Rain or Shine...

REPOST:

Just thought everyone should know that the ceremony will be held outside at the castle REGARDLESS OF THE WEATHER. So, dress appropriately and bring an umbrella if it's raining! But, fear not-- the ceremony shouldn't be more than 20 mins and the reception will be indoors, so if it's a less than perfect day weather-wise, we'll only be outside for a little while!

If You're looking for a Hotel Room...

Call the America's Best Value in Amsterdam and tell them that you're coming to town for the Beck/Caliguire Wedding. You will get a special $55 a night room rate at a luxurious one-star hotel in the heart of downtown Amsterdam. Nothing but the finest for our peeps. Seriously though, it's a decent rate at a decent hotel, and it's very close to the after-party.

Of course, you're also more than welcome to grab an empty piece of floor and stay right at our house. I know many of you are planning to do just that. Just bring a sleeping bag and pillow (and maybe an air mattress)! You can be social all night, until the Keg-erator of Sam Adams kicks...

That's right! Thanks to my wickedly awesome groomsman - Dave - we have a Keg-erator with a 1/4 keg of Sam Adams!!

And please feel free to bring whatever other libations you desire.

Collect Them All!

When it came time to think about wedding invites, we thought it might be really fun to make our own. Sarah had been playing around with this fun idea of putting our heads from photos she's taken on the bodies of people in wedding magazine adverts. So, in a flash of genius, she suggested using this idea as the basis for our wedding invites. Between the two of us, we made about 12 different versions. After some internal and external debate, we settled on 4 different versions. So, the invite you got was not the same one that everyone else got (simple math tells us only around 25% of the other invitees would have gotten the same one as yours).

I think it was also Sarah who came up with the whole "ransom note" idea for the verbiage.

As you can tell, Sarah is the brains behind this operation.

Below is all four versions:









And, if you check out the super-happy-terrific-fun blog of our super-happy-terrific-fun photograpers -- Anne & Dan Almasy -- you can see a really excellent picture of Dan holding our invite.

Our Wedding Cake WON'T Be This Rad

In keeping with the Robot theme of the last few posts:

Check out this cool robot cake from debbiedoescakes’ flickr pool. Check out her other cakes, too. They're crazy!

True Love in the Time of Machines [or] How I Saved a Girl and Found True Love.

"So," many have asked. "How did you and Betty meet?"

It's a simple enough question. And it could easily be replied to with a simple response...

If you were asking a simple man about his simple girl.

But, dear reader (as you know), we are anything but simple. The lives of our heroes - El Mustango and Betty - are fraught with harrowing danger, acts of daring, feats of strength, international mystery and intrigue and frequent trips to the grocery store to get juice for our General (the mysteriously named "R"). apple juice. in a sippy cup. straight. without water.

And it was on a particular brisk spring morning that our heroine Betty set out to the store for some apple juice. She hopped in her sparkling red Hyundia Hovercraft and made for the nearest grocery mart, in a hurry-- for "R" does not like to be kept waiting.

Little did she know that she was being followed. Watched by gleaming, blinking red from the eyes of her would-be assassins. They knew that "R" was out of juice. It was they, during the previous night, who snuck into the top-secret, second-floor lair of Betty and "R" to dispose of the left over juice. Their plan was simple: surprise Betty when she was least expecting it. Lay seige to her in the mart's parking lot.

Fortunately for Betty and "R", the mighty, might El Mustango had been tracking these particularly fiendish assassins for days. He knew they were following their next target, but he didn't know whom that target was. It wasn't until Betty reached the parking lot and her enemies ready themselves to pounce that El Mustango first saw her.

She was stunning and her beauty took his breath away. Little did he know, this goddess in the form of woman was the cunning and deadly Betty. Had he known this, he could simply let them move ahead with their foolish plan and watch from afar as Betty destroyed them.

But, El Mustango is nothing if not chivalrous. Betty looked so pretty in her sporty Hyundai Hovercraft. He'd hate to have even one hair on that gorgeous head of hers harmed. So, he decided to lay a trap and bring these nogoodnix out in the open before they could do her harm.

Just before the assassins were about to attack Betty, El Mustango sprung his trap and the assassins were revealed. Robots! A bakers dozen strong. Armed with deadly onion guns and spatulas. and an even deadly weapon- laser guided onion guns that shot spatulas.

In a nutshell, the onion-gun-toting, spatula-wielding robots were no match for El Mustango. They were all destroyed before Betty even paid for the apple juice. Upon her return to the car, El Mustango introduced himself to her.

And the rest, as they say, is history...

Robot Emcees Korean Wedding

Am I the only one who is actually jealous of this Korean couple?

A Little Taste...

This photo was taken by Matt Ramos, an excellent Capital Region photographer.