Fellow Flarites, your friendly neighborhood PixelMonkey revels in the glow of happy tidings. As of this afternoon, on the tiny sliver of beach we found on Lake Chapin, I am engaged to be married.
Yes, she was sober.
Congratulations may ensue.
Posted by Dat (Member # 302) on :
Yes, congrats!
Posted by Jason Abbadon (Member # 882) on :
Well that's great, Aban!
Congradulations, you lucky sap.
Now....the batchelor party.
Posted by Mighty Blogger Snay (Member # 411) on :
Congratulations!
Posted by Saltah'na (Member # 33) on :
Ack!!! Aban has been snared by one of the most vilest of creatures on the planet, a WOMAN!!!
I mean, congrats, dude. How long have you been dating her?
Posted by Jason Abbadon (Member # 882) on :
Unless....Liam finally turned you.
Posted by Siegfried (Member # 29) on :
Holy cow, congratulations, Aban!
Posted by The Mighty Monkey of Mim (Member # 646) on :
I, too, offer my congatulations.
-MMoM Posted by Cartman (Member # 256) on :
I fully expect a thread titled "She said 'yes, yes, yes!'!" before the end of the year. B)
Posted by Jason Abbadon (Member # 882) on :
And another titled "Weddings cost how much!?! Posted by AndrewR (Member # 44) on :
Congratulations, Aban.
Posted by Omega (Member # 91) on :
w00t unto you.
Posted by Jay the Obscure (Member # 19) on :
Yes, congratulations indeed Aban!
Posted by Vice-Admiral Michael T. Colorge (Member # 144) on :
Congratulations Aban... so where are you two registered at? I just love weddings!
Posted by Toadkiller (Member # 425) on :
quote:Originally posted by Jason Abbadon:
Now....the batchelor party.
No, no now the pictures of the bride-to-be are posted!
Congrats
Posted by Siegfried (Member # 29) on :
quote:Originally posted by Jason Abbadon: Now....the batchelor party.
A bachelor party featuring the men of Flare would have to the second geekiest thing in the world.
quote:And another titled "Weddings cost how much!?!
An arm, a leg, three fingers, a thumb, an earlobe, four toenails, and a lock of hair.
Posted by Aban Rune (Member # 226) on :
quote:Originally posted by Cartman: I fully expect a thread titled "She said 'yes, yes, yes!'!" before the end of the year. B)
Awesome
To answer questions: If I have me druthers, the wedding will indeed be yet this year. We've been dating for about a year. Liam has not turned me, I still likes the ladies. I won't be posting pictures (she'd kill me). The theme for the wedding will likely be in the whole 'simpler is better' vein. Neither of us is looking to spend a ton of money and neither of us like very many people. So I vote for a small, simple Betazoid ceremony (notice how I slipped that last thing in?) Wedding invitations will, naturally, be designed and printed by yours truly. And they will rock, rock, rock.
Tonight, we're going out to celebrate with a few friends. Celebratory sushi!! I'm excited.
Posted by Grokca (Member # 722) on :
Congrats, you will never have to make another decision. You are finally going to be free.
Posted by Lee (Member # 393) on :
That's great news, Alan.
Posted by PsyLiam (Member # 73) on :
Damnit.
Er, I mean, well done.
Posted by Jason Abbadon (Member # 882) on :
Are you living together already? I'm told that is a often bigger step than the actual "till death do us part" bit.
You knw you're in aserious relationship when you ditch all the porn on your computer.
Posted by Pensive's Wetness (Member # 1203) on :
Congrats sir. i hope the day she takes you for sizing for your cock ring, is pleasant and joyful... Posted by Aban Rune (Member # 226) on :
Isn't it always?
No, we're not living together. However, I'm working on two versions of the invitation: the normal "it'll be in a couple of months" version, and the "screw this, her dad is really cheesing me off, we're eloping in two weeks so hurry up and get here" version. One will be designed to print in one or two color offset with embossing. The other will be designed to print at Kinkos and will be hung on telephone poles on our way to the ceremony.
Posted by AndrewR (Member # 44) on :
Posted by tricky (Member # 1402) on :
Congratulations! I remember getting our invitations printed: To save money, we got them printed in Spain (where my wife's family is from). After a couple of reprints due to spelling, the british royal mail lost them, and we ended up printing them on my dad's inkjet. What else happend... Bride's maid dresses have to be orders months in advance. 6 weeks beforehand the shop said it wasn't technicaly possible to make them in the material we had selected (which was odd, cosidering it was them who sold the combination to us), and couldn't do anything else in time. We managed to convince them they could.
Dispite showing family members the route from the reception hotel (where my wife got ready) to the church, and a map, the car taking my wife to the church took a detour over some railway level crossings, and was held up for 25 minuets waiting for a train to go though. This was after leaving the hotel 10 minuets late as the haidresser had forgot her hairdryer and spray, and had to go and get them. My wife turned up at the church 40 minuets late. Which gave her uncle time to fix the flower arangement he'd broken coming in.
The priest referd to my wife as James several times during the service. Who says the catholic church isn't progressive!
