Couple pays for wedding with cans

I've probably talked endlessly about how much I hate hearing about people buying stuff they can't afford, so this makes me very happy.

A Spokane couple has reached its goal of collecting enough recyclable aluminum cans to pay for their wedding.

Peter Geyer and Andrea Parrish estimated they needed to collect 400,000 cans, worth about $3,800, to pay for the July 31 wedding. With the help of a 150,000-can donation from Alcoa and 73,000 cans from United Recycling Services, they have reached the goal.



The couple continues to collect cans, this time to pay for their honeymoon. They also plan to donate some proceeds to Doctors Without Borders and Rim Country Land Institute.

Pete and Andrea also have a website, and I found this particularly endearing:

What kind of wedding are you planning? A community-centered, homemade celebration of family and friends. With only $3,800 – $4,000 for a budget (less than 20% of the budget of a $25,000 “average wedding”), we will be keeping it fairly conservative. It will be a handfasting officiated by the friend that brought us together. Oh, and the bouquet will be tossed with a trebuchet.

On top of being money-wise and donating to excellent charities, they also like to sling things through the air! Love this couple!

If you've never taken anything to the recycling center, I can tell you that it is REALLY hard to make any decent money off of it. As a, um, young person, I once filled my car's trunk FULL of glass bottles (from...soda) and I took them to the recycling center and I got about $7. My dreams of a wealthy summer were dashed.

-KB

Twitter user gets wedding help thanks to Conan O'Brien

What has Conan been up to since his sudden unemployment?

Conan O'Brien may seem like an unlikely fairy godmother – but he has made one Michigan woman's dreams come true.

Two weeks ago, the late-night comedian decided to follow a stranger on Twitter. That person is 19-year-old Sarah Killen from Fowlerville. "I've decided to follow someone at random," O'Brien tweeted. "She likes peanut butter and gummy dinosaurs." Killen hasn't been the same since. "He's changed my life," she tells PopEater.



Most importantly, she can now have her fantasy wedding, thanks to all the attention O'Brien has drummed up for her. "It has really helped," Killen says. "I'm getting married on September 25, and we didn't know if we would be able to afford it. Now I'm getting custom made shoes and a dress from Kelima in New York … We're getting a limo, Classic Creations is giving us wedding bands and there's a vineyard in California sending us wine. We've got it all covered now."

Killen says O'Brien is invited to her wedding. "My fiancé wants Conan to be his best man," she says. "That would be really cool. And hey, if he wants us to come on his show, we'd get married on there. That would be fantastic."

Well, of course she didn't know if she could afford a wedding - she's 19! Normal 19 year olds don't have enough money to go to the movies, let alone plan a wedding. But good luck, Sarah!

-Kay

It's a nice day for a White Castle wedding

Good morning! Okay, I know it's a little early to be thinking about hamburgers, but this video will start your day off right.

It is hilarious because:
a) people get married in a burger joint! You love wacky weddings, right?
b) the groom looks incredibly miserable. The only thing funnier than an unhappy groom is an unhappy groom in a hamburger shop wedding.
c) the bride says "Valentimes". I'm an a-hole for laughing, but I did!




Is this, like, REALLY FUNNY? or am I still a little screwed up in the head from watching The Room*?

HAHAHAHAurg,

Kay Banks

*Please watch The Room! Like, seriously! It is the Mona Lisa of terrible movies, and after only one viewing it has taken place in my heart as the best worst movie ever.

Here's the Situation - I'm getting some wedding-night Snooki

I don't fully understand this "Jersey Shore" that the kids talk about. Thanks to The Soup, I am aware that it is a reality show on Mtv about a group of intellectually deficient, yet highly entertaining twenty-somethings and they all live in New Jersey. And I watched that poor girl get punched in the face - upsetting!

If you like Jersey Shore (and I know some of you d0), this is for you:

"Jersey Shore" star Paul (Pauly D) Delvecchio has gone from walking along the Seaside Heights boardwalk to – walking down the aisle?!

