Please enjoy these pictures from us at the zoo, the aquarium, and some baby pictures from our wedding slide show. As the title of this post indicates, we don't have wedding pictures up. We're still waiting for everyone to send us their pictures, so we can go through and sort out the best ones for posting. If you have some pictures of the wedding, please send them to us. We setup "meganandhunterphotos" at gmail.com, or send them to us some other way :) Look for wedding and honeymoon pictures soon!
Monday, June 8, 2009
Friday, May 29, 2009
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Tuesday, May 19, 2009
Food Tour
We just got done with an EXCELLENT food tour of the "hole in the wall"
type places in Hawaii. If you're planning a trip soon, their website
is www.hawaiifoodtours.com.
type places in Hawaii. If you're planning a trip soon, their website
is www.hawaiifoodtours.com.
Tuesday, May 12, 2009
Monday, January 19, 2009
Wedding Story
So far, all you have is Megan's side of the story. Since I was there too, I thought it would be worth sharing my experiences.
My version of the proposal starts about 5 months before the actual date (sometime in January 2008). I wanted to design the entire evening from scratch, so I started making a list of everything I needed. The first thing I needed was the ring. I decided to design one from scratch. So I created a 3D model in SolidWorks and had a ring designer create a wax mold from that design. After a few iterations (and final approval by me and Greg Simon, one of my groomsmen) we had it sent off to be injection molded, polished, and to have the diamonds inserted. the shape was a reverse figure eight that wraps around the back of the ring. Inside the two circles were two smaller diamonds, and sandwiched between the ends of the eight is a larger center diamond.
Once the ring was taken care of, I needed to know what KIND of proposal Megan would want. I'm very glad that I went through this step, because she had some very specific ideas about what she DIDN'T want. So after about a month of subtly snooping around, I discovered that she absolutely didn't want it to be in a public place, she didn't want any other people around, and she wanted lots of time afterwards to bask in the glow and celebrate. In addition to those criteria, I have never been a fan of the kind of proposal where they know it's coming for hours and hours beforehand (ie the scavenger hunt, the weekend getaway, etc...). So armed with this information, I composed a list of about 15 proposal ideas. Some were good and some were horrible.
I eventually came to the decision that I wanted to have a catered dinner for two in an art gallery downtown. That way I could surprise her, it would be private, and we could hang out for a couple hours for dinner, dancing, etc...
After calling about 12 different places, I decided on Gallery 1261. It had a large area, and moveable walls (so we could block people from seeing in and separate the chef and small kitchen in the back). Also, the artwork on the walls was very nice (no paintings of people getting killed, starving, or running around naked - which was actually an issue in some of the other galleries) which was a plus.
After I had a location, I called a local catering place and asked them to come up with an unforgettable evening. We designed everything in a lengthy series of meetings: the candles, flowers, linens, tables and chairs, music, food, wine, champagne, photography, parking, timing, etc... The whole time I was living in constant fear that Megan would discover my ruse and the whole plan would be ruined. Luckily enough, she never found out and was perfectly surprised when the big day came.
The "ruse" to lure her downtown is courtesy of Andy Halladay (one of my groomsmen). He fabricated a fictitious concert at Gallery 1261 and provided us with an invitation, a flyer, and a few carefully placed calls and emails. The plan was foolproof...but maybe a little too foolproof.
Megan was so oblivious to my secret goings-on that she actually invited a few of her friends that were visiting from Utah to the concert that night!!! Luckily, they weren't able to go, but I was fairly horrified that my plan would be ruined.
So the day of the proposal (June 21st), Megan and I went downtown early to investigate the local farmer's market. We had planned to the gay pride festival, but because her friends were in town, we joined them at the local greek food festival. The food there was pretty unbelievable (in a good way) and we both ate our fill.
After those excursions, the group we were with decided to go to a movie. It was the remake of Get Smart - which was pretty silly. At that point, I had prepared a secret note to give to Megan's friends, saying "I'm proposing tonight, the concert is a fake, please don't come". But it never came to that, as we all parted ways after the movie.
Megan and I changed in the mall bathrooms (don't worry, it was a fancy pants mall) and headed off for Gallery 1261. At this point, I started FREAKING OUT. My blood pressure was through the roof and my heart had to be at least 130! The entire drive down I was completely flushed, nervous, and sweaty. Megan says she didn't notice, but I felt like I was going to give it away right there.
Eventually, we arrive at the gallery and park in the space I had secretly reserved right out front. There wasn't anybody around, and as we walked by the windows, Megan said "I don't see anyone, what's going on". I said I didn't know, but maybe they were all in the back - and with that we walked inside. As soon as she saw the table with the flowers, candles, and heard our song (the look of love), she said "oh my god" and I dropped to a knee and proposed". Neither of us remember exactly what was said, but afterwards the chef said it was very romantic ;) We were both shaking and completely out of breath, but she said yes and we had a celebratory dance before dinner. She actually said "okay" and I had to prompt her to give me a YES, but I still count it!
