Wedding plans
August 11th, 2008 at 8:04 am
Several of our friends are getting married in Vegas soon. Congratulations all around. Amber and I are thinking of getting married sometime in the first half of next year and have been throwing around a few ideas for where and how to go about it.
Neither of us have any interest in doing a big traditional wedding. She had one for her first marriage, and my brother’s wasn’t a whole lot of fun for me or my parents. So it won’t hurt my parents’ feelings if we don’t go that route. Plus, the expense seems stupid to us. My brother’s wedding was small and still cost in the neighborhood of $10-15K before it was over. That kind of money would be much better applied toward a down payment on a house or at least toward a kick-ass vacation.
One idea we have pretty well solidified is we’re not going to invite many, and possibly not even any, people to the wedding itself. We’re very seriously considering streaming it on Ustream or an equivalent free live video service. Instead, we’ll just elope somewhere, and the throw a big reception party a month or two later somewhere in town. I had the most fun of any wedding I’d been to at my friend Jamie’s wedding. His vows lasted 15 minutes, tops, and then we moved on immediately to a reception with several kegs and boxed wine which lasted well into the night. Our reception may be BYOB, but the underlying principle is the same: cut the bullshit, get to the fun part.
As far as locations, we’ve had three ideas so far, and would love to hear more from you. Here they are with some pros and cons:
Neither of us have any interest in doing a big traditional wedding. She had one for her first marriage, and my brother’s wasn’t a whole lot of fun for me or my parents. So it won’t hurt my parents’ feelings if we don’t go that route. Plus, the expense seems stupid to us. My brother’s wedding was small and still cost in the neighborhood of $10-15K before it was over. That kind of money would be much better applied toward a down payment on a house or at least toward a kick-ass vacation.
One idea we have pretty well solidified is we’re not going to invite many, and possibly not even any, people to the wedding itself. We’re very seriously considering streaming it on Ustream or an equivalent free live video service. Instead, we’ll just elope somewhere, and the throw a big reception party a month or two later somewhere in town. I had the most fun of any wedding I’d been to at my friend Jamie’s wedding. His vows lasted 15 minutes, tops, and then we moved on immediately to a reception with several kegs and boxed wine which lasted well into the night. Our reception may be BYOB, but the underlying principle is the same: cut the bullshit, get to the fun part.
As far as locations, we’ve had three ideas so far, and would love to hear more from you. Here they are with some pros and cons:
Las Vegas
Pros: Inexpensive, few hassles, fun. Chapel operators possess the gift of self-awareness, leading to farcical drive-through chapels and other hilarity. I’ve never been to Vegas and would like to cross that off my list.
Cons: Not a very original idea.
Gatlinburg
Pros: As cheesy as Vegas in its own way, only closer and probably even less expensive.
Cons: Chapel operators appear to not be aware of how cheesy their operations are, which is kind of sad.
Hedonism II or Hedonism III
Pros: There are worse ways to spend a few days than watching kinky people doing kinky things in Jamaica. And they do weddings.
Cons: The distinct possibility that those kinky people are as lame as some of the kinky people around here.
