{"id":4848,"date":"2008-09-25T00:50:26","date_gmt":"2008-09-25T08:10:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.amptoons.com\/blog\/archives\/2008\/09\/25\/michael-and-margos-fake-wedding\/"},"modified":"2018-11-01T17:16:13","modified_gmt":"2018-11-02T00:16:13","slug":"michael-and-margos-fake-wedding","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=4848","title":{"rendered":"Michael and Margo&#8217;s (Fake) Wedding"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>UPDATE<\/strong>: Check out the comments! Amongst other things, there&#8217;s a comment from Jenn, who played the bride; and a very full <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amptoons.com\/blog\/archives\/2008\/09\/25\/michael-and-margos-fake-wedding\/#comment-340730\">report <\/a>from the Oregonian&#8217;s society columnist.<\/p>\n<p><strong>UPDATE 2<\/strong>: Added a link to <a href=\"http:\/\/pics.livejournal.com\/gisho\/gallery\/0000dxqe?page=1\">Gisho&#8217;s photos.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>UPDATE 3<\/strong>: <a href=\"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/CulturePulp-wedding.jpg\">Culturepulp!!!!!!!!<\/a> Woooo!<\/p>\n<p>A good time was had by, if not all, then at least by all who have spoken to me about it.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/bzedan.com\/blog\/?p=176\"><img src='https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/09\/faux_wedding.jpg' alt='faux_wedding.jpg' \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Above photo of Margo and Michael (played by Dylan and Jenn, respectively) by B. Zedan.<\/p>\n<p>You can find photos of the wedding (including some cute shots of Sydney and Maddox, like <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/bzedan\/2885826378\/in\/set-72157607471108340\/\">this one<\/a>) on the web:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/bzedan\/collections\/72157607461269440\/\">here<\/a><\/li>\n<li> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/jemale\/sets\/72157607472472903\/\">here <\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/pics.livejournal.com\/gisho\/gallery\/0000dxqe?page=1\">here<\/a><\/li>\n<li>and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/mudron\/2884762058\/in\/photostream\/\">here<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Also, Bill has <a href=\"http:\/\/mudron.livejournal.com\/548065.html\">posted some video<\/a>. I&#8217;ll update with further links as I find about them.<\/p>\n<p>Below the cut, some random recollections of favorite moments (and I apologize in advance for not knowing everyone&#8217;s name &#8212; if you know names, help me out in comments!). Also, in the comments, I&#8217;ll post the playlist from the reception.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><img src='https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/09\/faux_wedding_poster.jpg' alt='faux_wedding_poster.jpg' \/><\/p>\n<p>Yes, I misspelled &#8220;furniture&#8221; on the poster. Sigh&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>The thing about an event like this is that if you can see even 10% of what&#8217;s going on, that&#8217;s a lot. So I missed far more than I saw. Anyhow, some favorite moments:<\/p>\n<p>* <a href=\"http:\/\/jake-richmond.livejournal.com\/72538.html\">Jake<\/a> (who played the minister) and his mother Bev arranged a surprise &#8212; two people no one but Bev had never met before (Sara and Travis) came in claiming to have rented the Church for a <em>real <\/em>wedding that night, and demanding to know why all these people were here. They were very convincing, and I was nearly convinced I&#8217;d have to throw everyone out before Jake let me in on the gag. Sara and Travis stayed in character to the very end, with Sara&#8217;s character furiously threatening to end the engagement as they walked out of the Church building and argued down the street.<\/p>\n<p>* I can&#8217;t even begin to describe how awesome <a href=\"http:\/\/www.projectkooky.com\/dylan\/\">Dylan<\/a>, as our groom Michael, was. Really: It&#8217;s. Not. Possible. Katie, as Dylan&#8217;s &#8220;roommate&#8221; Troy, was also amazing. (How badly is a wedding going when the drunken groom is making out with his friend Troy on the reception floor?)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/jemale\/2885548644\/in\/set-72157607472472903\"><img src='https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/09\/faux_wedding_michael.jpg' alt='faux_wedding_michael.jpg' \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Groucho and Bowie called. They want their kid back.&#8221; \u2014Mike Russell<\/p>\n<p>* Margo, played by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jennmanleylee.com\/\">Jenn<\/a>, who really <em>is<\/em> eight months pregnant. The dress Jenn put together could not possibly have emphasized her belly more. It was beautiful.