We spent a lot of time to organise the wedding to be near my parents, who are close to Heathrow airport, rather than near where we and my wife's parents lived, the other side of London (about 70 miles), so members of my wife's parents could fly in and stay nearby. They all wanted to stay with my wife's parents or at our house, so taxi's and busses had to be arranged. A few of them flew in on the day, and took the coach with the rest of the family across london late that night. Unfortunatly, there was a small mix up with the bags, and my bag, containing my clothes, keys, wallet, mobile washkit etc, went with them. I didn't notice this until the next morning, so missed out on breakfast looking for it. Once located, I was stuck 70 miles for my clothes in a suit hired from a shop which was expecting it back that day. Fortunatly I found a spare set of clothes at my parents, which I last wore 10 years previously. When washing the car. By the time I had driven home (I got some funny looks at the services half way, my wife pretending she didn't know me) I couldn't feel my legs.
What else... The reception venue lost a layer of the cake... On our way to our honeymoon, we stayed over night at a hotel next to the airport, which we couldn't get into for a couple of hours due to a fire near some gas canisters.. Rained almost constantly on our honeymoon, however my wife manged to get serious sun burn, and get a ear infection that nearly forced us to come home early, but was so bad we we worred about getting her on the plane.
Dispite all of that, It was the best day of my life, and wouldn't change a thing on that day or since. Well, maybe that ear infection. Or that shirt.
Posted by Aban Rune (Member # 226) on :
My wedding will not be nearly that complicated. I promise.
Posted by LOA (Member # 49) on :
CONGRATS!!!! I'm so excited for you!!!!!
Now if I could only figure out how to get a man to propose to me, my life would be perfect, as well......
~LOA
Posted by Aban Rune (Member # 226) on :
That depends on the man. Men are generally evil, selfish, and quite useless. Much like most women. I am the exception.
Posted by Siegfried (Member # 29) on :
Dear, sweet LOA. One day, you will find the man of your dreams. He will be everything you've ever wanted in man: caring, thoughtful, passionate, supportive of your car audio/video fixation, and always willing to let you nail him in the Lads. One day, you two will find each other, and all will be right with the world. Godspeed.
Aban: the simpler the wedding the better. I've told my friends and family that if I ever get married, it's going to be a slumber party wedding. Everyone will be in jammies and we'll do the vows after the s'mores but before the painting of toenails and playing of video games. The only problem I foresee is getting someone to officiate a wedding at 2am.
Posted by Aban Rune (Member # 226) on :
Painting the toenails could easily turn into an orgy kinda thing... everyone's already drunk and half naked... I dunno...
Posted by Lee (Member # 393) on :
Good God, trickychops, they sold you the whole package, didn't they? That's an insane amount of work. Here're Lee's handy tips on getting married. . .
First of all, if you think that you won't be properly married unless you do the full monty (not the strip act, mind) then maybe you need to question whether you're getting married for the sake of it, or because you really want to marry yer feeoncee.
Next, to minimize parental interference, threaten to elope unless you do things your way. Don't use this tactic lightly, it's the nuclear option, but you'll know when the time comes to deploy it. For us it was when my Mum, not convinced by our plan to have a buffet reception at a local Tapas bar, said she'd call round a few of the local country-house hotels. Now, we were buggered if we were going to all sit round little tables and be fed half-cooked veg on silver service by schoolgirls in black skirts doing their Saturday job.
Location can be important. If you believe in God, then good luck to you, you can go off and do the whole church bit. This also comes into play if the bride-to-be is determined to get married in her local church in front of 150 friends, relatives and people you've never met but her parents want to impress. That's the traditional way.
For us, neither of us came from London, but it's where we met and where we lived (in sin, BTW). So that's where we got married. Early plans to get married in Greenwich registry office (v. photogenic, Greenwich, we thought) came to nothing when we found out that the RO is actually in the middle of a shopping precinct in Woolwich. So we ended up at our local RO, Waltham Forest, which was set in lovely grounds in a former cottage hospital. Nice wedding room, too, with seating for 45. Which brings us nicely to the guest list.
If you're a shallow person who is desperate to impress everyone you've ever met, then 45 people isn't going to cut it. But if that's the case, then as I've already said you're on your own. For us, 45 seemed more than ample until my Dad pointed out that a lot of his relatives from Scotland would want to come. In fact we didn't have a problem with them being there, it just never occurred to us they'd make such a long trip for, well, me. Then it became quite a struggle to fit everyone in. You next tip, then, is this: if one or other family starts quibbling because they want more of 'their' people to come, and start targetting you and your betrothed's mutual friends, then split the list down the middle, get all your family on one side, and as many of the friends you can; and deduct a similar amount from the other side of the list. Give the remaining list of places to them and say "There, that's your lot." Let them stress over who to invite!
You can use more than personalised wedding vows to express yourselves in your wedding plans. As mentioned, we had out reception in a Tapas bar. No arranged seating, we booked the whole place (it was somewhere we went often and the owner, she did us proud), made sure there was something on the pre-arranged buffet menu for everyone's tastes, and everyone had a great time. In the evening we moved on to a local cricket pavilion, had another buffet and a disco with another hundred-odd guests coming. That's the one thing I'd have done differently - either not bothered with the party, it was a bit of an anticlimax; or had a live band, dixieland jazz or something to get everyone up and on the floor.
