Comments on: Miranda & Jake's Themeless, Unrehearsed & Heartfelt Wedding

By: Sasha

Sasha — Wed, 16 Dec 2009 00:29:06 +0000

I LOVE THIS !!! I just got married December 4, 09 and my wedding was at a courthouse also and I couldnt be happier !!! We didnt plan a reception so that is what I am working on now I love the non matching plates and silverwear idea becasue our wedding was an unrehearsed as it gets… My husband made everyone bust up laughing because he thought he was supposed to I do after every sentence the magistrate said so he ended up saying 3 or 4 times I was like I guess hes in hurry to get married….

By: Angela

Angela — Sun, 09 Aug 2009 07:27:41 +0000

And if that doesn't work, you can always scold them for not blooming correctly. Or frighten them into blooming.

By: miranda (bride)

miranda (bride) — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 21:23:41 +0000

Thank you!!

I hadn't heard anything from the officiant about what he'd say until he said it. We talked to him the other day and he said he actually wrote most of it the morning of! Which is great. Breaking updates from our relationship, haha. Jake and I said over and over what an awesome choice he was. He's a songwriter, so he definitely has a way with words, and he's the only person who knew us both before we knew each other, and he's not really "Jake's friend" or "Miranda's friend"… I don't regret AT ALL having chosen him, and not knowing a single thing about our ceremony other than what I'd say to Jake was pretty much perfect. I didn't wear mascara because I knew it would be running all over my face!!

By: Hopium

Hopium — Sun, 05 Jul 2009 06:32:15 +0000

Sounds like fun!!
You had a gorgeous wedding.
Seems a fair bit like my one. It was like "meh, why sweat the small stuff?"
We didn't rehearse. Kinds made it up as we went along. My poor bro became MC 1 min before we did speeches! Formalities are there for the parents – the fun is there for us, nes pas?

By: Tara

Tara — Sun, 05 Jul 2009 03:55:00 +0000

This is the first wedding I've read about on this site that has made me go beyond liking details to wishing I had been there!!! Great description too!

By: miranda (bride)

miranda (bride) — Sun, 05 Jul 2009 02:34:45 +0000

it was SUCH a pain to go to various thrift stores and get all reused stuff (forks were the hardest to find, especially since we ended up getting 100 of them and we didn't want any with plastic on them) but i felt all good about myself not using disposable things. if you have a car and/or a dishwasher this will be 1000% easier. i spent 35 minutes sweating my ass off in line for an earth day sale on one of the hottest days of the year in SF waiting for the clerk to scan 100 plates!!

later i saw that renting them would have been about the same price but i felt nice about passing them along, kind of like a $300 donation instead of giving that to a rental company. i think the person who took them afterward worked with a food bank.

By: kelly

kelly — Sat, 04 Jul 2009 20:13:37 +0000

great advice for all…really enjoyed reading this. love the plate/silverware idea.

By: Emily

Emily — Sat, 04 Jul 2009 01:38:57 +0000

Funnily enough I really disliked that dress until I saw it on you. But you look amazing in it. The pink color is gorgeous on you.

By: miranda (bride)

miranda (bride) — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 20:29:37 +0000

dude, go for it. we went through thinking about a mariachi band, a ukulele (the guy with the chicken mask up there said he'd play for it, but ONLY if he got to wear the mask while performing… which… haha), etc., and at our friends' wedding four days before we asked our friend the violinst if he'd mind playing. he said sure, asked what we'd like, we said whatever. so he started playing the TNG song, jake calls me over to listen, jon asks, "what do you think of this?" and he and jake are beaming, and i'm like, "wait… OH MY GOD!!" i think they'd thought i would be like "NOT A MY WEDDING" but i was like, "DO IT!!"

i didn't think he really would til i heard it as i was walking in. it was an AWESOME surprise.

i would say that that's the only truly silly thing we did at the ceremony and i'm glad we did. it was good to take the thing seriously but still have something we knew was hilarious (since it was on violin, no one could tell til they watched the video later!)

By: miranda (bride)

miranda (bride) — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 20:24:02 +0000

you know what's funny? i saw a wai-ching on this site and thought it was HIDEOUS. so i clicked through to the site and was like… oh…actually… i kind of like these. the inca looks red on the site and that's what i was into but it turned out pink! and i loved it anyway. i like that they're one-of-a-kind. sort of like a kid, no matter what you get, it's JUST YOURS so you have to love it anyway!!!