MARRIED!
Well, it's been about a week and a half since anythings been posted here, and with good reason! Sara and I are now officially hitched, and we're just back from our Honeymoon in New Orleans.
The wedding was amazing - I really don't know if it could have gone any better, even in hindsight. It's almost statistically impossible for there to be no drama during the wedding itself with 150 of your closest relatives and friends with you, but amazingly we made it through the day completely crisis free, and it was beautiful.
Put concisely, the best advice I can give to those planning a wedding is not to hold yourself to what tradition says you must do. Breaking out of a wedding hall/dance centric wedding gave everyone the ability to enjoy the night as they saw fit, and I think it made everyone just about as happy as can be. Sara and I are considering writing up our experiences for others in a wiki, since the forums on theKnot.com helped so much during our planning, but we'll see how much free time we have as Sara starts her new job.
I'm writing this from the deck of a riverboat as we ramble down the Mississippi towards the Audubon zoo in New Orleans, so I'll end it here. There's more to tell, but I'll be splitting it up into more specific vacation stories as we go.
Thank you to everyone who made the wedding possible, we couldn't have done it without you.
