Groom and Bridal Party

Mother of the Bride adds the badge
to the Groom's lapel

My regal husband-to-be

Before Shane (far left) spoke

After Shane spoke

Walking down the street in downtown Cincinnati

The Bridemaids' bouquets 

Maid of Honor

(left) AJ (Usher), Vincent (Brother of the Bride), Mark (Best Man)
Travis (Groom), Daniel, Shane (Right)

The Groomsmen are obviously very dignified and dapper

Maid of Honor and the Bride

Best Man and the Groom

Awaiting the Bride

The perfect setting for an elegant Steampunk wedding =)

The whole party comes together after the ceremony

The Maid of Honor and Best Man enter the reception

Best Man won Rock, Paper, Scissors, and gives the first toast

The Maid of Honor gives a very heartfelt toast

The Bridesmaids dress down for the party

The Dress (pics)

I'm excited to share that I'll be getting a new computer in the next few months, which means I can finally use my super-dooper software to make an even more awesome video - including an over-hour-long one that includes the entire ceremony! I'm stoked!

In the meantime, here is some pics of the dress I wore, including the reception outfit.

A bit if description - the fabric of both outfits is 100% silk. The same silk, in fact, that Princess Diana's dress was made from. I was in awe when my seamstress said she could get it!

The beadwork is all done by hand, with high quality beads and faux pearls. The pieces involve an underskirt, the skirt, an overskirt, a corset, a bodice, and a jacket. Also the hat, which is awesome.

For the reception, I ditched the skirt(s) and wore bloomers and a skirt cage.

Of course it can't be a Steampunk wedding with some awesome details! The corset features two very stylized pocketwatches. The same design is embroidered into the front of skirt. At the bottom of the skirt, each petal has a different design, with a "K" embroidered into the very middle back petal.

Anyways, I'm sure you want the pictures, so here they are -

The Overview and Video

After a long time of waiting patiently, here it is, the video for the Royal Steampunk Wedding!

Remember, this is the short version! There is also a hour+ long video that has yet to reach the point where I can upload it. It needs some tweaking first. Though, I imagine that throughout my life, as I continue to experiment with video editing and such, I will reinvent my wedding video several times.

This short version, I like. The longer version, not so much. There is a lot of video in the longer version, and finding music for it all has been a challenge.

The Sherlock Holmes movie soundtracks (I <3 Hans Zimmer) have been of much benefit.

Which, by the way, the longer version has the entire wedding ceremony included, though you can see Travis's vows in a previous post. The audio is a lot better in the new version, however.

Also, I made this for you all, I do hope it's Steampunk "enough", haha:

In the upcoming weeks I will be making individual posts with a particular topic in mind (i.e. the dress, the cake, the bridesmaids, the groomsmen, etc...). Under those posts there will be a lot more pictures relative to that topic.

Please comment if you like!

Doctor Who Wedding Vows

This is purely a teaser/spoiler for the rest of the media that will come forth in the next few weeks (hopefully).

Travis's vows:




Words:

Hello my Love!
He who takes a companion takes the Universe.
Well good news, cause guess what!

Except look at you,
standing there in that dress,
It's really very distracting.
Could you please stand still for a minute because
YOU ARE BEAUTIFUL!

Now the question of the hour is, 'Who takes this woman'?
Answer: I do.
Next question: Why do I choose her?
Well look at her!
Beautiful smile, very smart, brilliant personality...
Oh and something else she has
my all.

So if life comes along
with it's silly little hardships
and it's silly little problems,
and it has plans to get in our way -
I vow this day to stand with you always.

I vow to remember every
white day God will give us.

And then
Aaand THEN

I will do the smart thing -
I will choose you first.
---------------

Original speech from Doctor Who (contains spoilers for the series):

Why no pictures, Mrs. King?

So we throw this awesome steampunk wedding in Cincinnati, OH and then refuse the share pictures? How cruel!

And how not true!

You see, I want to wait to receive the images from the photographers. It may take a couple of months, actually, since there were three of them taking pictures the entire night.

I just received the video, which I'm going to possibly being editing soon. However, this also will not be shown until the pictures are ready.

Once I get these images, I will choose several of my upmost favorites. Those will be in a post, along with the edited video.

I've chosen this process for a couple reasons:

1. While there are pictures of the wedding already that I've retrieved from Facebook, I want your first impression to be perfect. There are a few great ones via Facebook, but a professional camera still captures the magics more than a cell phone :)

2. I'm not going to show the video until you have gotten a chance to really see my dress. I only have a few images from FB that showcase my dress at all, and you will want to see details. Trust me on this one!

After the initial post, I will be updating with several posts that focus on a single topic (i.e. the dress, the flowers, the cake, etc...)

Depending on how the video turns out, I may also upload bits and pieces that were edited out of the main video.

However, in a few minutes I will be uploading a video to youtube of Travis preforming his vows. You will get a glimpse of my dress from the back. I will update with a post (probably tomorrow) describing why his vows are so special that I would bother uploading them before the "big reveal".

For now, I'm not giving a link. You'll have to search for it in a half hour or so. ;-)

EDIT: ok, make that video a "tomorrow-night" thing completely. I want to import the file as best quality as I can, and that is taking awhile. So! Bedtime for me! ^_^;

The Honeymoon, Day 5

So where did I leave off? Tuesday? Day 3?

Yes. We ended up not renting bikes that day. Instead, we went to a local mall and then to wal-mart to pick up a few things, like food so we're not spending $20 a meal, haha.

