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Write about your most unique experience at, or in, a wedding.

Posted in Nonfiction on May 28, 2020

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✍️ 34 stories

Yeah, I Know, but Mine Really Is Special

Ed Friedman

Submitted to Contest #28

  Yeah, I Know, but Mine Really Is Special Everyone likes to think that their wedding is special and unique. But the truth is, if you’ve lived a long time it’s likely that you’ve been to many of them. In general, I’m not a fan of attending weddings. I go when they’re with people I like and for whom I’m happy. But they’re long and they follow a fairly predictable pattern: 1)  House of worship2)  Vows3)   Matching dresses/suits,4)  Time lag between the ceremony and the r...

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The bouquet toss of the century

Brianna Marshall

Submitted to Contest #28

I am from a large and loving family that is a bit well weird in most people’s eyes but weird is fun. As a quick example, when a photographer asks for us to pull a ‘silly face’ we have to clarify “marshall silly face or normal silly face?”. We all enjoy making each other laugh and goofing off. We are all each other’s best friend. As the second generation of twelve cousins becomes older there are marriages every year and babies every other. My father is one of four and is the second oldest. First it was Aunty Jenny followed by my father Steve,...

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You're Next

Submitted to Contest #28

You’re Next            Never a bride. Never a bride’s maid. Heck, I’ve never even been in a wedding party before. But, my sister was getting married, and I would be there for whatever she needed, which was in fact, the cake.            Yep, I was solely in charge of the cake. Everyone else had other responsibilities. All I needed to do was buy a couple dresses for the day, and show up with a beautifully decorated wedding cake. &...

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My Top Five

Emma Preston

Submitted to Contest #28

I've been a bridesmaid six times, so when it came to my own wedding I was pretty sure I knew what to expect. For the most part I was pretty spot on, but I'd be lying if I said there weren't a few surprises. If I had to narrow it down, the top five biggest surprises of the day would be: 5. The (friendly) scuffle over who got first dibs on the pork pie cake, which ended with two members of the wedding party rolling around on the floor. This takes last place on my list because I only associate with people who take buffet food ver...

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Second Time's a Charm

Karen Quick

Submitted to Contest #28

The mirror regards me coolly, telling me bluntly what I already know: The dress is too big. Nevertheless I push on, determined to look somewhat tasteful on my impromptu wedding day, and continue stuffing crumpled towels from the dispenser into the bodice that was cut too generously for someone my size. My friend, who was not selected as a bridesmaid and will be sitting in the crowd, finally declares that unless I want the horror of wearing a bra under my strapless dress I should plaster my arms to my sides and just get on with the whole mess...

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MARRIAGE REPLAY

SHYAMALA BHUVANACHANDRAN

Submitted to Contest #28

Sulochana aunty had to go apartment no. A Block 234 and inform the ladies that her daughter in law, Hemamalini, would not be able to attend this fortnight’s kitty party cum get together, arranged in this house. She could have very well telephoned and told them. But then, she was not sure who would pick up the phone. Sulochana aunty was not good at conversing in English nor in Hindi. By going in person and telling the ladies, it was expected that one or the other woman would understand her dialect. By the way it was neither a far away place, ...

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The Wisdom Tooth Wedding

Ann Parker Burgess

Submitted to Contest #28

Your wedding day is supposed to be magical, romantic and the most memorable day of your life. You are excited and can’t sleep the night before. You and your bridesmaids sit up all night talking. Every bride wants it to be perfect, right? Nothing can go wrong.For my friend, things were working out perfect. The wedding date was set. We had gone together to pick out her wedding dress. Oh, it was beautiful and she couldn’t have looked more beautiful wearing it. I helped her with invitations and picking out the wedding cake. She and the groom met...

