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[liv]

I can't quite believe I'm getting married on Sunday... I've reached the stage of calm I usually get to in the last couple of days before a big exam: any preparation I haven't done by now just isn't going to get done, so que sera sera. Partly I think I've just run out of panicking energy, and partly I have (as of yesterday!) actually ticked off everything that was on my to-do list. The only thing I'm still worried about is that I don't quite have the numbers; we've deliberately set things up to be informal and flexible, which I think was the right decision, but this means that lots of people have decided to come or to bring partners or otherwise changed their plans rather at the last minute, so I don't necessarily know who exactly needs transport and who exactly is coming to the ceilidh... I think it will probably all work out somehow, and if there's a slight hitch somewhere I'm sure people will be understanding.

Just a couple more wedding-related bits, then. I really will shut up about this very soon indeed! This is stuff that I'd like at least a proportion of the guests to see but don't need to disseminate to everyone, and I think it's of minimum general interest because non-guests can have opinions about my eccentric choices.

First, in place of a hymn at the wedding, we're hoping to sing the Discovery Channel song from XKCD. The reason is that it's a happy, geeky song that's easy to pick up (even if you don't already know it). It would probably be good if at least a handful of the guests are expecting it, because that'll make it easier to start off the singing rather than just sitting there feeling awkward. The lyrics are in the order of ceremony, and I'm hoping to get the music onto the sound system at the Guildhall, but this may require a bit of tech wrangling to extract the soundtrack from the video...

Second, we've decided not to have a photographer. We just care more about actually having a fun time with our friends, than about putting on a performance to be recorded for posterity. These days it's standard form for people to bring cameras to weddings. So we're hoping that some guests who are amateur photographers will just show up with their cameras and take some snaps; there's no pressure on any one person to feel responsible for making sure we have "perfect" wedding photos, but the hope is that the collective will come up with something that we can look back on as a souvenir. And if that doesn't work out, the fallback is that we'll do a studio session in our wedding outfits at some point in the future when we have plenty of time and no hosting of a big party to worry about. So if you're hesitating whether to bring a camera, and you happen to see this, please do err on the side of bringing one!

Annnd my incredibly brilliant baby sister sent us a photo of our cake in its protological stage from a couple of days ago:


Now all I've got to do is pack in order to travel home straight from work tomorrow!

Comments

[forestofglory]

I was looking up something on the wedding website and saw that the XKCD song is to be sung earlier today. I think it is great choice, and very the both of you.

[pensnest]

OMG CAKE! That is going to be *something* to celebrate the occasion!

Have a wonderful, joyful day.

[synecdochic]

Congratulations to the two of you, by the way. May your life together be long and blissfully happy. (And may the wedding go off without a hitch!)

[jack]

As I said to Liv, lets hope the wedding has exactly one hitch :)

I think that's my favourite joke this month :)

[synecdochic]

*groan*

I'm sorry, I'm going to have to set you on fire with the power of my mind now.

:)

[jack]

Aaaaaaaaah! Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaah!

Re: :)

[synecdochic]

It's only a light singing.

Re: :)

[jack]

:)

[elf]

We didn't have a photographer at my wedding, although my dad bought a bunch of disposable cameras and handed them out to a lot of our friends. We got a few dozen pictures (tiny wedding). It's been over 11 years, and we've yet to regret this.

We aren't poke-through-the-photo-albums people. We have a few mementos, and are more interested in enjoying our relationship than having a lot of reminders of one particular day of it. (Not knocking those who do love photo albums and nostalgia. If it makes people happy, I'm glad those resources exist. Just sayin' they're not important to us, so we don't feel we missed out by not going through the fancy-wedding-photos stresses.)

[mathcathy]

Hope it goes really well for you and that you're far to excitedly engrossed on the day to even notice if various guests get abandoned somewhere and have to sort things out spontaneously.

See you when you get back ... We should set a gym date for May.

[gool_duck]

Te song is a free download here: http://olganunes.bandcamp.com/album/we-love-xkcd (but it requests an email-address).

[rmc28]

Oh wow that cake looks amazing. 28 bars of chocolate!

[naath]

THAT IS THE BEST SONG. OMG.

Also. WOW. Chocolate cake! NOMNOMNOM.

[sunflowerinrain]

I hope there will be VIDEOS because I can't be there to see it live!

Have a wonderful day :)

[hairyears]

TEA

[evilsusan]

My husband just asked me how I know you because he works in the same office as your intended and saw me on your friends list when following links. Small world!

[(Anonymous)]

Thinking of you today.

[aendr]

Gah, wasn't logged in. Clearly thinking of you and not much else :-), actually a bit bleary eyed, being woken up from a nice dream by a little boy (3) telling me it is morning.