Robot in Bloom

Adrienne and Brent’s Vintage Travel Wedding (or Who Wants To Get Kidnapped and Go To the ER??)

Wedding date: 7/9/2011
Location: Fotheringham House in Spokane WA

Image by John Austin of AustinSpace

Did you have any special traditions (or items, readings, moments, etc) included in the ceremony that made it more personal and more “you”?

The first is that my mother made all of the wedding party’s dresses. That includes my wedding dress of course. Our good friend got ordained to marry us and we would go over to her house to talk about the details. We called it our marriage counseling. She had just been married (to one of our groomsmen) in Oct of 2010 and her advice was always (laughing of course), “Since I have more marriage experience than you, if you don’t like ______ just get used to it.” She ended up putting that in the wedding and everyone laughed pretty hard. My husband wrote the vows for both of us too. They included him loving my little dog and me letting him win at video games once in a while, him cleaning the house and me saving the money.

Did you have any special traditions (like the previous question) included in the reception?

I wore a piece of Norwegian Solje and all the bridesmaids dresses matched the bride. It’s Norwegian tradition to confuse evil spirits trying to steal the bride. We also did the German tradition of the stealing of the bride. After we said our I do’s and turned to walk down the aisle, the groomsman grabbed me and ran to a waiting car. We went to our favorite local watering holes, had a few, then moved on the the next place until my husband caught up with us. That ended up being one of my favorite times. The look on all the guest’s faces as we all ran was priceless.

Image by John Austin of AustinSpace

What was your favorite moment of the day?

The cake cutting. I got these beautiful mirrored glass antique looking cake set from Ross. I wasn’t going to spend a bunch on those, really. (Our cake was wonderful and soft, just to be clear.) We went to cut and the glass handle snapped and gouged into Brent’s hand. He said, “It cut me.” I said, “So it cut me too.”( Very much like a paper cut) He said, “No… really bad, I think”. So we are still smiling and trying to talk though our teeth and we gracefully set the broken pieces to the side and he is bleeding everywhere. We managed to get through it smiling the whole time. He stuck his bleeding hand under the cake stand. He did end up with 3 stitches and I spent my wedding night in the ER, but you get pretty quick service if you’re in a wedding dress.

Image by John Austin of AustinSpace