Introduction

[thomwatson]

Name and/or LJ userID: Thom Watson (thomwatson)

Wedding Date: Saturday, September 26, 2009

Bride/Groom/Other: We're both grooms

Age: 46 (but turning 47 before the wedding)

City/State/Country you live in: Daly City, California, US

City/State/Country you're getting married in (if different): San Francisco, California, US

Your song/First Dance song: We

Comments

[nacho_cheese]

Welcome! And I wish for the same regarding Prop 8. Hopefully next year... 2010 may bring some great changes. :)

And BOO VIRGINIA.

[unhappyunbroken]

Me too! (in WA)

[lady_amorika]

Happy Together was one of our first songs. We wanted a slow song too, so "A Groovy Kind of Love" was technically our first, but we played them back-to-back. "Happy Together" has always been our song, too. It's a fabulous song!

I also love your colours! Welcome to the community :)

Edit: And duh, forget to add, good luck on prop 8! Lots of people are behind you on that one!

[fish_outta_h2o]

Welcome and Congrats!!

Sorry to hear about Prop 8. it may not be with the current generation, but i see things going a lot differently for the new generation. The views are just so different, which is a good thing. Everyone deserves equal rights :)

[angeltrinity]

Yay Californians! XD (Born in Cali, raised in Midwest, still wholly attached to Cali at heart <3)

It saddens me about Proposition 8...I have high hopes that it'll change in the future; apparently Illinois is looking at same-sex marriages too (or will be, anyway), so if that can get passed here, hopefully that'll work into other states as well. Maybe. One can hope. ^^

That said, I love your theme and colors! And the location, too - it's been years since I last visited San Francisco, but I could kill to have a wedding like that out there. It sounds beautiful just envisioning it, I have no doubts that it'll be awesome when made real! XD

[thomwatson]

The location is a San Francisco landmark, the Cliff House. Two years ago I officiated at a wedding there (in California, anyone can be deputized by the County Clerk to perform a given wedding on a given day, which is nice because it allows you to have a friend or family member solemnize the wedding), and we really fell in love with it. We were familiar with the Cliff House, having eaten in their restaurant a few times previously, but hadn't been to a wedding there until then. The ceremony on the terrace, with the ocean right below, was really inspiring. It ended up stretching our original budget quite a bit, but we're both very happy with the decision to host our special day there.

I have some initial photos, from our first meeting with their events coordinator, on our wedding website here.