Faith Prince's story.
In A CATERED AFFAIR, Faith plays Aggie, the mother of the bride.
Larry and I eloped. My parents were divorced, and I knew it was going to be difficult for everybody to be in the same space because there was still a lot of anger and turmoil. The thought of planning even...
Leslie Kritzer's story.
In A CATERED AFFAIR, Leslie plays Janey, the bride.
My mother's parents, Luz Soto and Rafael Rodriguez, met in 1941 in Santurce, Puerto Rico (a borough of San Juan) at my grandmother's sister's house when she was 18 years old. When my great...
Matt Cavenaugh's story.
In A CATERED AFFAIR, Matt plays Ralph, the groom.
I'm the wedding singer. Since I am a performing monkey, my friends all think that is the best way to get me involved. So, I come bearing gifts from "Ave Maria" to "Endless Love." And being the wedding...
Katie Klaus's story.
In A CATERED AFFAIR, Katie plays Alice and the army sergeant.
Who doesn't enjoy weddings?! When people are at weddings their problems melt away and the atmosphere is full of hopefulness. The pictures from weddings are even better because it freezes that moment in...
Kristine Zbornik's story.
In A CATERED AFFAIR, Kristine plays Myra and the dress saleswoman.
I have to say that when it comes to weddings, I prefer a funeral. Weddings have always been a painful experience in my family. A lot of, "oh, by the way, we got married last Saturday." I myself, have never...
John Bucchino's story.
John is the composer for A CATERED AFFAIR.
It seems my parents’ relationship was destined to be, and movies played an important part in bringing them together. Their grandfathers knew each other in Calabria Italy, and years later the two families...
Jennifer Allen's story.
In A CATERED AFFAIR, Jennifer Allen plays Aggie understudy and Swing.
1996, I eloped with Rob to Grafton, Vermont. We had our license typed out on a turn of the century type writer at the county clerk, in an office filled with posters and literature on how to register your...
Ron Fierstein's story.
My wife, Dorsey Regal, and I were married on September 11, 1982. Yes, we no longer have any excuse for forgetting our anniversary! Dorsey and I organized the whole affair with the help of our families,...
Norman Glick's story.
I was not the hired videographer, but I stayed way longer shooting my first wedding and went around asking for all the juicy stories (i.e. dirt) I could gather about my DoctorCo-Worker and his Social worker...
Sarah Jordan's story.
My husband and I met when I was in High School and became instant best friends. He was with me during some of my most difficult times and kept me laughing through them. After 7 years 7 months and 7 days...
Thomas Hanks's story.
Being the love child who was the cause of a shotgun wedding, which probably never should have been, as a teen, I vowed never to get married.
That was before I met Adele. We met on the set of the outdoor...
Linda Mirabella's story.
Mine is definitely an 'interesting' and 'different' kind of wedding, for MANY reasons. First of all, I married someone who I went to high school with, although we were one year apart,...
Mindy Cohan's story.
Lauren and I first met on a tour for teenagers when we were 16. We met again 8 years later through a mutual friend. At that time, I had just come out and was not ready for a serious relationship. ...
Heather Cowley's story.
We planned a summer wedding in the middle of summer. Yes, that might have been a bad idea, but it was going to be in the evening, so it wouldn't be so bad...right? Well, it turned out to be 113 degrees...
Jay Montgomery's story.
Ours is just the everyday ordinary tale of a married couple brought together through a scandalous office affair, a little white voodoo magic, and a come-on offer from a sleazy hotel in Las Vegas.
We...
Heather Fisher's story.
It was 1969, during the Vietnam war. Tom, my fiancé and boyfriend since high school, got drafted, like many of our friends in those days, and was in basic training in the US Army. We knew he would...
Catherine Campos's story.
Ah....picture it, December 2003, a lovely winter's day in New York. One week until I would become a bride...all was right with the world. It was a perfect moment; and then the phone rang.
My future...
Auriette Lindsey's story.
My husband and I lived over a thousand miles apart during our entire courtship and engagement, which were really one and the same, since we met in a third city and only spent three days together before...
Sonya Neal's story.
