Comments on: My Minimalist Wedding Dress

By: Jennifer

Jennifer — Wed, 28 Sep 2011 18:00:49 +0000

I live in CO as well and in this state, you don’t need an officiant. We married ourselves. You don’t even need witnesses! Friends of ours took a hike and declared themselves married on the top of a 14er.

By: Jordan

Jordan — Mon, 15 Aug 2011 05:23:47 +0000

My fiancee and I are having a minimalist wedding, well sort of. He and I are going to have a private justice of the peace ceremony just the two of us at the courthouse, on the morning of our 5th anniversary which falls the week of Thanksgiving. Since all of our family and friends will be flying in anyway we will be getting married in my mother’s house on thanksgiving. So we can all sit down to thanksgiving dinner together. We have asked for no gifts since everyone will be flying in on a holiday weekend.

By: Henny

Henny — Fri, 22 Jul 2011 09:32:16 +0000

I tried to have as minimal a wedding as I could get away with (without eloping, since our families would have been highly offended), but somehow even the simplest wedding manages to take over and become more than you would wish. Still, I loved it exactly as it was.

I have thought about ditching my dress for years, and you have inspired me to do so – thank you!

By: Raven

Raven — Fri, 22 Apr 2011 23:49:04 +0000

I am laughing while reading this entry and the comments as I just had a conversation about my wedding dress with my now 21 year old daughter. When I married her father, I had the classic 1980′s princess bride dress with the train that went on forever. After the wedding, I dutifully had the dress professionally cleaned and professionally boxed; and I’ve been lugging that box with me all over the world ever since. It never even occurred to me to get rid of it! I was saving it for my daughter (years before I even knew I would have a daughter LOL ). Fast forward to now – we are selling the big house and downsizing to a small urban apartment, so I asked her about the wedding dress. She looked at me as if I’d grown an extra head and could not believe that I still had the dress. Needless to say, it won’t be going with us to our new home.

By: Francesca T

Francesca T — Sun, 10 Apr 2011 10:44:05 +0000

I was planning to wear an already owned summer dress in my closet.The day before we got married I tried it on and it didn’t fit. So I simply grabbed a stretchier one from my closet, black, beaded and able to be dressed up or down.DH wore a pair of jeans and a chequered shirt he already owned.We are not a long frock and tiara couple, this was a second marriage for both of us and we wanted a wedding as we wanted it,if you get what I mean ? Being both previously married, we had had the weddings our mothers wanted for us, years before ! LOL . The clothing we wore that day, last year is still in circulation and wearable for many other occasions.

By: Elizabeth

Elizabeth — Sun, 03 Apr 2011 17:46:48 +0000

I just started reading your blog yesterday and I’m loving it. This is a wonderful post. I got married in 2006 in a reasonably small wedding. My husband and I had 50 guests, mainly family, and we got married in a local nature center. We did spend money on a good photographer but all of the photos fit in a standard-size photo box (that was the deal we paid for). My husband wore his military dress uniform and I wore a white dress but not a big fluffy one. It fits in a travel shoe bag (rolled up with tissue paper). So far, I’m keeping it. I bought the fabric for my dress in Korea (where I lived when I met my husband) and had the dress made in Thailand on a week-long vacation there. Since we got married in a different locale than where we were going to be living, most of our gifts were money or gift cards so it was easy to buy things that we really needed and wanted for our new home. No fancy china or crystal for us, just basic everyday dishes. So we managed to keep all the wedding hoopla and stuff to a minimum. I look forward to reading more of your blog.

By: J-gurl & MoMo

J-gurl & MoMo — Thu, 31 Mar 2011 19:01:16 +0000

I loved the article. My husband and I are also “short notice” kinda people. We chose to get married on Thursday and did the deed on the following Tuesday – with just my brothers, parents and his brother there. We threw a small party at a local venue with my aunts and uncles, and his close friends. We didnt even wear formal clothing. Just matching blue and black dress-casual clothing. We still wear them to go out on the town. Im so glad to see that there are others out there that didnt choose to go “all-out” and in debt just to prove something to others, that should just be about the love between you two!

And awesome dress….I bet you looked amazing

By: Very simple wedding | happy as clams

Very simple wedding | happy as clams — Tue, 15 Mar 2011 20:46:23 +0000

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By: SarahR

SarahR — Sat, 05 Mar 2011 01:29:22 +0000

I love reading your articles and especially this one, as I’m marrying a pilot and we’re debating wether to have a small wedding here in CO, or toss a dress into a carry on and just skip right to the honeymoon and do the vows on the way.

I thought I’d let you know though that a portion of your blog has been reprinted elsewhere without giving you credit. http://www.myshoesreview.com/…dresses/fashion-minimalist-wedding-dress- formodern-women/ – Cached
I know it would be an issue for me if someone were to incorporate my work.

By: Karli

Karli — Thu, 17 Feb 2011 02:59:56 +0000

I plan on having a nudist wedding, if I ever actually get married. Ultimate minimal!