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My Wedding
« on: 2011-10-05, 19:41:23 »

Well, I'm now a married man! Sir Wolf and Sir Brian were gracious enough to take part in the event. We had a nice outdoor location, and even though it was rainy and cold all weekend, the rain stopped before the ceremony.

We had a sword-arch at the end of the ceremony, and I had all the groomsmen wear swords. I wore the Albion Landgraf with its DBK custom scabbard (I'm going to have to email him, I think he'll be quite thrilled that one of his scabbards was a wedding centerpiece).

I don't have a lot of pictures yet, since it'll take some time to get the professional photos back from the photographer, but my brother-in-law Jon took some and handed off his camera when he was otherwise occupied, so we do have some already. I put some of the better ones up on facebook here:

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Re: My Wedding
« Reply #1 on: 2011-10-05, 20:00:45 »
Once again congratulations! How is the ol' ball and chain? Not chaffing you I trust!  ;D

Thank you for including Rosemary and I in your wedding! We had a fantastic time and it was great spending time with some really great people we don't get to see often or long enough!  :)
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Re: My Wedding
« Reply #2 on: 2011-10-05, 21:10:29 »
Congratulations to the both of you!!  Love the medieval sword arch!
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Re: My Wedding
« Reply #3 on: 2011-10-05, 22:50:57 »
yes it was an awesome time. i have to say i have never been more proud of my best bud. he was truly moved by his vows.

we had a great time at the wedding and the reception. it was a great honor to have been invited let alone be apart of the wedding party itself. the weather was on the cool side, but i was warm in my wool suit (yeah!) i had to change my oldest into warmer clothes by the evenings end. the scenery was second to none. the "PoeStank" was awesome and the grounds were rich in their settings. this wedding was full of laughs and cut ups and made it feel like you really wanted to be there, to be in the moment with the bride and groom. everyone wanted to lend a hand or chat it up all thru the night. was a great time had by all. lots of GREAT FOOD, great drink, great fellowship and great laughs. the only sad part of teh evening is when i had to take off Ed's albion and give it back. cant wait for all of the pictures.

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Re: My Wedding
« Reply #4 on: 2011-10-06, 02:21:14 »
Congratulations Ed, I wish you many years of happiness.

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« Reply #5 on: 2011-10-06, 03:13:06 »
It was a very lovely wedding, and I'm so happy that you and Kat have finally made things official. I've often referred to the two of you when talking to other people as being two of the few people I know who truly just seem perfect together. :)

I don't actually have any pics of me with my sword on (Andrea took one, but I'm at an angle so that you can barely see the hilt), but she did get a picture of us doing the sword arch.
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Re: My Wedding
« Reply #6 on: 2011-10-06, 15:37:55 »
Yeah, I really wanted to run around and take pictures myself, but I knew I'd be too busy to do that, and I was. :) Boy, I had no idea. I knew it would be hard to get around and talk to everyone, but it was even harder than I imagined. Kat and I barely ate anything, didn't finish our slice of cake, and ended up eating at Cracker Barrel around the corner after we packed everything up.

The sword arch was truly fantastic, and we handed out several loaners to folks who didn't bring swords. I had enough Albions with scabbards to equip the groomsmen (except Jon who brought a katana). I spent some of Friday afternoon cleaning the swords to get them ready, and that included going over the entire blade surface on some of the cheaper CAS-Iberia pieces with a dremel (the blades had turned a nice light brown/grey color). The Albions, thankfully, just needed to have the pommels and guards cleaned up a little, which brightened up just fine with some steel wool and CLR. I did notice a few marks and pits on a couple of my blades, but no active rust. I really need to clean them much more often.

It took us a long time to get here, to make things official, but the wedding was great and we're very happy with how it all played out. I can't wait to see the professional photos!
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Re: My Wedding
« Reply #7 on: 2011-10-06, 16:49:48 »
Very Many happy congratulations Sir Ed, it looks like it was a fantastic day.
I`m glad Kat has finaly made an honnest man of you  ;)

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Re: My Wedding
« Reply #8 on: 2011-10-06, 19:22:38 »
Congratulations, Edward...and welcome to the ranks.
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Re: My Wedding
« Reply #9 on: 2011-10-07, 03:49:16 »
It was a very lovely wedding, and I'm so happy that you and Kat have finally made things official. I've often referred to the two of you when talking to other people as being two of the few people I know who truly just seem perfect together. :)

I forgot-- I wanted to thank you for making such a nice compliment. I know I certainly feel that way. I love it when people agree. :)

I hope everyone had a great time, enjoyed the party, the food, and so on.

And I hope the groomsmen liked their gifts. Groomsmen/bridesmaids gifts can often end up not being very practical, so I got the groomsmen lock-blade knives, engraved with their names and the date.

I'm still not entirely used to my new ring. But what's funny is that I'm not used to it because it's smaller than the other ring I used to wear... my silver Grim Reaper. :)
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Re: My Wedding
« Reply #10 on: 2011-10-07, 11:44:16 »
heheh oh ya like mine!

i still say u need to take your old ring to a tattoo artist and have it tattooed under your current ring

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Re: My Wedding
« Reply #11 on: 2011-10-07, 13:00:27 »
Congratulations again to you and your beautiful beautiful bride.  I said at the time, but I will repeat myself here, it was the grin on your face that brought tears to my eyes.  I am so very happy for the both of you.  Mark and I both wish you two all the best in the years to come.
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« Reply #12 on: 2011-10-07, 14:08:05 »

Thanks! Yeah, I couldn't stop grinning. Apparently everyone could see that. Wow. :)
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« Reply #13 on: 2011-10-07, 20:47:02 »
Huzzah and congratulations!
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Re: My Wedding
« Reply #14 on: 2011-10-07, 21:44:46 »
hehehe grin