Wedding outfits. Kate had a proper wedding dress, with shoes, tiara etc. I bought myself a new designer suit (black, of course - all my suits are black) and matching ties for me, best man and two ushers. The two bridesmaids - the hell with those horrible-coloured outfits - each had a navy-blue velour trouser suit. Flower-girl and page boy (my cousin, her nephew, respectively) got little outfits. All these roles were pretty useless in the context of a registry wedding but they were there because they were members of our family or circle of friends who we wanted to be involved.
Photographs: TAKE CONTROL. Scope the outside of wherever you get married, spot suitable locations, make a list of groups you want snapped. We were at another family wedding and my Mum and I were watching the husband of one of my cousins, who's a wedding photographer and was doing the honours. Mum was kee for us to use him. He proceded to snap every possible combination of guests in five separate locations. The photographs took two hours! Mum never mentioned using him again, my best man doubled as photographer and the results were excellent.
We had a brilliant wedding and don't regret any part of it. And the cost! Stuff the average-wedding-costs-fifteen-grand lark, our wedding (not counting clothes) cost two thousand pounds for reception (food, drink, champage during start and final toasts), party-hall hire, party buffet and disco. And people still rave about what a fun time they had. I hate weddings, so much so I was intending never to get married at all (until I met someone who I wanted to marry): but our wedding was the best one I've ever been to. And that's the way it should be.
Posted by Balaam Xumucane (Member # 419) on :
Congratulations, Aban! That's terrific. I realize I'm not invited or anything, but I must admit that I'm highly curious to see the invitation. You could put a void watermark on it to prevent counterfitting...
Posted by tricky (Member # 1402) on :
Definatly you and your fiancee need to have control. And none of this male thing of leaving the wedding all to the women! It's your day too! Most important is the music selection. Our first dance was to Paul Weller!
Actually my Dad suggested we elope to Greta Green (first stop on train into Scotland, the Marrage laws are slightly different). What I didn't realise was he wasn't joking!
Sometimes I think my cousin had the right idea: Registry office, only parents invited. The groom took the car for it's MOT in the morning, and they were back at work later in the afternoon....
Posted by Aban Rune (Member # 226) on :
Lee, you're smashing because you think like me. And who wouldn't want that?
The wedding will likely be in the winter. I know it will make it harder, but I don't care. I'm not going to drag the engagement out for 8 months so we can get married in the Spring. We'll be getting married in either her congregation's Kingdom Hall, or mine. Photos will be somewhere around there, likely, and will be done before the ceremony. I'm NOT waiting around afterwards.
Parental involvement, I promise you, will be nill. I will ensure this by doing the following: discussing everything with her and making our plans before any details are revealed to anyone. We will then hand them a list and say, "This is what needs to be done. You may help, or not." The next time I see her mother, firm instructions will be given not to buy/speculate about/make plans for/discuss anything involving the wedding until she receives said list. I am saving the nuclear option and will likewise discuss with my bride when deployment is appropriate.
I have no desire to have a large number of people attend. My rule of thumb is, "Those who showed an interest in me while I was single are welcome to celebrate my wedding with me. Those who ignored me, shall be likewise ignored." So I'm trying to find a balance between needlessly offending people and compromising what we want. The balance falls right about at the place where those people start costing me money that I could be using to buy naughty lingerie.
Outfits: She wants a wedding dress, which is fine, as she's a quite sensible shopper. I will be wearing, like Lee, a new black suit. I despise rental tuxes and would sooner go nude than rent one. I'll get a great new dress shirt and vest to go with it and that will be that.
The invitation: Right now I'm thinking I'd like to do a movie poster. I had originally wanted to do it fully illustrated, like a Struzan poster, but I think it will take too long. So I'm leaning towards photographic with cool Photoshop manipulation. It will have a title and list myself and my bride as the stars. All the small info at the bottom where the director, studio, stars, etc. are listed will be the actual wedding information. We can ship it in postal tubes with a matching label. RSVP cards and envelopes will be tucked neatly inside. No one will ever throw them out.
Oh... and as an added touch of wicked coolness... I'm going to burn copies of the wedding's "soundtrack" with a cover that matches the poster and have them available for select reception attendees.
Posted by Home Decor and Gardening (Member # 239) on :
I WOULD THROW IT OUT
For:
1) spite, you cocky shit!
2) I also don't like owning things 2b) especially reminders of people's happiness (see: the 1988 Olympic Opening Ceremonies video that I got for being a member of the Canadian Arc Ice Sled team, even though I was a reserve and was prohibited from marching down the oval.)
Also
It is a neat feeling when you discover you might not die alone. So shake your butt, draw your neat pictures and have fun whilst marriaging.
(Also, note: don't get like, some snotty film kid to film your wedding on the hottest day of the year, because I am fairly sure nobody likes sweaty dorks at the front of the church wiping themselves as they stare empty-eyed into their terribly shot, poorly-illuminated misrepresentation of the budding couple's most special of days.)
