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Previously: 1. Prelude, 2. Tea Ceremony, 3. Getting Ready, 4. The Kids, 5. Wedding Party, 6. Down the Aisle
When the ceremony began, I was taken aback by BIL GT’s projection with his theater trained voice. I reacted with an audible whisper, “WOW he’s LOUD!” which cracked both boys up a bit, but BIL GT kept composure and did an amazing job.
“Hey, I do too!”
We went with simple short vows along with the following reading, an excerpt from the book Gift from the Sea by Anne Lindberg. We also gave MIL GT a copy of the book for a keepsake.When you love someone, you do not love them all the time, in exactly the same way, from moment to moment. It is an impossibility. It is even a lie to pretend to. And yet this is exactly what most of us demand. We have so little faith in the ebb and flow of life, of love, of relationships. We leap at the flow of the tide and resist in terror its ebb. We are afraid it will never return. We insist on permanency, on duration, on continuity; when the only continuity possible, in life as in love, is in growth, in fluidity - in freedom, in the sense that the dancers are free, barely touching as they pass, but partners in the same pattern.
(photo by my friend Rob)
I didn’t realize it until afterwards, but we held hands the whole time. I guess it just came natural to us, and it’s nice to see that in the pictures. I’m glad I didn’t look like I came in a mail order.
Always the clown, I was exaggerating the shoving of ring onto da hubs’ finger, which triggered laughter among our guests.
Poor hubs knew the giggles only fueled me so he endured it a little…
Then the party pooper in him came out and fun was put to a stop.
Never a PDA lover, I had really rallied for a ’first high five’ in place of the ’first kiss’. I was denied, again and again. In the end, we did both, which also made people laugh. I think we actually made the final decision to do both right before the high five took place. Check out the little one’s reaction:
“Haha, gross! he had to kiss a giiiirrrrrrllll!”
“Woot!”
Here I am already flagging down the barkeep…
Short was the #1 criteria for our ceremony. Real was #2. #1 was for everyone’s sake because folks can only be real happy for you sitting in the sun for an X number of minutes. #2 was just us being us—no over abundance of mush, no unrealistic romance and commitment, just us goofing around as we sealed the deal witnessed by those we love most. We got exactly what we wanted.
How did/will you make your ceremony your own?
Images by Travis Hoehne except as denoted
It sounds like a wonderful ceremony and you looked so beautiful in your dress. Who’s it by?
Gorgeous! I love the mail order comment and the idea of high fiving and kissing.
gosh, you look gorgeous! hehe, your ceremony looked cute!
We have already joked about having a first high five instead of a kiss, or doing both. Love it!
We were going to high-five too but chickened out lol you are too funny with the mail order comment. you both are so adorable!!
You are too funny. Can’t wait to see the reception recaps!
I love the high five! Very cute and fun. I also think your ring bearer is adorable. And you looked stunning!
I love the high-five. I kinda wish we’d given each other dap, hehe. But ours was very “us” too. We wrote the entire secular ceremony. I stood on the right and he on the left so that our respective families would be able to see our faces.
LOL. This was a great post! I think we might go with the Obama fist bump; we’ll see if we chicken out at the end.
Yeah I should have followed your lead and cut our ring ceremony down. It was too long. Haha to the Frodo thing. Hopefully that little boy never reads this.
@CCR: the dress is by Maggie Sottero and I purchased from Brides Against Breast Cancer. My ghetto DIY alterations on the dress changed it quite a bit, you can see original pics here (http://www.weddingbee.com/2008/06/19/i-dont-even-know-her-name/)
@Lina: i LOVE that idea!! though our guests were confused and sat kinda whereever so it wouldn’t have worked for us.
@Miss Hot Cocoa: we also considered ‘the knuckles’, but the five was more us for its dorkyness.
@Mrs. Avocado: actually, he’d probably be proud of it since all the boys in the hubs’ family are huge Lord of the Rings fans. They play the LOTR edition of Risk every thanksgiving, for goodness sakes! *eyeroll*
haha I love you retelling the story. You guys are adorable and you look beautiful!
Congrats and beautiful pictures. My hubby and I held hands the entire ceremony as well.
You look super gorgeous! I’m a big fan of keeping the ceremony short and sweet.
You two are so cute! I love the first picture of you trying to shove the ring on Mr. GT’s finger. I should bring up the high five idea to FH, he doesn’t like PDA (in front of our parents) either.
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Mrs. Green Tea, Sacramento Age and Occupation: 30, Tea Analyst Fiance's Age and Occupation: 31, Coffee Critic Engagement Date: November 17, 2006 Wedding Date: August 23, 2008 Blogging Since: June 10, 2008 Venue: Vineyard on the Delta About Me: I'm just your average obsessive compulsive, arts & crafts loving, funky-on-the-inside/boring-on-the-outside girl, who dares to say 'Hey! I can make that!' Nerdy professional by day, goofy won-ton by night. The won-ton sometimes comes out during the day when I'm fed the dollar breakfast at Ikea. Since our engagement, wedding planning has put me on high alert for bargains and I've been pushing my nimble fingers through callous building experiments!
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