Cool! Small weddings are the best, aren't they? - Meg, Fri, 28 Jun 2002 9:00AM
1 0- Cake lady- groom cake Mom agreed to take care of the cake, and got this award-winning famous cake lady. The groom cake is a design off of a batik throw I found, and shows our theme: Dragons and phoenixes, in blue and silver.
2 0- Cake lady- wedding cake Here's the wedding cake, with blue and silver flowers. Mom was very worried that I wouldn't like it, but I thought it turned out beautifully!
3 0- Elaine and Bro My brother, and my father's wife.
4 0- Rick, Elaine, Bro There's my father with his wife, sitting with my brother on the couch in our living room. You can see the setting up in the background.
5 0- Elaine This was on a bench out on the back porch. Note above-ground pool with fancy winter cover on it.
6 0- Rick Dad smoking- something you won't see anymore in person since he quit. Yay!
7 0- Bro, Elaine, Dad We were going to go to a steak place the night before the big day; this is in front of said steak place.
8 0- Nona, Robert, Eric Here are hubby's parents and the blushing groom.
9 0- Eric and Stacy There was some kind of problem with the seating, and hubby was getting tense. We ended up going to a different restaurant.
10 0- Stacy and Elaine The day of the wedding, waiting at the entrance to Zilker Botanical Gardens. You can see the dress I wore under the kimono.
11 0- Crowd- Jason, Stacy's family Several of us waiting, while cars are being parked. Only a few people were invited to the ceremony itself.
12 0- Eric and Raye Hubby's 'best man.' She is an SCA person, and had many kimonos to let people dress up in. He's wearing black hand-made shirt and pants, and a dark blue kimono. "GAH I look terri..." View Comments...
13 0- Eric, Stacy, Elaine shrimping I had on string sandals... I guess we were all looking at them in this photo.
14 0- Grackle Here's inside the park. There were nice little streams running through it, and this boat-tailed grackle.
15 0- Koi pond We held the ceremony in the Oriental Gardens part of the park.
16 0- Some dude's dog My brother took this picture of a 3-legged dog.
17 0- Skyline Lovely Austin, Texas; and a soccer game.
18 1- Dad, Elaine, Stacy, Eric, Nona, Robert BW There was a bamboo teahouse where a bunch of pictures got snapped. Here's your first look at the kimono.
19 1- Gordon, Stacy, Eric, Raye 1 My 'bridesmaid' Gordon is standing behind me.
20 1- Gordon, Stacy, Eric, Raye 2 The kimono is a vintage 50's heavy silk wedding kimono from Japan. It has peonies and phoenixes embroidered with silver thread. An awesome eBay find!
21 1- Gordon, Stacy, Eric, Raye 3 My headpiece was made of silk flowers from Garden Ridge or Hobby Lobby. It's heavy on the bluebonnets, because I love bluebonnets.
22 1- Gordon, Stacy, Eric, Raye 4 Gordon has the handfasting cord over his shoulders, this will come into play later on.
23 1- Gordon, Stacy, Eric, Raye 5 There's gonna be another zillion shots like this, get used to it.
24 1- Gordon, Stacy, Eric It was a nice 70 degree spring day. Texas weather can be very chancy, so this was a very happy thing.
25 1- long shot This is a shot looking at the tea house from the spot where we were married.
26 1- Rick, Elaine, Stacy, Eric, Nona, Robert 1 Family shots, wheee.
27 1- Rick, Elaine, Stacy, Eric, Nona, Robert 2 Lookit all that greenery!
28 1- Rick, Elaine, Stacy, Eric, Nona, Robert 3 You don't belt outer kimonos, so it was more like a robe.
29 1- Rick, Elaine, Stacy, Eric, Nona, Robert 4 Oops, we sort of cut the dads in half.
30 1- Rick, Elaine, Stacy, Eric, Nona, Robert 5 The dads are healed!
31 1- Rick, Elaine, Stacy, Eric, Nona, Robert 6 People kept stressing about what to wear; I meant it when I said 'dress casual' but no one believed me. Everyone looked fine.
32 1- Rick, Elaine, Stacy, Eric, Nona, Robert 7 Blar! Chopped Eric's dad in half again. My feet look monsterously huge in this shot (I'm a size 10).
33 1- Rick, Phyllis, Stacy, Eric, Nona, Robert 1 Here's the first shot where you can see my mom. She and Dad were married for about 20 years.
34 1- Rick, Phyllis, Stacy, Eric, Nona, Robert 2 Mom and Dad and Elaine all get along very well, which is fortunate.
