Wedding Roulette

Why "Wedding Roulette" you may ask. Well, after talking to Christy, we wanted to try something different. We both have been married before and we know how crazy getting married can be. "Honey do these underwear match my cummerbund?" In typical, John and Christy fashion we have upped the difficulty level for ourselves by deciding to get married in Derby Kansas on the same weekend as my 25th high school reunion - IN JULY. Certainly, we could get married in Phoenix but oh that would be far too easy. We thought, hey let's travel halfway across the country and do this thing. Yes, the crazy is strong with us. In our defense, it is centrally located to all of our friends and family. Still, we are going to be in the middle of Kansas with minimal help trying to pull off a wedding that everyone will be happy to come to and we will be happy to attend.

So what do we want from you? Ideas or help or ideas AND help or just kelp, because kelp is a delicious treat beloved by many ocean dwelling creatures. Okay, scratch the kelp part because this is not an "Under The Sea Dance" people, it's a wedding. Note: you can now start your Back to the Future blog reference drinking game.

Are you good with a camera? Would you be willing to take pictures? Have you always wanted to show off your wicked baking skills or do you know a shop or someone that can make a cake that didn't look like I made it, in the dark, with claws for hands? Are you crafty? Do you like making floral displays? Do you like making floral displays that look like 80's music icons like Billy Idol or Madonna? Okay - scratch that last part. Christy would kill me.

Now we thought all of this would be a good idea since we both had been to a couple of weddings, some family and some friends, that were sort of like a pot luck affair. We would much prefer this approach then, to see, for fun and enjoyment, if we could get weird things like a model of of a working flux capacitor (drink em if you got em!) from ThinkGeek.com or see if we can get 1.21 jigawatts (drink) out of a collective of solar panels from UnitedNuclear.com. So instead of redirecting everyone to websites or buying us one of those cool DeLorean (drink!) replicas from the Macy's catalog, we just want some help and most of all to see you. Sincerely, that's what this whole deal is about right? We get to be married and have you share that moment with us. All we ask is that you don't show up naked or anything weird like that. Well if you do, please have the courtesy of having a song prepared for the wedding march and wear a balloon hat. As unique weddings go, I have never heard of having a naked person sing the wedding march while wearing a balloon hat (preferably in the shape of the Loch Ness monster or a turtle), so we would have that going for us.

Even if you can't help, we do have a registry at Target since Christy is fond of linens and we are using paper towels to dry ourselves off after showers. Pro tip: Bounty IS the quicker picker upper.

Things we haven't quite nailed down yet:

• A cake
• Photography
• Flower stuff
  
• Music for the wedding

I know there is a lot more - we are just now thinking about the reception, so if you can add anything please do by contacting us or hitting the comments below. Thank you!