We were on a reasonably tight budget with our wedding, so every cost was factored in. On the day of our wedding, I showed up to the venue with the cake and decorations only to be CHARGED PARKING, even...
Lois Fahie's story.
I was married in the Virgin Islands. Finding a location after Hurricane Marilyn was difficult even a few years later. I never pictured myself having a big wedding and my husband claimed he did not care....
Kym Piekkola's story.
My honey and I were planning our wedding. Neither of us come from wealthy families, so the cost was left to us. We both have mixed families and were faced with strategic seating charts. I was also trying...
linda handlin's story.
I'm a 50 year old encore bride with three children from a small family, my dear sweet, 51 year old fiance is a marital virgin, from a ginormous Catholic family. He is the most Dilbert like person I...
christie jones's story.
My husband and I started dating Summer 1995. We met in Latin class our freshman year of college. After I graduated college, we decided to get married. His family was adamantly opposed to me from the start....
Gene Lara's story.
As the best man for my good friends' wedding, I wanted to do something different and special for the toast at the reception. I had already played a big role in the wedding planning, having picked the...
Michael Triola's story.
Being divorced from my daughter's mother, I took my girlfriend to the big Wedding in Los Vegas, upon arrival, my ex-wife proceeded to jack the jaw of my girlfriend. She was so embarrassed that she...
mervin williams's story.
I'm about to share My story about planning My wedding how I planned it.
If I had to go through this again I'll never do it the same again. The thing tahat I did is waited until the last day to...
Neil C's story.
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Lisa Vorreiter's story.
First of all, let me say that I waited a VERY long time to get married for the first time. I was 41 years old when I got married for the first time (spring 2006.) Far from the need of having to have...
Ken Sanders's story.
I had the great fortune to meet the love of my life after 20 grueling years in the dating jungle. (And believe me, that jungle ain't pretty! LOL!) During a wonderfully old-fashioned courtship and...
Tina Hamilton's story.
An ad for your play popped up in my emails and I feel like I'm living it right now! It all started just 9 months ago when the happy couple met on JDate or so they thought-it turned out that they were...
Laura Maurer's story.
I was separated from my first husband (what a life lesson that marriage turned out to be!) for about 18 months when I met Carl. I had given myself a year without dating, just to heal from the craziness...
Ryan Oliveti's story.
At my cousin's (Melisa) wedding, my brother (Tyler), my cousin (Jeff), and I were asked to bring up the gifts. At the rehersal, Tyler had the wine, Jeff had the water, and I had the Communion. However,...
Kelley Perlstein's story.
A week before my wedding I ended up in the ICU at Columbia Presbyterian Hospital in NYC. The following Thursday I was still there and as my friends and family started arriving in town, I wondered whether...
Lisa Rodenberry's story.
My husband, Erik, and I decided to skip all of the drama and friction of planning a wedding and go straight to the courthouse to have an small ceremony with just the two of us. We had both been married...
Christopher Pazdernik's story.
My brother got married about 2 years ago, which was so exciting for me because I'd never had a sister and always wanted one. Kate (my sister-in-law) is an all-around fabulous person, so I couldn't...
Cindy Margolis's story.
Kenny and I were high school sweethearts in 1966. For Valentine's Day he gave me a gorgeous opal and diamond cocktail "engaged to be engaged" ring. When Kenny graduated, he left to go to...
Steve Leeper's story.
My partner and I who have never felt compelled to tie the knot in a legal or religious sense, have been happily in love for 28 years. We met and felt the chemistry immediately. We both quit our jobs...
Audrey DeMarois's story.
My sister Candice and her fiancé Steve have had quadra spastic cerebral palsy since birth. They met each other again at summer camp 2007 after a 53-year separation. When they met again, they squealed...
Mathew Starika's story.
This last December I had the opportunity to sing at a friend's wedding. She originally asked me to sing the Andrea BocceliCeline Dion song: THE PRAYER. I worked with the other soloist for a week...
Linda Kahler's story.
I went to a wedding with the man I had been dating for 3 years. The bride was his previous secretary and she was prodding him to finally give me an engagement ring for Christmas. The moment came for the...
diane kamp's story.
being close to 60 years of age and also being a single mom, raising two boys, i found real true love in 2006.....in fact, we have known each other since jr high school, graduating high school together...
