I got married two months ago, and finally some halfway decent photos are available. As usual, you can click on any of them for a bigger version. The site was a nice country house in the Peak District, Yorkshire, England;



Here is the bride;



The groom (left) and my best man (right);



Guests arriving and getting ready. Fortunately the weather cleared for just long enough to have the ceremony and the photos.



The bride's entrance (to the 'Music for the Royal Fireworks Menuet');



The ring bearer was Teegan, a whippet;



The ceremony;



The marriage was ten months after the proposal. We first met a bit less than five years ago.



The exit was to the Stardust coronation theme. We had bubbles instead of rice.




The rings are tungsten carbide, with platinum and gold spiral insets. Tungsten carbide is virtually unscratchable and rather heavy.



There were of course many photos with relatives.




Not to mention friends and business partners.

The grounds had lots of interesting nooks and crannies.



The dogs belong to my parents; my family has always had dogs, and I hope to have some of my own soon.



The front of the house was pretty impressive;




We proceeded to the reception (I had the Animusic DVDs playing on the screens). Attendence of our friends in Sheffield was guarenteed by the free beer.




Leena's mother made a crazy-awesome quilt that tried to tell our life stories on a single bit of snuggly fabric.



Clearly it was time to eat, drink and be merry.



Fireworks were handled by my father and brother-in-law. Considering the modest budget they were really rather impressive;




The Germans insisted on playing some silly wedding games, mostly featuring horrible puns.



There was of course dancing. I supplied and set up all the lighting and sound gear - in fact that's mostly why I look so tired in some of these photos.



Regrettably I don't seem to have any photos of people playing Wii and Xbox games on the projection screens.

That is awesome, a great wedding for you and your fraulein! A Germanic castle on the hills (or a house that looks like one) is way better than any crappy church!

Who owns the place, anywhoo? And why tungsten carbide rings?

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From the looks of it, its probably either a National Trust property or an English Heritage one. Or, uh, a private one...... They all look the same after a while.

Looks like fun was had by all, at any rate

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Yeah, Germans allways do that. On every single wedding somebody has to do silly games which allways turn out to be both boring and embarassing.

Congrats. Stylish wedding. That´s very rare.

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^Not on those I have attended so far (granted, they were only four).

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Perhaps your friends have more class than mine.

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It very much depends on where they come from. As a rule, the more rural, the more games...

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As I said in the other thread... Outstanding wedding! Congrats! I have to say, I'm a little jealous of the venue you had. Jenn and I just had a Lake Tahoe beach house. (Nothing to scoff at, but not a freakin' CASTLE!)

Also, the more you get to the north, the less gamey the people are. Which might account for the lack of games I witnessed, considering two marriages were in Bremen, one in Bramsche and one in Münster.

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That really looks like a beautiful, wonderful wedding. (The people too ). Why are the photos you paid for watermarked?
Also, was the weather really that grey? (the sky is grey or burned).

Really nice people shots and kids and families. Do you have a full on shot of that life story quilt?

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My old PI was from Bavaria, and the games consisting of bad puns are definitely something he would insist on, if only to torment his now-married child.

Congrats are in order Starglider! Many happy years of Marital bliss. I hope you speak german so you can evesdrop on the inlaws

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Because;
1) They're nearly impossible to scratch, much moreso than stainless steel or titanium (gold and platinum scratch easily). I keep clicking mine against stuff and while it picks up smears of other materials, it doesn't scratch.
2) WC is very dense which gives them a nice weight.
3) WC has a darker bluish colour (compared to stainless steel or titanium) which contrasts nicely with the platinum.

It's expensive because you can't cast or forge it, you have to sinter tungsten carbide in the desired shape.



Yes, everyone seemed to think it went very well. It was a close thing though, there was some serious family drama the night before.



The weddings I've been to in Germany have all had silly games, but then those were all relatives of Leena. To be fair, most of them are reasonably amusing.



One of our friends hired an actual castle for their wedding. They had everyone in medieval dress and had sword-bearers making a row of arches for them to walk under. A friend of my parents also had her wedding in a castle and the ring-bearer was a trained snowy owl (which resulted in a funny story). However that generally requires shuttling everyone to another site for the actual reception. We wanted to do everything on one site. It took some searching to find but it does beat a generic hotel. It always amuses me to see those 'we will make your wedding magical' leaflets in places like Holiday Inn - I always think 'and how exactly are you going to do that?'



I took them from the 'chose which photos you want to go into the album' DVD.



Yes. That is common in the UK in autumn. In fact it was raining lightly all morning and stopped just long enough for the ceremony and pictures. Later it stopped just long enough for the fireworks.



Thank you, to all well-wishers. We are doing well so far, although now that the wedding question is out of the way the dreaded 'children' question keeps coming up...



Sadly, no. I have been learning it at a rate of about ten words a year, but also forgetting it at a rate of about six words a year, so progress is slow and painful...

Something just caught my eye - this is the first time I have seen the name written as Leena. I usually see it as Lena (short for Helene). Is there any reason for it?

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It's a Swedish name. Her parents visited Sweden quite a bit and saw the name in a school book when they were there.

Ah, it is the swedish version of it. That explains things.

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No it is not a Swedish short fore Helena. But it is regards as one. it is usually in form with an other name like Anna-Lena or Sara-Lena, Some believe that its from the small village of Lena in västergotland. mostly famous fore a battle in 1208. were the Danes got a bloody nose.

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That is quite popuilar in germany as well and there they are definitely short for Helene.




Isn't that near Kungslena? (Also with only one e).

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Well, it's complicated. There are several names that end in "lena", such as Helena/Elena, Magdalena, and the place-name Lena (which is old Swedish and means something like "slope" or "plain"). It could be derived from all of them. "Leena" with two e is actually the Finnish form of the name (we Swedes don't like them double vowels).


It is actually Kungslena (and there are many other places called Lena). They changed the name sometime around the 1600s.

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