{"id":867,"date":"2006-03-11T09:32:48","date_gmt":"2006-03-11T14:32:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/today-we-drink-tomorrow-we-marry\/"},"modified":"2006-03-21T06:19:57","modified_gmt":"2006-03-21T11:19:57","slug":"today-we-drink-tomorrow-we-marry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/today-we-drink-tomorrow-we-marry","title":{"rendered":"Today we drink, tomorrow we marry!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We got our marriage license Friday morning. The woman at the clerk&#8217;s office of the parish courthouse knew Amy from childhood, so her part of the process was pretty smooth. However, when it came to asking me, &#8220;Which state was your father born in?&#8221;, we discovered that they weren&#8217;t prepared for the answer of &#8220;Cluj, Rumania.&#8221; But everything went off pretty smoothly.<\/p>\n<p>We made it into our hotel in the city yesterday and met up with numerous early-arriving wedding-guests, including my parents (both Scylla AND Charybdis!). Ate beignets at Cafe Du Monde, had dinner at the Asian Cajun, and drank a bunch of gin with friends.<\/p>\n<p>Today, we meet with the DJ, pick up tuxes, get a spa treatment-thing that Amy booked, and  get all our parents in the same room for the rehearsal dinner (heavy on dinner, light on rehearsal). Then we hold court at Pat O&#8217;Brien&#8217;s for more of the early-arriving guests.<\/p>\n<p>Bourbon Street was pretty lively last night. A group of us, including one guest&#8217;s 13-year-old son, walked down a ways to meet up with Amy &#038; her group of buddies. I laughed about the idea of being 13 and walking down that street, but the kid didn&#8217;t seem too fazed.<\/p>\n<p>Haven&#8217;t taken any pix since I got here, but I&#8217;ll try to take a couple tonight. They&#8217;ll be stupid candids in a bar, but those are cute, I guess.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We got our marriage license Friday morning. The woman at the clerk&#8217;s office of the parish courthouse knew Amy from childhood, so her part of the process was pretty smooth. However, when it came to asking me, &#8220;Which state was your father born in?&#8221;, we discovered that they weren&#8217;t prepared for the answer of &#8220;Cluj, &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/today-we-drink-tomorrow-we-marry\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Today we drink, tomorrow we marry!&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[8,24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-867","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-new-orleans","category-wedding"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4C7K-dZ","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1012,"url":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/suburban-handicap","url_meta":{"origin":867,"position":0},"title":"Suburban Handicap","author":"Gil","date":"July 2, 2006","format":false,"excerpt":"Yesterday, the Official VM Wife and I headed into NYC to see a performance of Measure for Measure. 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