More About the Wedding Ceremony

Location and Weather

As Amy posted on Friday, we are in fact having a ceremony instead of a court wedding. It will be held at Capitol Park near downtown Tuscaloosa. It's a really awesome place you guys!


So awesome in fact that we'll still be holding it at Capitol Park even if it rains! Though, and I am watching it pretty regularly, Weather.com isn't showing any rain for that day, or that weekend! It's going to be a cool 69°, hopefully the sun will still be up. I would suggest bringing a light jacket just in case. And if it does rain, perhaps some umbrellas... just in case someone forgot. Like the Bride and Groom.... :P

For those last minuters, such as myself, who wouldn't be coming via carpool, Capitol Park is located on the West side of Lurleen Wallace, down 6th Street. I know the picture looks as though you can jump onto University Blvd and get there, but that road dead-ends and you have to get onto 6th in any case. I will say that there is extremely limited parking, so if you can carpool do so.


Attendance

I've got a few texts and calls about the fact that we changed our original plan of Court Marriage to Ceremony Marriage, and how said callers/texters wouldn't be in town by that point to attend. It's okay!! We kind of figured that would happen.

The invitations and the blog have all been pointing towards the Court Marriage and then a big Halloween reception on Saturday. This is a last minute change, and we don't expect everyone to jump when we say jump. If you haven't got it by this point, Amy and I are pretty laid back. We aren't going to be jumping down your throat because you didn't take work off or school off or whatever to get down here for our last minute ceremony.

Ceremony

As posted on Friday, the ceremony will be held at 5:00p.m. at Capitol Park. The Ceremony will be headed by our awesome officiant Barbara, who was pointed in our direction by our friend Carrie, who will be behind the camera for a little while during the wedding and reception. Amy and I got a chance to meet up with Barbara a few days ago and talk to her, share some ideas on this last minute event, all of which she seemed very enthusiastic in helping us in.

As far as the ceremony itself, the original idea was to attempt some form of Guerrilla style wedding where we just all run in, do a real quick wedding, and then run out before anyone else in the area figured out what the hell just happened. We had contacted the Birmingham Museum of Art to see if we could do this in their sculpture garden, but they said nay.

So after some discussion, we settled on Capitol Park. But in keeping in the spirit of the Guerrilla wedding, we will not be having people line up or stand on particular sides or anything like that. We'll arrange guests when they get there!

There will be no wedding party, though there may be an acting wedding party at the reception, Barbara will handle the rings until it's time for us to put them on. And to keep the rings safe, Amy and I went and got this little pinch-toe coffin to hold the rings. Aside from cleaning the house this weekend while Amy helped Carrie take photos at another wedding I painted and pillowed(?) the coffin, and then Amy added a shiny glaze over it earlier today.













I think it looks pretty damn neat, but I'm bias. I'm not sure what we'll do with it afterwords but I plan on keeping it! May take the pillowing out of it though...

The awesome thing about it is yesterday Amy and I went looking for a journal or something to act as a guest book for the reception and we found a nice one that matches the little design of the coffin. At that point we had to get it!


Attire

Wear whatever the hell you want. As long as you aren't going to be arrested for indecent exposure, we'll be fine with it. In fact we almost insist you dress as casual as you can. But wear what you will, no one's gonna jump you for wearing your Wassup Budweiser tee you should have retired years prior.

Post Ceremony

After the ceremony itself, and depending on the lighting situation (sorry Carrie, it may go suddenly dark on us) we may hang around the park for a little bit to take photos. I suggest climbing on the ruins of the old capitol building myself, as it's very hard not to do when you're there. The siren song of the ruins beckon you to play!! Plus you get fun and unique photos!

Then, everyone load back into the vehicles and we'll head over to Amy's parent's Bill and Karen's house for pizza and beer and movies and hanging out at the fire pit!

Any and all food allergies/special preparations should be discussed before Friday!

Celebrating can go on as long as necessary, just remember Saturday is crunch down time to finish foods. I'll have more on the reception tomorrow! Unless I'm busy and I can't get to it, like how this was going to be posted yesterday but I didn't get to it until today...