Wedding Memories – Question #68
ByThis weekend, we are attending the wedding of a girl near and dear to our hearts. She is marrying a wonderful young man and we couldn’t be happier for both of them.
As I’ve been putting together our wedding clothes (Yikes! Do my boys have ANY nice pants without holes in them?!), my own wedding has been on my mind. Matt and I are going on 16 years (awwwww). All those wedding details were so important to me 16 years ago when I was planning my wedding and I knew I would never forget any of them.
Yeah, I forgot.
I can not remember the song playing when our grandparents walked down to the aisle. I can barely remember who was in attendance (um, if you happened to be one of the people that came, of course I remember that you were there). I can barely even remember who all was in our wedding party until I carefully look at the pictures. Good grief.
What I do remember is the look on Matt’s face as I started walking down the aisle. And how my dad could hardly perform the ceremony because he was crying too much. And how Matt and I were also crying the entire time and we only had one sorry little kleenex to share between the two of us.
I remember how beautiful my mom looked. And how beautiful her voice sounded when she sang (our family had pre-recorded many of the songs played during the ceremony).
I remember that the best man seemed to have “misplaced” my ring in an effort to freak out the bride. I’ve mostly forgiven him. ;)
I remember how happy and excited I was when we were pronounced “Mr. and Mrs. Matt Coppinger”!!!!!
I remember that our colors were navy blue and rose. I still love those colors.
So, I have a very simple question for you if you care to share: What were the colors you used in your wedding? (Or if you aren’t married yet, what are the colors you might like to use someday?) And…if you remember any other details about your wedding, we’d love to hear them!
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We got married 6 years ago this past month in the Salt Lake City LDS Temple. The ceremony was simple and beautiful. My husband and I arrived at the temple early so we had some time to sit together and enjoy being together before going into the room where we would be married for eternity with our families and very close friends there. My colors were pink and white. My sister was my only bridesmaid and my husband’s best friend was his best man. I had a very simple dress, so the guys wore black suits and I had my sister pick out a simple dress she liked that was pink. We had a reception in a beautiful garden area that is behind an old house which has been made into a reception center. The food was wonderful and the people who ran the reception center took care of it all, along with decorations for about what we would have spent doing it ourselves somewhere else. It was a very simple, low stress day and I will be forever grateful for the amazing man I married!
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We were married 9 years ago this coming October. One standing for each of us. We were on a budget, so I told my MOH that she could pick any dress she wanted as long as it was a fall-ish color. We cleared out a local greenhouse of their leftover mums and it was really nice. She chose a deep teal color and the mums were burgundy and rust and kind of an orangy color. Very fall. I kept telling myself that it’s the marriage, not the wedding that was important.
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Apple Red! We got married in the fall 8 year ago (almost!). I thought the red would look gorgeous against the fall leaves at our outside wedding. It was hot that year and the leaves stayed green way past our mid-october wedding. Kinda funny actually. My husband cried, I did not… My Dad walked me down the aisle and both my gradnfather and my dad preformed the service. 4 weeks before our wedding I nearly lost my husband in a very serious car accident. He was allowed to take his neck brace off just 2 days before our nuptuals. Our first dance was the only one we danced at our wedding because his pain, and he still deals with nerve damage and hearing loss all these years later. But I will never forget how much more grateful I felt that he was there with me that day!
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12 years. I’d been planning it a year ahead, for a December wedding. Colors were dark green and dark red, cuz I’m obvious like that. In January we learned I was pregnant and moved the wedding up to the end of May. It all worked out fine, except that we still had the holly colors, and my dress was still heavy and long sleeved, for almost summer, outside, in California. That was slightly less than comfortable. I remember plenty of other things, but for some reason none of the food.
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Did you go to Chelsea Clinton’s wedding?
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Hunter green and Navy blue… Moms walked down to “Be Thou My Vision”, and the songs sung were “Forever and Ever, I Do” and…???? Been married 9 years. It’s ok to forget one late at night, right? I remember it was our very first kiss, I remember his teasing me that he would kiss me, I remember my students coming, and I remember the absolute thrill.
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I remember my two brothers – one older, one younger – walking me down the aisle just over 13 years ago as Bob Carlisle’s Butterfly Kisses played off a CD, in honor of my daddy who had passed away 2 years before. I made my bouquet that morning, three roses, that were antique white on the outer petals and rusty red-orange on the inside – with my great grandma’s floral pale yellow and red handkerchief tucked around the stems.
