WishfulThinking
Brilliant_Rock
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Hi everyone- Thanks to all of you who have been so lovely and nice to me throughout my time here at PS. I don''t know how I''d have survived all of the wedding craziness without you!
We''re back from San Francisco and we''re MARRIED. Wifey and I [
] are really excited about everything and are SO happy with how our trip turned out. It is great to be married and it was a simply perfect day. Too good to be true, really- except it is!
The Long Story [Or just skip to the next post for pics]
We left on a shuttle from MA to the airport in CT at 3:45am. It was a horrible trip because the driver of the shuttle was one of the most unprofessional people I''ve encountered in my life. Let''s just say it''s the LAST time I am ever going to mention I am a political science student... it seems people consider it fair game to lecture [in this case yell
] me about their own political beliefs. He was so rude. And at FOUR AM!!
We lived on.
When we arrived at the airport we checked in and went through security no problem. We asked the flight attendants if there was anything they could do with our dresses and they told us since the flight was only half full we could take up an entire overhead bin with our dresses, which we did. It went pretty well, considering. Everyone kept being cute and congratulating us, but they were a bit confused as to who was getting married.
It was a common theme throughout the day, which was sort of annoying. ***
We landed in Michigan and quickly got on our next plane. The flight attendants stored our dresses in the closets on the plane on that flight.
Thennnnn.... *drumroll* We arrived in San Francisco! It was a pretty nice day, although a bit cloudy/foggy in the beginning. We took the BART to the shopping center and got a quick lunch, and then headed to the hotel. On the BART this sweet lady struck up a conversation with us and gave us a $20 bill as a wedding present. It was so cute and sweet of her! I really <3 random acts of kindness and it was very touching. The hotel we stayed at, Hotel at Union Square, was really nice. They gave us a complimentary bottle of wine and our room was really cute.
We got dressed quickly and then rushed to Bloomingdale''s where we had our makeup done at the MAC counter. It was so much fun! Neither DW or I wear makeup often, so it was fun to be all dolled up. The man who did our makeup was very sweet and very gay, and he thought we were very cute- he even gave us a discount!
We laughed the whole time because basically everyone who works at the MAC counter in Bloomingdale''s is apparent gay. We were in good company! All of the traveling on the BART in our huge, white poofy dresses was an interesting experience. It was really fun in a silly way because people kept staring at us. A bunch of people kept congratulating us and some people even asked to take our picture. I just
how gay friendly SF is. It''s truly lovely.
Speaking of good company... after we finished with the makeup we took the BART to City Hall, which was packed full of same sex couples trying to get their marriage licenses before the 4th. Everyone was being cute and congratulating each other... it was such a great experience to be in the presence of so many people who can relate to what DW and I are going through right now in terms of the rushing and uncertainty, but there was still such a positive atmosphere. I totally got teary. We got our license, and sat waiting for our ceremony slot to come. Tons of people were taking pictures all over the place. This one photographer for another couple took a bunch of pictures of us and gave us his contact info so he can send them!
Then our photographer showed up and it was time for us to go have our ceremony. A really cute officiant named Bud [Thomas was his real name] did our ceremony. He was great! We''re pretty sure he personalized our vows a little bit and they were just PERFECT. He even said he wished he could hang out with us forever and that we made his day. He made our life! We were legally married!!!!!!!
DW was totally crying during the ceremony... I was wiping her tears with my fingers. I think I was too shocked and happy to cry, but I am tearing up writing this now. We were both really emotional. Our photographer took some really great pictures of us. He kept saying how good the photos were turning out, and if he liked them I''m sure we will! He knew his way around City Hall really well and gave us a lot of good ideas of places to go for pictures. We felt beautiful and had a lot of fun. We both really like getting our pictures taken- especially together! I am basically dying of excitement waiting to see those pictures and I know DW feels the same!
When we left City Hall we went back to our hotel. That''s where we took the pictures I''m posting here... sorry for the not awesome quality on some of them. The hotel was not especially well-lit, so they''re a little dark and we had a bit of red-eye that I tried to erase with my cr*ppy photo editing software.
Then we changed out of our dresses and went to the Cheesecake Factory for dinner. The concierge at our hotel called ahead for us so we didn''t have to wait at all! We ate outside on the heated porch which was really cute and beautiful but also sort of chilly! Our waitress was really great and they gave us complimentary dessert.
After that we basically went to bed... it was a veeeeeery long day. When we woke up we repeated our trek across the country, noting how weird it was to land in Minneapolis where we weren''t married anymore [
] but then returned to CT and then to MA, which are both friendly territory.
So that''s the story! Feel free to skip over it and go right to the pics.
