It's been a surreal week. Around this time last Friday, Colleen and I were racing to finish place-cards, pick up shirts from the dry cleaners, finish flower arrangements, and re-calibrate our minds. We were fortunate and grateful that timely reinforcements had arrived that Thursday with our domestic and international family.
Last Saturday we got married and threw down a joyously unrestrained party that surpassed all expectations for the ramshackle gathering we thought we had planned. From the moment we walked into the Stan Mansion, the reception no longer felt like it was ours. This was a good thing. Colleen and I may have provided the skeleton: location, food, and decorations; but it was our family, friends, and the community they make that gave it life. We couldn't have been happier with our Frankenstein Party.
We're going to continue updates here, as there are so many little details and memories that we want to relive in words and pictures. First, we've started a Flickr Pool: www.flickr.com/groups/colleenandrodrigo/. We added some pictures to start and we'll be adding more as we get back photos from the various family digital cameras. Flickr is easy and free to join, and anyone can upload photos and add them to the pool. If you've got photos or video, add it! Let's Go Technology!
Second, our photographer John Christian Adams has linked us the first batch of photos that he and his wife Lindy took from the ceremony and the reception: www.goforjohn.com/rod&col/. John is an extraordinary photo ninja. He and Lindy were willing and ready to get weird with us; they even made the security camera at a Walmart look cool. There will be more to follow, and we're excited.
Last, we're compiling little nuggets and things that we want remember: poems read, speeches spoken, accounts of people falling, dancing, crying, and singing. We'll post those here, so stay tuned!
xoxo
street-legal rodrigo y colleen.
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