Comments on: Something Blue http://www.nerdseyeview.com/blog/2006/06/04/blue-and-white/ a camera, a passport, a ukulele Mon, 06 Sep 2010 02:45:23 -0700 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: The Perfect Northwest Wedding | nerd's eye view http://www.nerdseyeview.com/blog/2006/06/04/blue-and-white/comment-page-1/#comment-75900 The Perfect Northwest Wedding | nerd's eye view Sun, 06 Jul 2008 16:33:58 +0000 http://www.nerdseyeview.com/blog/?p=332#comment-75900 [...] confess, I don’t much care for weddings. Given the opportunity, I will try to talk just about anyone out of it. I don’t think much of [...] [...] confess, I don’t much care for weddings. Given the opportunity, I will try to talk just about anyone out of it. I don’t think much of [...]

]]> By: ianmack http://www.nerdseyeview.com/blog/2006/06/04/blue-and-white/comment-page-1/#comment-32136 ianmack Mon, 05 Mar 2007 21:32:04 +0000 http://www.nerdseyeview.com/blog/?p=332#comment-32136 i agree, one way to look at these types of weddings is depressing. i told myself i wouldn't want all the cliches are my own. i think karen and i have managed to avoid them: no fancy cake, buddhist abbot, lodge by the sea, 2 day bash, karaoke... even so, i try to think of the event as a way to bring family and friends together, not necessarily a total focus on the "love and relationship" between my future wife. i agree, one way to look at these types of weddings is depressing. i told myself i wouldn’t want all the cliches are my own. i think karen and i have managed to avoid them: no fancy cake, buddhist abbot, lodge by the sea, 2 day bash, karaoke… even so, i try to think of the event as a way to bring family and friends together, not necessarily a total focus on the “love and relationship” between my future wife.

]]> By: Not Quite Heaven, Central Virginia : Nerd’s Eye View http://www.nerdseyeview.com/blog/2006/06/04/blue-and-white/comment-page-1/#comment-32127 Not Quite Heaven, Central Virginia : Nerd’s Eye View Mon, 05 Mar 2007 19:42:50 +0000 http://www.nerdseyeview.com/blog/?p=332#comment-32127 [...] The inconvenience gave us a chance to spend some quality time with Singh, a chuckling northern Indian taxi driver who asked if he could tag along to the party. “Sure,” I said. “My husband isn’t here so there’s room for you, but you’ll have to speak German.” “Ich kann ein bisschen!” he replied, cracking us up all over the place. It was nice to talk to another nomad so far from home. He’d lived in Germany and his brother married a German woman… but now he was shuttling us from one subdivision to the next. No wonder he’d rather attend a party. I suffer from wedding ambivalence but I was delighted to be able to hang out with all three of my brothers at once, a joy that happens not very often in spite of the fact that we really do enjoy each other’s company. I got to see my Dad and my step-mom all dressed up and on dance floor, I got to spend time with my new and delightful inlaws, and I got to loll about a hotel in Fairfax, Virginia, for long periods of uninterrupted lethargy. [...] [...] The inconvenience gave us a chance to spend some quality time with Singh, a chuckling northern Indian taxi driver who asked if he could tag along to the party. “Sure,” I said. “My husband isn’t here so there’s room for you, but you’ll have to speak German.” “Ich kann ein bisschen!” he replied, cracking us up all over the place. It was nice to talk to another nomad so far from home. He’d lived in Germany and his brother married a German woman… but now he was shuttling us from one subdivision to the next. No wonder he’d rather attend a party. I suffer from wedding ambivalence but I was delighted to be able to hang out with all three of my brothers at once, a joy that happens not very often in spite of the fact that we really do enjoy each other’s company. I got to see my Dad and my step-mom all dressed up and on dance floor, I got to spend time with my new and delightful inlaws, and I got to loll about a hotel in Fairfax, Virginia, for long periods of uninterrupted lethargy. [...]

]]> By: clongstr http://www.nerdseyeview.com/blog/2006/06/04/blue-and-white/comment-page-1/#comment-15155 clongstr Tue, 06 Jun 2006 13:23:34 +0000 http://www.nerdseyeview.com/blog/?p=332#comment-15155 Cake by the ocean sounds like a perfect wedding to me. Cake by the ocean sounds like a perfect wedding to me.

]]> By: Pam http://www.nerdseyeview.com/blog/2006/06/04/blue-and-white/comment-page-1/#comment-15152 Pam Mon, 05 Jun 2006 14:48:11 +0000 http://www.nerdseyeview.com/blog/?p=332#comment-15152 Another friend said that it was the exhibitionist side of weddings that makes her crazy. I am not alone, it appears. I was fearing that it was just sinful envy, plain and simple. No matching salt cellars at my house! Where's MY monogrammed flatware?!?! Harrumph! But perhaps it's more that even though I'm (sort of) a grown up, I feel like I'm SUPPOSED to want all the pomp and circumstance. Who knows. Two other things that were great about our wedding. Note how both are about cake. I love cake. 1. My Seattle coworkers had arranged for the official who performed the ceremony to show up with a beautiful little white cake decorated with orchids. I had NO idea; it was a total surprise and a perfect one. 2. When we got back from Hawaii, our house was full of friends from the neighborhood who'd come with cake and champagne. It wasn't a total surprise, I'd talked to my friend K. about it, but it was still perfect to have such a casual gathering at home. Thanks for understanding. I was feeling really guilty about feeling blue. Another friend said that it was the exhibitionist side of weddings that makes her crazy. I am not alone, it appears. I was fearing that it was just sinful envy, plain and simple. No matching salt cellars at my house! Where’s MY monogrammed flatware?!?! Harrumph! But perhaps it’s more that even though I’m (sort of) a grown up, I feel like I’m SUPPOSED to want all the pomp and circumstance.

Who knows.

Two other things that were great about our wedding. Note how both are about cake. I love cake.

1. My Seattle coworkers had arranged for the official who performed the ceremony to show up with a beautiful little white cake decorated with orchids. I had NO idea; it was a total surprise and a perfect one.

2. When we got back from Hawaii, our house was full of friends from the neighborhood who’d come with cake and champagne. It wasn’t a total surprise, I’d talked to my friend K. about it, but it was still perfect to have such a casual gathering at home.

Thanks for understanding. I was feeling really guilty about feeling blue.

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