August 26, 2004

• It was a *Christmas* wedding? Well, hell, I hadn't noticed that, it certainly does explain the cake. And the train. And the 20+ bridal party. And the cake. wtf is that cake. [in case this is one of those things where I say something rude about someone's significant personal event, and it comes back to hit me when they read about it and hate me: it looks like a good time was had by all nad it was a lovely night so please don't hit me]
• Credit where it's due, though: those are some boss friggin screwdrivers.
• i'm wondering how much the dress and cake cost! the dress looks velvet, there must be, what, half a mile of velvet there? heh.
• I'm afraid that cake is going to eat me. Not so much the size as the little arms sub-sections out on struts. I do love unusual wedding themes, though. I have nothing to do with weddings personally, but it's great when people get creative with what's usually (visually speaking) boring and uniform. I've never heard of a Christmas theme. Yeah, if that's velvet I'm going to break down and cry. That stuff is at least 20 USD per yard, so we're looking at something like $200 just for the fabric, never mind the trimming/spangles and labor. That's dedication.
• That cake is ALIVE!
• well I think its great!! everything is fantastic, I love the red, I love that its different. as someone who has gotten married in the last year I had the chance to think about a lot of these issues. I wore orange, we had a chocolate wedding cake...etc. it was great, we liked it & everyone had fun, which is all that matters.
• medusa! an orange dress! how very fun. BUT WAS YOUR TRAIN THIS LONG? if not you may suffer from train envy.
• I love that they toasted with boat-sized screwdrivers. Makes me wish I'd done mine with corn likker. Yee-haw!
• Medusa, where are the pics? I wanna see this orange dress! If you don't want to share personal photos, is there a photo of the dress at the dressmaker's website?
• I also married recently (well, more than a year ago already; time flies) but did it a bit differently. No wedding banquet. Apart from my wife, I and the justice of the peace there was nobody but a few squirrels. We got married in a park in Montpellier, in our walking clothes, and our honeymoon consisted of a three day walk in the Green Mountains. We made pictures for the homefront and that was it. No, I don't dare to post a link.
• Step back, folks, I can deal with the cake. Just hand me my trusty beacon-cheddar spray...
• Sidedish, I had no train, nor did I have boat-sized screwdrivers.... for sake of convenience I have decided to throw whatever to the wind & link to my little online "wedding album" so anyone who doesnt want to see pics of my family etc dont click here!! I am the one in the orange dress haha! the cute one w/the little goatee thing is the hub. PigAlien, Sidedish I love to share the dress, thanks!!
• Aww, what a lovely couple!
• *looks at photos' reflection in polished shield* A happy and beautiful couple, Medusa! :)
• My own wedding will be in December, and I had been contemplating a Christmas theme. But not anymore.
• medusa!! gorgeous dress. i love your flowers too. and all the group hugs. you guys look very happy! perhaps we should have a curious george and encourage everyone to show off their weddings. either that, or embarrassing baby photos of themselves. heh.
• Sadly, I have no digital photos, and no scanner. Which is a shame for you all, because I was one cute damn baby, AND I look really hot in a tuxedo.
• SideDish, I love it!! I am determined to scan pics of myself as a baby & OF MY TATTOOS!! for you! perhaps this will inspire mct to find a way to scan those sexy baby pictures...
• note to self: keep medusa away fom knives and/or pointy things.
• Lovely dress, Medusa. Thanks for sharing! What a nice setting for a wedding, as well. I think I'd like to get married outdoors, when the time comes.
• I'm all about the groom's cake. Vroom vroom vroomy-vroom vroom!
• I love the knife fight you and your husband had. Yes, that looks like a lovely dress - and a lovely wedding. Congratulations! Where did you hold it? It looks like a garden, but a very large garden. I am asking, because I wished to get married in a backyard, but unfortunately my family is too large, and their backyards too small.
• jb, that is a backyard there, in which I was married! my mom-in-law lives in marin co. cal, her yard isnt particularly large but its filled w/flowers etc., we did have to limit our guest list (about 80 people) due to space considerations but it was FREE! which is really great when you've just bought a house. we did it very simple & low-key, everyone was able to relax & enjoy the day. however, if you have the budget I don't see anything wrong with 20ft velvet trains & an assortment of fantastical cakes!
• I thought those were merry margaritas before I saw the caption. Such a lot of orange juice. Now I'm dreaming of a red velvet Christmas cake.
• Squishy Gal's wedding: the cake the train = OH MY GOD!!! What a party. Medusa - loved your pics...the "knife fight" definitely expresses the love :-)
• Am I the only person in the world who hated his own wedding? I couldn't wait for it to be over. I vowed I would never again stand at the centre of the phoney appreciation of others. Never. Perhaps I'm sharing too openly. (I hope Mrs Skrik doesn't read this.)
