Jen and Ian's Zombie Wedding

This is Jen, writing on E's profile. Teach him to have auto log in on a joint account! :-)

This is a post long over due. Overdue for many reasons, the first being of course, the last we updated anything about our darling daughter was nearly six months ago. Yep, we are slackers. Actually, as many know, the primary reason we haven't posted anything is due to the over taxing events of the past several months, leading up to our amazing and very awesome zombie wedding on October 30, 2011.

We started off in the beautiful area of Hard Labor Creek in Rutledge, GA. You may recognize the area if you sit down and watch Friday the 13th, Part Six. You see, Jason rises from the dead in a cemetery about 20 minutes down the road in a little town called Monroe. He then manages to make his way to the summer camp at Camp Crystal Lake (aka Camp Daniel Morgan.) Now, we didn't actually get married at the camp site, that was too expensive and we were frugal with our wedding, keeping all expenses, including the honeymoon, under $4K. That means we are cheap asses and we aren't forking out a lot of money and this was a DIY type of wedding. But, we did manage to score a perfectly usable group shelter right next to the lake. A large, open field allowed us to have an outside ceremony, while the roomy and cabin like enclosure provided ample amenities for our reception of, get this, finger foods!

The bridesmaids flowers were vased in severed hands. My flowers were laced with eyeballs and fingers. The groomsmen's flowers each had a finger attached. Ian and I had bought colored contacts to complete our look, along with blood splattered shoes. Where as Ian opted to destroy his Goodwill suit that he spent $17 on, I opted to not destroy my $400 dress that looked as if I had already walked through a pool of blood. My veil was homemade. The brides maids each had a cheap $40 dress on that looked super cool, and each of the groomsmen had Salvation Army suits on...yeah, cheap man, cheap. The flower girl and ring bearer just looked plain out creepy.

Props to Terry, the best man, who managed to zombify all of us on the day. He managed to do the makeup of thirteen people. The only down side to this is he is in limited number of photos. A great guy, I owe him a lot...he was there for Ian, always, and then he went above and beyond for us on our day. Kudos to him.

The pictures were all kinds of fun, attacking the photographers, each other, hangings, just plain out goofing off! I have to admit though, I really hated sitting as much as I did. Where as it was great to be off my feet in those heels, the position I had to sit in was not all that comfortable, after all, I am rather fat.

Once we got to the ceremony, we had a hoot. The minister threatened the wedding part with an axe and baseball ball. One of our guests attacked us with a chainsaw. The zombies of the wedding party shambled down the aisle and randomly attacked guests, or each other. The flower girl had the time of her life as she posed as a zombie girl, while the ring bearer was sullen, walking down the aisle with only one arm holding a hand that housed our rings. The minister started off with a "dearly departed" type of campy joke. He mentioned the that we stand by each other despite the stresses and chainsaws inevitable in any undeath. Way too much in the actual text of the ceremony to go into, but our guests were to offer up their encouragement, brains, and spleens to us. Oh sure, we had the normal mushy stuff in there. Heck, we even had the normal mushy stuff to be, well, normal. No jokes laced in that part of the ceremony, after all, this was a serious commitment.

Once the ceremony was completed, we took a bit more photo wise and then shambled our way into the reception hall were we were greeted with cheese balls shaped like faces with the skin severed off. We had a dummy on the table with a crockpot in his belly, where we scooped up his "guts" which were nothing more than BBQ cocktail weenies. We got many comments on that!

Our cakes were made by the very best of bakers, and a good friend, Brenda. Mine was cemetery style whereas Ian's was a head and a tombstone. Custom cake server was shaped like a hand and the cake knife was splattered with blood.

All in all, it was great fun! Wish you could be there if you weren't and thank you everyone who was! If you are interested in pictures, we have a few (not all) here:

Jen and Ian's Zombie Wedding

and here is a short teaser video: Jen and Ian's Zombie Wedding Vid