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Real, spontaneous emotion from the first time a groom sees his bride on their wedding day.
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For 16 more moving and funny photos of grooms upon first seeing their brides, visit BuzzFeed’s 24 Grooms Blown Away By Their Beautiful Brides
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Exactly. Also: “Looking at porn and other women?” You can’t be serious! Get a grip. Marriage doesn’t mean one or the other partner, male or female, suddenly stops being human and stops looking at attractive things in, gasp, a sexual way. Stop villanizing that behavior! Looking doesn’t mean touching! Yes, some men will cheat, some PEOPLE will cheat, but quit stifling people, quit making them villans right out of the gate, and you might be pleasantly surprised. Your heart might be broken, yes, but at this rate, it seems more likely that you might be doing that to yourself. For… Read more »
Erin, why?? Virtually everybody knows many marriages don’t last. In turn, many do. If we all lived life expecting the worst, none of us would ever get married, make friends, go to new places, or pursue careers in competitive fields. The more extreme of us would probably never leave our houses, living in our fortified basements with stocks of guns, toilet paper, and canned foods. None of us would ever have children, because sometimes children die before their parents. None of us would get pets, because they almost always die before us. Does that make the time we have with… Read more »
Why does somebody deserve respect just to taking a “shot” at something? Are we supposed to pay respect and deference to somebody who makes a real estate investment, or goes to Vegas, or buys a lottery ticket?
Sad to me that so many people have been wounded by love, either their own experiences, or their parents’ experience of divorce, that they cannot imagine that men and women could be overwhelmed by love for another person. Yes, all couples face challenges, and some, infidelity. That does not negate the love between them. Life is not black and white. These things all exist within us. If you talk to those couples who had successful 30, 40 year marriages, they were not storm free. They learned how to weather those storms. Looking at another man or woman, feeling times of… Read more »
Just sad, that such a nice post derailed into this trainwreck. Way to go, Debbie Downer AKA Erin.
My most vivid memory of my wedding 20 years ago is the moment she walked through the doors at the back of the church, and I saw her in her dress for the first time.
I will remember that moment until the day I die.
And just before these pictures were taken there many had dads who melted and broke down when they saw their little girl in her wedding gown. I still well up thinking about it and that was a 5 years ago.
I like the way man on picture 8 is dressed .
That melts my heart 🙂
No. 2 already has his wedding ring on, so I think it might be staged.
This is just so adorable. My favorite is the last one, they’re both so overwhelmed. I know when I see my husband all dressed up for our wedding I’ll have to do that funny hand wave thing to dry my tears so my make up isn’t ruined.
Erin, just be happy for them.
Why should anybody have to show compulsory happiness at these things?
Thanks Megalodon. Have to agree.
Chelsea, you feel what you feel and I’ll feel what I feel.
It’s sweet, but I’m too jaded for this to really touch my heart. I keep thinking about al lthe other women they have and will check out in the course of their relationship and think about sleeping with.
Erin. What an awful way to look at marriage. I feel sorry for you and your cynical mind.
Awful, but accurate. And statistically speaking, some of these unions will most certainly fail.
And some won’t
No, they could conceivably all fail.
They could conceivably all succeed…
Also, #3 has got to be photo shopped lol. Look at his mouth! it’s like literally half of his head!
hahaha
All of them succeeding is a naive hope, as well as contrary to the statistical evidence.
And if they are already photoshopping the wedding pictures, it looks like this marriage is being built upon lies from its very inception.
Meagan, not sure why you think that’s an awful way to look at marriage. Isn’t what I said true? It may be cynical, which I admitted to, but I’m not sure why you feel sorry for me. Should I ignore the reality?
What would be really interesting is to see these pictures next to pictures of the same men looking at other women or even at porn and see how their expressions compare.
Erin, you need help. What a disgusting thing to say. Are you really that far gone that you cannot understand the simple difference between seeing the WOMAN YOU LOVE on a very special day, and base lust feelings?
Tell me, have you ever thought of another man whilst dating one? I highly doubt you have never ever thought of another man, I doubt most people are that “pure”. How many men do you see have tears in their eyes seeing a sexy woman on the street??
Megan, I think Erin is definitely switched on, not cynical. Many men, whilst loving their wives, will also either love another woman/women, will very possibly sleep with them…or at least, consider opening up the marriage at some point down the track. Of course, not all men will go down this path…but many do and will. To be fair, in divorce cases…it’s usually women who cheat, not so much, men. I read a study that suggested that as men have more sex, their desires ‘narrow’ down to only one or two partners…whereas when women have more sex…they’re interests ‘widen’…in other words,… Read more »
“Many men, whilst loving their wives, will also either love another woman/women, will very possibly sleep with them…or at least, consider opening up the marriage at some point down the track.” Many women do the same. Not all humans are monogamous. Big difference between a hardon or lust vs love though. This focus on men as the fault is problematic, just who do you think cheats with men? Both genders cheat somewhat equally on each other and partly that’s because they’re forced to be monogamous when some aren’t. And as a man who has loved, and a man who has… Read more »
Oh how i love when women are talking bad about men like themselves are any better. Youre exactly the same and you love to victimze yourselves all the time. The the f. out of here.
Yup, no fear of the brides ever checking out other men, no sir.
The brides most certainly will do that as well throughout the course of the marriage, and that will contribute its share to the breaking of the union.
You’re right Erin, I look at these pictures and imagine all the women who will be breaking up these marriages. Wow, pretty sad, isn’t it? In 38 years of marriage I have never looked beyond my own wife but I can tell you about the many women who hit on me (knowing I was married) and propositioned me INCLUDING a female boss.
I am sad to say I am with you Erin. I just don’t believe it. People just can not stay faithful and I include all the online porn gawking that does tear a marriage apart.
yea..they have pictures to tear up some day 🙁 sorry…I’ll work on being less bitter 🙂
Very sweet pictures.
In one case, my friend was overcome at his wedding when he saw the bride for the first time, because they had been together for many years and it was the first time he had ever seen her in a dress or make up…..