Since starring in the popular MTV reality show, Pauly D and his castmates have received up to 200 to 300 offers a day to make personal appearances, Michael Schweiger of CEG Talent told RadarOnline.com.


This is a Pauly D (I think)

Schweiger, who represents all the cast members except Nicole (Snooki) Polizzi, said the craziest request thus far has been for Pauly D to escort a bride down the aisle on her wedding day.

"Someone in California offered us $50,000 to have Pauly D walk them down the aisle at their wedding, to give them away," he said. "We rejected the offer, because Pauly is a serious DJ and all the other cast members are doing lots of personal appearances but Pauly D is not necessarily doing the personal appearances because he feels he has a lot to learn as a DJ. He does not want to be doing stuff that is unrelated to DJ-ing."

This is hilarious - I am always amused by the things that rich people want. If I had unlimited money, I would still have wanted my own dad to walk me down the aisle ('cause I luffs my dad), but maybe when I get re-married to a richer man (or renew my vows to my current husband), I'll hire Puck from the San Francisco Real World...or hire Andre and his band from the OG cast! Does that show my age?

-KB

Couple marries after getting divorced

After their divorce was finalised in November, Jan and Lee Jones from Southend-on-Sea, Essex, decided they could not live without each other and got remarried on Christmas Eve. They had their 10 children at the ceremony.

Mrs Jones, 44, said: "We separated because of the usual things which cause problems, like finance and other issues which put pressure on any relationship. But we simply decided we couldn't live apart so we got married again."

The bride and her husband, 41, met in April 1989 and were married in July 1990 at the United Reform Church in Southend. Mrs Jones said: "It was a traditional church wedding with all our friends and family."

She had a son James, now 23, from a previous marriage, but the couple had their first child together Lee, now 18, in January 1991. After that came Paul, 17, Stephen, 13, Hannah, 9, Amy, 7, Ella, 5, Emily, 3, George, 2, and Callum, 1. They decided to separate after nearly 20 years of marriage in January 2009.


Delusion makes people so happy

Mr Jones said: "We had a lot of problems, like money problems, me working and Jan doing all the work at home, relying on friends to help take the children to school. We tried to make it work but we couldn't. We thought we would get divorced and see what happened. I moved out and got a room and I was coming around seeing the children every time I could."

The pair stayed amicable for the sake of their kids and were in constant phone and text contact. Mr Jones said: "I'm used to the children and Jan being around me and being on my own was like something was missing out of my life. We were texting each other and ringing and I was coming around all the time. It was the worst time of my life."

They pressed ahead with the divorce but when the papers came through in November, the reality of what they had lost hit home. Mrs Jones said: "The crux was when the divorce papers came through, it all hit home. I opened up the letter and thought, 'this is a bit final'. I texted Lee and said, 'have you got it?'."

Her husband continued: "It felt like we were not just throwing away 20 years together, we had grown up together." The couple started talking about the future and realised they did not want to be apart. Mrs Jones said: "We were sitting at the kitchen table together one night talking about it and I said, 'but I still love you' and he said, 'but I still love you – why are we doing it?'. We decided to give it another go."

Mr Jones said: "We thought it would be romantic to get married on Christmas Eve but never thought we would be able to. I rang them and they said they had an opening at 11am on Christmas Eve and we decided to go for it."

All the children were bridesmaids and page boys and the nearly new bride got her strapless pink wedding dress and butterscotch-coloured attendants' gowns from a local shop. They had 25 guests and held their buffet reception at the Exchange pub in Southend.

I can't get behind people who have ten freaking kids and decide to get divorced, but I'm glad they stayed together. I think it's pretty irresponsible to plan a wedding with new dresses and dinner guests when they were arguing over money troubles and they have (again) TEN FREAKING KIDS to support. Ugh.

-Kay

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Christmas wedding in an airport

Accompanied by a justice of the peace, a woman wearing a wedding gown popped into a Texas airport to surprise her fiancee for an on-the-spot, impromptu wedding.