35 1- Rick, Phyllis, Stacy, Eric, Nona, Robert 3 For that matter, so do Eric's parents, and they are divorced now. It was a very friendly divorce.
37 1- Rick, Phyllis, Stacy, Eric, Nona, Robert 5 So you want to know what I look like with my eyes shut? Here you go.
38 1- Rick, Phyllis, Stacy, Eric, Nona, Robert BW We decided some artsy black-and-white pics would be nice.
39 1- Rick, Stacy, Phyllis 1 You can see the weighted padding on the bottom of the kimono. It was a pretty heavy robe!
40 1- Rick, Stacy, Phyllis 2 I think I look more like my dad, but I see resemblance to both.
41 1- Rick, Stacy, Phyllis BW Earthquake! OK, not really.
42 1- Rick, Stacy, Phyllis, Bro BW This is one of the few shots during the wedding with my brother in it. He was busy taking pictures most of the time.
43 1- Rick, Stacy, Phyllis, Bro
44 1- Rick, Stacy, Phyllis BLINK!
45 1- Rick. Stacy, Phyllis, Bro Bro (yes, I call him Bro) is smiling in this one, but I look nervous...
46 1- Robert, Eric, Nona 1 The groom's fambly.
47 1- Robert, Eric, Nona 2 I wonder what future FIL is thinking...
48 1- Robert, Eric, Nona 3 Hub didn't have a big obi-type belt, just straps of fabric tied in a neat knot.
49 1- Robert, Eric, Nona BW Hub wore these camel-toe ninja shoe things that you can't see in this picture.
50 1- Stacy and Eric 1 BW Drive-by shot
51 1- Stacy and Eric 1 We tacked in strips of silk around the neck to look like several kimonos, since it's too hot in Texas to layer!
52 1- Stacy and Eric 2 BW Nice ceiling, huh?
53 1- Stacy and Eric 2 I think Mr.Teahouse was made of all native stuff; there were strands of bamboo all over the place.
54 1- Stacy and Eric 3 BW Another drive-by
55 1- Stacy and Eric- blurry You can kind of see my fake obi- it was just a band of silk that hooked in the back, much like a cumberbund.
56 1- Stacy pissed, Eric stoned Someone made some smart-ass comment, I'm sure.
57 2- BW Cathy, Eric, Stacy 1 Cathy is a close friend of ours who got ordained online so she could marry us. She's now 'Magus Cathy.'
58 2- BW Stacy and Eric 1 Here's the spot where the ceremony will take place. A path winds up to this large tree on top of a little hill.
59 2- BW Stacy and Eric 2 Here we are gazing adoringly at each other, trying not to vomit from nervousness.
60 2- BW Stacy and Eric 3 Hub is all lit up, but looking somber.
61 2- BW Stacy and Eric 4 Here he is thinking 'Why didn't we elope?'
62 2- BW Stacy and Eric 5 Showing off the kimomo, still a bit blurry though. "After these bw p..." View Comments...
63 2- Cathy, Eric, Stacy 1 Now I get to be in the sun! Hooray for the sun! "One of my favori..." View Comments...
64 2- Cathy, Eric, Stacy 2 You get a good look at what hub is wearing in this shot. Everything but the outer kimono was hand-made.
65 2- Cathy, Eric, Stacy 3 His outer kimono was also an eBay find.
66 2- Cathy, Eric, Stacy 4 Hub thinks, "God, please take me before another person takes my %!$#@ picture"
67 2- Cathy, Eric, Stacy 5 Only a million more pics to go!
68 2- Cathy, Eric, Stacy 6 Here I'm about to be taken up for the Rapture. You can see my string sandals and hub's camel toe ninja shoes in this shot.
69 2- Eric and Stacy 1 Hubby looking apprehensive. He doesn't like being the center of attention, so the wedding was a bit nerve-wracking for him.
70 2- Eric and Stacy 2 There's his cute smile. I think the drugs just kicked in.
71 2- Eric and Stacy 3 Another kimono showing-off shot.
72 2- Eric and Stacy 4 Look! A finger!
73 2- Eric and Stacy 5 You can see the embroidery on the kimonom but it's hard to make out the phoenixes.
74 2- Eric and Stacy 6 There are the phoenixes. The phoenix represents the female, and it's counterpart is the male dragon.
75 2- Eric going 'oh, crap' Hub was getting really tired of having his picture taken, and Raye was trying to direct one more shot.
76 2- BW Kimono Moms The moms got into Raye's box of kimonos. I think they look smashing!
77 2- Kimono moms As I mentioned, everyone got along. From what I've heard of other weddings, this is an accomplishment. "Well, they look ..." View Comments...