Lisa daur's story.
Our wedding day would be perfect I thought! Unfortunately several misfortunes arose. Let's begin witht eh rehearsal dinner. I, the bride, ordered shrimp for dinner and had a personal waitress who...
Michael Burgio's story.
Where do I start! Well my name is Michael and I'm a 37 year old Gay ItalianAmerican from Hoboken, New Jersey. In 2004 I met the man of my dreams, his name is Kevin and he's a working actor from...
Cathy Adair's story.
My aunt, Liz, discovered when she arrived at our house for a wedding that the dress she was going to wear had something wrong with it and got extremely upset. My other aunt, Mary, offered her an extra...
Barbara Schmidt's story.
We had a lovely wedding planned on the east end of Long Island. It was a beautiful fall day and what could possibly be better. The day went well, with a few minor exceptions. The brides dress tore while...
Charles Fry's story.
My wife and I use to live together before we got married. We had been talking about marriage, but I wasn't wanting to set a date until I could get a good job.
After several months, my now wife...
Josh R.'s story.
Hi I am a kid, so i have had no part in a wedding so far. But if I do have a wedding than it will be a big huge Catered Affair! The Bride's parents will pay for everything
and than I will have hopefully...
Susanne George's story.
After years of dating men who were more interested in themselves than in me, I met a man who looked beyond appearances and loved me for the person I was on the inside. With him, I have never had to pretend...
Barry Borwn's story.
I was lucky enough to have 2 weddings. A private ceremony on the Jersey Shore at a delightful bed and breakfast and a ceremony at a lighthouse. But then we had a "ceremony" for our friends...
Joni Scro's story.
A group of us, all college friends, traveled from Long Island to Cape Cod for a friend's outdoor wedding . When we arrived there was nothing to eat except a few trays of passed tea sandwiches and...
Marja Barger's story.
This is the short version, and it really is true. I share it with all prospective newlyweds to help calm them down.
My future husband and I were living in Madison Wisconsin but being married by my...
Alyson Grossman's story.
My fiancé Randy and I had been together for ever, at least it felt that way in actuality it was 6 years. The day the ring was available Randy picked it up and decided that would be the day he proposed....
Steven McRorie's story.
Drove to Idaho to marry. Watched a woman tell a guy she was chickening out for the second time. My bride wanted to chicken out for the first time, but after that display ... went through with it.
Sharon Wollman's story.
We (my husband and I), his 2 sons and my 2 children decided to start our married life with our children giving us away, best man, etc.
My son give me away and my daugher was my maid of honor on the...
Anne Kelly's story.
I am the family affair planner in my family! I have a 16 year old daughter who will someday be the bride. I can hear it now "Mom, I don't really need 4 flower arrangements on each table, 1 is...
Dorothy Ward's story.
Mike and I got married on December 28th 2007. It was a beautiful Christmas wedding. We had all of our family and friends there to celebrate with us.
The road to wedded bliss was a long and sometimes...
Connie Kuist's story.
My story was suppose to be a family affair,But, it didnt end up that way. We couldnt decide on a date, and my father in law to be was terminal, so we just kept putting it off. The 1st date , I wanted April...
Johanna Tepperwien's story.
My father had a terrific sense of humor (he passed away in 1999)which I always enjoyed even at my wedding ceremony when he walked me down the aisle, lifted my vaile off my face and exclaimed, in a stage...
Britt Myrhol-Clarke's story.
Ever since I was a little girl I always dreamt of getting married outside. I was engaged three times: the first one I didn't even begin planning; the second was planned for a typical catering hall,...
Justina Fenton's story.
My mother and I planned my wedding everyday for an entire year. We had the time of our lives and became closer than ever. We practiclly share the same brain so most of the ideas we came up with on our...
Yvonne Rosenberg's story.
My husband, Hal, & I were married on 4371 & 36 (almost 37) years later we're still in love & each other's best friend. Our wedding was a bit scary though. Since we're of different...
Linda Lowenthal's story.
Basically, all I did at our wedding in 1979 was just show up. Mom, being controlling made all the decisions and it enabled life to be easier for me - simply by letting her have her own way. My wonderful...
