A Wedding and an Election
Nov. 25th, 2007 12:25 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
mstakenidentityYesterday I got up early and ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
mc_shamo and I voted at the church hall near his house.
By 10am I was in a dress, with hair and make-up done, in a taxi heading toimpostinator's house.
muffin_gloves and I did our best to fulfill our duty as bridesmaids, helping with last-minute stuff. impostinator came out of her room in the most stunning purple dress looking absolutley beautiful.
We got in another taxi (the driver of which seemed bemused that we were taking a taxi to the wedding, and a bit shocked whenimpostinator told him that she'd originally wanted to take the tram) and headed to
Brunswick Town Hall. We had a little trouble getting down Dawson St with the traffic but finally arrived, just on time. While Chris and the others had been setting up earlier people had been coming right into the hall trying to vote (this despite the ribbons, the flowers, the people in formal wear, the lack of people giving out how-to-vote cards...) so Anna had made signs to hang out the front which went something like: "THIS IS NOT A POLLING STATION, THIS IS A PRIVATE FUNCTION! (AND IF YOU INTERRUPT MY WEDDING I WILL KILL YOU)" which seemed to do the trick.
The wedding itself was lovely, it was really good to see the individuality of the couple shine through.impostinator walked down the aisle to Ride of the Valkyries, the signing was done while the Dead Parrot Sketch played, and then we left to an a cappella choral version of the main theme from Star Wars.
After the wedding there was much catching up with people, some of whom I had not seen in three or four years. I don't know where the afternoon went, but suddenly it was 7pm and we were leaving to go tovivienne_aster and fnoo's Election Party.
The party was great, I stood on the balcony in the cooler air and came in for the speeches. I had a long chat with Helen and got to talk to most people there, which was good. And of course, I was over-joyed by the change in government. :-)
It's been really lovely to see how many of my friends who are overseas right now are happy with the result. This morning I saw I had a text fromclappamungus which said simply "Whoo-hoo!" and it brought tears to my eyes.
All in all, yesterday=awesome!
mc_shamo and I voted at the church hall near his house. By 10am I was in a dress, with hair and make-up done, in a taxi heading to
impostinator's house.muffin_gloves and I did our best to fulfill our duty as bridesmaids, helping with last-minute stuff. impostinator came out of her room in the most stunning purple dress looking absolutley beautiful.We got in another taxi (the driver of which seemed bemused that we were taking a taxi to the wedding, and a bit shocked when
impostinator told him that she'd originally wanted to take the tram) and headed to Brunswick Town Hall. We had a little trouble getting down Dawson St with the traffic but finally arrived, just on time. While Chris and the others had been setting up earlier people had been coming right into the hall trying to vote (this despite the ribbons, the flowers, the people in formal wear, the lack of people giving out how-to-vote cards...) so Anna had made signs to hang out the front which went something like: "THIS IS NOT A POLLING STATION, THIS IS A PRIVATE FUNCTION! (AND IF YOU INTERRUPT MY WEDDING I WILL KILL YOU)" which seemed to do the trick.
The wedding itself was lovely, it was really good to see the individuality of the couple shine through.
impostinator walked down the aisle to Ride of the Valkyries, the signing was done while the Dead Parrot Sketch played, and then we left to an a cappella choral version of the main theme from Star Wars. After the wedding there was much catching up with people, some of whom I had not seen in three or four years. I don't know where the afternoon went, but suddenly it was 7pm and we were leaving to go to
vivienne_aster and fnoo's Election Party.The party was great, I stood on the balcony in the cooler air and came in for the speeches. I had a long chat with Helen and got to talk to most people there, which was good. And of course, I was over-joyed by the change in government. :-)
It's been really lovely to see how many of my friends who are overseas right now are happy with the result. This morning I saw I had a text from
clappamungus which said simply "Whoo-hoo!" and it brought tears to my eyes. All in all, yesterday=awesome!