78 2- Nona, Elaine, Phyllis 1 Elaine has 1 son, and he's said he will never get married, so she said this was probably the only wedding of her children she would attend, even if I am her stepkid.
79 2- Nona, Elaine, Phyllis 2 Nona was a good sport too, she hates getting her picture taken like her son.
80 2- Stacy and Eric 1 A few more shots before things get rolling...
81 2- Stacy and Eric 2 Smiles, everyone, smiles! Smiles, I said!
82 2- Stacy and Eric 3 That's better. "I don't know...l..." View Comments...
83 2- Stacy and Eric 4 By the way, that is my real hair. I can't get it to do anything else but that.
84 2- Stacy and Eric 5 Oh, I try growing it long, but it just gets poofier.
85 2- Stacy and Eric 6 There's another good shot of the phoenixes. Or, as Gordon calls them, phoenices.
86 2- Stacy and Eric 7 So why did I want to go barefoot? Because combat boots look bad with white silk.
87 2- Stacy poking Eric's head "We injected the tranquilizers here."
88 3- Eric and Stacy leaving We headed back up to the teahouse to await the start of the ceremony.
89 3- Crowd- all People are milling around waiting for the ceremony to begin.
90 3- Crowd- Jason and Dave The guy in the white is Magus Cathy's beloved, and his mom is the woman with the black hair next to him.
91 3- Crowd- milling around The lady in the black dress is the one who sewed my dress and hub's shirt and pants.
92 3- Crowd- Rick's back I think the moms are taking pictures of Gordon vogue-ing.
93 3- Elaine, Rick, Phyllis Mom's relaxed. Elaine's a worrier, and you can see her starting in this shot.
94 3- Elaine She worried herself sick, literally, and was unable to attend the reception. :-/
95 3- Eric, Nona, Thom Thom is Eric's sister's beloved. They got married 5 months after we did. Poor Nona!
96 3- Gordon Gordon posing in his robe.
97 3- Gordon hooded Action Gordon with kung-fu grip!
98 3- Jason and Rick Jason is a friend of Bro's
99 3- Nona and Elaine Moms and ivy!
100 3- Rick and Elaine seated Dad: Let's get this show on the road!
101 3- Rick, Elaine, Phyllis Mom is in charge of the chalice, used later in the ceremony.
108 3- BW teahouse kiss A last smooch, and a smile from Gordon!
109 400- Waiting family Magus Cathy rings the summoning bell.
110 401- Eric proceeds 2 We came up separate paths and met under the tree. "wow, a good shot..." View Comments...
111 402- Eric proceeds 1 It's been said that hubby just needs a crown of thorns and a cross in this pic. I expect he was a bit nervous.
112 403- Stacy proceeds I was nervous too, because Gordon was growing out of my head.
113 404- Chalice The ceremony was pseudo-Wiccan. I'm blessing the area with saltwater, for water and earth.
114 405- Incense Hub blesses the area with incense, for fire and air. It's being lit there on stage left.
115 406- Wedding We held hands through as much of it as we could, to keep from falling over.
116 407- Blessing I'm not sure what we were blessing here, but I bet it was something good! "oops they caught..." View Comments...
117 408- Reading Magus Cathy had a few readings, mainly the 'Love' and 'Marriage' bits from Kahlil Gilbran's 'The Prophet'
118 409- Profile Lookit hub's cute widdle nose!
119 410- Reading Magus Cathy gives good wordage
120 411- Reading Magus Cathy wrote a lot of the ceremony, with some help from me. We kept it pretty simple and mostly non-denominational.
121 412- Reading This is a good shot of hubby's hair. God, I love his hair.
122 413- Reading There were no chairs, this was part of why we only invited a few to the ceremony itself.
123 414- Reading Another good shot of the kimono. It's hanging on a pole in the living room now.
124 415- Reading The embroidery is white and silver threads and very nicely detailed.
125 416- Stacy reading We wrote our own vows, of couse.
126 417- Stacy reading The sun glare made for an interesting effect.
127 418- Vows Hub looks like he's about to cry.
128 419- Vows Will I ever shut up?
129 420- Vows Cathy and Raye are both caught looking at the camera. "ROFLMAO, who am ..." View Comments...
130 421- Vows Now it's his turn.
131 423- Cathy blessing rings Mom's starting to lose it as we bless the rings... :)
132 424- Ring We got nervous and rings went on the wrong fingers. Someone pointed it out about 1/2 hour after the ceremony ended.
133 425- Ring Hubby gets a ring... "Think I was abou..." View Comments...
134 426- Ring And wife too, on the right hand. Oops. He tried to put it on the index finger too.