Wednesday we rented bikes and hung out at the beach for awhile. However, it was extremely low tide so the shore line was rather dirty. We didn't get in the water, but flew a kite and enjoyed the beach for an hour.

We had lunch at a little cafe that had a really good roast beef panini, then rode our bikes around for awhile before retiring to our hotel room for the night.

Thursday we turned the bikes in and headed up to Savannah, GA for the day. As much as we have been telling people that we want to move there, neither of us have actually visited the place.

It. is. beautiful.

We were instantly amazed at the architecture and landscaping.

If you don't already know, Savannah is home to the Savannah College of Art and Design, one of the most prestigious private art colleges in the nation, and Travis and I both want to attend. So naturally, our first stop was their gift shop. After looking around, we asked the lady for advice on where to eat. She directed us to a great burger place about 4 blocks down the street. She was right, it was amazing!

After that, we noticed all of the trolleys running around town full of people, so we decided to join in! Though a tad expensive, we got two tickets for two trolley rides - one that involved a historic tour of the history of Savannah and another later that night that was a ghost tour.

I'm so glad we did the tours - it really sealed the deal for why we want to move down to that city! Beyond the beauty, the history would have me walking around for weeks! I just want to take pictures of the entire place! I mean, really, the two main districts are the "historical district" and the "victorian district". Not to mention the "colonial district" area. There just really isn't anything I don't like besides the lack of jobs in my field that are open. And the cost of living is a bit high.

We did a lot of shopping in between the tours, and a lot of talking about how soon we can move down there.

Today and tomorrow are mostly chill-out days. We did finally visit the lighthouse across the street from our hotel, which was beautiful! However, I've experienced really bad vertigo around heights (not including roller coasters) ever since I saw a girl fall to her death from about three stories high during a Christmas play. So I didn't stay up there that long.

 
We then had lunch at Southern Soul, which has been featured on a number of programs - including Diners, Drive-Ins, and Dives! And for a good reason! Their BBQ Pulled Pork was AMAZING!

Then Travis and I went to Moo Cow Ice Cream, which has unique flavored homemade ice cream. I got a Pumpkin ice cream sundae (hot fudge, caramel, nuts, whipped cream, etc...) and Travis got a Guinness ice cream milkshake! The literally take an extract of the Guinness Beer and add it to the cream! AWESOME!

We've spent the rest of the day at the hotel, watching TV and starting to pack a bit.

Tomorrow we're going to take a trolley tour around St. Simon's Island and then finish packing before heading back home on Saturday!

On a side note, I did lose my ID and it was recovered at the Cincinnati Airport. However, that means we are going to have to deal with some stuff going through TSA in the Jacksonville airport.

I miss home, and I'm especially looking forward to eating Chipotle when I get back. That is one of the only issues regarding us moving to Savannah - there isn't a Chipotle within 100 miles of the city :'-(

The Honeymoon, Day 3

Forgive me for not updating every single day, but I'm sure you can assume that I'm slightly distracted by how sexy my husband is :)

The Bed & Breakfast we stayed at the night of the wedding was beautiful! I hope I get to stay there again for a longer period of time! We didn't actually get to enjoy the group breakfast experience because of how early our flight was, so the lady and gentleman of the house made us a take-away breakfast (in a cute lunch bag!).

We almost forgot the marriage license, which we needed since my name appeared as "Brittany King" on the airplane tickets. Apparently our minister accidentally ran away with it, haha! But, some magic was worked and Travis and I got to see our parents one last time before heading off to St. Simon's Island!

At the airport, we got through without any problems at all. Travis spotted this adorable hat and I fluttered my eyes a bit... so it's mine now :-D

About an hour and a half later, we were in Jacksonville, FL. We got our rental car (which is the coolest green-gold ever!) and headed off to the island (stopping at Cracker Barrel for lunch first).

Once we got to our room, we were amazed by the fantastic view of the lighthouse and the ocean!


We settled in, discovering that our suite was awesome. Everything from the fridge and microwave, to the shower, to the surround-sound, to the complete media setup, was simply amazing! I only wish there were more electrical outlets. We're kinda technologically-driven people, so we need charging areas, haha.

After that we decided to check out the local terrain. I knew from my previous research that we were right next to a pier and very popular street - full of different kinds of shops and restaurants.

Since it was Sunday night around 6pm, we found that a lot of the stores were closed. We checked out a sweets shop, took a look at an expensive salon and said "no" (I'm looking into cutting and dying my hair), and then decided to eat at a place called "Iguana's". It's a seafood restaurant known for it's fantastic shrimp. Our waiter gave us the full story on why their shrimp tastes the way it does (something to do with where they feed and how it filters out all of the bad stuff, giving them a nice, sweet taste). Since it was the first night of our honeymoon, we splurged a bit. I got a shrimp meal that came with a crab cake, hushpuppies, coleslaw, and green beans. Travis got a different, cheaper shrimp meal and also a side of crab legs.

It. was. amazing. Honest-to-goodness, I may never eat at Red Lobster again.

Then the place had free ice cream. Yummy ^_^

By then we were too tired to do anything else, so we headed back.

That's when I discovered that my phone takes panoramic pictures.


And that is the end of day 1.

Day 2 we went shopping at a mall, which was dead, and mostly hung out in our room. We did go back and get cupcakes at the sweets shop we went to on Day 1. Their Pumpkin cupcakes were fantastic!

Today is Day 3, we plan on doing a bit more shopping and then renting bikes. We did visit the beach for a minute yesterday and the water was cold, but not freezing... just takes some getting used to... so we are planning on riding over there to try swimming a bit.

I'll let y'all know how that goes!