CMT Blog: My Big Redneck Wedding

Amber and John share their experience from My Big Redneck Wedding.

Our experience with the wedding was a great one. We had so much fun planning this and the end was all worth it. But we both have decided that we don't want to go through any of that again! Even though it was fun there was headaches too. But I swear to you if it wasn't for our families it would have never been possible. We love our families and thank them so much for everything!

Tami and Brad share their memories from My Big Redneck Wedding. 

Our wedding was so PERFECT! There was rain, wind, mud and drama! The quads fit in so perfectly. It was exactly how we pictured it. My camo wedding dress will probably never be the same, but that's ok cuz we have pictures. Brad will wear his wedding clothes again and again and again though. It's so his style. The food was better than I could ever have imagined too. It was such a down home fun get together. Of course there were way more people there than a get together, but oh well. It was probably the best day I could ever have had. Irene was a lot to take, but that's her and we love her anyway. Everyone that I have talked to said that they had the best time and that it was so mellow and laid back and relaxed. It makes me so happy that everyone had such a good time.

Of course there was the drama. Drunk people and dogs and fights and all kinds of fun stuff. And of course Brad was in the center of it. And we still haven't seen or heard from the drama starter! Doesn't hurt my feelings any though. I think that Brad is a little upset about it though because they did hang out outside of work and had fun. Oh well, GET OVER IT BRAD!!! You are mine now!!! Just kidding ... I love you and am so happy that we are FINALLY married. It really seems like we have been together forever. I can't imagine life without you.

 Gail and John share their experience from My Big Redneck Wedding.

 Our wedding was a day of fun and marrying soul mates that had been apart for way too long. We wanted a fun wedding that would bring out our personalities. It was full of a beer can archway, beer cans to carry our flowers in, and basset hounds as the ring bearers and flower girls. Our kids were in the wedding, except for 2, but they were in our hearts. After getting a wedding dress 20 sizes too small, I found the perfect dress to turn John's head, and make his allergies (HA) act up. After saying our I DO's, we released chickens to start our new joined life together. Then everyone went to have a reception, of beautifully set tables by newspapers, and mason jars with ditch flowers in them. Guests ate a wonderful meal of fried chicken, pulled pork and BBQ beef, and a cake of 4 layers and of 4 different flavored layers!!!!!! We then went outside and tried the mechanical bull and the rode away in our Chevy Trailblazer, pulling our beer cans. Oops! or was that the archway!!!!!!! Then we exchanged gifts. John gave me a stuffed animal he won. I gave John a bowling ball that said, "Think of me when you touch your ball." Then we went off to a honeymoon, and are the happiest redneck couple ever!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Christy and Kevin share their wedding day experience from My Big Redneck Wedding.

We had a redneck wedding that included the great outdoors, a mule and a horse, four-wheelers, mattress surfing, mud wrestling, line dancing, camouflage tuxes, Wrangler skirts and boots, a wedding dress and boots and a few other redneck games. I think we all enjoyed the mattress surfing the most, and between me and Kevin the redneck vows we exchanged (He was to accept all my stray animals, and I was to accept his huntin' dogs and buddies, lol). The wedding turned out to be more than better than we expected it to. Our friends and family are still talking about it every time we see or talk to them. As for the wedding, Kevin was a bit nervous when I showed up an hour late, and then he couldn't find his clothes. My moments were when my dad was giving me away. A little I could feel he was nervous. It had us both caught up in the moment. Me and Kevin and all the rest of the wedding party and all that helped out were excited that we made it through it alive, lol, and that it had went so well and that we could tell our guests (and the people that came that we didn't even know or invite, lol) were having a great time! That would conclude our REDNECK WEDDING! Yee haww.

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Geneva and Kyle share their experience from CMT's My Big Redneck Wedding. 

Kyle and I were both born and bred in a small "mountain man" community, and fulfilling dreams is often hard here. When we first started dating, we knew that we would complete each other's dreams. Kyle proposed Christmas Eve right after our one-year anniversary. It was wonderful. We decided that our wedding needed to be before we started college, and after we graduated high school. So we set the date for Oct. 27, 2007, right before our two-year anniversary. Thoughts of planning, colors, food, everything bubbled in our minds. Kyle didn't want a wedding where he felt stiff, and we both wanted something that everyone could really enjoy. Eventually, we decided that we should have a wedding that reflected our culture here, and one where people could wear their everyday clothes.

The week of the wedding was crazy -- last minute shopping, getting ready and worrying about how it would turn out when Saturday came. Kyle wanted to play most of the time, but with the wedding being so laid back, I guess it really wasn't a huge deal. Our nerves were shot, but we were both so ready to start our lives together.

