Further adventures in preparation for matrimony

[triskellian]

Apparently, we have to make an appointment to see a registrar about eight weeks before the wedding, to pay our fees, and talk through vows and the like. After about a million years on hold, I get through to someone who takes my name, the wedding date and location, and looks me up.

"You're getting married at three?"
"Yes"
"To Mr L?"
"Yes"

I'm getting married at three, to Mr L! Why do these innocent questions make it feel for a second more real and more exciting than months of preparations and talking have? I'm getting married in less than two months time, at three in the afternoon, to Mr L!

Having confirmed these details, the appointment is made.

"It's with Val"
"Is she the one we'll actually have?
"Yes"

Our registrar is called Val! The person who will be marrying us exists enough to have a name!

I know I'm getting carried away (Heh. Possibly in the 'they're coming to take me away, haha, heehee' sense), but almost all of the stuff we've done so far is effectively window-dressing. It's this legal stuff that actually matters, that is the most important part of the day. At this meeting, with Val, we'll settle on the words we will use to make our legal contract with each other. It's scary and exciting stuff.

Comments

[nixieq.livejournal.com]

yay!

also, love the icon. they look very surprised when they land. >;)

[triskellian]

Thanks ;-) al_fruitbat animated it, and added the little blinking eyes. I'm hoping we won't actually end up propelled out of our cake ;-)

[nixieq.livejournal.com]

well, y'know, just go easy on the champagne and it shouldn't be a problem. >;)

[http://users.livejournal.com/_corpse_/]

I'm hoping we won't actually end up propelled out of our cake ;-)

Why on earth not?

Everyone present would remember it to the ends of their days if you did recreate al_fruitbat's animation in real life.

It would be way cool.

[triskellian]

Actually, that might be one of the sanest of the various wacky ideas suggested by friends to 'liven things up'. frax, in particular, has come up with some particularly hare-brained schemes.

But the answer's still no ;-)

[http://users.livejournal.com/_corpse_/]

Pah!

And pah again!

We'd only need a 7-foot high cake (real or fake, wouldn't really matter) of 3 tiers with the top one being say 3-foot across. Then we add hydraulic ram and some hefty springs to allow for that pleasing bounce at the end of what I like to call the wedding trajectory.

[al-fruitbat.livejournal.com]

Sorry, I'm afraid I fiddled with the 'gravity' in that section, increasing it suddenly (or their weight suddenly?) so that the usual 9.8m/s² doesn't apply. Otherwise they'd have spent longer in the air (and the anim would have featured a lot more leg.)

The pleasing bounce is aesthetic, not practical, and wouldn't scale up ;-)

[http://users.livejournal.com/_corpse_/]

al_fruitbat, I never took you for a poo-pooer and a nay-sayer. Pah, encore une fois!!!

[triskellian]

Tell you what, you make such a cake (complete with al_fruitbat's gravity corrections), and bring it with you, and we'll agree to jump out of it. Well, I will, at least. Dunno about smiorgan ;-)

[frax.livejournal.com]

I only have to persuade smiorgan!