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Name: Louis
Gender: Male
Interests: Running, photography, cooking, art, classical music, reading.
Expertise: Disaster response. Logistics. The next meal. Event (wedding) photography
Industry: Nonprofit
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Member Since:
10/16/2004
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| My observation from helping out at numerous weddings in a variety of
capacities is that weddings are often meticulously planned. Often by a
bride who worries over every detail. And fussed over by many helpers,
each of which is determined to have their part come out perfect. And
the odd thing is, I don't think I've been to a wedding where the bride
could actually pay attention to all those very carefully thought
through details at the time (which is what pictures and video are
for). And in my case, I got married to someone who had the philosophy
that the details would take care of themselves. So we let everyone
else do the fussing.  And apparently this was noticeable. Several
vendors we worked with remarked about how calm we were about things.
S's mother (who does not speak english) observed over the month before
the wedding that everyone around us were nervous and stressed and
rushed, but not us.And looking back on it, we were so amused
about the many little details that just happened to fit nicely, better
than we could have planned it:
- Both mothers shoes matched.
- Both fathers had the same color tie.
- The
tool frame around the cross and alter was just right. (yes, I now know
there are multiple meanings of the word 'tool')
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Sisters wearing dresses close to the correct color (obviously, they
were paying attention
 - The Pittsburgh Opera
tenor wore a vest that blended with the wedding colors. (Chambourcin
for those interested)
- Flower girl just happened
to have a proper dress.
 - Bouquets and
boutonnieres were larger then expected, because the florist was able to
get less expensive flowers (because we let them pick the flowers, we
[meaning bride] picked the concept, the professionals handled the
details and could pick something that was priced low for the day)
 - Tables seemed to match for good conversations (the first cut at table assignments was done alphabetically)
- Groom sisters were close to the wedding color.
- Bangkok
Balcony and Silk Elephant were able to properly show off with the
appetizers and rehearsal dinner.
And the required memorable events:-
Amy Marshall tuning the piano the day of the wedding on one day notice,
juggling her Saturday schedule to make it happen, because that was one
detail we though was important for us to fuss over.
- Everyone
waiting for the bride to come in. And waiting. And waiting. (one of
the groomsmen had the assignment to get the groom to church. Noone
seemed to have had the assignment to make sure the bride could get into
the church.)
 - Waiting to take
pictures at Marshall Island, North Park, and looking at the clouds
coming in.
- Boy coming out in hotel lobby,
running to the eagerly waiting bride and groom, and swerving away from
a hug at the last minute.
 - The bouquet toss into the light
- The groom removed the
garter in a proper manner
 - Homemade wine
 - Playing the piano,
after ___ ___ of wine
 - Bride and groom stranded at the hotel, trying to bum a ride.
- "You
can dance!?"
 - Large group of girls
on the dance floor, with one, obviously very worthy, little boy.
- "Are you going to church tomorrow (Sunday)?" "No!"
- The rainbow after the thunderstorm
Many thanks to Linli and Jim for pictures. There are honeymoon postings here:
Wedding and honeymoon stories
and pictures here
Louis honeymoon pictures
Sha honeymoon pictures | | |
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| On the odd chance that someone is reading this, but does not get regular news about me elsewhere, check here.
I wonder if anyone reads this.
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| Something that caught my eye, social networks for reading. Ok, what
first got me was my fellow book club members inviting me onto Goodreads. And Goodreads is on Facebook as well. Now, in the past, I have put my book reviews on Bookshelved.
But I don't actually know anyone else on there in real life. And there
is a rather high effort required to enter a book (you have to create a
page on a wiki. And I feel obligated to write something somewhat
serious.) But these networks with their automatic linking to other
people that you know seems to be interesting.
So, all of you
book readers, question: Are you on one of these networks and are you
putting up book reviews (either star ratings or actual reviews)?
The
big ones I've found are Goodreads, iRead, LibraryThings, Shelfari. Of
these, iRead is ONLY on Facebook (a big negative to me). Goodreads and
Shelfari can be subscribed separately from Facebook, but can be
integrated. Goodreads also has a widget like Flickr does to put a
sidebar on a web site like Blogspot sites. LibraryThings I think has a
fee after 200 books (I think I'm going to get above that eventually).
And I rather like the idea of Facebook integration.
Right now,
it seems I have friends on Goodreads and iRead, but I'm curious as to
what other people are doing before I go through the effort of putting
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| I'm thinking of stopping updates of this blog. Mostly because I think everyone here gets my other blog (which is at http://lugerpitt.blogspot.com) either directly or via Facebook (Facebook is set up to automatically pulls in my blogspot blog)
Issues:
1. Blogger/blogspot is somewhat easier to work with (plays well with others, in particular Facebook and Flickr)
2. More people here leave comments, which are fun, as opposed to Facebook notes and blogspot
Anyway, is there anyone actually reading this and interested who is not getting this via Facebook or Blogspot, or finds that Xanga is just easier to work with (entirely possible, I like the subscriptions page myself)?
PS For Facebook, to look at notes, look on the left side, under the word "Facebook". Under "Applications" there is an application called "Notes" (you may have to click on the "More" link to see it). Click on that, you see the notes for everyone you have listed as a friend.
PPS Facebook imports RSS feeds into Notes (which should work with Blogspot, and supposedly works with Xanga and most other feeds). Ask about how to do this if you want.
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