I wore the wedding dress my sweet MIL had made for me, out of chiffon and Italian satin – with a mother-of-pearl brooch sewn at the V-neck, trimmed in pearls, flowing down to my ankles. My hair had babies breath (“little white flowers”) all tucked up inside ringlets… and my toenails were painted baby blue, for something blue, haha!
The thing I remember the most is my brothers handing me off to my groom, who smiled the sweetest smile and bent down and gave me a sweet little kiss – and the preacher laughed and told him that he was supposed to wait til the END of the ceremony for that!
The ceremony was very small – my siblings and their families, his parents, brother, and grandparents – and his best friend, and my best friend, as our Best Man and Matron of Honor. In a small country church with wood paneling, down a dirt road – 23 hours after my husband graduated from high school (we told his parents we’d wait until he graduated), 2 1/2 years after we began dating.
Here we are, over a decade and two children later, living happily ever after… The End.
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Chrissie Reply:
August 2nd, 2010 at 9:39 am
What a sweet story! I can almost see it, even though I don’t know you tee-hee.
Thanks for sharing.
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Ivory and fuchsia – the girls wore simple dresses they could wear again. My MIL made the little girls dresses in pink. My niece stepped on my short train as we walked away. My uncle-in-law thought he could twirl me around the dance floor – I was not impressed. My FIL put wine in the glasses that were suppose to have sparkling grape juice (Jewish/Christian wedding). My father walking me down the aisle, my groom trying not to cry. And my matron of honor telling me moments before I was to walk the aisle, that we could still elope….yes, she’s a tad crazy. LOL Just celebrated our 13th
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10 years. White and gold. Barefoot bridesmaids dancing to worship music and dropping daisies along the way (outdoors, late may). Crying too much when trying to read words of gratitude to parents. Making my dress, the cake, some bridesmaid’s dresses. A yellow jacket in MY dress during the ceremony. Forgetting what pastor was even saying while trying to determine what was crawling in my sleeve. Yelping when it stung me and flew out my neckline. There is much I would change, were I to be in charge of it today, but we were married and that was the point, so it was a success. :)
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We were married 4 years ago this past June. We had an outdoor wedding planned in a beautiful flower garden. I remember it was a very dry May and June and hadn’t rained in weeks. Well of course the day we chose to be married it poured all day. Thankfully there was a gazebo available in the park but I unfortunately didn’t get to have my dad walk me down the flower lined sidewalk. I am still sad about that, but it ended up being a nice ceremony. The pictures are beautiful because of the vibrant green trees and flowers in the background.(All pictures were taken in the gazebo)
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11 years ago this September. Butterflies, birds, cranky minister (wow, was he cranky!), my brother playing the guitar, plastic rings, fans, water, very slow photographer, very hungry guests, meeting new relatives, starting new family traditions, group photo, mops. I had a great wedding. I wouldn’t change a thing. I studiously avoided tulle in my wedding, but the cake showed up with tulle. Love it!
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10 years ago, navy and silver December wedding with white poinsettias and white lights covering the front of the church. I remember my dad leaning in to kiss me on the check as we headed down the isle and the photographer got a picture of it. My dad’s been gone 7 years and that picture is one of my most precious keepsakes of him. Walked out the to Hallelujah Chorus with the man of my dreams.
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Two years ago, so of course I remember the details. However, we didn’t have specific colours. I wore white, he wore black, and we didn’t have maids, grooms or coordinated table decorations. We got married in my parents’ garden, by a civil servant. After the two-minute ceremony, we toasted, and my nephew (5) said “But *when* are they getting married?” – I doubt I’ll ever forget that, it was so funny.
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Mine was only 8 years ago. :) And really? The details of the wedding kind of annoyed me – it was more for my mom and MIL than for me. I would’ve been happy staying out of the spotlight and eloping. I was getting married for the marriage, not for the wedding.
Colors were a medium blue and forest green and cream. The cake guy totally didn’t do what I asked, but eh, at 2 hours beforehand we didn’t have any recourse. Hubby managed to smush himself up against a corner of the cake in his tux, we locked ourselves out of my place when we went driving off in the balloon-filled car afterwards (accidentally left my keys at the church), my uncle who went to Julliard played the piano for our service, my bonus grandmother did the catering, etc. Ah, good times. It was goofy and most certainly not perfect, but it was my wedding, and I was marrying my Mr. Right. :D
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Our colours were red and orange and yellow! I hardly ever would have guessed to pick those colours, but our outdoor wedding in the summer begged for a bright burst of summer colour.