After an epic two hour dinner, we did some dancing, some romancing, and drove home and started calling people. The next four hours were a complete blur of talking on the phone, getting congratulations, and jumping up and down singing "we're getting married, we're getting married!" Eventually we calmed down, but it was a great evening. And with the exception of what was SPECIFICALLY said during my proposal, it's one that we will never forget!
My version of the proposal starts about 5 months before the actual date (sometime in January 2008). I wanted to design the entire evening from scratch, so I started making a list of everything I needed. The first thing I needed was the ring. I decided to design one from scratch. So I created a 3D model in SolidWorks and had a ring designer create a wax mold from that design. After a few iterations (and final approval by me and Greg Simon, one of my groomsmen) we had it sent off to be injection molded, polished, and to have the diamonds inserted. the shape was a reverse figure eight that wraps around the back of the ring. Inside the two circles were two smaller diamonds, and sandwiched between the ends of the eight is a larger center diamond.
Once the ring was taken care of, I needed to know what KIND of proposal Megan would want. I'm very glad that I went through this step, because she had some very specific ideas about what she DIDN'T want. So after about a month of subtly snooping around, I discovered that she absolutely didn't want it to be in a public place, she didn't want any other people around, and she wanted lots of time afterwards to bask in the glow and celebrate. In addition to those criteria, I have never been a fan of the kind of proposal where they know it's coming for hours and hours beforehand (ie the scavenger hunt, the weekend getaway, etc...). So armed with this information, I composed a list of about 15 proposal ideas. Some were good and some were horrible.
I eventually came to the decision that I wanted to have a catered dinner for two in an art gallery downtown. That way I could surprise her, it would be private, and we could hang out for a couple hours for dinner, dancing, etc...
After calling about 12 different places, I decided on Gallery 1261. It had a large area, and moveable walls (so we could block people from seeing in and separate the chef and small kitchen in the back). Also, the artwork on the walls was very nice (no paintings of people getting killed, starving, or running around naked - which was actually an issue in some of the other galleries) which was a plus.
After I had a location, I called a local catering place and asked them to come up with an unforgettable evening. We designed everything in a lengthy series of meetings: the candles, flowers, linens, tables and chairs, music, food, wine, champagne, photography, parking, timing, etc... The whole time I was living in constant fear that Megan would discover my ruse and the whole plan would be ruined. Luckily enough, she never found out and was perfectly surprised when the big day came.
The "ruse" to lure her downtown is courtesy of Andy Halladay (one of my groomsmen). He fabricated a fictitious concert at Gallery 1261 and provided us with an invitation, a flyer, and a few carefully placed calls and emails. The plan was foolproof...but maybe a little too foolproof.
Megan was so oblivious to my secret goings-on that she actually invited a few of her friends that were visiting from Utah to the concert that night!!! Luckily, they weren't able to go, but I was fairly horrified that my plan would be ruined.
So the day of the proposal (June 21st), Megan and I went downtown early to investigate the local farmer's market. We had planned to the gay pride festival, but because her friends were in town, we joined them at the local greek food festival. The food there was pretty unbelievable (in a good way) and we both ate our fill.
After those excursions, the group we were with decided to go to a movie. It was the remake of Get Smart - which was pretty silly. At that point, I had prepared a secret note to give to Megan's friends, saying "I'm proposing tonight, the concert is a fake, please don't come". But it never came to that, as we all parted ways after the movie.
Megan and I changed in the mall bathrooms (don't worry, it was a fancy pants mall) and headed off for Gallery 1261. At this point, I started FREAKING OUT. My blood pressure was through the roof and my heart had to be at least 130! The entire drive down I was completely flushed, nervous, and sweaty. Megan says she didn't notice, but I felt like I was going to give it away right there.
Eventually, we arrive at the gallery and park in the space I had secretly reserved right out front. There wasn't anybody around, and as we walked by the windows, Megan said "I don't see anyone, what's going on". I said I didn't know, but maybe they were all in the back - and with that we walked inside. As soon as she saw the table with the flowers, candles, and heard our song (the look of love), she said "oh my god" and I dropped to a knee and proposed". Neither of us remember exactly what was said, but afterwards the chef said it was very romantic ;) We were both shaking and completely out of breath, but she said yes and we had a celebratory dance before dinner. She actually said "okay" and I had to prompt her to give me a YES, but I still count it!
After an epic two hour dinner, we did some dancing, some romancing, and drove home and started calling people. The next four hours were a complete blur of talking on the phone, getting congratulations, and jumping up and down singing "we're getting married, we're getting married!" Eventually we calmed down, but it was a great evening. And with the exception of what was SPECIFICALLY said during my proposal, it's one that we will never forget!
Saturday, December 13, 2008
Unsilent Night
Check out Megan and me in a fun piece of performance art by New York compser Phil Kline. It's called Unsilent Night and consists of carrying boom boxes around downtown Boulder, playing some pretty, ambient music.
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