135 427- Ring We sorted it out eventually. The rings are plain space-shuttle grade 4mm titanium bands.
136 428- Handfasting This is a pagany tradition where a cord is used to tie our wrists together.
137 429- Cathy tying cord Thus, hand-fasting.
138 430- Handfasting We braided the cord the night before.
139 431- Handfasting More blessing goodness.
140 432- Handfasting Magus Cathy is saying something wise and pithy.
141 433- Kiss Awwwww. :)
142 434- Kiss I like how the crowd looks in this one- happy, interested, amused, tearful but trying not to look tearful, and tearful and doesn't care if she looks tearful.
143 435- Kiss More kissing.
144 436- Kiss Or as the Spaniards say, muchas smoochas.
145 437- Kiss It was a nice, long kiss. People started to laugh nervously.
146 438- End Magus Cathy presents us to the world as a wedded couple. Huzzah!
147 5- Council These were hubby's friends, who I called the Council of Nerds.
148 5- Everyone Notice the dads having a discussion. What are they talking about?
149 5- HF- Hugs close Eric's hugging Elaine, I'm hugging friend Anita, I think.
150 5- HF- Hugs far See how Magus Cathy and Dave are looking at each other? I got to marry them a year later!
151 5- Hugs Dave I'm hugging Magus Cathy's sweetie.
152 5- hugs I'm hugging friend Larisa.
153 5- Karen and Bro This is Karen, my best friend from high school and 95% of my brother.
154 5- Stacy and Eric I'm chatting with friend Scott.
155 5- Gordon disrobing What more is there to say about this one? "Shouldn't we hav..." View Comments...
156 6- Cakes The cake place
157 6- Wedding cake 1 Mom took many cake pictures.
158 6- Weding cake 2 Look, it's CAKE!
159 6- Groom cake 1 Yes, phoenices and dragons.
160 6- Groom cake 2 Edible phoenices and dragons!
161 6- Groom cake 3 The middle bit was the only non-edible part of both cakes.
162 6- BW cake cutting The reception, which everyone was invited to, was at our house.
163 6- Cake cutting 1 Despite the wonderful blue background I'd set up we still managed to stand in front of a white wall.
164 6- Cake cutting 2 A somewhat grainy shot of me weilding cake-killing tool.
165 6- Cake cutting 3 Die, cake, die!
166 6- Cake feeding 1 We agreed beforehand not to mash cake in each other's faces.
167 6- BW cake eating Ring on the correct hand, you'll note.
168 6- Toast Fine champagne, anyone?
169 6- Cathy and Dave Magus Cathy and Dave looking all sultry
170 6- Chuck, Phil, Stacy Both are old friends of mine.
171 6- Council 1 The Nerds seemed to stick together.
172 6- Council 2 The lady standing in the background sold us our house.
173 6- Eric and friends Eric giving his friend a Ninja Look of Death!!
174 6- Food Eric's mom made most of the food. It was terrific!
175 6- Garage 1 That is the bike I rode to our honeymoon on. We went to Albuquerque from Austin, over 500 miles!
176 6- Garage 2 Another angle of the bike, a Honda 1500 Goldwing.
177 6- Gordon Guinness in a plastic wine glass?
178 6- Living room 1 Guests chugging
179 6- Living room 2 The smiling lady on the couch is my former boss... the couple on the loveseat is John and Larisa.
180 6- Living room 3 The woman in the purple pants is the girlfriend of the guy sitting at the fireplace (a guy I used to date), who is the brother of the guy on the loveseat, who is Larisa's husband.
181 6- Living room arial This was taken from upstairs (obviously). "My bad, I could ..." View Comments...
182 6- Nona and Robert 1 Robert helped us sneak in a shot of Nona; look at his evil smile!
183 6- Nona and Robert 2 "You must stop taking pictures of me now." "After the shot, ..." View Comments...
184 6- Pat, Laura, Dave Laura the massage and basket lady!
185 6- Thom and Erin Hubby's sister (I can definitely see a familial resemblance) and her affianced.
186 70- Eric on the bed The Honeymoon! This is the 1st in a series of pictures of places where we had sex. Hub is tired, despite the orange beadspread.
187 71- Lubbock art 1 1st of Bad Hotel Art pictures. Our first night was spent in a hotel in lovely Lubbock, TX.
188 72- Lubbock art 2 Bad Hotel Art 2.
189 73- The worst shower in the world I've seen better showers in prison. The water came out in 2 speeds- drooling trickle or aerosol mist.
