Jamie and Melissa’s are married! View the video of their ceremony and highlights from their wedding. Download it (555 Mb) by entering http://sheeri.com/movies/2008/JamieMelissaWedding.wmv into your browser or just watch it by clicking “play” below:

Jamie and Melissa get married

Well, Tony and I got married on Saturday, June 16th, 2007. We had a FABULOUS wedding, and I wanted to share some of the pictures that friends and family took. These were all digital pictures, and the ones that are in black and white are ones that a friend took that were just so perfect in capturing the moment, I thought of them as “classic wedding pictures” so made them black and white.

There are wedding videos here, too, including a 16-minute video of our ENTIRE ceremony. If you want to see a unique wedding, where the bride and groom customize the ceremony, this is it! I think the humor in the ceremony is what prevented us from crying — we both tear up at schmoopy things, so I was really surprised that we both stayed dry-eyed throughout the day!

The wedding was in Tony’s parents’ backyard. It was a beautiful day, the weather was perfect. The food was takeout from our favorite restaurant, organized by a caterer friend with some help from other amazing friends and my brother-in-law, Jack. Don’t let the pictures fool you — we had 150 people there, including 25 kids!

The lighting made it hard to get good pictures — under the tent was darker than the bright day outside.

This picture pretty much sums up how I feel about the whole day. This was during the hora, while lifted up in the air and holding a red napkin between me and my new husband. The look on my face is perfect, and I’m glad it was captured:

Here’s the obligatory shot of our main photographer taking pictures:

The tables were set up like this, thanx to my troupe of intrepid volunteers of friends and family. Note the San Pellegrino bottles, we didn’t want a huge line at the bar for water:

The extremely short aisle, showing the chuppah, poles and holders given to us by friends who used it in their ceremony — they had already stained the wood in that spiral pattern, so very little work needed to be done on the chuppah!

Our groomsmen (and groomsmaid) gathered at the front and our officiant (another friend!) walked down the aisle to signal the start. Here’s a great picture of “the knuckleheads”:

Tony walking with his parents down the “pre-aisle” (driveway):

Lineup of folks waiting to walk down the aisle after Tony and his parents (the ring bearer, then friends, then my older brother and his family are captured here:

Tony’s jazz band played the music for our wedding:

A very sweet photo of our ring bearer, my oldest nephew. He’s 6.5 years old, and was very responsible. If you watch the wedding video, you’ll see he stood quietly the whole time until it was time to take the rings out. He’s a great kid:

Friends:

My older brother and his family came next:

My twin brother and his family, minus his oldest son who was the ring bearer:

My sister and her family, except for her daughter who was the flower girl:

Our flower girl, my only niece. She’s wearing a dress that my mother and sister made from my sister’s wedding dress:

Me getting ready to walk down the aisle with my parents:

Me walking down the aisle. My face seems to show relief or something, but what I’m thinking is “don’t trip on the aisle runner. Take big steps so the dress moves”:

This picture is unfortunately fuzzy, but I include it here because I love the expression on Tony’s face:

Me walking down the aisle again. Can you tell I look like my dad?

Me walking down the aisle, from the back. You can see the amazing back of my dress in this photo:

Classic shot of Tony putting the ring on my finger:

Tony and me lifted up in the hora:

Tony wrote a song for me, and played it at the wedding. Here’s me kissing him afterwards:

I leave you with one of my favorite images. At the end of the hora, Tony dipped me and kissed me. This may be the wedding picture that gets enlarged and put into a nice frame at home:

Our collection of pictures are at:

http://sheeri.com/photos/web/default/index.php?category=wedding

Videos:

Ceremony video — Ceremony Video

Tony debuts a song he wrote for me — 227 Mb, full sizeSong For Sheeri

First Dance — First Dance

I surprise Tony — I surprise Tony

Fran’s pictures (bridesmaid) are at http://fes42.livejournal.com/340908.html
and also at http://fes42.livejournal.com/341182.html

Many folks have been asking — so here’s the scoop.

Our wedding is semi-formal. You don’t need to wear a dress like you would if you went to the junior prom, but men should be in suits and ties, and women should be in dresses (sun dresses are OK) or professional attire like a suit. It is certainly OK to wear black. It is also OK to wear a white dress with a colorful print on it (ie, white dress with flowers on it).

