[WOT] Pics from my Wedding, With 100% extra nerd! Options

[VaccaRabite]

On Saturday, Erin and I got married in Colonial Williamsburg, Va. You may or may not know that we both reenact the American Revolution, and Williamsburg was hosting the 225th anniversary of the march from Williamsburg to Yorktown, where Cornwallis surrendered the Crown army, and America won independence.

We have both been married before, and both have had the "big expensive" wedding. We undershot or $5K budget by about $3K. Mainly because Williamsburg thought it was so cool that they gave us the site, carriage, preacher, etc for free. In return, public got to see a colonial wedding. Most of the cost went into importing yards upon yards of silk for Erin’s dress from Thailand. The rest was hotel accommodations (we were NOT camping that weekend (IMG:style_emoticons/default/laugh.gif) ) and food (which we bought and the women from our reenactment group prepared). We have not gotten any bills or proofs from the professional photographer yet. When he heard about what we were doing, he offered to shoot the wedding for free, charging only for prints - so long as he could use the wedding in his advertising. He is going to try and get the proofs online before he goes to Bolivia to shoot another wedding this week. These pics are from a friend I had loaned my camera to (except for the dress prep pics, which I took).

On to the Pics! I'm gushing. Deal.
Making the dress:
This is the under structure. Stays (18thC corset) and pocket hoops. Fashion was to have HUGE hips.
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Erin working on the muslin gown, to be able to make alterations before cutting into the silk:
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Me and the preacher waiting for Erin's carriage to arrive. We were married in the garden of the St. George Tucker House. The wedding was at 6pm, just before sunset. The weather was _PERFECT_.
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Our dear friend Bill agreed to hand off the bride:
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Gettn' Hitched!
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