glosite » backyard wedding http://glosite.com/blog wedding planning inspiration from Glosite Sun, 04 Feb 2018 10:05:41 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=4.0.1 Melanie and Tommy’s Beautiful Backyard Family Fun Wedding http://glosite.com/blog/2015/09/inspiration/pinole-backyard-family-wedding/ http://glosite.com/blog/2015/09/inspiration/pinole-backyard-family-wedding/#comments Wed, 09 Sep 2015 19:56:41 +0000 http://glosite.com/blog/?p=1392 Photos by Vivian Chen Photography The Glö-Couple (tell us a fun fact about each of you): Melanie, Paramedic, six-foot-six on the inside five foot nothing on the outside and Tommy, Paramedic, Melanie’s EMT teacher Celebration Date & Location: April 2014 Pinole, CA, USA Tell us how you got engaged: Working in emergency services we see a lot of families tragically pulled apart and realized if we weren’t married there would be no protection for the other if the worst happened. We needed to get married for all of the legal aspects that being married provide (which was a long running joke throughout our engagement, yay tax breaks,) but also because we didn’t want there to be any questions about our commitment to each other. He was my EMT teacher when we first met, both in unhappy relationships. I began working at the same company as him about a year later and we became really good friends and partners. We “rescued” each other from the smoking remains of our relationships and realized we had really strong feelings for each other. Our relationship has survived his official divorce, his being every red flag in the book to my parents, me going to […]

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]]> http://glosite.com/blog/2015/09/inspiration/pinole-backyard-family-wedding/feed/ 1 Heather and John’s backyard celebration with tons of kids, smores and a booze canoe http://glosite.com/blog/2013/09/realglobies/heather-and-johns-backyard-celebration-with-tons-of-kids-smores-and-a-booze-canoe/ http://glosite.com/blog/2013/09/realglobies/heather-and-johns-backyard-celebration-with-tons-of-kids-smores-and-a-booze-canoe/#comments Wed, 25 Sep 2013 21:04:40 +0000 http://glosite.com/blog/?p=926 The Glö-Couple (tell us a fun fact about each of you): Heather, a student & John, a non-profit executive Celebration Date & Location: Ceremony: location (linked if possible) Medford, NJ USA Tell us how you got engaged: We decided to get married over a weekend camping and canoe trip where we realized we could row a boat together through punishing heat and muscle aches and then a two week long Facebook chat while John was far away adventuring. We bought engagement kayaks instead of rings. What’s the overall ‘feeling’ you’re aiming for with your celebration: We wanted to be able to celebrate with as many people as possible. We both work with the Scouts so our friends have kids. The ability to have a lot of kids and a canoe full of beer was central to the planning. We wanted a really fun party that wasn’t stuffy, where people could relax, feel included in the day and know they were valued. Are you adding any fun twists on tradition: Heather is Buddhist so the ceremony including a sake ceremony and our vows had a Buddhist bent to them. We greeted all our guests before the ceremony as they came off […]

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