Just Married

[Dragonmaster Lou]

Well, actually, I was married last week. I only just got back from the honeymoon.

Here's the only pic I got online so far (courtesy of a friend). I also posting it in the "members pictures" thread, but figured I should start a new one related to this event in my life.

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[GhaleonOne]

The founder of Lunar fandom gets married! Congrats man! ^_^ Where'd you go for the honeymoon?

[Benevolent_Ghaleon]

congrats!

[Dragonmaster Lou]

The founder of Lunar fandom gets married! Congrats man! ^_^ Where'd you go for the honeymoon?

Thanks (to both you and Benevolent_Ghaleon). We want to Paris for the honeymoon. I spent 4 days there back in high school and always wanted to go back, and this was Cathy's (my wife's) first trip to Europe, and Paris was also a dream locale for her.

Fun fact: We had our first dance to "Lucia's Theme." How appropriate, eh?

[Ozone]

Congrats, man

Paris is great, isn't it? I love it there.

[BattleMedic]

Congratulations (I think that's how you spell it), I hope you and your wife have a happy and healthy life together.

[Benevolent_Ghaleon]

The founder of Lunar fandom gets married! Congrats man! ^_^ Where'd you go for the honeymoon?

Thanks (to both you and Benevolent_Ghaleon). We want to Paris for the honeymoon. I spent 4 days there back in high school and always wanted to go back, and this was Cathy's (my wife's) first trip to Europe, and Paris was also a dream locale for her.

Fun fact: We had our first dance to "Lucia's Theme." How appropriate, eh?

are you friends with tons of lunar fans or was everyone else like "wtf is this?"

[GhaleonOne]

There's a lot of people that have apparently used video game instrumental music in their weddings. I think Alunissage used a Lunar song, if I remember right.

*cues up Ghaleon's theme for his wedding*

[Ozone]

There's a lot of people that have apparently used video game instrumental music in their weddings. I think Alunissage used a Lunar song, if I remember right.

*cues up Ghaleon's theme for his wedding*

Your wife might pwn you if she's not a Lunar fan.

[Benevolent_Ghaleon]

i like ALL lunar music, vocal and instrumental, but i'm usually using headphones. the average person seems to react with a puzzled or humored response. since a wedding has tons of people, i was half surprised by this.

[Alunissage]

Yeah, in my wedding the processional was to the theme used in Luna's introduction in SSSC, though we used the instrumental version rather than the sung one. My husband and I met via the WDMB, which we both joined after playing SSSC, so it seemed appropriate. That was the only music, though; no dancing. (Did have a triforce on our wedding cake though.) There were very few people there who would have recognized the music -- my sister, my former roommate, and possibly my husband's brothers. Didn't matter; I don't think anyone specifically expected anything. They certainly were surprised that my father was the officiant; music they didn't recognize was nothing compared to that.

Congrats, Lou! Is your wife also a series fan, or was she humoring you?

[Dragonmaster Lou]

The founder of Lunar fandom gets married! Congrats man! ^_^ Where'd you go for the honeymoon?

Thanks (to both you and Benevolent_Ghaleon). We want to Paris for the honeymoon. I spent 4 days there back in high school and always wanted to go back, and this was Cathy's (my wife's) first trip to Europe, and Paris was also a dream locale for her.

Fun fact: We had our first dance to "Lucia's Theme." How appropriate, eh?

are you friends with tons of lunar fans or was everyone else like "wtf is this?"

There were quite a few Lunar fans there who got it immediately. Everyone else viewed it as "just some pretty song."

[Dragonmaster Lou]

Yeah, in my wedding the processional was to the theme used in Luna's introduction in SSSC, though we used the instrumental version rather than the sung one. My husband and I met via the WDMB, which we both joined after playing SSSC, so it seemed appropriate. That was the only music, though; no dancing. (Did have a triforce on our wedding cake though.) There were very few people there who would have recognized the music -- my sister, my former roommate, and possibly my husband's brothers. Didn't matter; I don't think anyone specifically expected anything. They certainly were surprised that my father was the officiant; music they didn't recognize was nothing compared to that.

Congrats, Lou! Is your wife also a series fan, or was she humoring you?

First, thanks!

Next, well, we used the sung version of Lucia's theme for the first dance at the reception. At the wedding itself (a more or less standard Catholic affair), we had to pick a processional and a recessional from an "approved" list. Fortunately, there were quite a few very lovely classical pieces on the "approved list" (interestingly enough, the traditional "Here Comes the Bride" and "Wedding March" aren't approved for various reasons I could go into if you wish) that we chose. At the reception, though, pretty much anything was fair game, from Lucia's Theme to an orchestral version of the Super Mario Brother's theme (my wife's choice there, heh).

My wife, though, isn't a series fan (although, oddly enough, her sister is). Not being much of a gamer in general, she was just humoring me, but she didn't mind as we didn't really have a slow dance song that was "our song." It worked out well because a Dixie Chicks song she chose ("I Believe in Love") ended up as the last song, and I'm not a Dixie Chicks fan while she is a pretty big fan.

[Zophar]

Hey congrads, Dragonmaster Lou!

[phyco126]

Congratulations!

Oh, and before I forget, LUNAR FTW!!!

[LuNaRtIc]

*cues up Ghaleon's theme for his wedding*

Probably would be better than Nall's Theme at my wedding... xD

Hehe, anyway all joking aside, congratulations Lou!!! ^_^ I hope you had a great time. Wishing you many years of wedded bliss.

[Agawa]

Wow, congrats on the wedding!

[Sonic#]

Woo! Wedding! Congrats!

(interestingly enough, the traditional "Here Comes the Bride" and "Wedding March" aren't approved for various reasons I could go into if you wish)

I'm pretty interested. Why are these not approved?

[Guild_Premier_Ghaleon]

Man! I wish I could get away with playing Lunar music at my wedding. Unfortunately, I have a lot of non Lunar fans for friends(crazy right?), but I talk about it so frequently that they would recognize it and beat me senseless. Regardless, congrats.

[Dragonmaster Lou]

Woo! Wedding! Congrats!

(interestingly enough, the traditional "Here Comes the Bride" and "Wedding March" aren't approved for various reasons I could go into if you wish)

I'm pretty interested. Why are these not approved?

In a nutshell, it has to do with the original sources of both songs. "Here Comes the Bride" (real name "Bridal Chorus" from Wagner's opera Lohengrin) and the "Wedding March" (from Mendelssohn's ballet Midsummer Night's Dream) came from, well, an opera and a ballet, and had stories that featured fantasy, murder, all sorts of weird critters, and a marriage involving a literal (as in a donkey) jackass (I believe this was in Midsummer Night's Dream, which I think was based on Shakespeare's play). Because the source material of those songs contained those themes, the Catholic Church decided that they weren't quite appropriate for wedding use. They also lost a lot of "points" for becoming cliche to the point where everyone is familiar of the image of the old lady playing those tunes on some cheap-ass electronic organ, badly, for a really low-brow wedding.