Surprise Wedding

[UGetPaid]

Our daughter got married this afternoon in a short informal ceremony. She was originally supposed to get married in October, but then this corona virus mess hit and tossed a nice sized wrench into their plans! Rather than wait, they decided to move things up and just do something small with all of the social distancing in place.

It was kept secret from the rest of the family. Daughter and son-in-law live in Florida and we are in Ohio. A few months ago they hatched the plan to get married in Florida (the original October wedding was supposed to be here in Ohio). But about a month ago, that plan was changed to do a wedding in Ohio as a late Mother’s Day surprise for my wife. So outside of a couple of our daughter’s friends and myself, mostly everyone else was completely in the dark until the actual ceremony. She streamed it live on Facebook for other friends and family to attend remotely.

We built up a ruse to get mom and little sister to the wedding – the bride and many of her friends all work in food service and many of the local servers and bartenders are currently out of work. Thankfully our daughter is in management and has been able to stay working through all of this. But one of her out of work friends does photography on the side, so our daughter paid for a family portrait photo shoot as a way to help out her friend and for me to get mom and little sister all gussied up and delivered to the wedding none the wiser!

It POURED down rain (was supposed to be an outdoor wedding) and we got pretty soaked even with umbrellas, but it the end, it was a perfect day!

[DEBMZ6]

Congratulations to your daughter and son-in-law! Wishing them a lifetime of love and happiness! 

[Nancy5]

Congratulations to your daughter and new son in law.  Also congratulations to the bride’s mother and father.  You all must be so happy!

[berthabutt]

Congrats  UGetPaid!     This will be a memorable, family day, rain and all!   Best wishes to the newlyweds!   

[suemgross]

Congratulations!!!  I loved your story and the couple's attitude to make the best of a bad situation.  Afterall, what's really important is their marriage and committment to each other.  The wedding is just a party.  Sometimes I think too many brides don't understand that.  Again!  Congrats to the happy couple!!

[countrygirl12]

I think having a small ceremony with just close family or friends is better any way.  It is kind of like right now when people die nobody (at least not where I am) is having a big funeral.  They are just having a grave side service with immediate family.  Funerals are exempt from the rules but the funeral homes are refusing to do the funerals.  Anyway, it is costing around $3000 instead of $10,000.  I think this may be a new trend that can put a dent in revenue for funeral homes.

[debidoo]

  Awesome and congratulations to all.  I hope they will have a long and happy marriage and good fortune in their lives.  Happiness to all !

[nickylanena]

Congrats to your daughter! They say rain on a wedding day is good luck. 

[timvolley]

congrats to your daughter

[judylucas]

God Bless and much love for my first grandchild to marry and it was beautiful and the rain stopped after ceremony

[Tresbn00]

Big time congratulations! Small ceremonies make more sense, probably because I am a man, because they are less expensive. I think the ceremonies are generally for the bride and bride's family. I think the tradition has the bride's parents paying for the ceremony and the groom's family paying for the honeymoon? In either case, familys are generally not prepared for the massive expense that goes hand in hand with a large ceremony and the Bride and Groom often end up taking the financial burden on themselves. Ironically this often equates to heavy debt and financial problems are in the top three reasons that marriages fail.My wife and I eloped to Puerto Vallarta, Mexico but ended up having forty well-wishing family members show up.

[Donnamarg323]

I think having a small ceremony with just close family or friends is better any way.  It is kind of like right now when people die nobody (at least not where I am) is having a big funeral.  They are just having a grave side service with immediate family.  Funerals are exempt from the rules but the funeral homes are refusing to do the funerals.  Anyway, it is costing around $3000 instead of $10,000.  I think this may be a new trend that can put a dent in revenue for funeral homes.

If this post doesnt take the cake,and i dont mean wedding cake.

98% of CGs post is about death and funerals.

If FC members arent aware of what we have been speaking about...Oh well!!There is about as much goodness and complementary in her comments as there is blood in a stone.

BTW congrats UGET to all.

[pkrahmer]

That is a story for the history books!
Congrats to your daughter and son-in law! Hope they have a wonderful life together!

[heypeg]

Congratulations to all. Such a happy occasion.

[BUBBLEGUMBEN10]

Congratulations to the newly weds!