belated wedding portrait musings
1 Dec 2010 04:05 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
cimoreneWax's mom and granny both have the framed wedding portraits of her brothers (and their wives, obvs.) on their wedding days up with the row of graduation portraits of all three children.
Wax and I are married too, but we don't have a wedding portrait. Actually, when we were eating at granny's house last weekend and everyone couldn't help noticing that she's leaned Wax's portrait against the giant crucifix in her Jesus shrine ("Maybe it'll help!" said Sister-in-Law Metal brightly), I was inclined to be offended by the omission until I realized that not only did we not give her one (because we don't have one), Wax never even mailed the wedding announcement cards to her or her mom because, thinking she would have their addresses, I handed them to her with a sheet of stamps and told her to mail them, and Wax can't be trusted to mail things. (Over a year later, they're still lying on the keyboard shelf under her computer. I still don't know their addresses, either, but I suppose I could get them from one of her brothers. Oh wait, I mean sisters-in-law, of course. It runs in families.)
Of course, she might still fail to put up a portrait if we gave her one, but at least then we'd have a legit reason to be upset.
Since we eloped, for pictures taken on the Day Of we only have things like
while the actual wedding announcements looked like
which also I'm pretty sure they wouldn't frame in the family shrine since they're not photographic. (Even though I'm very happy with the alternative cartoony style drawn by my little sister!) So... maybe we should get (or make) a portrait, I guess? We've never done that, although we have various unplanned-but-posed photos of us together. Wax said "maybe we should do that this Christmas or something", which probably means she'd already forgotten the conversation by the end of lunchtime.
Also, where would we even do it? I mean, we haven't had a big party in a deliberately picturesque locale, which is how people usually choose their reception spots for backdrops. Our apartment is lame and so is the building, and while Åbo has plenty of pretty buildings, it seems weird to choose one at random. And what would we wear, aside from a plaid hipster shirt like my dad's wearing or a candy-striped terry halter with a bow between the boobs like my mom's wearing in theirs... not that I have either of those.
PS. Happy first night of Channukah.
Wax and I are married too, but we don't have a wedding portrait. Actually, when we were eating at granny's house last weekend and everyone couldn't help noticing that she's leaned Wax's portrait against the giant crucifix in her Jesus shrine ("Maybe it'll help!" said Sister-in-Law Metal brightly), I was inclined to be offended by the omission until I realized that not only did we not give her one (because we don't have one), Wax never even mailed the wedding announcement cards to her or her mom because, thinking she would have their addresses, I handed them to her with a sheet of stamps and told her to mail them, and Wax can't be trusted to mail things. (Over a year later, they're still lying on the keyboard shelf under her computer. I still don't know their addresses, either, but I suppose I could get them from one of her brothers. Oh wait, I mean sisters-in-law, of course. It runs in families.)
Of course, she might still fail to put up a portrait if we gave her one, but at least then we'd have a legit reason to be upset.
Since we eloped, for pictures taken on the Day Of we only have things like
while the actual wedding announcements looked like
which also I'm pretty sure they wouldn't frame in the family shrine since they're not photographic. (Even though I'm very happy with the alternative cartoony style drawn by my little sister!) So... maybe we should get (or make) a portrait, I guess? We've never done that, although we have various unplanned-but-posed photos of us together. Wax said "maybe we should do that this Christmas or something", which probably means she'd already forgotten the conversation by the end of lunchtime.
Also, where would we even do it? I mean, we haven't had a big party in a deliberately picturesque locale, which is how people usually choose their reception spots for backdrops. Our apartment is lame and so is the building, and while Åbo has plenty of pretty buildings, it seems weird to choose one at random. And what would we wear, aside from a plaid hipster shirt like my dad's wearing or a candy-striped terry halter with a bow between the boobs like my mom's wearing in theirs... not that I have either of those.
PS. Happy first night of Channukah.
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Date: 1 Dec 2010 03:35 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 1 Dec 2010 03:38 pm (UTC)Of course, that would mean I'd have an excuse to make steampunk costumes but then never another occasion to wear one...
...and also it's kind of cold out right now...
still... steampunk. *__*
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Date: 1 Dec 2010 06:15 pm (UTC)As regards portraits, one of my friends decided that she didn't want pictures of her in her wedding dress hanging in various places because she's not a huge fan of how she looks in white, so she and her husband got all dolled up in their favorite gothwear and did a photoshoot in a photographer's studio. The bride looks much more relaxed in them than she does in any of the photos from her wedding, and with the studio backdrop they don't have to worry about having to explain the setting.
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