190 74- Lubbock The view from our window the next morning. Note low, grey clouds. *ominous music*
191 75- Cold Eric Klaatu Barada Nikto! It was in the 60's/70's on day one- but day 2 was another story. We hit a cold front and it dropped to below freezing.
192 76- Cold Stacy We weren't prepared, so we stopped at a motorcycle place, layered up, and dropped a couple hundred bucks on cold weather gear.
193 77- Cold tumbleweed Friend Sonya said she had never seen a tumbleweed before. This is for Sonya!
194 800- Rick's guest BR After driving through cold, then rain, then sleet, then snow- we finally arrived in Albuquerque. We stayed at my dad's house. This is place where we had sex #2.
195 801- Rick's seascape Not Bad Hotel Art- Good Dad Art! Despite Crappy Photography Skillz.
196 802- Rick's tub Um, place where we had sex #3.
197 803- Rick's back yard 1 Behind the clouds is lovely Sandia peak. The yard was sand and dog poo.
198 804- Rick's back yard 2 More sand and dog poo.
199 805- Big Kitty They really named this tuxedo cat Big Kitty. Though they call him BC, which I guess stands for Big Cat. Yes, there is an LC but she was shy.
200 806- Eric and Big Kitty BC was rather forward in his requests for attention.
201 807- Eric and the Solar System I loves me some planetariums. I visit them whenever I can, and this one had just opened!
202 808- Stacy and Pluto Since my sunsign is ruled by Pluto, I always try to get a picture of me and Pluto at various planetaria. Here's the one for this trip.
203 809-Stacy and dire wolves Grrr! Those skeletons were about Great Dane sized.
204 810- Going to Sandia There is a lovely restaurant on top of Sandia peak, and I wanted to eat there!
205 811- Sandia ascent- flash The easiest way to get to this place is by cable car. This is a crappy shot taken on the way up.
206 812- Sandia- ascent Here's a better shot. You can see the reflection of the sunset in the lower left corner. And... snow!
207 813- Rick at Sandia Snow, snow, snow! Dad was being a good sport even though he was freezing.
208 814- Sandia dinner This is inside the restaurant, called 'High Finance'. If it's not cloudy (which it was) you can see the whole city from that window.
209 815- Leaving We're getting ready to head home. Dad is asking the bikes to please not kill us. There was still about a foot of snow on the ground, but at least it was sunny.
210 9- Roswell Eric at the city limit We took a different route home. Hub wanted to stop in Roswell, and by the time we got there it was in the 80's. Quite a change from where we left!
211 9- Roswell Arby's Note the UFO crashed into the sign.
212 9- Roswell parking Alien parking! Haw haw haw! You get an idea of the theme for Roswell.
213 9- Calsbad view After lunch in Roswell, we headed for Carlsbad Caverns. Hub wanted to see a good cave. He'd gone when he was a kid, but I had never been. This is the view at the top- the caverns were located in a beautiful park full of blooming mountain laurels.
214 9- Carlsbad Eric and the rock marriage In a century or two, these pointy rocks will merge. Neat, huh?
215 9- Carlsbad gooshy rock It looks eerily organic, doesn't it?
216 9- Carlsbad pile of ice cream rock It had some fancy-ass name, but I thought it looked like a big pile of vanilla ice cream.
217 9- Carlsbad piles of popcorn Continuing the food trend, these formations are really known as 'popcorn'. When a clump of them forms at the end of a stalagtite, it's called a lion's tail.
218 9- Carlsbad tree city rock This looked like the cover of an old 'Yes' album.
219 9- Carlsbad Voyager shot I don't know what the hell I was trying to capture here.
220 9- The yucca Eric peed on The title pretty much says it all... there's a shot of the bike he rode, a 500 Honda Silverwing.
221 9- Stacy on the GW It got cold before we got into another town, so I layered up again.
222 9- Eric in Pecos bed Place where we had sex #4, plus Bad Motel Art.
223 9- Alpine Lodge This was where we stayed, in Pecos TX. The windows are to the restaurant, where no one was under 70. We decided not to eat there.
224 9- Pecos pine A tree! And a line thing of some sort! This was in the parking lot of the motel.
225 9- Swiss Clock Inn- front Hubby was especially impressed by the painted rocks on the building.
226 9- Swiss Clock Inn- side The bikes, and our room. Eric is shorter than I am, and weighs less, so he got the smaller bike.
227 9- Maroon bluebonnets The drive from Pecos to Junction was all on IH 10, and was mind-liquifyingly boring. We went from there to Fredricksburg, where I stopped at Wildseed Farms and saw these. Then about an hour later, we were home.
228 Pool blue Ignore me. I am the background image. Huzzah!