Posted by Aban Rune (Member # 226) on :
I sense bitterness. Or was that comedy? I am cocky, though... sometimes.
No snotty kids will be allowed at my wedding.
Posted by Intruder1701 (Member # 880) on :
Congratulations
Posted by Renderking Fisk (Member # 1628) on :
I've been happily married since May of 1999, and I married one of the last good ones. Looks like you got one, too.
Keep your wedding simple. Stress free is the only way to go.
Posted by Toadkiller (Member # 425) on :
So long as you cover the basics.
Klingon bridesmaids,
Borg official doing the "assimiliation"
Defiant shaped grooms cake.
Which all, of course, goes without saying.
Posted by Saltah'na (Member # 33) on :
quote:Originally posted by LOA: CONGRATS!!!! I'm so excited for you!!!!!
Now if I could only figure out how to get a man to propose to me, my life would be perfect, as well......
~LOA
*raises hand*
Posted by TSN (Member # 31) on :
"One day, you will find the man of your dreams. He will be everything you've ever wanted in man: caring, thoughtful, passionate, supportive of your car audio/video fixation, and always willing to let you nail him in the Lads."
Too bad he'll be so obviously gay...
Posted by Lee (Member # 393) on :
I'm afraid that when it came to invitations, we just got them from Marks & Spencer. They did wedding ones and party ones, so we had two types. I've never bothered to keep any of the wedding invites I've received, except for the most recent one we were invited to, for my best man's wedding in Poland. For which we were given eight months' notice, plenty of time to find some really cheap EasyJet tickets. Also, plenty of time for them to discover that getting married in the Polish Catholic church isn't as easy as they'd imagined, requiring them to 'postpone' the wedding. Leaving us with non-refundable tickets to Berlin.
I'm keeping this invitation for a reason. A reason that will soon see my friend assured of a place in the surgical history books. But then, given he's so far into the closet he's found the Christmas presents, he'd probably enjoy it.
Posted by tricky (Member # 1402) on :
!!??!!!???!!!!!!????!??
An old school friend has co-authored a book called "alternative stag do". May be only avaiable in the UK.
A friend of mine on his stag weekend (Didn't go myself) in the Chec republic had to dress up as a woman (including heels, fake boobs and wig), walk down the high street and go into a shop and buy lipstick. Several things worry me about this: 1: he enjoyed it so much he stayed dressed like this the whole weekend 2: His friends knew his size to get the clothes. 3: His father and father in law were with him on the stag weekend.
On my stag weekend we went paintballing. I was forced (honest) to wear a dress at gun point . Not a nice camouflage number, but something in pink and blue. For the rest of the afternoon I was the red shirt decoy, running in one direction whilst the rest of my team ran the other. Would have worked if any of us could shoot strait
That evening, brused, we went to the old school disco in London. That was fun Posted by Sol System (Member # 30) on :
Czech, but I only point this out because I'm thinking that someone should write a story about or open a mid-scale box store named the Chic Republic.
Posted by Lee (Member # 393) on :
Do Coffee Republic still exist anywhere? For a while they seemed to be winning the war, only now everywhere is Starbuck's or Costa Coffee. . .
Posted by Jason Abbadon (Member # 882) on :
quote:Originally posted by Aban Rune: Oh... and as an added touch of wicked coolness... I'm going to burn copies of the wedding's "soundtrack" with a cover that matches the poster and have them available for select reception attendees.
Sountrack to Aban's wedding performed by Static X.
Posted by Lee (Member # 393) on :
If the first dance is to anything by Robbie Williams, I will hunt Mr. & Mrs. Rune down.
Of course, we couldn't decide on what to have so we had two - Captain & Tenille "Do That To Me One More Time" and Carly Simon "Nobody Does It Better" so I guess I'm hardly one to talk. Not that it's my fault, I wanted the Wannadies' "You and Me Song."
Posted by Aban Rune (Member # 226) on :
I think the "title" of the wedding (if she lets me do the movie poster idea) will be "A Far Green Country", completely ripping off Lord of the Rings, and the first dance will be to "Into the West" by Annie Lennox from the closing credits of RotK.
Posted by Lee (Member # 393) on :
Awkward pause as everyone tries to remember how ANY of the LotR songs went, let alone which was which or who did one apart from Enya or Annie. . .
EDIT: Emiliana Torrini, or "we couldn't afford Charlotte Church, and they accused us of Kiwi nepotism when we tried to get Hayley Westenra," did The Two Towers. Gollum's Song. Go on, Alan, get married to "Gollum's Song." You can tell everyone it's "Into The West" and no-one will be able to tell the difference. 8)
Did I mention I hated the score for the LotR films? And the need to tack on a trio of allegedly airplay-garnering singles, not that I ever heard one played anywhere? "May It Be," my ass!
Posted by Aban Rune (Member # 226) on :
May It Be never did anything for me. Gollum's song was better. Into the West was really nice.
I also like the gelding they have singing during The Two Towers when the Ents march on Isengard. I think it's the same boy who's singing when the moth comes to tell Gandalf the eagle is coming as well as other places, such as after Gandalf falls at Kazadoom.
