What was your wedding like?

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I had a Soviet-style secular wedding in Volgograd (AKA Stalingrad) in Russia. The only thing missing were the Lenin portraits, otherwise everything was Soviet. According to custom, we placed flowers at the memorial to the soldiers who died fighting Nazi Germany.

I loved it! Coolest wedding ever in my view (I'm from California so it seemed really exotic)

Too bad it turned out to be the high point of my marriage...

Small with minimal fuss. No flowers, speeches, flash cars etc. My wife, myself and my three children all wore red and black (and asked that none else did) red shirt and black trousers and tie for me and my youngest son and black shirt and trousers with a red tie for my wife and older son. My daughter had a black shirt and skirt and red scarf and hair band. I wore my doc martin boots

Courthouse. 15 minutes. Some nice lawyers let us cut in front of them and borrow the judge.
Favorite moment: Judge asks me "Have you been infomed of the rights you are about to give up?"

That's really cool; I didn't know there were many like us out there.
Our minister was nondenominational Christian, but that's because we had some friends who were ordained ministers and none of them could come. Also, for my hometown being a hub for the New Age movement and having a lot of hippies, it's very hard to come by a Wiccan priest/priestess.
It turned out for the best, though, because the minister we got really researched and wrote an amazing ceremony for us. In her little speech before the vows she mentioned how love lasts through the seasons and evolves with them.

Tee hee! Good to see others who avoided the 'big shindig' route. I don't feel quite so odd now.

Mu husband and I did nothing more than sight the papers, and go to a yummy dinner with a few friends. Our roomate is a licensed minister, so he was our officiant, then we signed our parts, and two of our best friends signed as witnesses.

Our roomate signed his part the week before (he was leaving for vacation) then our friends signed at dinner.

Even dinner was low-key. We went to a yummy Italian buffet, and the craziest thing we did was order 2 bottles of wine (yummmmmmy!)

We are such dorks, that afterwords, we went to a friend's house to play board games!

I got married in Reno in a hotel chapel. To me, the wedding means very little. It was something my husband wanted because he's sort of traditional.

I would have been happy with a GOP marriage only.