Comments on: Offbeat military weddings

By: Lauren

Lauren — Tue, 06 Sep 2011 22:29:41 +0000

I'm an Army Bride! My FH and I are both Staff Sergeants. Our wedding was actually scheduled around my brother, who is an Army officer, deployed in Iraq right now. So we've got lots of Army going on. Not sure how we're going to incorporate it into the ceremony yet. I love the idea SUZY had of switching last name on uniform. I'm thinking after the "you may kiss the bride" he might whip out his name plate and pin it on my dress. Neither of us will be in uniform, but we gotta have a little Army represented!

By: Andrea

Andrea — Tue, 06 Sep 2011 00:31:54 +0000

Just got married Saturday… and yes, we're both active duty Army officers. We pushed it back for over a year because both of us were deployed. Give me a sec to get the pictures back, geez. (and no, no uniform for me… thought I'd look nice for a change of pace!)

By: Nicki D.

Nicki D. — Mon, 05 Sep 2011 06:43:33 +0000

Oh, I'm so glad to see this–and even more glad to see comments from my sisters in the military who are marrying civilian men! I'm active duty Army, currently stationed in Oklahoma, trying to plan my wedding to a civilian in New Jersey. It's been tough to say the least, but I feel better just hearing from folks in the same boat.

By: SUZY

SUZY — Fri, 06 May 2011 19:31:19 +0000

I'm getting married this summer and we are both active duty Army. I've opted to wear the traditional white dress but wearing our greens together for a retro photo shoot where he's going to switch my last name on my uniform. Glad to see other dual military on here don't feel as alone!

By: Melissa Ratcliff

Melissa Ratcliff — Tue, 15 Dec 2009 20:04:05 +0000

My wedding is up there, and both of us are military. I just didn't want to wear my uniform for the wedding!

By: Carlene

Carlene — Tue, 15 Sep 2009 23:12:50 +0000

I totally get it,my FH is a Coastie (ahem, I'm sorry, "Guardian" as we're supposed to say now*rolls eyes*). His roommate/one of my best friends is a 6'1" female Lieutinant. She's intimidating to say the least. She's marrying a civilian guy, but having the hardest time! Everyone assumes the GROOM is the one in the service, not the BRIDE.

By: Angela

Angela — Sun, 09 Aug 2009 23:55:12 +0000

Because society is sexist like that.

By: Tedde

Tedde — Fri, 22 May 2009 22:09:21 +0000

Thank you! My fiance and I are both in the marine corps and I'm trying to plan a wedding without any leave to work around.
It's nice to find inspiration for something beautiful (I'm so tired of my coworkers' dress-blues-boring weddings). I love my job, and I'm not marrying it, but it's hard to ignore that it changes some aspects of a wedding, and I'm glad to relate a little to the girls on here.
One of my biggest regrets with this is not being able to find enough time to craft it all up, but thank god for etsy.

By: Liv

Liv — Sun, 17 May 2009 07:01:36 +0000

oh and were getting married on the 4th of july. lol

By: liv chavez

liv chavez — Sun, 17 May 2009 07:00:36 +0000

wow! Me too. My fiance is going to korea for a year,right now hes in missouri,so im doing all the wedding stuff alone too. Cheers to all the military partners!