Banjo Returns from Wedding & Honeymoon - time for pics!

[banjo1985]

Yes, me and Mrs Banjo will be married at 12noon on Saturday here in the UK! Can't say that I'm particularly nervous, though everyone is saying that I should be, but I am really looking forward to the day after months and months of stressful preperation! Just gotta make sure I remember the rings and my speech now :smalleek:

Then straight onto our honeymoon, literally in the early hours of the morning after the wedding. Two weeks in (hopefully) sunny Croatia which should be awesomesauce, I'm really looking forward to seeing Dubrovnik's Old City. I plan on keeping a bit of a picture-travel-log which I will post either when I get back, or in some seedy little internet cafe over there. Either way you're going to be inundated with wedding pictures the first opportunity I have! :smalltongue:

See you all on June 1st. hopefully with some form of a tan! :smallbiggrin:

[Altair_the_Vexed]

Good luck!

Marriage is ace. Mrs Altair is my favouritest person in the world.
(From just down the M40 from Brumland.)

[MartytheBioGuy]

I'm happy for you and Mrs. Banjo-to-be! Blessings on a happy life together, and I'm glad to hear you're not getting nerves... yet. Just saying, all of my siblings who I've seen get married have had some nerves that they expressed to me.

Still, happy thoughts! And again, I pray you'll have a long, happy life together!

[Dallas-Dakota]

Good luck and the best wishes from me! But you already knew that.:smallwink:

Shame I can't be there, so I'l just remember you now. ''Don't forget your (under)pants!'':smalltongue:

Once more, making it a 100th time I did this, I think, but, GRONGRATULATIONS.:smallsmile:

And you BETTER be at the UK meet-up so I can meet you both!

Have you fun you two!:smallbiggrin:

[Archonic Energy]

in the words of Miss Starshine "luck"

[Mauve Shirt]

Good luck! And congratulations! :smallbiggrin:

[rakkoon]

Congratulations, I wish you lots of fun and pretty little Banjo's in nine months time. Dubrovnik is really beautiful, the food is great and you can get a lot of different liquors for a cheap price (also very small amount in your glass but at least you can try different things). Across Dubrovnik there is also Lovers island and it is quite important that you catch the last ferry back since there are no hotels on the island :smallsmile:
I actually lost 6 pounds after going on holiday there because of all the hiking we did :smallbiggrin:
Ston is also in the neighbourhood (one bus ride away) with the world's second largest wall. Not much else to see there but relaxing never the less.

Congrats to both of ya

[Coplantor]

Congratulations Banjo! I wish the best for both of you and may you have a beautiful wedding and an incredible marriage full of soft kitty song!

[Mercenary Pen]

Congratulations dude, hope all goes well.

[Mordokai]

Best of luck to you and your special lady, my friend. Hope you two have a long and wonderful life together.

[Atreyu the Masked LLama]

Pictures or it didn't happen!

Good luck my friend. I'm thrilled for you!

[Asta Kask]

Congratulations. May beneficient stars shine on your wedding night.

[Ranna]

oh my gosh wow isnt that ace!!!

I'd be terrfied.. not of the idea of being married but the idea of a wedding.. I do have to have one one-day though and its all fin's fault!!

Where are you exchaning your vows? Is everything planned dress invites etc

[EmeraldRose]

Yay!!! Have a fantastic day and post lots of pictures when you get back!

*hugs for Banjo and Mrs. Banjo*

[Isolder74]

Congrates!

And May your cake not be a wreck!!!

Best of wishes for you in the future.

[Recaiden]

Congratulations and the best of luck to the two of you. :smallsmile:

[Grimlock]

I shall hoist a glass to the Banjos on Saturday! Congratulations my friend, I hope you have a cracking day!
(My own wedding was one of the best days of my life)

[banjo1985]

Thanks everyone :smallbiggrin:
I may have to visit Ston, see this big wall of theirs, thansk for the tips on places to visit!


Originally posted by Ye Llama of Little Faith
Pictures or it didn't happen!


Originally posted by EmeraldRose
Yay!!! Have a fantastic day and post lots of pictures when you get back!