Since Robyn Moore met William Acosta during a chance meeting while he was on a business trip, their relationship has been filled with the ups and downs that come with frequent flier miles.
"(We) spent half our relationship in airports," Moore said.

Planning to marry some time this month, Moore said she thought it was more than appropriated to wed in an airport. Wearing jeans and a sweater, Acosta said he was speechless and thrilled by the surprise nuptials.



The newly wed couple posed for wedding photographs in front of the Christmas Tree located by the security desk at Corpus Christi International Airport. Acosta and Moore met last year in Dallas where she lived. They plan to take their lifetime boarding passes and move to Toledo, Ohio.

This is really sweet - I always like when couples shrug off the stereotypical wedding stuff and Just Get Married already! But why is there a cameraman behind them? If this is for a reality show, I take back every nice thing I said about them.

-Kay

It's Friday...

...and I'm feeling freeeeeeeee! But not as free as these folks



Next week I'll be bringing you all the celebrity weddings from 2009 that I didn't care enough about to post here. Two words: Justin Guarini?

Have a great weekend!

-Kay

Couple gets married on ostriches

There's not much more to say, really.

Groom runs marathon on his wedding day

This is Jeff Hartman's idea of a bachelor party: Get up at 6 a.m. Stand in the street in sub-freezing weather with his buddy, Mike Colasurdo, and more than 8,000 other people. Then run 26.2 miles in Charlotte's Thunder Road Marathon.

That's what Hartman did [last] Saturday before his 3:30 p.m. wedding at Gardner-Webb University in Boiling Springs, where he teaches exercise science. "I feel like a million bucks," said Hartman, 32, after crossing the finish line with Colasurdo near the NASCAR Hall of Fame uptown.


Hartman's time: 3 hours, 47 minutes. His condition: Soaked in sweat. Smiling. Steady on his feet - unlike some runners who were doubled over in pain or throwing up.

Scrawled across Hartman's shirt in black marker was the message, "Kiss Me! Getting Married Today!" It drew lots of response along the marathon route, and the comments varied by gender. Women usually shouted, "Congratulations," "That's sweet" or "Best of luck." Men offered the warning, "It's not too late!" [Haha, that's typical. Men are always trying to scare each other before a wedding]

Hartman said he got no kisses but did have two offers - one from a male runner dressed as an elf, the other from a woman in her 70s. He didn't slow down long enough to collect either one.

A veteran of seven marathons before Thunder Road, Hartman saw a clear-cut choice about how to spend the hours leading up to his wedding. He could hang out in his basement to avoid seeing the bride getting ready upstairs with her friends and family. Or he could go for the "freedom and joy" of the open road. So he asked his wife-to-be, Shana Woodward, who teaches English at Gardner-Webb, what she thought of a wedding day marathon. "I think it's great," she said. "Just make sure you've got enough energy to walk down the aisle."



The marathon idea hardly surprised her. Hartman proposed to her at the top of Crowders Mountain, where the couple hiked after Hartman had run 10 miles that morning.

On Saturday, the groom didn't try to break any records with his running time, which was short of his personal best of 3 hours, 12 minutes in a Pennsylvania marathon in October. Instead, he aimed for a "nice and easy" pace to leave him with energy for the wedding, reception and, of course, the wedding night.

So after meeting his brother, Rob, and friend Matt Theado at the finish line shortly before noon - the two were sidelined from the marathon bachelor party by injuries - Hartman headed back to his Charlotte hotel. There he showered, changed into his tux and made the 50-mile drive west to Boiling Springs to the campus chapel at Gardner-Webb.

After the wedding, Hartman had a built-in excuse to avoid a reception activity he wasn't crazy about. "I'm a horrible dancer," he said. The race let him do the first dance with his bride - then sit back and rest his legs.

If I ran almost thirty miles on my wedding day, I would use it as an excuse to eat the entire top tier of the cake!

-Kay

Horror-themed wedding

This story is amazing.