Posted by Home Decor and Gardening (Member # 239) on :
Into the West, I dunno, seems a little down, say, to be a wedding song.
Unless like I do, you enjoy dancing to songs about the death of the elderly.
Posted by Home Decor and Gardening (Member # 239) on :
Of course, "Papa Don't Preach" was our first wedding dance, but that was because it fit an entirely different set of circumstances, besides being a chart topper the week of my proposal.
Posted by Lee (Member # 393) on :
Having a castrato sing at one's wedding would be a little to symbolic for my liking. . .
Posted by Aban Rune (Member # 226) on :
It's funny to watch the behind the scenes stuff on the extended edition disks... this little kid is singing these really high notes, and you just know that any day now, either his voice is going to crack and he'll be history, or someone's going to take him to the vet.
Posted by Intruder1701 (Member # 880) on :
When I get married the traditional "here comes the bride" will be replaced by the Imperial March
Posted by PsyLiam (Member # 73) on :
I've done that joke too. So I'm now worried that it's horrendously overused. Tsk.
quote:Originally posted by Lee: Of course, we couldn't decide on what to have so we had two - Captain & Tenille "Do That To Me One More Time" and Carly Simon "Nobody Does It Better" so I guess I'm hardly one to talk. Not that it's my fault, I wanted the Wannadies' "You and Me Song."
I like "You and Me Song". It's a little bit Cheesy Night Out but not too much. And of course, "Nobody Does It Better" is the song that's getting played over the highlights of whichever of my friend's die first. With comically misplaced images.
Posted by AndrewR (Member # 44) on :
quote:Originally posted by Lee: Awkward pause as everyone tries to remember how ANY of the LotR songs went, let alone which was which or who did one apart from Enya or Annie. . .
EDIT: Emiliana Torrini, or "we couldn't afford Charlotte Church, and they accused us of Kiwi nepotism when we tried to get Hayley Westenra," did The Two Towers. Gollum's Song. Go on, Alan, get married to "Gollum's Song." You can tell everyone it's "Into The West" and no-one will be able to tell the difference. 8)
Did I mention I hated the score for the LotR films? And the need to tack on a trio of allegedly airplay-garnering singles, not that I ever heard one played anywhere? "May It Be," my ass!
I'm SO going to disagree with EVERYTHING you said Lee.
Those songs, "May It Be" (which actually got some radio airplay and much, much more video 'airplay') fitted the ending of the first film beautifully.
Gollum's song was NOT going to be originally sung by Charlotte Church - blah - I asked Howard Shore personally when I met him and he confirmed the rumours that they wanted Bj�rk to sing - but she was heavily pregenant with her second child at the time. Emiliana still did a wonderful job.
And for Into the West it actually uses themes that are heard throughout the soundtrack - mostly when Gandalf talks to Pippin about dying. I've never seen a video for the second two songs.
Into the West is beautful, but Enya was robbed for Best Song at the 2002 Academy Awards.
And... DON'T diss the soundtracks to the films -- they are BRILLIANT. Infact they are better than the original Star Wars Trilogy - the THEMES from the Original Trilogy - Vader's theme, Title theme, Leia's theme maybe brilliant and pop-culture classics - but overall the soundtracks are quite dull. The lastest trilogy - just crap (well not too bad but John Williams just seems to sound the same now - except for probably Prisoner of Azkaban (which may have been Alfonsu Curon's influence) and the soundtrack to A.I. Which is MOSTLY unique and beautiful - for him - but there are some very Williamsesque moments.
In summary don't diss the Lord of the Rings scores!
Andrew
Posted by Lee (Member # 393) on :
Or, er, what? You'll set Glenn McGrath on me?
No, Andrew, you're Australian and therefore inherently have no taste. And I was joking about Charlotte Church, my point was ol' Tortellini isn't as well-known as Enya or Lennox. But you've inadvertently revealed one of the more hilarious things I've ever heard, that exposure to Bjork's singing can harm the unborn child.
Posted by Lee (Member # 393) on :
Since the "You and Me Song" wasn't really suitable as a first-dance song, I lobbied to have it as our processional (or whatever it's called, the music that plays as the ceremony concluded). Unfortunately one of my friends at the weding had already used our other choice, "All You Need Is Love." So in the end we just went with Handel's "Arrival of the Queen of Sheba."
Posted by AndrewR (Member # 44) on :
quote:Originally posted by Lee: Or, er, what? You'll set Glenn McGrath on me?
No, Andrew, you're Australian and therefore inherently have no taste. And I was joking about Charlotte Church, my point was ol' Tortellini isn't as well-known as Enya or Lennox. But you've inadvertently revealed one of the more hilarious things I've ever heard, that exposure to Bjork's singing can harm the unborn child.
We aren't ALL obsessed with cricket, Lee - but that being said - you win by TWO runs and you think you're the top of the cricketing world! LOL!
And DON'T diss Bj�rk.
And TASTE? From the country that put a RINGTONE of that friggin' frog to the top of their charts!?!
(I now hope that that hasn't occured in Australia) Posted by Cartman (Member # 256) on :
"So I'm now worried that it's horrendously overused. Tsk."
