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Tricia and I are busy on our Honeymoon and net access has been sparce, but I’ll try and update the posts as I have time. There are also 100s of photos to upload, but I have not been able to find a place with the bandwidth to upload all of them… so they’ll have to wait a bit. -chrisp

Well the wedding is done and the bills (mostly) paid. For the most part, I was very happy with how it turned out. Thanks so much to all that showed up and helped us make it happen!

For many of us, the wedding really started the day before. Trish and I started that day by driving Nishka to the “Lucky Dog Retreat” for her two week stay. It was very difficult to leave her, but the place came recommended and it looked like it would provide her with a good amount of interaction (Nishka needs a lot..). After getting all of the Bridesmaids and Groomsmen in order, we had to wait about an hour for all of the rehearsal party to show up. We did a high-speed rehearsal and then went to Acapulco Joe’s for dinner. It was great as always.

There was so much drama surrounding the wedding that it was very difficult to have it at all. Although some of the drama continued throughout the wedding, it was fairly well contained. Of course I didn’t get through it without a “DER” moment in the limelight. We were both really happy that the weather cleared up and we had sunny skies for the ceremony. We would have still had fun regardless, but I think losing the opportunity to have it outside and in the gardens would have really bummed us out (especially the Bride). Alan (Top Speed) put on an amazing performance. It’s too bad that only a fraction of the wedding party saw it, but oh well. I had fun with my own set, although it was quite a bit different than I planned due to the dwindling crowd. Rather than play the entire set, I just covered the Bride’s favs while I had the chance. Since I put a full mix together, I think I’ll record it once I get back and post it.

Unfortunately, there is no recording of the wedding night mixes since my recorder went MIA - along with my laptop’s power supply - which was thankfully found. The Canterbury provided some truly awesome food and the service was top notch. We did have some trouble with the front desk, but other than that they were really top notch as a reception location. The Zoo on the other hand, was very difficult to work with. While they did their job, I can’t say that they did anything more than the bare minimum. The Bridal party showed up about an hour late and the zoo representative was extremely rushed to get us in and out. We still had the grounds for a few hours, but they assumed we would be out sooner (turns out we did still get out on time).

The Bride was obviously not happy at all with the party being so late, and the zoo representative presented an attitude that made things worse. Fortunately, a crisis was avoided and the only side-effect was that people had to wonder the gardens for awhile beforehand. Since it’s such a nice place, it seemed to keep everyone entertained. Given all of the problems we had going into the wedding, I’ll take that one problem as a Godsend.