• Mrs. Claus gets married! I hated mine, Skrik, until I got toasty drunk. It was a really nice wedding, really, let me stress that my mother did a great job, and the dress she picked out for me was very tolerable, but I hated all the crap the girl is supposed to really dig, just everything about it, and when I had to walk up to the gazebo, everyone was staring at me, and... ugh. I put up with it because it was an excuse to have all my friends fly up and party with me for a week, but... I was smarter the second time. City Hall all the way, baby.
• Medusa, you look beautiful! What a gorgeous dress, too. Did anyone notice that in the fourth picture the guy (minister/justice?) looks like Bush??? Let me relate mine; first marriage; justice of peace in his office, second marriage; crack of dawn on winter solctice, hiking up a large hill called sugarloaf (only immediate family and close friends) bouquet was fir branches! Third and final marriage (finally have the two most beautiful children in the world--neener, neener) was at my parents house, surrounded by gorgeous flowers that everyone brought from their gardens and made it a potluck reception immediately after. It was FABULOUS. And cheap and absolutely perfect. When you are really happy, it just doesn't matter that your having a bad hair day.:)
• DARSHON!! YOU SLAY ME....I realized a while ago that my friend (our "minister") resembles gwb but only recently mentioned it to him. there couldn't be a person in the world less well suited to resemble that stupid f*ckbag. the "minister" is a sweet hippie shaman, progressive, conscientious, irreverent & most of all...INTELLIGENT!!! he is a good friend of ours & there is nothing nicer than having yr wedding performed by a dear friend who knows you well.
• That cake looks like it can transform and save Tokyo from alien invasion.
• I liked the cake. And bright red would have made her right at home with Chinese weddings, cos the brides wear bright red too. White are for funerals, for us. Medusa, that dress! That smile! Wow! You would have looked at home on the cover of Vogue!
• I believe the train also served as the tablecloth.
• You can have the Christmas-themed wedding, Mickey. Just make it a Nightmare Before Christmas wedding. You can be a Jack Skellington groom, and your wife a Sally-inspired bride. I'd like to see pictures of that. My wife and I were married in Montreal 25 years ago. The fact that she wore white pissed off a lot of my family, but we still had a good time. The cake was a standard fruitcake sort of thing, but one that was good enough to eat (and we did).
• I wore red when I got married - not bright red, though. And my sister has just gone through the dress-colour panic: the ivory her dressmaker recommended looked yellow (gasp!) and she was frantically trying to a) convince our mother that it was horrible and b) find a non-white colour that she was happy with. Sounds like far too much effort to me. Maybe I'll send my sister this link - bet I'll hear the screams of horror from 200km away.
• Anyone else think Medusa needs to change her name? You looked gorgeous - love the dress, and I'm a big fan of gerberas - they're such happy flowers. Oh, and as for the original link, given the nightmare that Christmas can sometimes become with my family, and the fact that I fear getting married for the thought of having to put all my relatives and friends in a room together at once... that wedding has pretty much covered my worst nightmare. But hey, each to their own. I'd just drink about 6 of those screwdrivers and rock myself to sleep in a corner.
• What a lovely wedding, Medusa. You look so happy, and your dress is gorgeous! Kudos for doing it Your Way. And to Squishy Gal for doing it Her Way. Mister shinything and I got hitched in his parent's back yard. We were flat broke, and both sets of parents are helpful, non-interfering folks, so we kept things very simple. I got a ring, he got a Milwaukee drill. Chocolate raspberry cake. Grey suit for him, blue-grey dress for me. The only things I'd change: 1) this dress instead; and 2) not have us and a bunch of our relatives get terrible upper respiratory flu immediately afterwards. Gotta love that recycled airplane air.
• well i hope for the sake of squishy's gal that those photos weren't the ones she paid her wedding photographer to take. most of them were so dark that you couldn't see much... the photo of the entire wedding party for example is badly composed, way too dark, and just generally sucks. what fun is a wedding photo if all you can see is half the wedding party? nobody behind the groomsmen even shows up at all. wedding photgraphers are a crapshoot anyway... but i'd say have someone you know and trust do it. if you happen to know and trust a good ameteur or professional photographer, that is. we had a friend from high school do our wedding photos. she's a big gal, no way around it... over 6 foot and generously proportioned. she also showed up on crutches. she was also the least obtrusive wedding photographer i've ever seen. it amazed me that she was able to get as many photos as she did, from as many angles, even though she could barely get around due to a foot injury a few weeks earlier. my brother's whip-thin, petite wedding photographer was an insanely annoying bitch who managed to get in the way every chance she got, pissed off the entire wedding party, and held up the wedding because she was more concerned about getting the shot right than she was about letting my brother get married. but holy crap that dress is overkill... and the cake is a monstrosity... and i could swim in that screwdriver. but you can't in any way say that this wedding wasn't unique, eh?
• Where I come from, people use the word "unique" to mean "OH MY GOD DO YOU BELIEVE THAT TACKY SHIT?!"