It's still not nearly as much of a cliche as playing November Rain at your funeral, a crime for which your stiff dead lifeless corpse should be hacked to pieces right there during the fucking procession.
Also, Bjork's singing could put down elephants. A herd of them.
Posted by Aban Rune (Member # 226) on :
November Rain? Seems a very '80s thing to do...
Posted by Omega (Member # 91) on :
quote:When I get married the traditional "here comes the bride" will be replaced by the Imperial March
Ahh, wedding music. I run the sound at quite a few weddings. One time, due to the fact that I didn't get the CD of "My Baby's a Pig" until guests were already being seated, I couldn't test the pre-recorded music over the sound system. Turns out someone had disconnected my player from the board and didn't put it back. They turn to walk back down the aisle, and... silence. Good thing the piano player was on his toes, but I really think the former Miss Pigg wanted that particular song to play. I mean, grunge rock as a recessional in a church? Great stuff.
About a year ago I went to a friend's wedding. It was an outdoor thing in their yard, and whoever was running sound didn't work on it too long beforehand. He had four or five cassette tapes there with the music on them, and didn't seem to know what was what. We sat there for ten minutes, bride standing at the back, while he desperately wound through all the tapes trying to find the processional.
If there's a sound guy, make sure he knows what he's doing, and that he tests everything. Not just checsk it, tests it. If anything's prerecorded, make sure he has it in advance, and that he knows what goes when. Sometimes people just don't think about things like that. I'm running sound at the wedding of my best friend of sixteen years in just a couple months. NOTHING WILL BE ALLOWED TO GO WRONG.
Oh, and there's a nice piano arrangement of the Final Fantasy IV theme over on ocremix.org called "Tale in Piano" that I always thought would make a good processional. If you like that sort of thing.
Posted by WizArtist II (Member # 1425) on :
How about The Four Seasons: "Oh what a Night"
Posted by Aban Rune (Member # 226) on :
Yah... people who don't test the sound and run through the music are asking for problems. I'm going to burn everything to CD so all they ahve to do is hit play, pause, and eject.
Same thing with the music for the reception. I'm burning everything we want played to CDs and I'll get someone to sit and babysit the player. We'll just go from one song to the next and their will be relatively little human element to mess things up.
Posted by PsyLiam (Member # 73) on :
quote:Originally posted by AndrewR: Infact they are better than the original Star Wars Trilogy ... overall the soundtracks are quite dull.
Now, that's just a lie.
Posted by Lee (Member # 393) on :
Yeah. I mean, the LotR main theme is so obviously an attempt to get a Star Warsesque fanfare onto the soundtrack, in order to make money by selling it as a ringtone. Why, Howard Shore might as well have created Crazy Frog! His life is therefore forfeit, and he must report to a disintegration station immediately.
Posted by Aban Rune (Member # 226) on :
Ok... yikes.
I just sat down with my bride to be and started going over how we want to do this thing. We got some of the basics fleshed out, but within each of the basics, there's all these little things to do. And then my mom starts asking me about showers...
This is going to get worse, isn't it?
Posted by Topher (Member # 71) on :
Much much worse. Worse than you can possibly imagine.
Posted by Jason Abbadon (Member # 882) on :
Just remember- first you shed blood, and then you feast.
Posted by The Ginger Beacon (Member # 1585) on :
quote:Originally posted by Lee: Yeah. I mean, the LotR main theme is so obviously an attempt to get a Star Warsesque fanfare onto the soundtrack, in order to make money by selling it as a ringtone. Why, Howard Shore might as well have created Crazy Frog! His life is therefore forfeit, and he must report to a disintegration station immediately.
Right after he's let out of the agony booth. As for Crazy Frog, deaths too good.
Oh, and by the way, congratulations Aban.
Posted by Aban Rune (Member # 226) on :
Her dad's mad at us now because we were off on our own planning things this weekend. Apparently we're supposed to be including everyone in the decision-making process. I have no problem with a "multitude of counselors" philosophy, but it will be counsel on issues of my choosing. I'm not opening up every detail about this thing for family debate.
Posted by AndrewR (Member # 44) on :
quote:Originally posted by Lee: Yeah. I mean, the LotR main theme is so obviously an attempt to get a Star Warsesque fanfare onto the soundtrack, in order to make money by selling it as a ringtone. Why, Howard Shore might as well have created Crazy Frog! His life is therefore forfeit, and he must report to a disintegration station immediately.
Something I didn't realise until not so long ago - ok maybe a year, but I didn't mention it to anyone Howard Shore composed the theme tune to Late Night with Conan O'Brien!
Posted by Jason Abbadon (Member # 882) on :
quote:Originally posted by Aban Rune: Her dad's mad at us now because we were off on our own planning things this weekend. Apparently we're supposed to be including everyone in the decision-making process. I have no problem with a "multitude of counselors" philosophy, but it will be counsel on issues of my choosing. I'm not opening up every detail about this thing for family debate.
That's when you whip out the "Klingon wedding" brochure as your Nuclear Option.
