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Miss Fondue, Nashville Age and Occupation: 27, Technical Analyst Fiance's Age and Occupation: 25, Network Admin Student/Senior Game Advisor Engagement Date: December 25, 2007 Wedding Date: May 2009 Blogging Since: September 14, 2008 Venue: Ravenwood Golf Club About Me: I’m your average computer geek marrying a gaming geek and trying to find a good balance of elegance and geek chic in our wedding. I adore The Sims, Nintendo, cosplay, (good) music, TiVo, theme parks, and our two crazy felines.
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An Evening at the Fair

November 11th, 2008 @ 1:33 pm by Ms Fondue

I’ve shown you our urban shots, so now it’s time for some fun! All of these were taken at the Tennessee State Fair.

We changed into some more casual outfits, and I pulled my hair into pigtails. My make-up was still holding up (i.e., I hadn’t rubbed my eyebrows off yet).


As soon as we got there, Mr. Fondue got summoned over to a dart throwing game. He won me a little stuffed duck, and then the fair worker tried to get him to pay $20 to upgrade it. No, thanks. I’m fine with my duck.

After buying ride tickets, we headed over to the swings. This is our favorite shot. We purchased a really large canvas print of it.

Kate is scared of heights, but we bribed her to get on the swings with her favorite food: macaroni and cheese. Okay, she probably would have done it anyway. I forgot I was wearing sandals until we were already in place in our swing, so a lot of the shots have my feet desperately trying to keep my shoes from flying off and killing someone below.

After the swings, we hit the ferris wheel. There were two at the fair: the double wheel you see in the background of the swings pictures and a large gondola wheel. The double wheel seemed to be out of commission and wasn’t running, so the three of us hopped in a gondola for some shots. Check out the duck that Mr. Fondue won for me!

A year or two ago, Mr. Fondue and I were watching the Audrey Hepburn movie Charade. At one point, she puts her finger in Cary Grant’s chin dimple and says, “How do you shave in there?”. Ever since then, I’ve had this strange compulsion to do this to Mr. Fondue, even though he doesn’t have a chin dimple. So, I think that’s what I’m doing in this shot. That, or I’m telling him to hush.

Next, Kate told us to pose in front of the spider ride to get some motion-blurred shots. Except it took like 15 minutes for the ride to get going because we chose to do this as they were unloading and loading the ride. I took this time to take a nap.

We were almost out of ride tickets, so we jumped on the carousel last. That is, the world’s worst carousel. It was very jerky and the lights tended to flicker. We were fairly certain the ride was going to break down at any minute. Notice our smile-like-you-don’t-think-this-is-the-most-pathetic-carousel-ever expressions in the first shot.

This was around the area where the scary clown appeared out of nowhere. Luckily, there were no pictures of that.

We took a break in front of a food stand. We were unfortunately out of money, so we couldn’t actually get any fair food to take pictures with. Those ride tickets are pricey!

Here we are leaving the fairgrounds.

And time for bed!

Did anyone else have their photos taken at a fair or amusement park?

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21 Responses to “An Evening at the Fair”

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Bridediy (message)  75 posts, Worker bee

We did ours at Navy Pier last fall. We got some great shots with the swings in the background as well as the Ferris Wheel all lite up at night. Our best pictures were on the carosel, which apparently was in much better shape than the one you were on :). Unfortunatly all of our pics on the Ferris wheel turned out pretty awful just because the photographer was soo close. But an awesome pictures all around, with lots of great colors and it screams Chicago which is were we are from, so it was perfect.

 
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missteaberry

they are so cute!!!!!!!!!!! i love all of the pictures, especially the first one on the ferris wheel!!!!!

 
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Mandy

great great pics! I love your shirt! you 2 are an adorable couple :)
we haven’t gone to get our engagement pics done yet, altho we did do a sitting with my SIL who is a great photographer. We are going to have her do a couple more sets for us between now and then, in addition to getting some done at penneys (can’t beat no sitting fee, $3.99 a sheet and a free 8×10 framed portrait!)
I’m also grateful that my BF is an amateur photographer as well, so pretty much any time I want we can have pics done. Altho the FI doesn’t like it much, he loves me so he’ll do it >;)

 
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frenchbulldog (message)  6,077 posts, Bee Keeper

Awww I want to take engagement pics @ a fair now! I love all of those :)

 
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Mrs. Penguin (message)  2,149 posts, Buzzing bee

Stunning! Kate did a wonderful job and you are just gorgeous! You guys look like such a happy couple. I love these pics.

 
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Elle

I can’t say enough how much I HEART!!!!! your pics at the fair. They all came out absolutely gorgeous!!!

 
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Miss Deviled Egg (message)  894 posts, Busy bee

Your pictures are awesome! The fair is such a great setting for them–so unique and colorful! I love them!

 
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smallgood

Yep. We did a newlywed shot at the NC State Fair. We can’t wait to see our pictures. We posed for shots in front of the swings too, so I’m hoping ours turn out as cool as yours look. They’re lovely; thanks for sharing.

 
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Mrs. Pineapple (message)  676 posts, Busy bee

so cute and so fun! I love them!

 
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RTW

Ooooh, I can’t decide which is my favorite… they’re all awesome! you two are adorable.

 
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bellenga (message)  4,662 posts, Honey bee

Those are wonderftel! You look so pretty :) Cute cute couple!

We’ll probably do ours at his family’s antebellum home that’s been in his family for over 200 years back in MS. To fit with the theme of Old South meets Old Hollywood.

 
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bellenga (message)  4,662 posts, Honey bee

Btw..your eyebrows look awesome! Makeup great! I like the pic best where you’re playfuly touching his nose..on the ride. Very cute.

 
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Miss Hot Cocoa (message)  1,721 posts, Bumble bee

These all turned out great. My favorite is the swing too — it’s got so much movement, light, color, and story.

 
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Miss Taffy (message)  2,605 posts, Sugar bee

The look great!!! I like the food stand pictures the best. :)

 
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jenn-dig (message)  47 posts, Newbee

Those are so sweet and playful. I love them. I honestly think this is my favorite e-pics location ever. I love all the bright colors and action shots!

 
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rksquared

Green with envy, I am. My husband and I love our state fair, and I wish I would have thought to do pictures there before we did our e-pic shoot. Instead we got them at our photog’s standard spot.

These pictures are fantastic!

 
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Miss Sea Breeze (message)  913 posts, Busy bee

What utterly adorable photos!

 
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Miss Sushi (message)  970 posts, Busy bee

I am loooooving these photos. Especially the one in front of the swings.

 
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ColorCoated

@Bridediy: I love Navy Pier.
I am also from the Chicago area and am recently engaged. We’re looking into photographers.
Who did you use?

 
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Ruby Slippers

These are too cute!

 
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Laura

I love your pictures. I just saw that the county fair will be in town the day of our wedding. I kind of want to take some pictures after the wedding at the fair.

is it too tacky in a wedding dress? what do you think?

 


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