ZOMG WEDDING!

[daemonluna]

You GUYS! zulu/queenzulu and bell/usomitai are MARRIED! It was a gorgeous wedding, and troutkitty were totally honoured and thrilled to be there, especially since the wedding was pretty small.

We drove into Calgary Monday afternoon, and detoured to Gina Brown's where I bought much wool for making stripey socks, and then headed off to parents'-of-zulu's, where we met spatulagirl, who was knitting a scarf, and let me show off my stripey sock yarn to her! Knitters rock.

No, I lie, first we met the happy couple in the driveway, who were off on an emergency grocery run for sweetened condensed milk, which is not the same as evaporated milk. It was for a traditional Brazilian icing for the wedding cakes, one chocolate and one vanilla, decorated with coconut (much beloved by zulu, I must say), and rainbow skittles in the shape of <3 and :D

(bell is very small! She is pocket-sized and full of energy and she and zulu fit together just right!)

We joined clan-of-zulu for what we all decided was the rehearsal-bridal shower-bachlorette dinner, and got to partake in the embarrassing zulu home movie footage! (There were significant amounts of wee grelse and brother-of-zulu, and mom-of-zulu kept saying, zulu's not in this bit! Fastforward! But we did get to see her twelve-year-old-self claim a mountain!)

Sadly, I should have ordered the card from Etsy that was intended to go with the wedding present a few days earlier, since it was in our mailbox when we got home. My mom raided her stash of blank cards for me, and we found a) a card with a print from the farther of a poet friend of hers (a prairie winter scene with chickadees), to be from us, and b) a pretty handmade card that came with her rug from Ten Thousand Villages to be given on devo's behalf. (Note to self: my mom says zulu's mom also knows the poet--tell zulumom about this!)

There was reconvening at the zulu house at eleven the next morning, the arrival of friends from Edmonton, a departure for the marriage commissioner's in stages, and zulu making high-pitched dolphin noises of glee. A card from dine arrived in the mail on that very day! We were all dressed up! zulu had elaborate hair, thanks to her sister in law, who did both zulu and bell's makeup, I think?

It was the same marriage commissioner who married us (and at this point, at least three other people we know) and the ceremony was in her living room and it was absolutely gorgeous. The brides both wore pretty blue dresses, and zulu had tulips in her bouquet, and bell had gerbera daisies. Afterwards, we all headed to The King and I for amazing Thai food.

Then, sadly, we had to head home. We brought grelse back with us, and deposited her safely at her place of residence. There was a jacket mix-up, however. My jacket looks remarkably similar similar to her jacket except in two important ways: it is navy blue instead of black, and it has my camera and ipod in the pockets. So, uploading of wedding pictures is slightly delayed.

Now I believe the happy couple are on their way to Banff for the honeymoon. I think zulu is succeeding in her plans to get bell hooked on skating. If they are not too exhausted by the weekend, we are trying to tempt them down to come and visit, with promises of making Korean food and teaching bell to make pad thai, and playing Betrayal at House on the Hill, part of our wedding gift to them.

In short, it was lovely, I'm so glad we could be there, and still so thrilled for zulu and bell!