So we followed through on our legal ceremony/marriage licence that I blogged about a few weeks ago, and it was as great evening. First, we had a few family and friends join us at the record store where we met in downtown Denver, and then we had our friend John (who is also a mail-order officiant) who introduced us perform a short legal ceremony. This is where the fun started…
First off, John’s a bit of a grumpy, curmudgeonly teddy bear (if there is such a thing), and despite the fact that I’ve seen him bark at customers for really no reason other than he felt like it, he immediately started crying within minutes of going into his ceremony. This was pretty entertaining, but not nearly as much when he screwed up our names. He had lost the only copy of his ceremony and so had to call the last couple who he married, and they faxed him over their copy. Apparently their names were David and Allison, because he called me David once and Groomasaurus Gal Allison once (and her real name is a far cry from Allison). Some people would get bent out of shape about this, but since our “real” wedding is in November and this was just a more formal extension of getting a marriage licence, we both thought it was pretty funny, kind of cute and definitely memorable.
Once the ceremony was over and I kissed the bride, we all had a toast … actually, make that several toasts, in which about 10 of us polished off a bottle of Petron tequila in 45 minutes flat. Pretty impressive and a little frightening at the same time. After that, we went to one of our favorite restaurants in Denver called Zeng0. It’s latin/asian fusion food, and although that sounds rather pretentious and gimmicky (and it is a little bit), the food is fabulous.
It’s getting late, so I’ll finish up this wrapup tomorrow.
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Big shout out to Amanda over at Stellina Events, who wrote up a very flattering post for Groomasaurus. You should definitely check out Amanda’s blog, as she has great advice and tips for making your wedding more personal and even exotic. Thanks, Amanda, and keep on bloggin.
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