This weekend my fiancée sourced a possible wedding dress, designed a logo for the invitations and torches we're giving the guests, wrote an introduction and timetable to put on our website, and changed the website's font to match the invitations.
I added a combat scene to the Twine wedding adventure, including variables to reflect whether the player decided to travel to the wedding in the theme of Jedi, 40k Inquisitor, Starfleet Ensign, or a fantasy dwarf/elf/human.
@Vivixenne I read through your wedding journal and felt the urge to discuss your post re:wedding photos. I'm in very much the same camp as you in terms of less being more when we talk about photos.
In many ways, I think it is symptomatic of our current day and age where cameras are at the majority of the populations' fingertips. We are losing the art of enjoying the ephemeral beauty of the moment.
That's not to say some photos are a bad idea and indeed (sorry for throwing dark here in an otherwise happy thread) I still derive no small amount of catharsis from looking at photos of friends who have passed away.
I'll echo your disclaimer that everyone has the right to enjoy their wedding in a manner they deem fit, free from judgement, but I definitely agree that photos should be a secondary means to reminisce on the wedding day
Some friends used (employed) a friend of a friend who is an avid photographer, but not so much a straight up wedding guy. Basically he took photos all day, but not a crap tonne of them. What he did take though were really nicely framed, some nice artsy shots of the rings on an old window sill, some black and whites of the folks getting prep'd (see my previous FB photo), just a bunch of damn good photos.
Quality over quantity, basically. Everyone else will take the happysnaps, then afterwards you can have a space on the website for people to upload their favourites that they took.
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I actually have tons of them queued up, just haven't posted them all yet, but it is kinda nice to get to discuss some of these things en masse, n'aw mean? I dunno. mostly it's an outlet for the crazy
Did you guys use something to build your site or is one of you just that kind of nerd? It's quite nice and I'd like to make something even half as nice but I have zero talent in that department
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edited July 2014
not four square
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gosh honey (<3)
and @cabsy I've made my own websites in the past and would have done so again, but the cool thing with squarespace is that it's a really good interface, affordable, and includes hosting
they will also do domain registration for you if you sign up for more than a year
given how lazy I am these days that seemed way more appealing than starting from scratch again
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Going to a wedding this weekend and in the "last details before you arrive" email they noted that they have hired a photographer and it would be nice if he could get good photos of the actual ceremony without amateurs standing in his way or everyone having a smartphone in hand and snapping their own pics (because it looks stupid). I can get behind that, but I feel I know some people who wouldn't take kindly to those words.
But now that I think about it, nobody took photos at my wedding ceremony, where we also had a professional, so maybe people can be "in the moment" at least for half an hour.
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edited July 2014
yeah it sounds like it's all down to the wording
it's easy for "please don't take photos during the ceremony" to be taken as either "I don't want shit photos of me to be online after spending $$$$$ on a photographer" (words from an actual person, not cited in the post) or the much more pleasant "we want to see your faces when we walk down the aisle!"
so you gotta word it properly; I know at the wedding I referenced it was really just "the bride has requested no photography while she comes down the aisle", which seemed to have been met with a mix of "oooh she doesn't want BAD photos, pffft" and "awwwww now that's a nice touch" and (my initial reaction) <shrug, puts phone away> "cool"
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I reckon it's fair for the wedding party to request phones be in pockets and on silent for the whole occasion. There will be a pro 'tog running around before and after the staged photos taking candids of everyone anyway, and there's no way you're likely to get anywhere near as good a result with your iPhone after that bottle and a half of champagne...
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I actually can't remember a single word our celebrant (btw: is that just an Australian word for the one doing the marriage ceremony? first time I encountered it) said, so it's entirely possible she mentioned something about phones and/or cameras.
I actually can't remember a single word our celebrant (btw: is that just an Australian word for the one doing the marriage ceremony? first time I encountered it) said, so it's entirely possible she mentioned something about phones and/or cameras.
