I was just remembering a really touching moment from my wedding - it still brings tears to my eyes.
I have two dads, my real dad and my stepdad. But my mom is the one who has raised us really and I was upset about not having her walk me down the aisle (I love my dads and had them both escort me down the aisle). So I decided that instead of picking one dad to dance with at the reception or dancing with both, that I would dance with my mom instead.
So right after my first dance with DH, they called my mom out and played the song (Veronica by Christian Castro - a latin artist with a very famous latin actress mom; he wrote this song as a dedication to her and the words are just beautiful). Literally the song started playing and my mom and I hugged and I just started crying! It was such an emotional moment. I am the only daughter and I lived with my mom until that very day so not only was I getting married that day, I was also leaving home.
My grandmother, aunts, uncle, and some friends even cried! People came up to me and told me what an emotional and touching moment it was. Someone gave us a copy of the video they took at our wedding and when I saw that again, I got teary eyed. I really love my mom!
Here are non pro pics from my dance with my mom:
Anyone else had a touching moment at the wedding (other than the usual emotional moments like vows, first dance, etc)?
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My sisters' toast was all about how my father, who passed away in 04, was surely watching down on me, touched by all of the ways that I incorporated him into our day (choosing to marry on LI where he lived though I live PA, having Ed Travers sing Jimmy Buffett songs for the CH...his fav, butterfly favors that represent the memory of him, memory candle, etc....) and they ended by telling the story of how when my oldest sister were conceived, if she was a girl, they'd name her Rita, if it was a boy...Nathan. And then when their second child came along, if she was a girl, they'd name her Christine, if it was a boy...Nathan. When I came along, if I was a girl, they'd name me Jessica, if I was a boy...Nathan. My dad always wanted a son named Nathan. Of course, they got their third daughter with me!...Well, God has mysterious ways of working and my dad finally got his son Nathan (Nathan is my DH!). I always felt he had a hand it, it was like once he passed away he helped send me Nate. My sisters, me, DH, my mom...we were all crying. Its hard to describe or remember word for word but it was so touching.
Also meant so much to me to dance with my grandfather.
You had me in Tears!
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My sisters' toast was all about how my father, who passed away in 04, was surely watching down on me, touched by all of the ways that I incorporated him into our day (choosing to marry on LI where he lived though I live PA, having Ed Travers sing Jimmy Buffett songs for the CH...his fav, butterfly favors that represent the memory of him, memory candle, etc....) and they ended by telling the story of how when my oldest sister were conceived, if she was a girl, they'd name her Rita, if it was a boy...Nathan. And then when their second child came along, if she was a girl, they'd name her Christine, if it was a boy...Nathan. When I came along, if I was a girl, they'd name me Jessica, if I was a boy...Nathan. My dad always wanted a son named Nathan. Of course, they got their third daughter with me!...Well, God has mysterious ways of working and my dad finally got his son Nathan (Nathan is my DH!). I always felt he had a hand it, it was like once he passed away he helped send me Nate. My sisters, me, DH, my mom...we were all crying. Its hard to describe or remember word for word but it was so touching.
You have me in tears!! Your Dad def sent you Nathan!! I love your story!
Me too!!
How incredibly beautiful! Im teary!!! I agree~he sent him to you!
that is such an incredible story! Ur father definetly had a talk with the big guy upstairs about sending u ur honey God is so awesome!
He is SO good. How I met Nate is definitely a part of my testimony to how God really is at work in our lives!!
Sounds like we have so many examples of ways He's at work in all these stories!!
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DH lost his mom about 8 months before the wedding. When thinking about the wedding it totally depressed him that he wasn't going to be able to dance with her at the reception. So on our wedding day, when it would've been the moment where he would have danced with his mom he got up in front of everyone and asked them to join us on the dance floor for a special song in honor of his mom. He dedicated 'She Loves Me Like A Rock' by Paul Simon to her. It was such a touching moment. There wasn't a dry eye in the house.
This picture is when DH's brothers and their fiancees joined us on the dance floor to share the moment. It was so touching.
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OMG all these stories are making me cry!
Saying my vows to DH had a lot to do with DD, I barely squeaked out the words. Then it was followed by the family unity ceremony. So many people mentioned how touched they were by our ceremony. The second was our dances with DD. We did the parent dances after the 1st dance. Then after the cake cutting we each danced with DD. I changed my lifes direction when DD came along, so we danced to Martina McBride's- In my Daughter's eyes. Then DH danced with her to Brad Paisley's- Half the Dad He Didn'r Have to Be There are a bunch of pics of me, my sis and bro watching them dance
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Everyone has such nice stories. We must be cold hearted no one cried at our wedding we did not have a wet eye in the house. Oh I think the best man cried when they closed the bar
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It had to be when my husband said vows to my 9 year old son and exchanged a matching band at our reception, Then it has to be me dancing with my son as well.Pictures are in my alblum . I was just sooooo overwhelmingly happy.