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Our wedding colors were blue. It started out as Royal blue. By the time the wedding took place the wedding party was wearing navy, royal, teal. No one matched except the two getting married. We both were in white. No one knew until the last minute if the bridesmaids– my two sisters and niece would even show up. The best man was taking his SAT’s in another town. It poured down raining all morning. If you watched the tape of the wedding, you can see everyone. You can’t hear Jim and me saying our vows. We were too quiet. I think we forgot everyone else was there. It’s been 20 years for us.
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Dear Hubby and I have been married for 19 years………..June wedding….bridesmaids wore red tea-length gowns that we had sewn by a local seamstress, men wore classic black tuxes. I still remember smiling so much my cheeks hurt by the end of the day. I remember my groom had a very red face from being out on the golf course with his groomsmen that day:) I remember being so very tired, but also so very blessed as we left the reception late that night. We spent our first night together as husband and wife in our own apartment and then left the next day for a wedding trip to Canadian Niagara Falls. We drove and it was pretty much the first vacation-type “road trip” I’d ever taken. I remember our first glimpse of the falls and thinking I had never seen anything so incredible!
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A week from today, I will celebrate 30 years of marriage with my wonderful husband. I will be posting about this milestone, in detail later, but to answer your question, I had a garden wedding at my parents’ home, with only family and a handful of close friends invited. I remember ever detail, which didn’t include anything fancy, but sure rendered some beautiful wedding pictures. My colors were pastel green and peach. My music was recorded and consisted of three songs. The bridal processional, The Lord’s Prayer, and the recessional. Not much to it, but it was so me.
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Ours was a little over 4 years ago. Sage and lavender. Perfect. I still love those colors.
I remember that the minister told me that sometimes I’ll have to stop crafting and pay attention to my husband. :-D
I remember that my dad (who NEVER dances) danced the silliest dance ever to “Me and Julio Down By the Schoolyard”.
I remember that I had lovingly and carefully prepared about 1 gazillion little tulle circles filled with dried lavender for people to throw at us instead of rice. For some reason people were confused about what they were for, and they just started throwing the packets — WHOLE — at us, while we were still in the building.
And I remember that people expressed their sorrow that it was raining on our special day, but that we loved it. In the summer in Oklahoma, rain is a blessing! What a great omen! (And consequently, our daughter was also born in a thunderstorm.)
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Sandee Reply:
August 4th, 2010 at 12:21 pm
sage and lavender here too… just over 4 years ago :)
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As our 15th anniversary approaches on Wednesday, the 4th, i too have been reminiscing. Our wedding was perfect!!
Our colors were teal and dusty rose (so 90′s). Our song during the unity candle was “Endless Love” and then my best friend sang “It takes Three”.
The laugh of the ceremony was lighting the unity candle. We had rented the no-drip candles for the big candle-stands but didn’t consider it for the unity and just used what came in our kit. Each set of parents lit a candle as they entered then when it was our turn to light the unity, upon removing the drippy candle and tilting it all the candle wax covered our unity candle wick. This made for a terrible time lighting the thing. Luckily “Endless Love” is a long song so we managed to get it lit. My father-in-law who performed the service did make note to the audience “let the record show, the candle did light”. It was great. I still have those head over heels, newly in love feelings for my husband even today!!
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On Tuesday, August 3rd, we will be married 36 years. It doesn’t seem possible at times, it has gone by so very fast. Our colors were lavender and mint green. Does anyone remember “dotted swiss” material? That’s what the bridesmaid dresses were made of. We were married at our Church that we both grew up in. My grandfather walked me down the aisle and my grandmother made my wedding dress (which I have hanging on our guest bedroom door). Being 17 and 18, we didn’t have enough money for a honeymoon, so we stayed in our apartment that night and went to Silver Dollar City in Branson, Missouri the next day (couldn’t go very far, I started school in 2 weeks-wanted to graduate). We’ve had many good years and some sad times, but I wouldn’t trade my husband for anything in the world.
