Tep Wedding Report: Rugs and Lindsey

Short version:

Rugburn & Lindsey: successfully married; lovely ceremony and reception. A multitude of Teps in attendance. Family photo successfully taken. Hava nagila not conducted.

Longer version:

Rugburn & Lindsey got married this weekend; the ceremony was at the MIT Chapel, and the reception was at Harvard's Adolphus Busch Hall (a bit more on that later). I posted my limited batch of photos to Flickr; feel free to check them out.

A very cute moment of the ceremony: at the conclusion of the vows, the officiant asked if the bride and groom 'agreed to the terms and conditions' previously stated--Rugs wanted to have screens of EULA fine text and a mouse click, but that was vetoed.



The reception was at Harvard's Adolphus Busch Hall--it's odd; I've been passing by that building since the 1980s, but I've never been there, nor had an inkling what it was. As per the web page:

This building, completed in 1917, originally housed Harvard's "Germanic Museum," a collection of reproductions of famous German monumental sculpture. This collection was intended to round out the experience of Harvard students who studied German culture and who did not have the opportunity to study the original monuments in Europe. ...

The cornerstone of this building was laid in 1912. It is a sad irony that construction of the building began in earnest in July 1914, only weeks before the outbreak of a war that was drastically to undermine the German-American cultural understanding that Professor Francke had tirelessly striven to promote.

It has a great outdoor courtyard--one of those "feels like you've been transported to Europe" moments. The eerie glow is one of Frostbyte's LED sculptures, which was brought there and provided ambiance.



But as for the building--it is filled with plaster casts of Germanic (mostly religious) artwork from the 11th century onwards.


Check out this archway and this door with bas-reliefs of Genesis on the left-hand panel, and the Passion on the right. Also, be sure to check out this rather odd mural--Lewis Rubenstein's Scenes from the Ragnarok and Niebelungen Legends (1935-37). It shows some classically bare-chested warriors, except some are wielding World War I-era gas masks, helmets, and flamethrowers. A strikingly odd combination.

Teps came in from all over the place (SF, NYC), but if I try to list them, I'm sure I'll miss a bunch--I hope the family photo will get posted. Incidentally--yeah, I know, I'm lame about taking pictures of people; there are plenty of shots of the backs of heads and interesting architectural features. Hopefully, others will post their pictures, and there will be loads of candids there. In addition, the bride and groom set up a photo booth in the basement, so those might get posted or something.

A wacky small-world moment: I was seated at a table with a lot of Rugburn's high school friends--some of them even recognized me (and I remembered some of them) from their visits to Tep. But the wife of one of those friends is an art professor in Alabama--and she knows Golan through completely separate channels. I was amused to tell her, "Oh yeah--Golan, Rugburn... they were both in the same pledge class at Tep."

Wait... at least one photo of people--Rugburn looked damn classy, and Lindsey was absolutely stunning--1930's movie star territory, if you ask me:


Mazel tov all around!