An Ohio bride and ghoul have vowed to love each other and haunt and howl at the moon together at a Halloween-themed wedding.

61-year-old Jack Holsinger and 44-year-old Connie Spitznagel were both made up as pale-faced vampires for their scare-emoney Saturday night at a haunted house near Cleveland. The two chose the location because it's operated by the same people who own a campground where the couple met.

Holsinger arrived in a coffin inside a hearse, and the coffin was carried to the altar by six pallbearers. Minister Greg Kopp was dressed as Jason in the "Friday the 13th" movies. After the vows were exchanged, he ordered Holsinger not to kiss his new bride but instead to bite her on the neck.



“I thought it was kind of crazy, but neat,” maid-of-honor and the bride's sister Kim Spitznagel told the Chronicle-Telegram. Her bridesmaid look was fashioned after the Bride of Frankenstein.

Like typical mortal couples, the groom said he just wanted his bride to be happy.

“This is her first wedding,” Holsinger said. “She had a common-law marriage the first time around, so she never really got a wedding. It’s what she wanted and it’s about her. It’s her time. Whatever she wanted.”

Awesome, right?! I love that they're a mature couple - that makes this even more exciting to me.

-Kay

Amazing Star Wars wedding

Oh my god, you guys. You guys. Oh my god. These pictures are incredible, and I don't even have words to explain how happy they make me. This has to be one of the highest-budget geek weddings ever? I loved the Katamari wedding for the simple and sweet geekiness, but this Star Wars Wedding is just over the top with awesome sauce. I don't even think you have to love Star Wars to enjoy the pictures.


LOOK AT THESE INVITATIONS! They are awesome. Tiger and Issa really have an eye for this stuff, or they had a super geek wedding planner. If I got this in the mail, I would cry tears of joy.



The lovely bride wears a Star Wars inspired gown. While it's fun to dress as Princess Leia, I like that her gown takes elements of Star Wars costuming so she looks beautiful and futuristic. (...But wait, Star Wars took place a long time ago in a far away galaxy, so it's not really futuristic. Whatever!)



Not sure if these are groomsmen, or just good sports, but this whole setup is really cool



They did such a good job of mixing feminine wedding elements with high-quality geekery.



I'm not inviting your Aunt Edna, and that's FINAL.

So cool! Congrats you two crazy padwans...all grown up and out of Jedi...that's enough, Kay.

There are many more photos at the photographer's site, and they all showcase the geekiness and love that was flowing on at this wedding.

Hope you have a great weekend!

-Kay

With this Ring Pop, I thee wed

The Ring Pops may never be abandoned, but they have been replaced – in a big way.

Shortly after Michelle Kumler and Gordon Schwarz made headlines by using Ring Pops instead of wedding bands during their wedding ceremony at the East Pasco Government Center, the newlyweds received a message from Winnie Magnon-Marvel, owner of Alvin Magnon Jewelers in Tampa.

Magnon-Marvel said she thought it would be "a cool idea" to give the couple real rings. And not just any rings: a pair of platinum wedding bands valued at $2,500.

This morning, the Schwarzes, who married on Sept. 28, received the rings at the jewelry store on South Dale Mabry Highway. Magnon-Marvel also made them a cake out of cupcakes and had a chilled bottle of champagne waiting.



"Just because you didn't have a ring, doesn't mean you didn't want one," she said to Michelle Schwarz.

As the couple admired the precious metal on their fingers, Gordon quipped that he celebrated his wedding day by mowing the yard. After leaving the jewelry store today, he planned to pressure wash their house.

"Platinum can take a beating," Magnon-Marvel said. "It's a tough metal. It can stay on at all times."

The Schwarzes, who elected to use Ring Pops because of recession-related money woes, didn't look like they were about to take their rings off. Gordon Schwarz, 49, works at Ukelele's restaurant in Land O' Lakes. He delivered stucco for a local construction company until he was laid off.