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Emerald green and yellow with some orange scattered here and there. We were married October 22, 1994, so 16 years for us this year as well. The fall colors in Michigan were brillant. It was a perfect, crisp autumn day in the low 60s with sun and high, fluffy clouds.
Our wedding was very a-typical for our part of Michigan. My SIL who is from the south originally said that it was a very country/southern type affair. We had 80 guests and the reception was in the church fellowship hall with cake, coffee, punch and a lunch of assorted sandwiches and salads. Family and good friends participated in many of the arrangements — flowers, cake, music, and hubby’s aunt made my dress — a special keepsake indeed! We were so happy with the day and wouldn’t change a thing.
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We have been married for 6 1/2 years. Our colors were mostly a deep wine/burgundy color mixed with evergreen decorations (we married shortly after Christmas time) We married on a Friday evening at 6:30pm and didn’t see or talk to each other the entire day! The anticipation was overwhelming…but his face was the only thing I saw amongst the 400+ guests when I walked down the aisle…
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We’ve been married 18 years. We were both in the Air Force, stationed apart, so I planned my wedding long distance. We were married in the base chapel where we met, with the chaplain and my father officiating. We didn’t send out invitations, just called people. It’s a good thing because we had to change the time 2 weeks before. I didn’t have “colors” except I wore my sister’s wedding gown, and told her to buy a dress she liked that she would wear again. The best man was in the Honor Guard and was on stand-by that week-end, so my husband asked someone else to be our best man’s stand-in. The chaplain was called away during our wedding rehearsal, so his wife stood in for him, reading his notes. In the end, everyone who was supposed to be there was there, and on the video we couldn’t hear our vows because two 141s (military cargo planes) flew overhead. My dad was too choked up to pronounce us husband and wife, so the chaplain did. My dear husband always said, if he had the bride, the ring, and the chaplain, that’s all he needed. Everything else was cake. (We had that too, but if I did anything differently, I’d have a sit down reception so I could talk to all the people who came!)
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My husband and I celebrate two years of marriage tomorrow. Our wedding colors were turquoise and chocolate brown with ivory thrown in. We went for a vintage/modern fusion and it was so beautiful. We still love those colors and actually decorated our bedroom in that color :)
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We used yellow and a deep purple. I remember getting dressed and hearing a banjo being played in the room next door. There was some meeting in the church and a guy was playing banjo. The wedding photographer had to get a picture of that!! Strange… I remember leaving in my wedding dress and going to our tiny little one bedroom apartment and it being a lunar eclipse that night. :)
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We were married 7 years ago on a beautiful fall day! We had an outside wedding and red, white and black were our colors. I will never forget walking down the aisle and seeing my husband standing there crying. I couldn’t stop smiling that day. I was an amazing day…God was there with us and I remember feeling that very vividly. We had about 400 guest and just served cake and icecream, and dipped white chocolate pretzels. We were limited on money and so we, along with the help of our family, did a lot ourselves…flowers food pictures invitations programs sewing music…It was very rewarding to have a wedding that cost so little when our culture screams out that you have to have ___________. One thing I think it is hard to remember is that in all the planning it is really for a lifetime and not just one day! We were going to Outer Banks for our honeymoon and a hurricane happened so the day of our wedding, our trip got cancelled. We had to switch gears and figure out something else -very last minute- we found a resort in the Smokey Mountains that we drove too. We are still holding out for an ocean adventure ( :
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We’ve been married 11 yrs, our colors were country blue and rose, We did practically the ENTIRE wedding ourselves because neither of our families were in any position to give us a wedding.
My dress was 150.00, the flowers from the florist included my bouquet, and my 3 bridesmaids bouquets, that cost 200.00 my parents paid for both.
I found my bridesmaids dresses for 19.99 each, my flower girl dress was also 19.99
I made my own veil
We bought flowers and made all the boutineers and coursages.
We had a great meal at the reception, my mom helped me shop for and cook everything.
We had ham, green beans with potatoes, potato salad, pasta salad, veggie tray, chips and dip, rolls, meatballs, chicken wings, rolls.
The song we danced to was Love of a Lifetime by Firehouse, the song I danced with my daddy to was Wind beneath my wings
My mom cried through the whole thing.
I think I got married on the hottest day of the year and my reception had NO AC!!
If I had to do it all over again I would still do everything myself but would have a late evening wedding, and have it outside even though our church was beautiful it wasn’t big enough!!