<\/p>\n<p>* <a href=\"http:\/\/longstoryshortpier.com\/\">Kip<\/a>, as the groom&#8217;s father, who kept on finding seemingly impossible new heights of fury to rise to; and <a href=\"http:\/\/rae-is.livejournal.com\/\">Rachel<\/a>, as the groom&#8217;s disturbingly young stepmother, who went into the basement as a mild-mannered comic book editor and returned as an astounding blond wig supported by five feet of wiggle, tight dress, and attitude.<\/p>\n<p>* The pirate&#8217;s story. The pirate explained that when Michael was a very small boy, he had wished that there would be a pirate at his wedding day, and his fairy grandmother had granted that wish. &#8220;I didn&#8217;t exist yesterday, and I won&#8217;t exist tomorrow &#8212; I&#8217;m just here to be the pirate at this wedding.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/mudron\/2883936755\/in\/photostream\"><img src='https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/09\/faux_wedd_pirate_ninja.jpg' alt='faux_wedd_pirate_ninja.jpg' \/><\/a><br \/>\nIn the foreground: Ninja (left) and pirate. In the background: bridesmaid, and world&#8217;s oldest living civil war veteran.<\/p>\n<p>* The live-action-role-player (LARPer) from a Vampire game, pretending to be a person pretending to be a vampire, and operating under a completely different rule system than everyone else at the fake wedding. The vampire and the pirate had a swordfight during the wedding. It was awesome.<\/p>\n<p>* The bride&#8217;s resentful friend turning the little bride figure on the cake upside-down, with her head buried in frosting. Sydney the flowergirl was shocked by this, and as soon as the friend had wandered away, Sydney righted the bride figure.<\/p>\n<p>* I say &#8220;Sydney the flowergirl,&#8221; but actually Sydney quickly caught on that everyone was using a fake name for the night, and said that her &#8220;wedding name&#8221; was Martha.<\/p>\n<p>* The groom, during the ceremony, producing a list of pros and cons for marrying Margo (or not). On the back of the sheet of paper was a personals ad with the header &#8220;MSM.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>* Kim as the bride&#8217;s sister, coming in clothes that really came close to being &#8220;casual Friday at work,&#8221; and enjoying (in a &#8220;concerned&#8221; way) everything that went horribly, horribly wrong all evening.<\/p>\n<p>* <a href=\"http:\/\/ms-xeno.livejournal.com\/\">Amy <\/a>standing on a chair to sing brilliantly along with &#8220;The Greatest Love Of All,&#8221; reaching an almost painful high pitch as everyone cheered. She sang the line &#8220;they&#8217;ll never take away my dignity&#8221; with particular ironic relish.<\/p>\n<p>* Amy, playing a kleptomaniac, was generally awesome, wandering around and shoving everything in sight &#8212; including the champaign glasses and, at one point, the bride&#8217;s veil &#8212; into her bag. (She and Brad also, I&#8217;m told, did an awesome job performing &#8220;Bat Out Of Hell,&#8221; but unfortunately I missed it.)<\/p>\n<p>* A man in a trenchcoat buttoned up all the way, sunglasses a hat, and a newspaper held in front of him, sneaking around from place to place, always with his back to a wall. Think he was a spy?<\/p>\n<p>* Charles, as Fred the best man \/ visitor from the future, using his awesome hypno monkey on the gambling addict \/ long-lost uncle, and ordering the uncle (played by Aaron) to follow &#8220;the man in the trenchcoat,&#8221; intending that he follow the vampire. However, the first trenchcoat he saw was the spy, and so he followed the spy around for awhile.<\/p>\n<p>* Ninja! (Sydney and Maddox were both awestruck by this. So were many of the grown-ups.)<\/p>\n<p>* The groom&#8217;s father (played by Kip) discovering that it&#8217;s hard to remain in denial about your son being gay when your son the groom is rolling around on the reception floor making out with his roommate.<\/p>\n<p>* The world&#8217;s oldest living civil war general spotting The Doctor (played by <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Emily_Care_Boss\">Emily<\/a>), and saying &#8220;Doctor! Long time no see!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>I could go on a long, long time, and still not mention everything I saw last night that I loved &#8212; and I&#8217;m sure I missed far more than I saw. (There were bunches of players who I never got to interact with.) But I don&#8217;t want to go on forever. I&#8217;ll post links to other people&#8217;s recollections as I become aware of them; feel free to use the comments here as well, either to post comments or to link.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>UPDATE: Check out the comments! Amongst other things, there&#8217;s a comment from Jenn, who played the bride; and a very full report from the Oregonian&#8217;s society columnist. UPDATE 2: Added a link to Gisho&#8217;s photos. UPDATE 3: Culturepulp!!!!!!!! Woooo! 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