Michelle Schwarz, 47, a hair stylist at Euro Concepts Salon in Land O' Lakes, is known for giving away the lollipops on a ring to her clients. She said the couple will keep the Ring Pops they were married with in their freezer.

In case the power goes out, she said, "We might need to get a generator."

Interview with the 99 Cent Store Bride

A while back, I posted the announcement of the 99 Cents Only store wedding promotion, and then later, I posted some pictures of the big day. One of the 9 lucky brides found this blog and agreed to let me do an interview with her. If you’ve ever wondered about the details of being a contest wedding couple, here’s your chance!

The bride’s name is Emily and her new husband Whillis is a Marine. The two met online and clicked instantly. Within a few weeks, they were spending every minute together; within a few months, they were tiptoeing around marriage. Whillis planned an elaborate proposal, but plans were cut short when the Marines ordered him home from vacation a day early. Soon after that Emily’s mom, Anne, passed away unexpectedly and engagement plans were put on hold again.


Looking cozy on their first trip together in Napa, CA . Photo courtesey of Emily Wiley-Hall.

Emily and Whillis are currently living in San Diego, CA where she first heard about the 99 Cent wedding promotion on a local radio station. They had planned for a yearlong engagement, but Emily entered the contest without telling Whillis! After her initial interview with the 99 Cent store, she realized she had still not told Whillis about it, and sent him a text message “I am NOT proposing but would you marry me?”. He was in pre-deployment training at the time, but texted back “Yes I will marry you” Aw!

Emily said that she had a good feeling about her interview with the company and waited anxiously for them to call her back. The announcement day had come and gone with no notice…until the next day when they told her that she was a winner! Emily and Whillis were married on 9/9/09 in the Hollywood 99 Cents Only store with eight other couples. The contest promised a $2,500 wedding for under a buck.


Emily on her wedding day

Kay: You said that your relationship with Whillis is more important than any fancy wedding. What was it about this contest that made you want to enter?
Emily: I thought it was exciting and unique. I am not a high maintenance girl and would have been ok with a courthouse marriage and a party afterwards. To both Whillis and I the relationship (the marriage) is the important part and having each other, rather than be in debt up to our eyeballs.

Kay: Sometimes parents are a driving factor in wedding planning. What did your families think of your wedding?
Emily: My Mom has always been an Angel on Earth but recently she was invited to the Pearly Gates in Heaven so my Mom was there on my wedding day just as she is with me now with every breath I take. She was happy for us, I know it. My older brother was there with us in the flesh. He walked me down the aisle (#15 if you were wondering) and was very proud. At first everyone (including us) was like WHAT?! The 99 Cent store?! Really?! But after we learned more about their plans to make it a wonderful location and experience everyone liked it.


A beautiful and thrify table setting from the Discount Store Diva

Kay: I posted some of the photos a while back, and I was really impressed with the cost-minded yet fun and elegant refreshment table and décor. What did you think of the in-store wedding setup?
Emily: Hearing Kathy (the designer) explain her plans for decorating is really what took Whillis and I from the "What the hell are we doing?" thought to the "Wow this is going to be beautiful!"

Kay: Silly question...Who paid for the wedding – you or Whillis? Did you pay cash?
Emily: Well my gown didn’t have pockets and his tux did so that made it easy. :-) He had money on him and I didn’t. (Though if need be my big brother would have paid cash for our wedding.) And we thought it funny that on our receipt it actually DOES say wedding 99 cents. Plus HE paid for all of the other expenses we had, the dress, the tux, our 3 rings, the 2 rooms at The Hotel Angeleno the night before, etc. When he gets back from The Deployment we are having a Welcome Home/Reception Party as well. With all our additional family and friends present and I will put my dress back on and he either a tux or his USMC Blues. [Kay's note: I LOVE boys in uniforms, so you all know my vote!]


Excited Whillis shows off his receipt.