Barbara Norton's story.
We, too, were married in the Bronx. It was June 26, 1982. The temperature was 96 and the humidity was just as high that day, pre-air conditioning. Murphy's Law did it's best to put a crimp in...
Jay Irwin's story.
I think my main job for that wedding was to get the groom away from his Mother and Sisters that had invaded. The day before the wedding they were all bustling around barraging him with questions and the...
Jane Jordan's story.
Dear Harvey,
For sure this is the story of our wedding, in the BRONX, June 28, 1958! I wanted to elope to some exotic place on the map like Elkton, Maryland......known for its ~escape~ weddings. But...
Elaine Mikurak's story.
My first wedding I was pregnant 18 got married at city hall. So at the age of 35 with 2 children I had a beutiful wedding we left on a honeymoon and returnd to have a big reception with friends etc. As...
Maria DeVita-Krug's story.
When my husband and I were dating, I had always wished that he could have met my dad. Dad passed away in 1989 and as the only girl, I knew I would never knw the joy of having my dad walk me down the aisle...
Joseph Mondano's story.
We held our reception in a place in Brooklyn called the Micali Terrrace. Mr. Micali had a habit of presenting each new couple with a big statue of St Anthony for their new apartment. That was 1977 and...
mari small's story.
Old kids with young hearts. Newlyweds with grandchildren. An out-of-the-ordinary prelude to an“out of the box” wedding.
Welcome to our story.
A public relations guy and an artistcopywriter each...
Ellen Feibel's story.
A friend's first wedding was a disaster! Her step-monster wore a skin tight white dress (& she had the figure for it), the seating was arranged like an armed camp - grooms family in one corner,...
Ellen Feibel's story.
My sister's wedding on Sunday of Memorial Day weekend 1978 was flawless except for one minor detail... they were leaving for Niagara Falls right after the wedding in the rented car. Her husband carefully...
Barbara Moran's story.
My husband George and I were married on January 31, 1959. There were 125 friends and family who attended our reception. It was a full dinner with a Champagne cocktail hour, full bar and a flaming Jubilee...
Anne Ortelee's story.
My mom died before my sister Mary got married. My aunt Carol, a very sensitive soul and former nun, had a "serious", long and rather tearful conversation with my sister at the end of the rehearsal...
Eddie Hillman's story.
I'm the one who tries to catch the garter or bouquet...depending on how I'm dressed that day.
Carolyn Weiner's story.
I lived the life as told in the movie with Bette Davis and
Ernest Borgnine. I grew up in the Bronx and got engaged at 19 to Stanley Weiner, who was from Connecticut.
My parents lived in a 3rd floor...
Erin Nichols's story.
My story is how my husband I got engaged.
I was out for the evening with my mother and a friend. While out, I had called to check my messages and a strange man answered my phone. I was scared, but...
Anne Katz's story.
David and I were married on a beautiful September day in a historic synagogue in Madison, Wisconsin. After the ceremony, our family and friends toasted us with champagne outside the temple. As the toast...
Michele Moran's story.
Well, my husband and I had two weddings. He is from Spain and he came over here (the US, Connecticut to be exact) on the fiancee visa. We had to get married within 90 days from the date the visa was issued....
Christine Connallon's story.
After a nine year relationship that took me through high school and college ended, I swore that I didn't want to have a boyfriend for awhile. Very shortly after, I was fired from my radio job (the...
TIMOTHY FITZGERALD's story.
OK so I am singing at my sisters wedding and they are taping the whole thing. People in tears all over the church. It was a beautiful day. A couple of weeks later we get a copy of the videotape and in...
Julie Halston's story.
My husband,Ralph Howard and I decided to have our wedding be a benefit for Broadway CaresEquity Fights Aids. There were several reasons for this.
1. Ralph lost his brother to AIDS and I lost countless...
Charles Rome's story.
Everything was going just fine the Bride was walking down the isles and one of the bride party got to close to the brides bottom of her dress and stepped on it and the bride was jerked backwards and fell...
Steve Lepre's story.