See how fast they leave you alone. Posted by Aban Rune (Member # 226) on :
Ja'q da, ba Crock'taq
(translation: Begin ritualistically castrating the father-in-law)
Posted by The Ginger Beacon (Member # 1585) on :
A new take on 'to have and to hold'?
Posted by The Ginger Beacon (Member # 1585) on :
(accidental double posting)
Posted by Balaam Xumucane (Member # 419) on :
My friend went down the isle to the Imperial March. I thought it was pretty ballsy and cool at the time. But then later, Macarena whilst the bride's lush-ious sister grabbed my ass more'n a few times... (high pitch) uncomfortable.
Sorry to hear that they are starting in on you already. Just make it clear to any overweening family that this day is supposed to be about you and her. And that's it. No one else's agenda has any place there. I've heard that if you can stick it out through the planning and wedding day, then you and your spouse have earned a life together.
Posted by Aban Rune (Member # 226) on :
We're basically just not opening it for discussion yet. We'll decide what we want and then delegate. If those we ask for help don't want to help us do it the way we want, then they will be asked to sit in the utility closet and not make noise while the rest of us have fun.
Posted by AndrewR (Member # 44) on :
Dare you to do a Trek-themed wedding.
Posted by Sol System (Member # 30) on :
Not just done before, but available pre-packaged. Posted by Sol System (Member # 30) on :
Posted by Lee (Member # 393) on :
Hey, a maximum of 45 people allowed! Just like Waltham Forest Registry Office. . . It's symmetry, baby. Make the booking, Alan!
Posted by AndrewR (Member # 44) on :
LOL the Borg Drone... is he trying to assimilate the bride for himself!?! Posted by Balaam Xumucane (Member # 419) on :
Her: "This was the best idea EVAR..."
Posted by Aban Rune (Member # 226) on :
Wow... She's fine. That dude scored. Dopey-looking Star Trek nerd marries sizzling blonde, who's obviously willing to be open-minded.
Borg: "I now pronouce you Unimatrix 002347856." Her (thinking): "Crap. I wonder if those turbo-lifts work..."
Posted by B.J. (Member # 858) on :
Of course, we'd all be poking around the place pointing out all the errors.
B.J.
Posted by AndrewR (Member # 44) on :
She married him for his latinum.
Posted by Aban Rune (Member # 226) on :
Yah... I'd be too busy looking at the displays for signs of a new class of ship. I'd miss the part where I'm supposed to say "I do."
Posted by AndrewR (Member # 44) on :
Once you had, the best man can lean over to a panel and "Notify the Discovery on subspace." Posted by Lee (Member # 393) on :
That truly is the expression of a man who can't believe his luck. But she looks happy too, so maybe it's a match made in Sto-vo-kor.
No, not Sha Ka Ree. Because that film never happened.
Posted by Aban Rune (Member # 226) on :
Maybe they're the most recent winners of "Average Joe."
Posted by PsyLiam (Member # 73) on :
Or she has the IQ of a retarded turnip.
Posted by Siegfried (Member # 29) on :
That wedding picture would be a great CapCom.
Posted by MinutiaeMan (Member # 444) on :
quote:Originally posted by AndrewR: LOL the Borg Drone... is he trying to assimilate the bride for himself!?!
We will add your perfection to our own!
Posted by Jason Abbadon (Member # 882) on :
Mabye he's a Viacom exec with a thick....paycheck.
Or they're both models paid to pose for that photo in hopes of real people ruining a milestone in their lives by having it Trek themed.
..still, I suppose it's a lot less creepy than a catholic wedding (with communion and prayer and all that odd "body of Christ" stuff cock-blocking for hurs on end).
Posted by Jason Abbadon (Member # 882) on :
Mabye he's a Viacom exec with a thick....paycheck.
Or they're both models paid to pose for that photo in hopes of real people ruining a milestone in their lives by having it Trek themed.
..still, I suppose it's a lot less creepy than a catholic wedding (with communion and prayer and all that odd "body of Christ" stuff cock-blocking for hours on end).
Posted by B.J. (Member # 858) on :
My cousin recently had a Catholic wedding, and apparently the Mass part of it is optional, since they didn't do that part. For my own wedding, my wife was Church of Christ, so we compromised and had a Baptist wedding (with the Catholic Church's blessing). Even though both of us would be open to the idea of a Star Trek wedding, one of the few restrictions the Cathlic Church put on ours was that it had to be in an actual church, which also meant no outdoor weddings.
B.J.
Posted by Aban Rune (Member # 226) on :
Because weddings in biblical times were all held in churches. Am I right?
Posted by Sol System (Member # 30) on :
That depends on your definition of "wedding" and "church." This exceedingly brief essay suggests that ancient Israelite weddings didn't have a specific religious rite attached to them at all, but then what is meant by "biblical times?"
Of course, today you can have a Justice of the Peace, Judge, Notary or even ship's captain preside over the ceremony whereas back then there was the whole religion declares "woman am now property" aspect that us enlightened types usually shun.
Except in the harem I'm planning, of course.
Posted by TSN (Member # 31) on :
That sure is a long list of people you're not allowed to undress...
