Archive for the ‘Wedding’ Category
Sunday, June 22nd, 2008
This is largely for the benefit of our awesome calligrapher, but since email was out of the question (due to file size), this seemed as good a way as any to share these, since I haven’t gotten around to installing zenphoto…
We finally got around to hanging our wedding certificate, so I’ve put together a small collection of wedding certificate photos. Wordpress isn’t offering to make thumbnails for the two photos of it framed, so you’ll have to settle for titles. click for the full-res version of each…
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BTW, the ceremony photos are by Jill Gately, who we heartily recommend. And we’ve already steered one pair of friends Sally’s way…we heartily recommend her, too. Also, I still harbor ambitions of someday getting the authoritative online photo album for our wedding (and other occasions!) online, but it probably won’t happen quickly…I’ve got a PhD to finish (and, um, start).
Tags: calligraphy, certificate, Jill Gately, photography, Sally Sanders-Garrett, Wedding
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Friday, September 14th, 2007
Apologies for the long delay for these promised entries about all the important things that happened in my life this summer. I’ve been a little busy with the school year starting: it hasn’t even gotten into full swing yet, but but the six and a half hours or so I spend commuting each week are six and a half hours I can’t spend doing things like blogging…or unpacking.
One reason for the delay is that I’ve been trying to write down everything I want to remember about the wedding day. I started this project that weekend, when it was still fresh in my mind, but then life happened, and I’m far from finishing, and the memories are already not as fresh as I wanted them to be. I don’t plan to post that whole thing, of course, but I want to finish that and pull a few favorite moments out of it for a post on the wedding.
Another main reason for delay is that I want to share photos from these events — the wedding weekend and the honeymoon. I’m in the middle of moving and reorganizing all my digital photos: moving them from my old PowerBook to my desktop, which involved extracting them all from iPhoto, which should have been straightforward but for some inexplicable reason wasn’t (weird thing where iPhoto would tell me there wasn’t space on the hard drive even though there were 50Gb free, and refusing to export photos; I eventually had to write a Python script to remove all the iPhoto junk from a copy of the library so that I could import just my photos into Ubuntu’s iPhoto-competitor). So wedding and honeymoon pics are still scattered around various places, but when I have them organized and can go through them I’ll pick some to put up here. It’ll be a few days/weeks yet…
Stay tuned.
Tags: commuting, computers, Honeymoon, organization, photos, Wedding
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Sunday, July 22nd, 2007
This is a very quick post to say: I’M MARRIED! The whole wedding weekend was fantastic. Yesterday was probably the best day of my life. There were a handful of inconsequential imperfections, but nothing that could detract from the overwhelming joy of the day.
We received many compliments on the ceremony, which was very emotional and meaningful to me (which probably goes without saying, but still). It was wonderful to have so many friends and family — those who’ve known me since I was born, to friends made in the past few years or even the past few weeks; friends and family who came from as far away as India, or who drove all night to get here — here to help us celebrate. It was great to have so many people important to me in one place at one time, and to see the different groups get along so well together.
I’m honored to be joining such a warm, loving family: I couldn’t ask for better in-laws, and the (Roberts-)Gregorios have felt to me like a second family for years now. And of course, most of all, I am happier than I can express that my companion, my partner, my best friend, the woman I have loved for more than six years, is now my wife.
So, my intention is to write more about the wedding soon, and to post photos when they become available. But that’ll take me some time, ’cause I’m a little bit exhausted after the festivities, and there won’t be much rest for the weary, as we have to drive back up to Massachusetts to move me out of my apartment this week. But I wanted to post something now, just to say that the wedding was a roaring success. Thanks to all who helped to make it so — I am very, very happy.
Tags: Gregorios, Hillary-Peppers, Julie, married, Roberts, Wedding
Posted in Family, Life, Wedding | 4 Comments »
Wednesday, July 18th, 2007
Just in case anyone is (a.) reading this blog, and (b.) wondering where the hell I am…well, I’m getting married in three days, and life’s a little busy. Sorry I haven’t been documenting more of the experience on here — there just hasn’t been time. I’ll try to find a nice photo-blog plugin between moving (after the wedding) and the honeymoon, while I’m doing the other technical blog maintenance I need to do, so I can share wedding and honeymoon pics.
Anyway, since the last research push last week (which didn’t really end in any satisfactory way) I’ve been up to my eyeballs in wedding programs and seating charts and gifts and other wedding minutae. Everything seems to be (barely) under control, thanks in large part to Julie’s family, who have been helping basically full time. I’m starting to get a little nervous, but I’m still not really as nervous as everyone seems to think I should be. I’m completely sure that marrying Julie is the right thing to do, which is the most important thing. The wedding is a big party and ceremony, but nervousness of the “will we get all the little details taken care of in time” type — which is the kind I have, mostly — is not in the same class as nervousness of the “I’ll be spending The Rest Of My Life with this person” type, from which I am largely free.
So anyway, lots of excitement! And now I have to go do lots of stuff.
