This will likely be the last post for quite a few days.
My wedding starts in full swing tomorrow with family flying in and our rehearsal. If you are looking for updates, check out our wedding blog. We are giving out the submit URL and post-by-email address out to our guests, so I’m hoping for a few live photos to be posted. Wish us luck!
On Thursday, at approximately 4:27PM EST, I had my first family and wedding related scream of, “god-fucking-dammit.”
So… who won the pool?
A very, very cool idea.
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It turns out when you jokingly send an invite to the Prez, he and Michelle will wish you the best. My day was already awesome, and this just sealed it.
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I don’t believe I’ve had one healthy meal this entire weekend.
Scratch that. I had Cheerios for breakfast. Other than that, I basically pigged out on everything you shouldn’t pig out on, except for booze. Took it pretty easy on the booze.
Great habits I’m keeping as we dovetail into the wedding.
Quick poll
Should I post information to my wedding blog warning family members about bed bugs and hotel rooms?
- Pro: People might not be aware and can help prevent the spread of the fuckers.
- Con: People freak out, start emailing me questions non-stop and even threaten to un-RSVP.
Thoughts?
I think we’ve just selected the song we will enter our reception to. Love Gun by Kiss.
In the next iteration of MP3 software, be it iTunes, Zune, Napster, whatever, to have a “Mix-Maker Mode” or “DJ Mode”.
Basically, I want to be able to play two songs at the same time— one through my speakers and another through my headphones.
I’m in the process of making playlists for the wedding, and I need to hear the song outloud in order for me to decide if its worthy of the list. I also want to be able to play songs that entertain myself and my lady as we chill on this Sunday afternoon. If I were starting a new track every 30 seconds, we’d both get annoyed.
I’m sure there is a way I could pull this off messing with my speaker settings and using Winamp and Zune at the same time, but that’s annoying and doesn’t make the process any easier.
We’ve been overwhelemed by the compliments and kudos our wedding invites have received. Thank you all for enjoying them so much!
There isn’t much of a story behind the invite. Shannon and I have a geeky bone (or two, or three) in our bodies, but we aren’t planning a very geeky wedding. We decided we should show that side of ourselves in the invite.
Off to the internet! Shannon did some searching, and found a man on Etsy.com that couples like us can commission to produce artwork for us. She realized this was the same person featured in an article sent to her by our friend Lindsay. We loved the sample artwork he provided and his overall style. We reached out to him, sent him some ideas we had about the landscape and what type of peril the invitation version of us would face. We decided to ground ourselves in a post-apocalyptic cityscape (there’s no place like home) and face-off against the greatest threat we could imagine: our cat Jack!
The artist was excited about our project and was ready to flex his artistic muscles. We sent him some headshots of us and Jack, and a few weeks later, got a huge black and white pencil of the artwork, and the digital, color image files that would make the invite.
We were ecstatic. I wanted to send them right away, but the advice of friends convinced me to wait for the proper times. Its been tough to keep the secret and to not blow the surprise coming to people’s mailboxes. The wait, however, was worth it and we’ve been delighted to hear all of the positive feedback.
The artist goes by the name swelser on Etsy and was an absolute pleasure to work with. Responsive and attentive, he met all of his deadlines and produced a piece of artwork that we’ll look back and love for a long, long time. If this is your sort of thing, I can’t recommend the guy enough. Plan way in advance though— swelser was recently featured on the uber-geek blog, i09.
We are likely going to get a little more use out of the artwork. There will liekly be a large print of the cover for show at the wedding and we’ll be reusing the little Jason and Shannon heads in some other places too.
At my wedding, there will be at least 8 people who use Tumblr regularly. Nine if you count the wedding website, also built on Tumblr.
I think this counts as a meetup. I’m going to try and get stickers.
Party Down is great, but it scares the hell out of me when I think about the yahoo’s that’ll be working my wedding.
The First Family is getting wedding invites.