When Saturday came, it was like our town. If you blinked you'd miss it. That morning, for the guys were laid back; for the girls it was crazy. We were going here and there, excited about that afternoon. I thank the bridal party so, so much for being the best. The guys arrived on time, took pictures and hid Kyle when the girls got there. When the girls arrived, we took pictures and tried to hide me. Kyle says that he didn't see me, but I think he did. Everything looked perfect. Glancing from the clubhouse, it looked like there was 200 people there. Not only were Kyle and I nervous, the whole bridal party was. Kyle told me after the wedding that he almost went through a carton of cigarettes before the wedding.

Time passed and then it was time to walk down the aisle. My dad and I rode up to the top of the hill, and I got ready for the long walk. The ceremony went by fast. I thought that Kyle would be the wreck, but I know it was the other way around. Everyone cried, even people that we thought never would, did. The ceremony was everything we wished it would be.

The reception went great also. We talked to everyone as they stood in line for food, and by the time some of them got to the food, there was barely any left. Throwing the bouquet was quite funny considering that some people really, really wanted it, and the garter being thrown was cool, too. After a few bites of deer meat, cake and some home style dishes, we decided it was time to go. We left in the truck (which was covered in cake, beans, and toilet paper), headed to the redneck heaven of Pigeon Forge and Gatlinburg, Tenn.

The wedding was so wonderful that words couldn't explain it. Things went wrong and the wedding wasn't perfect. It was more than perfect. Everyone there loved being laid back in their everyday clothes. We enjoyed and appreciated everyone there and love them dearly. The wedding was as redneck to some people as anything, but to us it was a perfectly normal day. Besides that two hearts joined together as one. We loved it, and it was our dream come true!

Ron and Suzy share their wedding experience from CMT's My Big Redneck Wedding

Ron's Blog
Hey! My name's Ron; my boys call me "Pappy." I live in a place called Norco where I met this gal Suzy (didn't remember her name at first when she gave her phone number to call after we met and all, but since then I've learned it). Anyway, after a time we decided to get married. I figured at my age and hers, she been married a few before, a small kinda wedd'n would do. But like all gals they want something to remember. So not hav'n the heart to let her down, I agreed. Well, needless to say we had one hell of a rodeo wedd'n and all, something I guess she had only read about in fairy tale stories.

Now, hav'n been married for a few months, things are good as they were before. Can't find much to complain bout, except that now wees married, suddenly she seems to think that when she need some money for somethin it's OK to just reach in my pocket. Well this didn't happen before we got hitched. So I kinda set things straight with her and opened up another account at the bank -- one for my money and one for hers.

Things are good. I think I got a good woman. Her kind ain't easy to find (good heart, pretty, strong, can ride a horse, likes her beer, hang with me and the boys) and when all said and done at the end off the day she puts out her cigarette, lays her head down beside mine and still tells me she loves me. Guess I done alright.

Suzy's Blog
My name is Suzy Burger. I live in Norco Calif. (Horsetown, USA). This is where Ron and I met. I was out having a drink and I had seen him before in there. He usually rode his horse in with his hot girlfriends ... haha ... anyway he was leaving and I asked him why he was leaving. He kinda smiled and walked out. Well I guess he came back in and I was talking to someone else, and he left again. His friend John grabbed me and led me out to where he was getting on his horse. Well John told Ron I wanted a ride, so he asked me and I said yes, got on the horse and he asked me where I wanted to go. I said wherever you're going. I guess I found out later that he thought I was some city girl that wanted a ride around the parking lot ... haha ... not!!! That's how we met.

Ron and I do everything together, from cleaning stalls to playing men's softball, dancing and riding and what ever fun activities we can find to do on horses.
As far as our wedding, well, it wasn't really a decision to have a redneck wedding. That's just who we are and it wouldn't have been any other way. I always dreamed as a girl to either ride up on a horse or horse drawn carriage when I was getting married, and thanks to our good friend "Ranger John," he made it happen. I guess our biggest goal for the wedding was to have everyone have the best time and for it to be as memorable for us as ever, and boy did it happen.
Our plans for the future, well, to take every day as if it was our last, to enjoy our family and friends and just be as happy as we can with each other for the rest of our lives.

Anna and Carl share their wedding experience from CMT's My Big Redneck Wedding

As most weddings go, you plan everything down to the smallest detail. When we decided to get married on horseback, we knew right away, we would be planning the wedding to remember! To us, ours was the most genuine expression of how two people can take what brought them together and turn it into a storybook wedding. We both feel it was an experience of a lifetime!!!!! Hope you enjoy our wedding as much as we did.
Sincerely,
Carl and Anna