Monday, September 17, 2012

List #43: How Our Wedding Was Different

Laughing during the ceremony. Photo by Aki Mimoto.
This week's Listicles topic, brought to you by Stasha of Northwest Mommy, is 10 things wedding. I wasn't sure what to write for this one, but I thought I'd go with something about our wedding, as it was almost exactly nine years ago: September 23, 2003. We had a pretty non-traditional wedding, so I decided to write about ten ways that it was different from the Hollywood movie white wedding.

  1. It was a planned elopement. We told everyone when & where we were getting married, but only invited the officiant (a friend's father who was a minister, though it was a secular ceremony), two friend/photographers to the ceremony.
  2. We hiked for several hours to get to the location where we had our ceremony: on top of a mountain (the Third Peak of the Stawamus Chief).
  3. My 'wedding dress' was a running top & a trekking skirt from Mountain Equipment Co-op. Neither were white or ivory.
  4. Neither of us proposed to the other, we just eventually agreed to get married. 
  5. I wasn't interested in a diamond engagement ring either. We just got simple gold bands (mine's white gold, his yellow) & had the jeweller do a hammered finish on them.
  6. We went on our honeymoon before we had a reception. We took a Modo car to the Gulf Islands for ten days.
  7. We invited about three dozen people to our reception, held in the common room of our housing co-op. We decorated it with the help of some friends & the room booking cost a grand total of $10.
  8. We didn't have a cake, but instead made a tiered stand for a few dozen cupcakes, decorated by Oliver & my sister.
  9. We didn't serve a meal at the reception, having local wine & cheese (we got kilos of it from Costco) instead.
  10. For wedding favours, I hand painted a wine glass for each guest to use at the reception, then take home with them.


Why Monday lists? Reading the lovely Chloe's blog, Tea Swamp Park, I found an idea I had to 'steal': a list of all her Halloween costumes, with quite a few photos. She got the idea from Hula Seventy's List Project. I've decided to do the weekly lists for a year that Hula Seventy is doing. 

Tea Swamp Park & Hula Seventy are not the only ones doing lists, however. Click on the Listicles badge to the left to check out NorthWestMommy's list & 'assignment' for next week.





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19 comments:

  1. Your wedding sounds fabulous!!! Seriously, seriously perfect.

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  2. Love this. And you wedding dress!! So Modo cars have been around for a decade ha?

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  3. I LOVE it!! The day should be every bit as unique as the couple getting married. Havingvthe reception later with friends and family is something I would love to do!

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  4. Sounds like a very nice wedding that was truly yours.

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  5. Love that you did what was right for the two of you. And looks like you had an awesome view for your vows!

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  6. Sounds very romantic and low key! Love the simpicity!

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  7. The view must have been stunning! We, too, went on the honeymoon before we got married (we got married in the dead of winter, so where can you really go then?)

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  8. Sounds like a beautiful, simple wedding. I wrote about 10 dream weddings, if I had the chance for a do-over. On a mountaintop was near the top of my list.

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  9. I couldn't imagine hiking that, but the end result is beautiful!

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  10. Sounds like it was the perfect wedding for you. Who cares where the wine and cheese comes from as long as it's wine and cheese!!

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  11. sounds like a perfect day to me!
    I loved mine, and normally think I would change nothing.....except a complete change from the traditional would have been really, really fun. And memorable. As nice as our wedding day was, I doubt that it was memorable for anyone but us.

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  12. Sounds like you had a far more relaxing day than most! Congrats on your upcoming anniversary!

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  13. Aw, I love this! I think it sounds very romantic to get married at the top of a mountain! And, holy cow, what a view!!

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  14. The perfect wedding is the one that is perfect for you. I'm kinda wanting your wedding ensemble. Very nice. Ellen

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  15. Wow! What a view, and such a private, personal moment. Looks absolutely lovely!

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  16. Very awesome. Especially getting married in hiking shoes!

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  17. I love the idea of a painted wine glass as a wedding favor. Who wouldn't want a personalized wine glass? Sounds like a wonderful wedding.

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  18. Sounds like a lovely wedding! I can't believe that you hiked all the way up there, but I bet the view was amazing! We didn't have a formal proposal either, and I have my titanium wedding band and no engagement ring. We chose to buy a condo with that money instead.

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  19. Your wedding sounds so wonderful! And I love the wedding favors you made!

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