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Jenny and Alan’s casual brewpub wedding

pics | main2Photos by Ethan Killian Photography

The Glö-Couple (tell us a fun fact about each of you):

Jenny, an epidemiologist (I like to put pepper on my pancakes) &
Alan, a video game designer (He’s also an artist and he gets together with buddies every week for a “Draw Night.”) check out Alan’s virtual sketchbook

Celebration Date & Location:

Sept 30th
Squatters Pubs and Beers Squatters Pubs and Beers
Salt Lake City, UT, USA

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Tell us how you got engaged:

Alan surprised me with a book that he’d designed, written and illustrated. It described our four years together and at the end was a paper ring.

Jenny_Alan_engaged with paper ring

What’s the overall ‘feeling’ you were aiming for with your celebration:

We had a casual, intimate and fun celebration with close family and friends. Above all else, it was important that we enjoyed ourselves without getting bogged down with details. We poked a little bit of fun at tradition while still highlighting the importance of our celebration.

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Any fun twists on tradition:

I wore a pink dress. Our ceremony included a) a gushing PowerPoint presentation by the groom, b) an exchange of wooden rings, c) a magic wand and d) a participatory chant from the audience to pronounce us married (“mecca lecca hi mecca hiney ho!” – Jambi the genie from Pee-wee’s Playhouse).

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My mom made a three-tiered Rice Krispie treat wedding cake, we had video and board games instead of dancing and we gave out boxes of Nerds candy as favors.

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What was the inspiration for your Glövite and Glösite design? If you made them yourself, tell us how you did it.

In Alan’s proposal book, I was a bug (his nickname for me) and Alan was a bean (he sketches lots of bean-like characters). We carried this theme over to the Glovites and Glosite and Alan sketched every guest as a bug or bean.

Alan grabbed one of the free website design templates, adjusted the colors and overlaid it with an image of bug and bean characters/guests.

Let’s show off your Glövites and Glösite

invite

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site 0 | events copy

site 1| gifts copy

thankssite 1 | post thanks copy

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Any good planning tips and tricks for the couples who are just starting to plan?

Remember that, whether you go small and casual or big and traditional, the only thing that matters is that you show up and enjoy yourselves.

We’re nerds so we used Excel to track our budget and to-do list. And, of course, the Glosite and Glovites were super helpful.

What was your favorite moment?

My favorite moment was when everyone chanted “mecca lecca hi mecca hiney ho!” three times over to pronounce us married. It was wonderful (and hilarious) to involve our loved ones this way, rather than have them watch quietly.

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What’s the biggest “say what?”  moment or funny story that’s happened since you started planning?

There was quite a bit of eye-rolling from some family members when they realized they wouldn’t get to eat traditional wedding cake and that a magic wand might make an appearance in the ceremony. In the end they absolutely loved it and they couldn’t have seen us doing it any other way.

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