Mark and Jeremy, I can't thank you guys enough for helping with the wedding. I most definitely underestimated the scope of my tasks so when the shit hit the fan, it was mainly Ian, Jeremy, Mark, Rick, and the dozen or so old ladies that enabled the 1 hour complete wedding ceremony setup throwdown. To give further detail for those that were absent, the ceremony was planned with the expectation of wedding music. The wedding music was my department. So, I picked up an external USB Audigy 2 soundcard and a 7.1 computer speaker system and planned on setting up the laptop to run the music from iTunes. Well, my first mistake was leaving he subwoofer in Atlanta, so the other 6 speakers I rememebered to bring were useless and we were left speakerless. Ian picked up a 5.1 system at Circuit City earlier that day, however, so that problem was solved. We also didn't even pick out all the music by Friday evening, so Ian helped gather that up at midnight the night before off a dial-up connection through iTunes. This download session, mind you, occurred during the other last-minute session of writing, designing, and printing of 110 programs for the wedding.
Since my high school friends are all lushes, and a wedding ceremony wouldn't be nearly complete without decent alcohol consumption, I was also charged with the task of setting up a beer tent. Unfortunately, we had to position said beer tent about 100 yards down the beach from the hotel where the reception was held to avoid the tide, which came up very high at night and threatened to spill into the tent area, thus washing the beer to sea. Despite this obvious deterrent of extreme distance to get a damn beer, Mark and Rick helped me setup the tent in 90 degree weather.
Since the nice tent was now setup, it was determined during ceremony setup time (read: 100 chairs, archway, flowers, etc) that the ceremony would take place right in front of the tent. This, of course, was 100 yards away from the King and Prince Hotel and our only hope for electricity. Which brings me back to my responsibility for providing music. So, after 50 chairs or so had been setup, I entered the scene around 4:30 looking frantically for an outdoor electrical outlet to run the music system. The placement of the wedding ceremony completely hinged off the electrical access and range of our extension chord. So, after finally finding one and testing the sound system, I ran the 100 yards to the setup in progress and pissed all the ladies off immensely when I told them the ceremony would have to be moved down there. So, in 45 minutes, the entire sha-bang was moved. I can't believe I didn't catch more hell. Thank god Ian took the fall and called Barbara, Roxanne's mother, to tell her about the new ceremony location. I heard it was a very colorful response indeed.
At any rate, after everyone thought the wedding would most certainly be delayed by an hour or more, the shit was thrown down and ready with time to spare. We even changed into our tuxedos and everything. And, as Jeremy so nicely recounted, the ceremony was excellent. So thank you so very very much.
Since my high school friends are all lushes, and a wedding ceremony wouldn't be nearly complete without decent alcohol consumption, I was also charged with the task of setting up a beer tent. Unfortunately, we had to position said beer tent about 100 yards down the beach from the hotel where the reception was held to avoid the tide, which came up very high at night and threatened to spill into the tent area, thus washing the beer to sea. Despite this obvious deterrent of extreme distance to get a damn beer, Mark and Rick helped me setup the tent in 90 degree weather.
Since the nice tent was now setup, it was determined during ceremony setup time (read: 100 chairs, archway, flowers, etc) that the ceremony would take place right in front of the tent. This, of course, was 100 yards away from the King and Prince Hotel and our only hope for electricity. Which brings me back to my responsibility for providing music. So, after 50 chairs or so had been setup, I entered the scene around 4:30 looking frantically for an outdoor electrical outlet to run the music system. The placement of the wedding ceremony completely hinged off the electrical access and range of our extension chord. So, after finally finding one and testing the sound system, I ran the 100 yards to the setup in progress and pissed all the ladies off immensely when I told them the ceremony would have to be moved down there. So, in 45 minutes, the entire sha-bang was moved. I can't believe I didn't catch more hell. Thank god Ian took the fall and called Barbara, Roxanne's mother, to tell her about the new ceremony location. I heard it was a very colorful response indeed.
At any rate, after everyone thought the wedding would most certainly be delayed by an hour or more, the shit was thrown down and ready with time to spare. We even changed into our tuxedos and everything. And, as Jeremy so nicely recounted, the ceremony was excellent. So thank you so very very much.
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