Wedding Blog

I’ll be the first to admit, I am a very excitable bride. Put a wacky idea in my head and nine times out of ten, it gets stuck there. Unfortunately for me (and poor Mr. Hum who gets carried off on these crazy whims with me), a lot of the time, with the momentum of the wedding, this enthusiasm overrides all my logic and I ended up getting invested in something that just does not make sense. Finnish ice dancers? A herd of Peruvian alpacas? A rapping klezmer band? I can get behind it all if I’m feeling silly enough.

Well okay, maybe not those specific examples, but I have had three big wacky thoughts, the first of which involved renting a bouncy castle to set up in the yard where the wedding is taking place.

(A picture from www.biha.org.uk of the world’s largest bouncy castle. Oh the delightful jumping goodness!)

This idea was quickly scrapped because:
1. The backyard is a bit hilly and the only flat place is where the tent is going, meaning that, if we were to set one up it would be on a slant and easily tippable.
2. There are not really any kids coming and I don’t think a tonne of our adult guests would be willing to jump around in their wedding outfits.
3. Open bar + bouncy castle = A disaster waiting to happen.

My next thought was to set up some sort of video game lounge for people to relax and play Wii in (we had the Wii at our engagement party after party and it was a big hit).

(Picture courtesy of www.racksandstands.com. This picture sort of looks like me and Mr. Hum in that I think that is similar to the expression I make when I pwn Mr. Hum at Super Smash Brothers.)

This idea was scrapped because:
1. There would not be enough power to run it.
2. Not everyone plays videogames.
3. Mr. Hum and a bunch of our geeky guests would get sucked in there and never leave.

Finally, I had my third idea which came to me once the weather started to get better here in Toronto. As the locals know, in the summer when it gets hot, if you’re in the downtown core, you have to go down to Nathan Phillips Square because there you’ll find . . .

(Picture courtesy of www.olympicsoftee.com. It is not truly summer unless you’ve stood in line at one of these trucks.)

The ice cream trucks! Seriously, one of my absolute favourite things to do is to grab a creamy soft serve cone or a delicious cherry slush. It’s so tasty and refreshing, even if it’s a stinking hot day, it just makes everything seem awesome.

Anyway, I thought about renting a truck for about five seconds when I realized just how out of our budget it was and disappointedly scrapped it. However, as someone pointed out, with the hot weather and with ours being an outdoor summer wedding, having ice cream around might not be a bad idea. So, although we will be going without the truck, Mr. Hum and I have been talking about having ice cream sandwiches and popsicles at the wedding!

We’re not quite sure what kinds or how we’re going to store them so that they are available to our guests, but as far as crazy ideas go, I think this is actually a good one.

When it comes to your wedding, what crazy ideas have you had? Have you taken them and incorporated them into your big day, modified them or did you have to scrap them all together?

(Sub-question - What kind of ice cream sandwiches/popsicles/frozen dessert treats are your favourite?)