Celebrants are non-religious (or at least non-denominational iirc) people who are authorised to conduct weddings
I'm totally with you on that Viv, hardly any guests took photos at my sister's wedding because we had a local photographer and didn't have to worry about that, everyone was able to enjoy the day. I think maybe the celebrant mentioned something about asking people to be present in the moment too??
Hey Viv, how come they won't let you do the legal ceremony in Singapore?
Because Singapore is BUTTS.
Neither of us are citizens which means one of us will have to have been in Singapore for at least 15 consecutive days before we can have a legal ceremony.
It makes no sense because it means no one will ever have a destination wedding there without a buttload of leave.
you know, we still haven't had a honeymoon
i guess we should do that at some point
when you get engaged and married in a span of 2 weeks, these things are forgotten
Current plan is to rent a VW camper van for a week or two and bum around historical sites, maybe drive over to Iona and various tiny whisky-producing islands.
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I added a combat scene to the Twine wedding adventure, including variables to reflect whether the player decided to travel to the wedding in the theme of Jedi, 40k Inquisitor, Starfleet Ensign, or a fantasy dwarf/elf/human.
Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better
bit.ly/2XQM1ke
In many ways, I think it is symptomatic of our current day and age where cameras are at the majority of the populations' fingertips. We are losing the art of enjoying the ephemeral beauty of the moment.
That's not to say some photos are a bad idea and indeed (sorry for throwing dark here in an otherwise happy thread) I still derive no small amount of catharsis from looking at photos of friends who have passed away.
I'll echo your disclaimer that everyone has the right to enjoy their wedding in a manner they deem fit, free from judgement, but I definitely agree that photos should be a secondary means to reminisce on the wedding day
Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better
bit.ly/2XQM1ke
Quality over quantity, basically. Everyone else will take the happysnaps, then afterwards you can have a space on the website for people to upload their favourites that they took.
well hey there
Need some stuff designed or printed? I can help with that.
I actually have tons of them queued up, just haven't posted them all yet, but it is kinda nice to get to discuss some of these things en masse, n'aw mean? I dunno. mostly it's an outlet for the crazy
Satans..... hints.....
Basically during the ceremony you run up, grab a selfie with me, and upload it to twitter with the hashtag.
Satans..... hints.....
I'm your man.
Satans..... hints.....
squarespace
gosh honey (<3)
and @cabsy I've made my own websites in the past and would have done so again, but the cool thing with squarespace is that it's a really good interface, affordable, and includes hosting
they will also do domain registration for you if you sign up for more than a year
given how lazy I am these days that seemed way more appealing than starting from scratch again
But now that I think about it, nobody took photos at my wedding ceremony, where we also had a professional, so maybe people can be "in the moment" at least for half an hour.
it's easy for "please don't take photos during the ceremony" to be taken as either "I don't want shit photos of me to be online after spending $$$$$ on a photographer" (words from an actual person, not cited in the post) or the much more pleasant "we want to see your faces when we walk down the aisle!"
so you gotta word it properly; I know at the wedding I referenced it was really just "the bride has requested no photography while she comes down the aisle", which seemed to have been met with a mix of "oooh she doesn't want BAD photos, pffft" and "awwwww now that's a nice touch" and (my initial reaction) <shrug, puts phone away> "cool"
Satans..... hints.....
Celebrants are non-religious (or at least non-denominational iirc) people who are authorised to conduct weddings
Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better
bit.ly/2XQM1ke
Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better
bit.ly/2XQM1ke
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.. It was the monk's.
Because Singapore is BUTTS.
Neither of us are citizens which means one of us will have to have been in Singapore for at least 15 consecutive days before we can have a legal ceremony.
It makes no sense because it means no one will ever have a destination wedding there without a buttload of leave.
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i guess we should do that at some point
when you get engaged and married in a span of 2 weeks, these things are forgotten
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I really would not want to have my honeymoon in Singapore.
Satans..... hints.....
if it weren't for family and sentiment I'd definitely go there less often than I already do
That's where we're going!
Current plan is to rent a VW camper van for a week or two and bum around historical sites, maybe drive over to Iona and various tiny whisky-producing islands.