Posted by Charles Capps (Member # 9) on :
quote:Originally posted by B.J.: Of course, we'd all be poking around the place pointing out all the errors.
B.J.
... I believe it's horrid of myself to see that and have the first thing pop into my mind be "Hey, the lighting is wrong. And those consoles shouldn't be blue..."
Posted by Sol System (Member # 30) on :
..though if the captain were a notary...
Posted by Aban Rune (Member # 226) on :
I was being snitty. Obviously the rule about having to get married in a church can't come from any scrptural precedent because there were no churches at any time during which the Bible books were being written. Certainly no Catholic churches.
The only wedding I can recall offhand in the Christian Greek scriptures is the one Jesus attended where he turned water into wine, but everyone there would have been observing Jewish customs. Jesus uses a wedding and the events afterwards in one of his illustrations, but again, it would have been a Jewish wedding.
I'd have to look into it further, but I don't recall any specifically Christian guidelines for wedding ceremonies in the Bible record. Other than that they should be free of the things forbidden elsewhere, such as drunken bouts, revelries, etc.
Anyway...
I always thought an outdoor wedding would be neat, but in October, that's pretty unlikely.
Posted by Topher (Member # 71) on :
Well that all depends where. Lately October has been fairly nice around these parts.
Also, the whole no-Catholic weddings outside a church rule isn't exactly binding. Some priests will perform a wedding outdoors.
Posted by Aban Rune (Member # 226) on :
It might be OK here in Michigan... but it'd be kind of risky. It could either be freezing or raining. Or it could be perfectly loverly. We're planning the pictures before the ceremony, though, and we'll be taking them outdoors on the shore of a local river with the fall colors in the background. Assuming good weather of course.
Posted by Jason Abbadon (Member # 882) on :
Well, if the weather sucks, there's always Photoshop...and lots of therapy.
Posted by Aban Rune (Member # 226) on :
And everyone just shivers their way through the ceremony. That'd be funny. "I-i-i-i D-d-d-o-o-o-o..."
Posted by Jason Abbadon (Member # 882) on :
Funnier if your lips stuck together from the cold.
Posted by Lee (Member # 393) on :
In which case you can make a video, submit it to America's Funniest Wedding-Night Videos, and recoup the cost of the wedding. . . Er, wait, did you mean the lips on your face?
Posted by Lee (Member # 393) on :
And while on the subject of wedding nights, there are ways to take the edge off any nervousness you may feel:
I doubt it would be a good idea for me to visit any site with the word "sex" in the URL while at work...
But, I feel no nervousness about the wedding night. We're gonna have a good ole time.
Posted by Home Decor and Gardening (Member # 239) on :
I, on the other hand, have discovered the source of my nervousness: A YOUNG CAREY ELWES, I think.
At least in this one with this Star Wars Lady Who Probably Shouldn't Be Famous.
Weird, dude.
Aha! The Bard!
Posted by Jason Abbadon (Member # 882) on :
Er...a google image search turned up all sorts of crap. Is that the guy from Men in Tights?
Posted by Lee (Member # 393) on :
I was thinking along the lines of a Princess Bride reference, but I don't understand the Star Wars connection.
Posted by Cartman (Member # 256) on :
Only two "ladies" from Star Wars are even remotely "famous", and that's by the weakest definition of the word ever, but neither of them has been in any movie with Cary Elwes (and this I say with supreme confidence after wasting thirty perfectly good minutes of my life scouring IMDB). I hereby declare UM to be a lying bitch.
Posted by Home Decor and Gardening (Member # 239) on :
All y'alls can think what y'all will.
Posted by TSN (Member # 31) on :
Thirty minutes? Why didn't you use this?
Posted by Aban Rune (Member # 226) on :
Why does the Dread Pirate Wesley make you nervous?
In any event, I promise that no celebrity, wierd last name or no, will have any bearing on my wedding night antics.
Posted by Aban Rune (Member # 226) on :
Ok... here's the really big question. I got a great deal on a 2001 Alero (we'll shortly be needing a second car). The wife will likely get my Vibe, and I'll be driving the used car to and fro to work.
I've named the Vibe the U.S.S. Waikato after a Flareite's suggestion. I now need a cool river name for the Alero. Any thoughts?
Posted by PsyLiam (Member # 73) on :
The problems an American faces with cars seem to be greatly different to my own.
Posted by Lee (Member # 393) on :
Following on from my successful nomination of Waikato, I could suggest another river in New Zealand. How about the River Whakaki? Innocuous enough one would think, until you discover that in Maori the WH- sound is pronounced PH-. . . Or how about Whakatane? I really liked Whakatane, and there's a terrific Thai restaurant there.
Posted by Lee (Member # 393) on :
Or, Britain has lots of rivers yet those Americanocentric bastards at Paramount totally ignored the fact. Time to redress the balance? How about the USS Ogmore - it's Welsh!
Posted by Aban Rune (Member # 226) on :
Niiiiice.
From that site, I like:
Afon Alaw Afon Glaslyn Gwendraeth
I'm pretty sure I'm pronoucing none of them correctly, though.
I'm guessing, "uh-faun-uh-law", "uh-faun-glass-leen", and ""gwind-raith"
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