"Eric @ opposite-lock.com" (theyrerolling)
10/20/2016 at 11:00 • Filed to: VINTAGE, Wedding
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"Eric @ opposite-lock.com" (theyrerolling)
10/20/2016 at 11:00 • Filed to: VINTAGE, Wedding | 4
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...on the 15th, the day of the potential storm of the decade in the PNW.
The storm didn’t quite materialize and we had pretty well planned for the worst. Vendors arrived on time. People did their jobs. Perfectly smooth. It ended up far better than even we were expecting (we weren’t expecting much, just in case, considering we did it all ourselves to save money) and our guests were blown away. We had easily the best flower arrangements anyone had ever seen, the ceremony was spectacular, and the food was excellent. People are still raving when they talk to us or our families. Even my wife’s aunt that has been constantly trying to one-up us since well before the wedding (because her daughter got married a few months ago) was utterly blown away and at a loss for words. We even did it on a smaller budget at a far more expensive venue.
Being married is the weirdest feeling and the hardest thing to really wrap my head around, between how old I am, how long I was single, how long we’ve been dating (we have been talking about marriage since before we met in person), and everything that ingrains in you. She told her sister that she was considering it within two weeks of officially starting dating, which her sister thought was pretty premature, but look at how that turned out. I couldn’t have ever hoped for a more perfect match.
The end of the night involved a ride to our hotel. We looked at the options with her father and decided a modern limo was far too expensive and lacked the class necessary to match the “simple, elegant, and classy” targets we set for our wedding. So her dad found a place that has a fleet of old British luxury cars. Ours was a 1961 Rolls Royce Silver Cloud II...
Since it was late, we didn’t get any good pictures of it, but it looked like this with the same two-tone paint scheme and white walls. Although it was late when we left, we had the car for a few hours, so we asked him to take a long cruise to the hotel. In spite of leaving around 22:30, this car attracted attention like nothing else I’ve ever been in - everyone waved and cheered when they saw us on our 2-hour cruise.
It was a lot of fun. Not that any part wasn’t amazing, but it felt like the perfect jalop way to finish off the day...
Still three weeks left before our honeymoon, though. Really looking forward to that.
(On a sadder note: On the way out, we found my friend that left a little earlier than our send off had crashed his Subaru RX at the bottom of the hill and there was a police car with lights flashing behind him. I felt so bad, but there was nothing we could do. At least he was sober...)
JohnH3ASP
> Eric @ opposite-lock.com
10/20/2016 at 11:03 |
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Well, congrats!
Party-vi
> Eric @ opposite-lock.com
10/20/2016 at 11:13 |
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Congratulations!
For Sweden
> Eric @ opposite-lock.com
10/20/2016 at 11:16 |
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No wagon? Better have the wedding again.
shop-teacher
> Eric @ opposite-lock.com
10/20/2016 at 11:18 |
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Congrats all around! Once you’ve found the right person, being married is great.
We had a similar wedding experience. It was done on the cheap, but with lots of care. We made the decision ahead of time that we wouldn’t get bent out of shape if anything went “wrong,” we’d just go with the flow and have a fun time. That attitude paid off in spades. We had a blast, and for months people were telling us how much fun they had. We left in my pickup truck, which at the time had a smashed right rear quarter panel that I couldn’t afford to fix. Kind of a Jalop way to leave, but in a different less cool sort of way :)
LongbowMkII
> Eric @ opposite-lock.com
10/20/2016 at 11:20 |
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No regal drifts?
Congrats but there was a missed opportunity.
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Eric @ opposite-lock.com
> For Sweden
10/20/2016 at 12:07 |
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If I had full control of it, it would have been a Volvo wagon with a nice rusty patina.
Manwich - now Keto-Friendly
> Eric @ opposite-lock.com
10/20/2016 at 12:23 |
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Congrats!
What are you doing for the honeymoon?
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Eric @ opposite-lock.com
> Manwich - now Keto-Friendly
10/20/2016 at 13:46 |
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A trip to Mazatlan. We had it planned with her parents (they do it annually for Thanksgiving and we did it with them last year), so we decided it was best (most cost-effective, least-disruptive, and least-effort) to simply extend it by a week. So it will be just the two of us for the first week, then her parents and some extended family join us for our second week.
We hope to do a more ambitious vacation that we’ve been dreaming of in the coming year...
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Eric @ opposite-lock.com
> LongbowMkII
10/20/2016 at 13:54 |
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I don’t think the driver would have done those for us, but that would have been fun.
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Eric @ opposite-lock.com
> Party-vi
10/20/2016 at 13:55 |
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Thank you, sir.
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Eric @ opposite-lock.com
> JohnH3ASP
10/20/2016 at 13:55 |
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Thank you. :)
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Eric @ opposite-lock.com
> shop-teacher
10/20/2016 at 16:12 |
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I love the last bit. Mind you, I don’t know that I would have been comfortable with people attaching stuff to my car as many do when you drive yourself. Our cars stayed home (or were personally delivered by my FIL to the hotel valet).
I wouldn’t have described our wedding as cheap , but it was definitely on a budget. Weddings are impossibly expensive these days (ours was below average in price, but still cost as much as a decent new car), so being below average at a top venue was quite the feat. The cousins spent about 10-20k more on each of their weddings, in spite of their less expensive venues...
The decision to just be happy with whatever happens is really the best with most things in life. If you can’t roll with things, how are you going to deal with years of things that will often not go according to your plan?
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shop-teacher
> Eric @ opposite-lock.com
10/20/2016 at 16:32 |
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We didn’t attach anything to my truck, although given the smashed quarter panel and also the front bumper cover that was cracked and flopping around, honestly I wouldn’t have cared.
Cheap really isn’t the right word for our wedding either, but it was not lavish by any means. By wedding standards, it was pretty cheap. By the standard of two people throwing a party, it was pretty expensive.
Yes, you really need to be able to roll with the punches that life gives you. More often than not, things don’t exactly go to plan.