22 MB Quicktime Video - AJ and Amanda Get Married

If you are ever at Walt Disney World and have the opportunity to eat at the Hollywood Brown Derby at MGM Studios, take it. That place is amazing.

Get ye to Herman Rotenberg’s 1,873 Unusual Wedding Rings!

And if you took a lot of pictures, you may consider actually buying a flickr account. It’s only $30 for a one year subscription, and you get to upload practically an unlimited number of pictures every month.

If you didn’t take pictures, head on over to the flickr photo pool anyway, because there will be shots there soon.

I’ve published it as an iMix on the iTunes Music Store, so you can view and buy tracks you liked. The playlist, in its entirety, is reproduced below.

The tent is up.

The house is ready.

The flowers are fresh.

The cake is being baked.

See you at the party!

Hopefully construction won’t be an issue, but it’s good information to know.

As Quakers basically formed the religious basis for Pennsylvanian society, most counties in Pennsylvania still offer Quaker Marriage Licenses. These licenses permit the holders to marry in whatever way they choose. As there is traditionally no central figure (like a minister or priest) in a Quaker meeting, no such figure is necessary for a Quaker wedding. Because of our beliefs and feelings on what marriage is and represents, Amanda and I applied for a Quaker Marriage License and have designed our own ceremony.

In the spirit of the Quaker traditions of tolerance and openness, we’re building into the ceremony a section for you, our family and friends, to stand up and say…whatever you want to say. Quaker meetings do not have a set agenda—rather, participants stand up and speak as they feel moved to do so. We don’t want to put any sort of pressure on anyone to speak; we just want people to be aware that there will be a chance to do so during the ceremony.

If you want to speak, you don’t have to tell us or do anything to get on a “list”: there is no list. Since there is no wedding party, and dinner is an informal barbecue affair, consider this our toast. We invite you to be a part of it.

If you’ve got a favorite board game or card game, bring it along. If you’ve got a favorite multiplayer GameCube game (I’m thinking along the lines of Mario Party here), bring it along. If we’ve got to put up with rain, we’ll make our own fun and have a good time anyway.

1. Immediately after I proposed, we started talking about honeymoon plans. Hawaii was the unanimous choice. Then we looked at prices of Hawaii vacations.
2. In an effort to save some money off the sky-high Hawaii prices, we talked about going to Costa Rica. The plans never took, because we had just finished our road trip and were really into the driving thing. We quickly shifted to…
3. A drive to New England and eastern Canada. This was our plan up until Monday, when we realized that we had waited too long to make reservations at Acadia National Park and other locations in Nova Scotia and Prince Edward Island.

So, here’s the itinerary for our honeymoon:

• June 24: Drive to near Fayetteville, NC
• June 25: Drive to Miami, FL
• June 26: Full day at Everglades National Park
  • Tram tour
  • Wet walk could be cool
• June 27: Drive to Disney World
• June 27 - July 2: Disney!
• July 2: Drive to lake house
• July 2-4: Family reunion
• July 5: Drive home

Yeah, we’re probably insane for doing so much driving on our honeymoon, but it’s a good way to save money and still make it to a family reunion which we were sure we were going to have to miss.

To all the Georgia Wilsons: if you can’t make it to the wedding, we’ll see you in July!

I’ve gotten quite a few questions of “So what should we wear to the wedding?” I think the best thing for guys would be khakis or pants that are lightweight since the whole event is outside, and a shirt that is also comfortable for summer weather. Jeans would be too hot, I would think. For the ladies, sun dresses, shorts, etc. How people dressed at the wedding shower in NJ was the perfect thing. Dressing for comfort is really the thing, since we will be outside, and there will be games to play. Croquet, bocce ball, badmitton, bean bags, and probably horseshoes or quoits. Since the weather will also be a little cooler at night, and it’s also a little bit higher elevation, I’d bring something heavier for later in the evening.

Also, since we’ll be having fireworks at night, you may want to bring lawn chairs/blankets to sit on. It’s going to be so much fun!

If you are the recipient of an invitation, you may RSVP online.