Many asked for an update after the wedding if Trump did show up. He did not, and thinking through all the millions of scenarios for security reasons, i understand. I still had a beautiful backyard wedding and now have a beautiful like minded wife.
I had some interesting things happen that i could only take as a sign from God and those that are no longer with us of their presence so i feel enormously blessed.
Also doing a smallish wedding in your back yard is nice because we got to make all the rules and control things more, not depend on a businesses interpretation of our wants, so i highly recommend it. One little one that me and one of my groomsmen did was we wore our concealed carry pieces for the ceremony. It may seem silly to some, but to us it meant a lot and my wife even liked the idea because as she said, "Its you, I'd expect no less from you and this is the man im marrying."
So all in all, it was a beautiful event, i regret i did not get to watch Trumps speech in any part but we had so much going on and still have cleanup to do in the coming days. God bless you all for your wonderful well wishes previously.
That's the problem with today's weddings. Big and gaudy and expensive, then the marriage lasts maybe 1-3 years. It's mostly the women who want the crazy elegant wedding and that's it; they want a wedding, not a marriage.
In a wedding they're the center of attention, the "blushing bride" in all white (even though most of them are definitely NOT pure, trust me they left their purity behind when they were 14), and they get all this praise and love from everyone they've ever known. But in a marriage they only get attention from the man they married (and for a lot of us women that is MORE than enough, and we love it), but for them that is NOT enough. They get tired of it and want ANOTHER wedding where they are the center of attention again.
Rinse and repeat about 3-4 times for a typical selfish woman, but by the end of the 4th wedding they're in their late 30s early 40s and no longer the "beautiful blushing bride in pure white," and less and less people attend each wedding. Eventually they have to either settle with that last husband or divorce him and live alone, suckling on the teat of the government.