Kay: Were there any wedding planning details that really stressed you out, or were you pretty relaxed about the day?
Emily: Many of the other 8 couples were nervous and or stressed. Whillis and I were relaxed and excited. We were tired because we left our hotel room at 3:45am but other than that everything went smooth. There is nothing I wish we did differently.

Kay: Wedding days always go by so fast. What is your favorite memory of the day?
Emily: Wow, I have too many favorite memories! There was the night before when we bought 2 hotel rooms for the night (so we didn’t see each other) and brought our friends up to Brentwood with us to share the night together and celebrate and have fun. There was the look I got from my Husband as I started to walk down the aisle and he first saw me in my dress as his eyes said "wow". There was the giddiness and pride I could see and feel from him as we held hands in front of the Reverend. There was our first kiss as husband and wife and cutting our cake together and feeding it nicely to each other. My Mom always said it’s not nice to shove it into each others’ face so we didn’t.


Whillis and Emily in Aisle 15

Emily, thanks again for your time! I wish you two the best, and a very safe return for Whillis.

-Kay

Walmart wedding

Before you roll your eyes and call this wedding tacky, hear me out. I know the words "Walmart wedding" probably don't make you think of a classy affair, but I think these two got it right. Instead of standing in the cereal aisle amongst garish boxes of Lucky Charms, they put some thought into their wacky wedding plans.

The bride wore dark lavender, the groom black jeans. Flowers were everywhere. The York Walmart Supercenter hosted its first wedding Saturday when Crystal Newsome and Robert “Vick” Vickrey exchanged vows amid hanging baskets and seasonal foliage in the lawn and garden department.


See!? Would you ever know this is Wal*Mart? It looks lovely and the purple/black/green color scheme really works for me.

“We had our first kiss at Walmart,” Crystal recalled. Robert has been with Walmart for 12 years and is the grocery department manager. With five years behind her at the company, Crystal is the deli manager. Friendship blossomed into romance about two years ago.

Robert has three grown children and four grandchildren. Crystal has four children. Her oldest son, 6-year-old Keagan, walked her down the “aisle,” a white runner. The entire blended family was part of the wedding while Walmart employees gathered with more friends to hear Crystal and Robert exchange their vows. “We put an invitation up near the time clock for a while,” Crystal said. She laughed at her co-workers' reactions: “Are you kidding? Why would you want to be here on your day off?" "We both work here, we met here, it all started here, why not?” Robert said of his Walmart wedding.

Getting married in the garden department was really smart. All the lush greenery really makes up for the harsh florescent lighting. Remember the 99 Cent store wedding? I loathe florescent lighting so much, it's all I could see when I looked at the pictures. So, newlyweds, I applaud your efforts to have the nicest wedding possible at a big box store. Good luck!

-Kay

Nudist wedding

Cherie Taylor and Shane Carson of New Zealand have won a radio contest, and the chance to get married in the nude.

They are one of five couples that will get married from a luxury catamaran. The wedding will be broadcast live on the radio station and on a TV station. There are plans for 48 wedding guests and clothing is optional, but nudity is not required.

Says the bride "I think my bridesmaids might go nude as well."

Well, at least they can't complain about the dress.

-Kay

There's one more picture on the Nothing to do with Arbroath blog. Have a look! Butts and boots!

99 Cent store wedding photos

Remember the 99 Cents Only wedding contest that I wrote about last month? The big day for 9 lucky couples was 9/9/09 and the photos are up!

The 9 frugal couples were married separately on 9/9, and they each paid $0.99 for almost everything a wedding needs. The store provided hair and makeup, flowers, photography, hotel accommodations, a limo ride, and gifts for the guests. Couples were even reimbursed for the CA state marriage license.



The 9 diverse couples with their orange flowers



Of course, they're at register 9



$2,599 wedding for 99 cents only



Lots of different gown styles



Congratulations!

If you go to this link you can see more of the decor for the reception. I have a massive hatred for florescent lighting, so that bothers me, but it looks like fun. I especially like the refreshment table made of food from the 99 cent store. The orange and white color scheme looks modern, and you won't see a sad face in the crowd.

