Wedding Blog

In honor of Halloween today, I bring you a post about costumes.

Mr. Fondue’s first suggestion for the wedding was to have a Star Wars theme. You may remember that his only table name idea was of Star Wars planets. The boy is a wee bit obsessed (although, he will have me note that he wants nothing to do with Episodes I through III). So, of course, he thought it was the best idea ever for him to dress up as Darth Vader, have his best men as Stormtroopers, with me walking down the aisle as Padmé. And, being a cosplayer, I would be making the costumes.

Now for a bit of history. For Halloween of 2004, I decided that I wanted to dress up as Aeris (or Aerith) Gainsborough from Final Fantasy VII. I started doing research online and discovered a community of people, or cosplayers, who regularly dress up as characters to go to anime and fantasy conventions. This intrigued me and a new hobby was born. My grandmother gave me one of her old sewing machines and I quickly set to work learning how to sew, in order to make costumes.

Reason #21: “You didn’t think I was crazy when I decided I wanted to start cosplaying.”

In fact, Mr. Fondue joined in, and soon I was happily making costumes for both of us to wear to conventions, like our local anime con, MTAC, and some in nearby Atlanta, like Dragon*Con. (However, that Buster Sword in these pictures was all him!)

He even went so far as to wear a dress for me. For those familiar with Final Fantasy VII, it was from the scene where Cloud and Aeris dress as courtesans to gain access to Don Corneo’s mansion.

Reason #22: “You dressed up like Wallmarket Cloud just because I happened to have a dress that was perfect for Wallmarket Aeris.”

Despite all this, I nixed his Star Wars theme, since I wanted to be looking into his beautiful hazel eyes during our ceremony and not Darth Vader’s helmet. And I wanted to hear his voice saying our vows, not heavy breathing. And while, all his friends were super excited to be Stormtroopers, they became a little less thrilled when I told them how much a Stormtrooper kit costs.

Did you shoot down any of your significant other’s ideas? And what are you dressing up as this Halloween?

Previously: Reason #11