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My elegant+nerdy wedding
It’s been a year since my marriage and I’m finally posting up pictures.
I wanted a classy wedding with nerdy undertones since we met playing World of Warcraft. It was still conventional: I wore a white dress, I had the appropriate wedding party, and the reception consisted of eating and dancing.
Here were the more interesting parts:
- Our recessional music was to the Theme of Star Wars, adapted for cello and violin by me.
- Our drink was called “Elixir of Cherry Blossoms” (my wedding flower)
Our wedding program contained a "buff" in the corner
Guests were seated to their tables named after locations in the mmorpg World of Warcraft. Seating arrangement was attached to a wreath of cranes. We made 1,000 cranes for the wedding.
This is was 1000 cranes looks like. We made them over the course of 5 months.
Each table had a description of the location and the story behind it.
Descriptions for some of the tables. We had 11 tables.
We had R2-D2 run around the dance floor.
- The wedding party walked in to the opening music in the WoW login screen, and I walked in with my husband to “Live to Win”
- We danced to “Earth Angel” from Back to the Future and the dance scene from Pulp Fiction. The video also sliced in Robot Chicken.
- My sister-in-law made World of Warcraft papercrafts that were spread out at the headtable.
Papercraft Moonkin
Frostmourne, Moonkin, Hearthstone, Goblin statue
The grooms cake was designed as a murloc wearing a top hat. You should have seen the look on the baker's face when we tried to explain to him what we wanted.
The cake came out really nice. We were very happy at the detailed results.
We made our own cake toppers in the shape of our avatars wearing appropriate apparel.
Tokeshi Mouri Family Reunion
Aqua has a lot of family in Southern California and one of his uncles organizes a family reunion once every 3 years. It’s a pretty big deal. Everyone brings a dish and there are activities, scrapbooks, group photos, and games.
I’m not sure how this happened but I ended up taking more pictures of Tofu than family members. I met some new family members, and there were also some cute additions to the family, just like me! Except they were babies.
They had badminton set up and I hadn’t played since high school so that was fun. The net was set up too high so you couldn’t really smash it.
There were lots of other dogs too. Tofu was mostly shy and let other dogs sniff her. She’s more comfortable with the smaller dogs.
Some highlights:
Aqua made an awesome pirate doll. He was so creative, from the hook he made from taking out the pipe cleaner fuzz to the peg leg.
Tofu really enjoys the park and gurgling down water from the bottle.
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- Tofu’s name tag. Very useful!
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- Picnic table
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- The awning
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- Eating lunch
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- Aqua enjoys the food.
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- Tofu enjoys the grass
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- Play with me!
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- She likes crunching the water bottle
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- Cool grass
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- Gurgle gurgle
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- She has a toy that can hide a water bottle in its body, but she likes to take it out
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- I made a doll of me in my wedding dress
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- Arggh
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- My pink veil. My hair took a long time to get right.
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- Pose!
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- What is this?!
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- The other dolls and monsters
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- Tofu plays with a volleyball.
Caroline, Fighting!
My good friends are few. I don’t know how this happened, nor am I complaining. And of my few good friends, the number of girl friends is an even smaller percentage of that. I know how this happened. Girl are more maintenance and drama than boys. There is only so much conversation that I can take about clothing, boys, things happened during their day. Though I live vicariously through the stories, I need this kind of information in limited quantities.
Anyway, this post is about Caroline.
Caroline went back to Korea to attend university. Though this limits the girl friends I have near me to…oh…one, I’m happy for her because she seemed anxious to get into the school and she did! So congratulations on the new chapter of your life. I hope you learn lots over there. Shock the staunch machismo Korean boys with your “American” ways and start a revolution! And then tell me all about it. ^_^
Here we are, the day before she left, at BCD Tofu House. I correctly guessed there would be 12 people in there.