Kay

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Bedrock wedding

This story is kind of wordy, so I am going to summarize: Two couples had a charitable double wedding with a Flintstones theme. It started off as a drunken joke, but soon enough they were planning their stone age wedding.

Fred and Wilma were really Andrea and Simon Bean, while Barney and Betty Rubble were Richard and Jill Noble. They had their wedding at a golf club, and then went to a "dinosaur park" to take wedding photos.


The women look perfect! The men have something going on with their hair, but the cuffs are a nice touch.

Their guests were really supportive of their wedding theme choice - 165 guests dressed as cavepeople, the two best men were dinosaurs, and they had a tiered cake that looked like rocks. The brides entered the ceremony to the traditional wedding march, but it quickly changed to the Flinstones theme (on the organ!).


Awesome! The raised clubs make them look like an angry mob, but I love that most people turned up in costume. I can't spot the dinosaur groomsmen that the article mentions, but I hope one was Dino and the other was Hoppy.

The idea came from a group visit to Alton Towers (a theme park in England; it's no Disneyland) when one of the men started laughing like Barney Rubble. They started calling each other by the character names and it just stuck.

Their wedding was charitable as well - they asked for donations to the Children's Liver Disease foundation and raised roughly $2000 for the charity. Andrea Bean aka Wilma holds the cause close to her heart since her own son had a liver transplant as a baby. She says “My son wouldn't be here today if somebody hadn't donated their liver to him, so I'm always urging people to sign up for organ donation too.”

-Kay

Otaku/Geek Wedding!!!

Someone sent me this link with the commentary Getting married under a 60 ft. robot = win.

I totally agree! Japanese culture + wedding + giant freaking robot = today's otaku wedding



The article doesn't specify their names, but this bride and groom beat over 500 other contestants to have the geek wedding of their dreams. Thousands of people turned up to watch these two Gundam fanatics get married.


Here's the happy family. The couple has two children and a baby named Seira (the article says this is a name from Gundam, but a Google search brings up Mermaid Melody Pichi Pichi Pitch Pure)



Here is is! The giant robot! You can just make out the fluffy white gown between his giant robot feet. His left shoulder announces that Japan is a potential city for the 2016 Olympics, but he was built to celebrate the 30th anniversary of the Mobile Suit Gundam franchise.


ROBOT LOVE BALLOONS

This has exploded all over the internet, so I'm sure more details will be out soon. I'd love to see the invitations, reception, and more details about the couple. Congrats to them!

-Kay

I usually do a vintage celebrity wedding or a celebrity wedding on Thursday, but I've got something cooking that will quench your black and white wedding photo needs. Stay tuned!

Bicycle wedding from Russia (with love)

This is the last of the Russian weddings (for now). This one takes place on bicycles.


The way they're dressed is very cute. If the dress code is semi-casual formal, a tuxedo shirt is the best way to go. He's even got tails!






Her legs are muddy from the ride, but she still looks great.

-Kay

IN-N-OUT WEDDING!!!!!!!

My post last week about the 99 Cents Only Store promotion mentioned In-N-Out. If you don't know what In-N-Out is, you probably won't care, but it's a SoCal obsession. Animal Style fries are my vice. Anyway, it got me thinking about In-N-Out for a wedding. I'm sure there's some obsessed fan out there who had them cater a wedding right? RIGHT!



Awesome Sauce!!!


Photos from Ashley Rose Photography

I know nothing about this wedding, but all I need to know is that these people were cool enough to have In-N-Out cater their wedding!

And here is where I have an excuse to talk about my favorite local fast food chain. Their fries are an acquired taste. If you don't like them at first, keep eating. Eventually you will realize that they are actually superior to most fries. If you don't eat meat, you can get a grilled cheese, and if you don't eat carbs either you can get a grilled cheese protein style - it's basically a mini, portable salad. Get everything except your milkshake animal style. Animal style is Californian for "Made In Heaven"

-Kay