Tales of a not-a-Wedding

[elvum]

Waking up with only a mild hangover from gaspodog's stag do the night before, I perambulated trammishly towards central croydon and the beautiful sixties pile of concrete that is the Croydon Register Office. Arriving fifteen minutes early, I made my way towards a hat in the nearby gardens that turned out to have a stagknight supporting it. Eventually gaspodog and shuripentu arrived, and we went in. After some faff and paperwork, the ceremony began.

The Superintendent Registrar was quite possibly the coolest guy working for Croydon Council, despite taking about seven attempts to get shuripentu's chosen name right. He subsequently redeemed himself by saying things like "you may now give the bride a short kiss". Obviously you can't waste time smooching when they've got another happy couple due in fifteen. After the ceremony they replaced the register with a fake register and the signing pen with a fake signing pen and allowed me to take photos of them pretending to sign it. Then we went to the Clocktower Cafe for tea, and then to Nando's for a sumptuous wedding banquet. (I had a double chicken burger and sweetcorn.) So long as you don't mind your bubbly being Coke and not Champagne, you really can't beat them for value...

As an artistic challenge, in keeping with the minimalist theme of the not-a-wedding, I determined to photograph it in precisely four photos. This was subsequently increased to five by bridal fiat. The photos have now been made private at shuripentu's request.

Comments

[shuripentu.livejournal.com]

I would like to note that the reason I increased the number of photos to 5 was solely because of that damned signing-the-fake-registry-with-the-fake-pen photo, which was taken solely because the registrars seemed so keen on it and it would have been a bit rude to refuse given that they'd whipped out the fake book and pen already.

Also, thanks for writing up the not-a-wedding for us, 'cause we were far too busy geting moist in Brighton to do so. ;)

[m31andy.livejournal.com]

A ha!

Just commenting to say: have friended you, nice to see you again last night and "Time, Date". ;)

[elvum.livejournal.com]

I've checked and it's not been scheduled yet. :-) Will get back to you.

[m31andy.livejournal.com]

*grin*

Now that doesn't surprise me!

Ta muchly!