Our wedding will be catered by a friend of ours. She will be arranging food prepared by our favorite restaurant, Not Your Average Joe’s.

The meal will be a buffet style, with the following options:

Sides:
Salad
Angel Hair
Garlic Mashed Potatoes
Vegetables (yet to be determined, most likely grilled or steamed)

Meals:
Vegetable Ravioli
Chicken Marinara
Grilled Steak Tips

We strive to make sure everyone has a comfortable and enjoyable meal. Please comment if there’s a dietary restriction that you cannot work around.

For our gluten-free guests we recommend:
Grilled Steak Tips, Salad, Mashed Potatoes, Vegetables

For those keeping kosher, note that the food will be “kosher-style”, though not strictly kosher. We will have some parve desserts clearly marked, but most desserts will be dairy. To that end, should you want a dairy meal, we suggest:
Vegetable Ravioli, Salad, Mashed Potatoes, Vegetables

Vegetarians should follow the same menu as kosher dairy.

On April 10th, 2005 I had a choir concert, and Tony drew the following ad for the inside back cover:

Of course, I said yes.

How we met, as told by Tony [originally sent to some of his friends]:

Although I could very well go into every detail of the evening from my end, struggling to maintain and being wholly overwhelmed by whom I rightly assumed to be the most spectacular woman I could ever hope to meet. I’m pretty sure I remember everything I said to her; most of it was “Guh”. I never get past the initial lightning bolt, because after that point, I’m just a love-sick doofus nobody needs to see that.

So, gentlemen…

I’m sure a good number of you have been wondering where I’ve been recently and what I’ve been up to.

Well, tough. I’m telling you anyway.

I’ve been spending a little more time up in Boston, visiting friends and seriously looking to relocate from Providence. About a month ago, my friend Lisa took the bar exam and decided that now she was on the other side of this enormous study experience, she didn’t need any more brain cells for a while. So she put the call out to a bunch of us to join her at a bar in Allston to, in the words of Bill Cosby, go “WHEEEEEEEEEYYY!!!” So I decided to schlep on up.

I e-mail my dear friend Jamie H., asking if he’s going and securing a spot on his couch, and then tell him I’ll see him shortly, after I hop the bus to South Station and get on the Red Line. Which is what I do.

An hour’s bus ride into South Station, and another 30 minutes or so out to Davis Square, past Harvard Square. I get off at Davis and find a pay phone, and call Jamie’s cell for the rest of the details on how to meet up with everyone else.

Jamie: “Well, for starters, get back on the Red Line and get back into town. You were supposed to take the Green Line, you psycho…” Ah.

So I take the T back to Park Street (another half hour), get on the Green Line (”B” train, lousy song cue), and head out to Allston. Somewhere past the Boston Univeristy campus (another 20 minutes or so) I realize I’m in that land where the MBTA says, “We’re not going to bother labeling any of the stops anymore. We’re goin to stop where and when we feel like it; feel free to get out if you see anything you like.” Following that philosophy, I got off the T to follow a nice young woman with calves that should win a Nobel Prize for something. As it turned out, I was in exactly the right spot. Thanks, Miss, wherever you are.

I find the bar, walk in 3 weeks late to find Jamie sitting on the floor talking to a bunch of people I don’t know. I give him a loving boot in the butt, everyone looks up and I say, with a big grin at Cabralski Volume:

“Hey!! Sorry I’m late; I would’ve been here sooner, but I’m stupid!!”

And a beautiful young woman with long blond hair and blue eyes looks up from the couch and says at Cabralski Volume: “That’s the best opening line I’ve ever heard!”

And we were off and running…

Neither of us spoke to anyone else that night. She followed me out at one point while I went for a cigarette (a friend’s “helpful” interference: “You don’t want to seem eager or desperate, T.” Moi?) She doesn’t even smoke. And she made me laugh more than I made her laugh.

Her name’s Sheeri. We’ve been seeing each other quite seriously for the past 6 weeks. No punchline to any of this (she’s a lesbian, she’s a robot, she’s wanted for stapling baloney to a circus midget…)

Thought you’d like to know.

-T

Tony and Sheeri’s wedding will be held on Saturday June 16th, 2007.

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