Don't worry, there'll be more than enough pictures when we get back, so many that I'm sure everyone will be bored of looking at them. Cue many pictures of the bottom of my bag and out of focus shots of impressive stuff you'd actually like to see clearly...as long as my face doesn't break the camera first. :smalleek:


Originally posted by Ranna
Where are you exchaning your vows? Is everything planned dress invites etc

Everything is sorted, though it's taken until today to finaish things off, really didn't think some of the table plans and stuff would make it in time. We're marrying at a [insert place of religious significance here] though it's more because of asthetics than any other significance.


Originally posted by the cool dude who should still be hairy
Congratulations Banjo! I wish the best for both of you and may you have a beautiful wedding and an incredible marriage full of soft kitty song!

Soft kitty, warm kitty, little ball of fur......:smalltongue:

[valadil]

Mazel tov! If you have any luck left at the end of it, pass it my way. I'll be needing it 2 weeks after you :-)

[ScottishDragon]

Omg congratz,hope it lasts forever!

[onasuma]

'grats Banjo, thats really awesome. Hope you and Mrs.Banjo-to-be have a great life together.

[Suzuro]

Pictures or it didn't happen!

This

In all actuality, Good luck and Congratulation. I'm looking forward to seeing pictures of the beautiful ceremony.


-Suzuro

[smellie_hippie]

Congrats Banjo and Mrs Banjo!!

[Lord Fullbladder, Master of Goblins]

Oh geez, congratulations! Good luck and all that stuff others have said. Eesh. I really lost momentum after congratulations.

[FoE]

Congratulations, Banjo! Now that you're "becoming a man," however, it's about time we had the Talk. You see, it starts with a mommy bird and a daddy bee who love each other very much ...

Stop if you've heard this one.

[2xMachina]

Congratulations, Banjo! Now that you're "becoming a man," however, it's about time we had the Talk. You see, it starts with a mommy bird and a daddy bee who love each other very much ...

Stop if you've heard this one.

... Does not compute...

On topic:

Congrats!

[pendell]

Congratulations! Enjoy the honeymoon, 'cause the marriage proper starts soon enough!

Respectfully,

Brian P.

[Mrs Banjo]

Thank you everyone for your kind words and all of your luck (I think we will need it after the rehearsal we have just had, the best man was usless :smallfrown:)

I'm the nervous one, I thought it would be a good idea to have a big dress now worried I'm going to fall over, but really looking forward to the wedding and our future. Thank you Banjo.


Congratulations! Enjoy the honeymoon, 'cause the marriage proper starts soon enough!

As for the above, Banjo is already trained, he does half the ironing, knows how to do washing and even cooks :smalltongue:

Thank you all again, be back soon with loads of photos including the famous Jingley Snowman :smallbiggrin:

[Winter_Wolf]

You're getting married and asking for luck? Nooooo, can't spare any of that, and you wouldn't want the kind of luck I have, anyway! I will give you my best wishes and hopes that whatever life throws at you, you can meet it together and come out on top, and keep loving each other (it's so sad how many people end up forgetting that last bit). And, welcome to the club! Remember the rule for husbands: it is better to be happy than to be right. If you don't know what that means, you'll find out soon enough! :smallwink:

[Thufir]

Good luck and congratulations!

[Mercenary Pen]

Thank you everyone for your kind words and all of your luck (I think we will need it after the rehearsal we have just had, the best man was usless :smallfrown:)

Tell the best man, if he messes up there will be photos of him with three heads posted across the internet... and you'll feed him to the gazebo...

[Chunklets]

Congratulations and Best Wishes to you and the soon-to-be Mrs. Banjo! I hope the weather is excellent and you have a great time on your honeymoon!

[Crimmy]

I was SOOOO stupid to miss this thread!

Man, all the best for you and Soon-To-Be-Mrs. Banjo!

And the Rings! The Speech!
Your Pants!

Don't forget any of those!

[Jacklu]

Congradulations Banjo and Mrs. Banjo!!!! Enjoy your honey moon!!!

[Shas aia Toriia]

Wow, congratulations.
That's just great! :smallsmile:

[Cleverdan22]

Hey, man, that's awesome! Congratulations all around. Best of luck in your new life.

