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Ok, here’s the deal. The boss said we can have Karaoke at the wedding reception. Now, before you touch your fingertips together and slowly say “excellent”, there are some ground rules. Because lets face it, there’s a fine line between having Karaoke at your wedding reception and having a “Karaoke wedding reception”. If we don't adhere to the guidelines, our reception will consist of 5 straight hours of ex-sorority girls singing “I Will Survive” intermingled with Richie singing the f-bomb version of “Total Eclipse of the Heart”.

Now that just can’t happen. Not on Greg's watch.

Sensi Murphy says here are some guidelines:

You have to call dibs. To prevent dunk Gabe fighting with drunk Richie for the right to sing “Let Her Cry” by Hootie and the Blowfish, requests to sing can be made before the wedding date. It will also make it easier for our DJ. To call dibs, type your name and song in the comments section or email me or Carrie. First come, first serve. So if you wait till Sept 26th to tell the DJ your tune, most likely he’ll say, “I’m sorry, but “It’s Raining Men’ by the Weathergirls is reserved for Justin Arthur”. But don’t worry; towards the tail end of the night we will open up the singing to everyone who didn’t make a request.
Karaoke must be sandwiched between at least three non-karaoke songs. Otherwise, our first dance will be to Steve rapping “Freaks of the Industry”.
What the DJ says, goes. Please don’t fight with him. He has our deposit.
Unfortunately, we need to limit the slow songs. We want people to dance while you sing, not make out.

Also, we want your input for the DJ's song list, so if you want to get down to the “Cha Cha Slide” speak now or forever hold your peace. Again, please use the comments section for your requests. Thanks!

Monday, May 25, 2009

Save the Dates

Some peeps were interested, so here's a post about our "Save the Dates".

Everything was contained in a 3x5 inch Pee-Chee folder.

Inside of the folder were two sets of instructions. On the left, how to play M.A.S.H and on the right, how to use a Cootie Catcher.

"Somebody" originally wanted to include just the cootie catcher. "Somebody else" wanted to also include the MASH card for maximum refrigerator door usage. Also, "Somebody else" didn't realize how hard folding a sh*tload of cootie catchers actually is.

Mad props to our homies Joan, Jennie and Faith.

The MASH pic you see on the top of our blog is a copy of what we included in our S the Ds.

The right side of the folder contained all the Cootie catcher stuff

We originally wanted to go all fancy with the cootie catcher but in the end we decided to keep it playful and super gay. We printed "binder paper" lines with "kid type" fonts on medium stock paper. And no, that's not my handwriting.

In case you were curious: yes, this was all my idea

(don't tell Carrie I said that. Or any of my male friends for that matter)

Guess Who's Getting Married?

Me, dumba$$.

Wow! Whoever is marrying the guy who came up with this is totally lucky. He's probably so sensitive yet super manly at the same time. I can just picture him at the gym working out while reading some sensitive girly type books. What a catch!

Note: the vampire thing is not a subconscious slip that the bride is sucking the life out of the groom. Not at all.

Lets face it, the groom who came up with this is probably marrying

another groom.

(not that anythings wrong with that)

I am not your secret admirer. And yes, you do eat boogers. I've seen you.

And lets be honest, I'm more like your secret stalker.

BTW: you should probably sit farther from your computer screen.

I just care about you. We will be together soon. Sept 26th.

Friday, May 22, 2009

Wedding Chapel

Here's the Church

(Morris Chapel)

Here's the Steeple

(Morris Chapel's steeple)

Open the Church....

(The inside of Morris Chapel)

See all the people

(You)

Monday, May 11, 2009

Registry according to Carrie = pulling teeth

So we registered the other day at Crate & Barrel and Macy's which was totally my first choice for places to register. I totally did not want to register at Best Buy, Fry's Electronics, or Eddie's Liquors. No, not me. I totally wanted to register for bedding and place settings rather than a stupid Sony Bravia 70" 1080p LCD HDTV model #KDL70XBR7. If you're curious on how the TV looks, you could probably find it by clicking the link: stupid tv.

I truly believe that the place settings will set a positive start for our new life as husband and wife. And the bedding practically guarantees we will be together forever. The TV on the other hand is just a tv. I mean lets face it, if someone wanted to register for a tv they'd probably be "selfish" or "not realistic" anyways.

Even though we COULD use a tv to get maximum viewing pleasure from our wedding video or future home movies of our yet to be born children, the thought of enjoying our memories to the max is just a "stupid reason" and registering for a tv probably "wouldn't be worth it" or "come on are you serious? we are not registering for a tv". And besides, what's more fun: a kick ass formal dinner party or a dumb ol' super bowl party where all your friends would come over and totally not have fun at all? You guessed it, the f-ing dinner party! I totally can't wait to rock the formal dinner scene with our new "Clark" silverware!

But I digress.....

Seriously, registering was pretty fun. Here were some of my observations:

1) Carrie is waaaay too happy picking out her own gifts. Case is point: look at the picture below. You wouldn't have guessed it but she was mad at me 5 minutes before. Yet her anger melts away as she stares in awe at a potential bed sheet.

2) Every single bride to be thinks they are doing the groom a favor by giving him scanner duty. Here's a secret ladies: you are not. It seems like scanner duty might be fun for the groom since the scanner looks like the illegitimate child of a gun and a remote control. However just because it resembles a gun doesn't mean i'm going to say "COOL!" and run around the store shooting things saying "pew, pew". Also the other grooms do not have Lasertag helmets and vests on. If holding the scanner gun was fun, I would be high fiveing the other grooms while having scan-offs rather than trying to avoid eye contact. Nothing can take away the cold hard truth that I'm picking out linens. And then scanning them.

3) 8 pillows on a bed? This was the norm. This. Was. The. Norm.

4) the world's most appropriate wedding registry item ever.

-dan
we are registered at Crate and Barrel, Macy's, and thebigday.com

Tuesday, January 6, 2009

What Should Dan Wear for the Wedding

Carrie won't let me decide on my own what to wear for the wedding. That's "wear" you come in pal! You have to help me decide what to wear to the wedding by voting in the comments section. I'll tally your votes, decide on my own what I want to wear, then tell Carrie that her friends told me to wear Dockers and a pressed long sleeved striped shirt with french cuffs so I can say "hey look at me and my kick ass striped shirt".

Stupid ugly morning suit