Tags: Julie, Wedding
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Friday, July 6th, 2007
This picture of our flower girl (and my neighbor) was just too cute not to post.
(P.S. Nicole Bessette, I’m holding your daughter for ransom. If you want to see this cute picture of her, you’re going to have to get over your Xanga supremecy and visit my independent blog. So there.)
Tags: 4th-of-July, Geneva-Bessette, Nicole-Bessette
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Thursday, June 21st, 2007
One month from today I will be married. Wow.
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Tuesday, April 17th, 2007
A hodge-podge of recent events, none of which seemed to warrant their own post:
I just took what had better be my last midterm exam, ever. (It was for my Distributed Operating Systems class.) It actually seemed to go okay — I generated answers for all the questions, which is far better than I did on the practice exam (from two years ago) which I took this afternoon.
Last weekend I went to Julie’s aunt Judy’s wedding. A good time was had by all, and more to the point, by me. It was a nice ceremony, and there were no major gliches, aside from a very drunk stepdaughter knocking over a somewhat drunk bride. :-) That said, the ceremony reinforced my conviction that (a.) I am very much not Christian, and (b.) I’m very glad my wedding ceremony will be of Quaker heritage, with no artificial patriarchal figure officiating or mediating between me, my bride to be, and whatever we consider to be a higher power. I was the first person in the church not to get up for communion, which was wicked uncomfortable. I hope there will be nothing in my wedding that asks our guests to participate in a declaration of a particular religious belief. Also, the reception served as something of a preview for my own (Julie caught the bouquet — or, more accurately, was thrown the bouquet by her cousin Joanna — and will indeed be the next to get married). I reiterate that I had a wonderful time and I love Julie’s extended family, but it will be interesting to see how my family reacts at a big party filled with Julie’s big and boisterous family.
A week or so ago, I picked out a wedding band. I wound up going with a ring at Silverscape, after initially leaning toward one at Hanoush. It’s white gold; I was worried about durability after seeing a friend’s somewhat beaten-up wedding band, but when they told me about the difficulty that something like titanium or magnesium alloy presents in an accident — you can’t cut it — I decided to go with traditional metal. It has a brushed finish (brushed the long way), with a satin finish stripe in the middle.
Tags: communion, distributed-operating-systems, exam, Hanoush-Jewelers, joanna-grim, judy-grim-deppen, Julie, midterm, party, religion, ring, Silverscape-Designs, Wedding, wedding-band
Posted in Life, Life in graduate school, Wedding | 14 Comments »
Tuesday, April 10th, 2007
A question to those of you in the Real World with Real Jobs: Do your bosses ever ask you, “Do you think you could survive this summer on half your salary?” If they did, what would you think?
Would you be pleasantly surprised that they were considering paying you at all over the summer?
<sarcasm>
I heart grad school.
</sarcasm>
(P.S. Just to avoid any premature celebrations, there’s been no decision yet as to whether I’ll be supported for June, in which I do plan to work regardless of support, before taking July and August off for the wedding.)
(P.P.S. Sense of entitlement, what? I suppose I shouldn’t complain — after all, if I were getting paid all summer, I probably couldn’t take two months off for wedding-related activities… And I’m sure Julie will remark that at least I get paid during the year, rather than having to pay.)
Tags: bitter, funding, Real-World, sarcasm, summer, support
Posted in Life in graduate school, Wedding | 5 Comments »
Friday, March 23rd, 2007
The most prominent features of my spring break have been:
- 16 hours of interstate driving
- a snowstorm that produced about 8 inches of snow
- countless hours spent poring over someone else’s sparsely commented code, in a language I don’t really know, implementing an algorithm I only kind-of understand.
- NOT spending this weekend in New York, because I need to stay in MA and work; also not going to a Tracy Grammer concert tonight because I couldn’t justify taking the time off.
Hrmph.
Last weekend was productive in the wedding planning department, though: we chose and ordered invitations, chose tuxedo accessories (vest, ties, shoes), and started a registry (choose silverware; failed to choose china).
Tags: driving, misnomer, snowstorm, spring-break, Tracy-Grammer, weather
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Sunday, February 4th, 2007
I just did laundry, and put warm sweatpants on, fresh out of the dryer. Best. Thing. Ever.
On the other hand, that is actually the only good thing that’s happened to me this weekend. I’ve spent the rest of it in front of the computer working, only to discover tonight that there was ANOTHER stupid mistake in the long-running experiments I’m trying to get done, like, a week ago. ICML looks less and less likely with every passing hour. “Frustrated” doesn’t begin to describe it.
In other news, the last Harry Potter book comes out on the day of my wedding. Nobody is gonna want to come to the wedding, and I’m gonna have to wait until after the honeymoon to read the book.
Mom & Dad, I hope your heat is back on…
Tags: Dad, frustrated, Harry-Potter, ICML, laundry, Mom, pants
Posted in Family, Honeymoon, Life, Life in graduate school, Wedding | 7 Comments »