I would also give myself more than 4 months to plan,pay for and put together a wedding!!!
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We just celebrated our 4th. Our colors were navy blue and yellow. I had decided to get just one nice engagement ring instead of an engagement ring and wedding band (I’m frugal like that!). So, I had carefully tied my ring and hub’s ring to the pillow for the ringbearer to carry. When we got to the ring part of the ceremony, the best man gave the pastor our rings. Then the pastor held them up and that’s when I saw not 2 rings, but 3. Hubs had surprised me by buying the matching band. And that’s when I had to fight back tears… even the pastor had to fight back tears because he knew it was a surprise to me. :)
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we were married two days after christmas almost seven years ago :) our colors were red and pink, which worked great because we were able to pull in the colors of the poinsettias in the sanctuary. the brides maids wore black dresses.
fun memories :)
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Periwinkle and yellow. Much of our color that day was put into the flowers. I can’t stand spending money on flowers but I did that day and haven’t regretted it. I probably took a wiff of my bouquet every 30 seconds.
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Olive green and chocolate brown with a hint of burnt orange displayed throughout the flower arrangements. It will be 1 year this Oct. 1st!!! It was my dream wedding since I was 12…and it was perfect! One of my favorite parts was our “unity ceremony.” We had an oathing stone (I call it our love rock). It was basically our “stone of rememberance (Joshua 4:6).” It signifies the work that God has done in our lives by bringing us together to serve Him. I walk by our “love rock” every day and am reminded of the gift God has given me. Wow I have been so blessed! http://michaeljamesthompson.smugmug.com/Weddings/Proofs/Grant-and-Gabi/10688557_qRqsW#744314327_487Zo-A-LB
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Laura… I remember when the doors of the church building opened, and you walked in with the sunshine at your back. The sun rays bounced off of your veil, and we all thought an angel had entered the building!! (well, in a way, you are!). I still remember you as a beautiful bride, and now, as a beautiful wife and mother!
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Laura@HeavenlyHomemaker Reply:
August 3rd, 2010 at 6:14 am
Aw, thanks for making me smile (and cry a little bit)! :) I love you!
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Cranberry for a June wedding, 14 years ago. I remember our little flower girl was being stubborn, but the ring bearer took his “job” very seriously! Our biggest glitch of the day was that we didn’t have plates for serving cake. Fortunately there were lots of extra wedding napkins.
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We were married about 2 1/2 years ago…as some would say, we are still newlyweds! We didn’t really have “colors” for our wedding, but if I had to say it was likely black, silver and lilac.
My brother, sister and SIL were my “maids” and my husband had three of his/our friends stand up on his side. It was great, we really tried to keep it down to earth, simple and focused on us.
We didn’t go crazy with flowers (and actually used a local nursery) – we only had “people” flowers. Nothing on the tables or anything. We used a family friend to make our cake…really the day was wonderful.
It was a mid-april day in Nebraska, I was hoping for a nice spring day – NOPE! It snowed a bit that morning and then rained all day long. I really wanted to take some outside photos, but our photographer and my husband would think of it! Looking back, I should have been more determined! Oh well.
I walked myself down the aisle – keept my eyes on the prize…my future husband standing there waiting for me.
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We got married 3 1/2 years ago (December 30) on a beach in Maui. We were older (middle 30′s), and it was a second wedding for me. We just wanted to run away together, and it was our dream wedding! It was gorgeous, at sunset, with only the minister, photographer, and wedding planner present. It was so warm, and we were barefoot. I remember the way my husband looked at me, and said to the wedding planner, “Look at that smile… that smile is why I fell in love with her”. :) I wore a knee length, cream colored lace dress, and my husband wore dress pants, dress shirt and tie. I had a coral and cream colored crown of flowers in my hair instead of a veil, and we both had cream colored, flower leis. It was such a wonderful, and beautiful evening!
We were blessed with a baby boy, just after our first anniversary, and we’re going to have another baby just after our 4th anniversary. We are so happy!!!
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Our wedding was on June 7, 2008 – 06-07-08. I thought that was such a fun number, and can always easily remember our wedding date!
Our colors were red and white. Every time I look at the pictures the cheerful red of the bridesmaid’s dresses just makes me so happy. I love red!
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Our colors were pale yellow and white. Yellow is an unusual color for weddings, but ours was in the spring and it made everything look so cheerful.
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