for my aunt’s wedding. I managed to catch my pony tail in my flower pinned to my chest. It left my neck in quite predicament, and I was not-so-camly bellowing for my mom to un-connect everything that should not have become one.

  • Anna

    This spring at our friend’s wedding the preacher pronounced them Mr. and Mrs (bride’s last name) the bride and groom were beaming as they were about to head down the aisle but then the groom looked back quick in a confused way and the preacher switched it real quick. Most everyone broke out in chuckles.

  • Emily

    At my best friend’s wedding, her father performed the ceremony and began the ceremony by quoting Princess Bride. “Mawidge! Mawidge is wot bwings us togevar, toay”. The whole room cracked up and the opening was caught on film for everyone to remember forever! Thankfully he finished the ceremony in his normal voice…

  • elle w

    At my friend’s wedding this summer in VA I was able to hold one of my friends baby’s for a good majority of the dinner. We had so much fun dancing together, ok so maybe the baby didn’t have fun, but I love holding other people’s children! I wore a thrifted dress to the wedding (and the dinner the night before), so it was fairly affordable (minus the travel from PA).

  • Jesica

    I once attended the wedding where the bride was outside in her dress, standing at the door where the guests were walking in. Just struck me as being a little strange.

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=765730216 Judy Pariser Scharf

    It was a very rainy day the day I got married. We were posing for pictures and I felt my shoulder getting wet. It was coming in through the roof! We had several pails on the dance floor that night to catch the drips. We went to Bermuda on our honeymoon. They hadn’t had any rain for two months until we arrived. It rained nonstop until we left. It rained when both my children were born. I now think that rain is good luck for me.

  • tess

    at our wedding, there was a huge deluge, a lot of guests did not make it in because the streets were flooded, the reception hall roof leaked, our frinds kept mopping the floor, guest took turns standing under an umbrella under the leak, and reciting love poems, eventually the elevators and bathrooms stopped working
    another wedding I heard of, the maid of honor was fluffing up the back of the brides dress and exposed her backside, oops

  • JenniferRose

    When my cousin got married, her little brother and his best friend (whose nicknames were Goose and Maverick a la Top Gun) sang “You’ve Lost that Loving Feeling” to her at the reception. They did a great job and it was definitely a moment no one attending will forget.