*** For people who are interested in these things [any social sciences geeks out there?] we thought it was really interesting, although annoying for sort of obvious reasons, the way that heterosexism [as well as heteronormativity] played out during our whole trip, especially on the planes/in the airports. We thought it was mildly amusing the weird stories people would invent to explain how it came to be that S and I were traveling together and both carrying wedding dresses. It was more believable to them [despite our very obvious PDA and the dresses] that we were a) Having a joint wedding [I''ve got to say I think that''s sort of tacky...] b) Marrying the same man [?!] c) LOOKING for husbands [apparently already well prepared...] d) Dressing up for Halloween than that we were together and getting married. People really said those things to us! Obviously we''re both acutely aware that we''re in the minority, but academically speaking it was a definite point of interest. Personally speaking it was annoying and led to really awkward conversations... /analysis
Enjoy!
We''re back from San Francisco and we''re MARRIED. Wifey and I [
The Long Story [Or just skip to the next post for pics]
We left on a shuttle from MA to the airport in CT at 3:45am. It was a horrible trip because the driver of the shuttle was one of the most unprofessional people I''ve encountered in my life. Let''s just say it''s the LAST time I am ever going to mention I am a political science student... it seems people consider it fair game to lecture [in this case yell
We lived on.
When we arrived at the airport we checked in and went through security no problem. We asked the flight attendants if there was anything they could do with our dresses and they told us since the flight was only half full we could take up an entire overhead bin with our dresses, which we did. It went pretty well, considering. Everyone kept being cute and congratulating us, but they were a bit confused as to who was getting married.
We landed in Michigan and quickly got on our next plane. The flight attendants stored our dresses in the closets on the plane on that flight.
Thennnnn.... *drumroll* We arrived in San Francisco! It was a pretty nice day, although a bit cloudy/foggy in the beginning. We took the BART to the shopping center and got a quick lunch, and then headed to the hotel. On the BART this sweet lady struck up a conversation with us and gave us a $20 bill as a wedding present. It was so cute and sweet of her! I really <3 random acts of kindness and it was very touching. The hotel we stayed at, Hotel at Union Square, was really nice. They gave us a complimentary bottle of wine and our room was really cute.
We got dressed quickly and then rushed to Bloomingdale''s where we had our makeup done at the MAC counter. It was so much fun! Neither DW or I wear makeup often, so it was fun to be all dolled up. The man who did our makeup was very sweet and very gay, and he thought we were very cute- he even gave us a discount!
Speaking of good company... after we finished with the makeup we took the BART to City Hall, which was packed full of same sex couples trying to get their marriage licenses before the 4th. Everyone was being cute and congratulating each other... it was such a great experience to be in the presence of so many people who can relate to what DW and I are going through right now in terms of the rushing and uncertainty, but there was still such a positive atmosphere. I totally got teary. We got our license, and sat waiting for our ceremony slot to come. Tons of people were taking pictures all over the place. This one photographer for another couple took a bunch of pictures of us and gave us his contact info so he can send them!
Then our photographer showed up and it was time for us to go have our ceremony. A really cute officiant named Bud [Thomas was his real name] did our ceremony. He was great! We''re pretty sure he personalized our vows a little bit and they were just PERFECT. He even said he wished he could hang out with us forever and that we made his day. He made our life! We were legally married!!!!!!!
When we left City Hall we went back to our hotel. That''s where we took the pictures I''m posting here... sorry for the not awesome quality on some of them. The hotel was not especially well-lit, so they''re a little dark and we had a bit of red-eye that I tried to erase with my cr*ppy photo editing software.
After that we basically went to bed... it was a veeeeeery long day. When we woke up we repeated our trek across the country, noting how weird it was to land in Minneapolis where we weren''t married anymore [
So that''s the story! Feel free to skip over it and go right to the pics.
*** For people who are interested in these things [any social sciences geeks out there?] we thought it was really interesting, although annoying for sort of obvious reasons, the way that heterosexism [as well as heteronormativity] played out during our whole trip, especially on the planes/in the airports. We thought it was mildly amusing the weird stories people would invent to explain how it came to be that S and I were traveling together and both carrying wedding dresses. It was more believable to them [despite our very obvious PDA and the dresses] that we were a) Having a joint wedding [I''ve got to say I think that''s sort of tacky...] b) Marrying the same man [?!] c) LOOKING for husbands [apparently already well prepared...] d) Dressing up for Halloween than that we were together and getting married. People really said those things to us! Obviously we''re both acutely aware that we''re in the minority, but academically speaking it was a definite point of interest. Personally speaking it was annoying and led to really awkward conversations... /analysis
Enjoy!
Not sure if u mentioned it in one of your other threads.. but are ya''ll still going to have your wedding you''ve been planning??
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