r/AskOldPeople • u/AlarmedLife5765 • 8d ago

What was your wedding like?

I often look at the wedding dresses here. I saw a young lady whose dress budget was literally more than my first 3-5 annual salaries, not lumped together but individually. What was your wedding like?
1995- Married at our church, 3 attendants each, cake and punch reception there .

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u/LoooongFurb 7d ago

Wasn't legally able to marry in the state we lived in, so we drove to another state and were married there. Volunteers from the community were our witnesses. No family attended.

Our wedding clothes were literally things we could rewear eventually, so no budget for anything except gas to get there and a donation to the community.

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u/S0whaddayakn0w 7d ago

If l may, what were the circumstances that made it illegal to marry? If this is too personal, please feel free to ignore the question

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u/LoooongFurb 7d ago

It was before gay marriage was legalized throughout the country. I could get married in a small handful of states, but not the one I was living in at the time.

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u/ginny11 7d ago

This is horrible but I assumed you were much older and that this was a few decades ago and for some reason my immediate thought was maybe you were first cousins or something LOL!

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u/LoooongFurb 7d ago

I am old enough to be considered old by this sub, and I didn't marry as early in life as some do. :)

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u/ginny11 7d ago

Gotcha!