Living in South Carolina I can marry people as a Notary. The 1st couple I married, 19 years ago, were my best friends. She was Jewish. His family was Southern Baptist. I offered to become a notary so that...
Lisa Port's story.
My father, was a Rabbi, so he would come home with lots of stories. One of his favorites was the wedding that almost didn't finish. The reception had just started and the bride screamed in horrible...
Lisa Weiss's story.
My sister was finally getting married. This being her 3rd engagement, we were thrilled when we reached the day. My father, the Rabbi, would be performing the ceremony. My mother, always there to help,...
YESENIA RAMOS's story.
FINALLY; GETTING MARRIED; IT IS SAD; THAT MY SISTER, MY BEST BRIDEMAID JUST DIED.
PHILLIP DALTON's story.
WAS A BAD WEDDING, NEITHER SHOULD HAVE GOTTEN MARRIED
Ted Munn's story.
My Partner and I would love to be able to share a wedding story, but we are a gay couple and aren't allowed to get married!
Connie Kuist's story.
My wedding experience was unique to say the least, My husband first asked me to marry him in the ladies room of a bar in Galveston, Tx. The next time he asked it was over the phone while he was working...
Christine Clark's story.
My husband, daughter and I attended a friend wedding and immediate reception. As the reception was scoming to an end later that evening the bride asked that guest feel free to take bottles of undranked...
Donna Roberts's story.
I am embarrassing myself and posting my wedding pic from 30 years ago to hopefully win tickets for opening night to see my favorite singer dude, Tom Wopat, shown in a photo here.
I'm including pictures...
Stuart & Robert Wyman-Cahall's story.
Robert & I are starting our 15th year on life's journey together and were blessed to be able to realize our dream of being lawfully married.
We tied the knot in Victoria B.C. on July 27th, 2004...
Paul Jackson's story.
This is not my story. Rather it's the story of one young man among the millions who came back from World War II and what happened when he became engaged to his girlfriend, planned to get married...
Chris and Kendra Henderson's story.
My husband, Chris, and I were married on June 9th, 2007 in Glorieta, New Mexico right outside of Santa Fe.
And so our story began. It was June 8th; weather forecast....rain. As we frantically came up...
Kari Brady's story.
I recently saw the movie "A Catered Affair" starring Betty Davis as the mother of the bride. My oldest child and daughter was married this last September - the first of my children to marry....
Iva Robinson's story.
My Cousin Winnie had introduced Desi and I in March of 1990 and on Good Friday we had our first date. It went well. Well, in June of 1990 we where planning an October 19th wedding in Pittsfield Maine....
Gordon Blackwell's story.
RUTH’S WEDDING
The awful truth was that Ruth married Owen, a philanderer, not Bert, a true love. Bert proposed to her in 1915. Not in love with this plain,...
Mary Lenzini's story.
It still upsets me what happened the night before we were married. My fiance's parents who lived across the state, had us select the restaurant and menu for the rehearsal dinner. We reserved a banquet...
Michael Lever's story.
WHEN the day comes that they recognize and celebrate the union of two human beings who just happen to be the same sex, I hope that I can experience the roller coaster ride that is a wedding. Sure I would...
jack costi's story.
I had a large catered wedding (250 guests). I felt very good and kept drinking away. Mind you I am not a drinker and didn't realize its effects well after I started getting giddy and fresh with all...
Judith A DiGabriele's story.
I'm ItalianCatholic & my husband was a child of Eastern European Jews. My wedding was a beautiful mix. Best story, when my Jewish Grandmother-In-Law went to tell my Italian Father, that
"The...
Francie-Sue Rothstein's story.
My husband and I are married 16 years. We know each other 30 years. To say it took us a while, is an understatement! We dated for 2 1/2 years and went our own ways. David got married. After 18 months...
Lacy Crawford's story.
The class they don’t offer in college but should—senior spring, as all is unraveling—is called something like “Syncopation,” and it’s about time. Because time is the one thing a twenty-year-old knows...
Scott Witkin's story.
I tell everyone my wife found me on JDate under a pseudonym (Danajean Williams) but the truth is I pursued her without prejudice. She was working in London and I was skiing in Utah only 3 months after...
Barry Turner-Hunt's story.