Last Weekend's Wedding Post

Well, it looks like I won't actually have time to write a real post about Colin & Jess's wedding last weekend, so I'll try to summarize highlights. spectralbovine's recap of the event is a quite complete recounting of the wedding of awesome. Also, there's a Flickr group page for the wedding that many people have contributed photos to. And Beemer's post here. Huh... this is more of a meta-post, it seems.


Jofish officiated at the ceremony (always excellent to see); some highlights included Jess's dad reading some of DaVinci's work on arches as an analogy for marriage ("An arch is composed of two incomplete circular segments joined together..."), as well as readings from the Massachusetts and California State Supreme Court Rulings on Same Sex Marriage--a wonderful touch, which invoked huge cheers from the assembled crowd.


The reception was held as the SquidLabs Alameda office--the renovated control tower on the abandoned Naval base. Wow... I don't know if there would be a more perfect place to have a reception for a bunch of geeks... just an incredibly sweeping view of the Bay, a great big roof deck to hang out on, and a control tower that everyone could pack into and socialize in!


I ended the evening of the reception sitting at the piano which is in the lobby of SquidLabs. A dramatically lit grand piano, with a view of the Bay Bridge and the San Francisco skyline... how could I possibly resist sitting down and playing for a while?!

The trip wrapped up with two familiar but great parts of a canonical Bay Area trip--Brunch at Tortuga (Christy & U-Boat's), with all of the folks who made it out for the wedding:


And a trip down to South Bay to visit Jen, Schmooz, Max, and Delaney--Max was on his way to Stanford's Pirate Camp (summer camp run by the Stanford fencing and sailing teams as a fund-raiser):

Pirates Camp is dedicated to creating a safe and fun pirate experience.
Our experienced counselors (captains) help bring to life our pirate theme.
Pirates are on the move all week! Our day will be filled with fencing in the varsity fencing room, treasure hunting around campus, rock climbing and lots of fun pirate games.



Travel home was on that horrible SFO-ORD-MSP-BOS itinerary, including claiming and rechecking luggage in MSP while changing airlines. Travels went as smoothly as a four-airport trip could go, but it was still 15 hours of travel door-to-door. Ugh.

Overall, it was a complete and utter delight to see such a lovely couple get married. And it was great to see all those friends!