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The T-Shirt Toast

Sean Reiley

Submitted to Contest #28

“Sean, where are you?!” Good question. I was walking around town towards a restaurant I frequented throughout any typical week. Saturday happened to be fish-fry-special night and nothing was more delicious than the fresh caught fish from Lake Mwanza. “Heading towards the Uhuru Monument. What’s up?” Sunsets in Arusha can be borderline nirvana. There weren’t too many lights illuminating the city sky so as to block out the emerging stars against the increasingly pink and orange horizon. If you looked during the right time frame, ...

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Sally's Wedding

Judith Pratt

Submitted to Contest #28

Going from Massachusetts to Montana for my childhood friend Sally’s wedding overwhelmed me—a sheltered twenty-year-old—in all directions. First, I stayed with the groom’s family, on their sofa, where a puppy and kitten triggered my asthma by playing tag over my face all night. No one worried about that. (Much later, I lived in the Midwest, and realized that people who busted the sod and crossed the mountains are not worriers. Unlike my longtime Eastern family.) Then I stayed with Sally in her apartment, sharing the only bed, causing Bob-the-...

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My Father Married His Three Children

Submitted to Contest #28

My own romance started with a date who was late and introduced me to a friend. When meeting someone you met only online was a faux pas, I rebelled and decided to jump in with both feet but with stipulation – we go to a movie so we’d be in public. Only at 16 I didn’t think about what could happen on the drive to the theatre, I just knew I wanted adventure and so I said yes to meeting the much older man for a movie. And then he drove in 10 minute after the movie started. I should have known he was bad news but still decided I’d be safe an...

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STAGED

Sharon Felicia Acheampong

Submitted to Contest #28

“Wakey-wakey! Rise and shine! Get that butt out of bed!” I groaned. Why oh why did my best friend and roommate have to be such a morning person? And why extra chipper today? Then I remembered.“Five more minutes, actually make that ten.”I shouldn’t have spoken, that meant I was awake.“No! Vidya, this is the first time I’m attending an Indian wedding and you are not going to make me late!”Lori gathered a bottom edge of my duvet and whisked it off me before I could hold on to it. I groaned again.“I could have been naked you know, or been hiding...

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"At Least We Had Each Other"

Karen Meyer

Submitted to Contest #28

“At Least We Had Each Other”Rebecca Kaiser I’ve been to many weddings in my lifetime. This one was the worst wedding I have ever been to or ever will attend. The sad part is that I’m only 14. After three hard years of dealing with my dad’s girlfriend, they decided to get married. She was wicked; however, this story is not of the love between a man and a woman. It is between me and my sister. Most girls aren’t close to their sisters until their early twenties. This evil woman caused my sister and I to be best friends. To this day, we still ar...

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The Daisy Wedding

Ali B

Submitted to Contest #28

When we all got the invite to Aleta’s wedding I can’t say it was surprising. Even if it was summer of 2000 and Aleta was getting married just shy of her 20th birthday. Insanity or genius? Why do we fear the marrying of the young?At my secular university campus getting married at such an age was an anomaly. But Aleta was part of the enviable and sheltered world of bible college, or “bridal college” as one of my summer profs called it.There we were the five of us packed into one of our parent’s cars heading to the small tow...

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The Uniqueness or a wedding

Nisha Murali

Submitted to Contest #28

In my entirety of my lifetime, I have been to many weddings. Of all that I have attended, it was the wedding that I was majorly part of was the most unique of all. It was not because of the decoration of the performance or the food but the experience of the whole event plus the inside perspective of what actually happens in the background, behind the curtains. This particular wedding even changed my perspective of weddings on a whole. As the date of the ceremonial wedding got nearer, the stress level of all the family members got higher. Bei...

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The Distraction of Stars

Ay Jay

Submitted to Contest #28

The wedding is long, and boring, whereas the lake is cool and pleasant and distracting. My journal sits on my lap, open and blank, as I traced my finger up and down its spiral spine, my eyes turned to the water. The summer sun bounced off its glassy surface, creating a glow under the white tent. The couple to be married stands, holding hands, at the front, the man between them droning on about the moment they first found their true love.  I frown again, pulling at the straps of my dress. It sparkles when I move, and twirls around my an...

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