[Reinholdt]

*sniff*
I promised myself I wouldn't cry. :smallfrown:
Have a wonderful wedding and marriage you two!


Soft kitty, warm kitty, little ball of fur......:smalltongue:
Yeah, yeah, yeah...*purrs secretly*

[Cealocanth]

Luck. Yep. Ahma quotin' Elan.

[Zeb The Troll]

Congo Rats, Banjo and Mrs Banjo!

I say it's a good thing that you're not particularly nervous. I wasn't. I knew exactly what I was getting into and so far it's been everything I was expecting and more.

Have a great time on your honeymoon! Get things started off right and set the tone for the next umpitty years!

[The Rose Dragon]

Congo Rats, Banjo and Mrs Banjo!

Congo rats? Where? Those things are huge! And deadly!

[Ranna]

*Snippy*
I'm the nervous one, I thought it would be a good idea to have a big dress now worried I'm going to fall over, but really looking forward to the wedding and our future. Thank you Banjo.



As for the above, Banjo is already trained, he does half the ironing, knows how to do washing and even cooks :smalltongue:

*snippy*

You will look goddess like I am sure and on the bright side you can eat as much cake as you want cos big dresses hide all that!!!

and as for the training OMG | am SO jealous!!!!!!! A big congrats on that one!!!
I have so many annoying and useless questions I will restrain myself though :smallbiggrin::smallbiggrin::smallbiggrin: Have a FAB day!!!!!

[FoE]

If it's of any comfort, know that there isn't a wedding in the history of the universe that's gone exactly according to plan.

[The Rose Dragon]

If it's of any comfort, know that there isn't a wedding in the history of the universe that's gone exactly according to plan.

Also, as the saying goes, the worse the wedding, the better the marriage.

Totally did not steal that from Sex & the City, nope. It's a real-life saying that's been used for thousands of years.

[Tyrandar]

Congrats, good luck, and watch out for noble lords demanding droit de seigneur. :smallwink:

[Water-Smurf]

Congratulations! :D I hope that this is the beginning of many happy years together. Do you plan on having children, or are you not going to have any?

[Mc. Lovin']

Good luck man!!!!

[Zar Peter]

If it's of any comfort, know that there isn't a wedding in the history of the universe that's gone exactly according to plan.

Well, my the plan was: Take the woman and marry her. it worked :smallbiggrin:

Best wishes to you both! Hope you survive the wedding and take not too many bruises... but you have the honeymoon afterward to regenerate. Have fun!

[Dusk Eclipse]

Good Luck!!!!

[jlvm4]

Congrats and Godspeed.

I actually enjoyed my wedding very much, any nerves I had had more to do with making sure the guests were taken care of more than anything else, so don't think you're strange in that. Enjoy the wedding--it will hopefully be a once in a lifetime event.

May you and your partner find something to cherish about each other from now until forever.

[banjo1985]

Thanks so much everyone, your kind words, luck, and congratulations are great to read now we've finally returned! Anyone miss me while I was gone? :smalltongue:

I don't think I could possible describe how great the wedding day was, it was truly beyond words, and it all went by so quickly. We didn't exactly do some things by the book...as you'll probably see from some of the pictures. :smalltongue: The honeymoon was equally awesome, Dubrovnik is quite a magical place and the prettiest city I've ever had the pleasure of visiting. Makes Birmingham look even crapper now I'm back home. :smalltongue:

We haven't got any official wedding photo's back yet, and we haven't sorted our honeymoon pictures out yet, but I have got a choice selection from several wedding guests to show you. As everyone said "Pictures or it didn't happen" I suppose I'd better show that it did!

WARNING - Wedding Photo's will probably bore you senseless!
No pictures in the church except for our professional photographer...who's pictures we don't have yet. So, with the deed done we went outside, into sunshine which was a nice surprise :smalltongue: Mrs B looked radiant...I as always looked rather drunk, probably left over from the night before.
http://img714.imageshack.us/img714/8595/booze.png

They finally managed to get be to be serious long enough to take a decent close-up, with slightly iffy results. Again Mrs B puts me to shame!
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An attack from low-flying confetti brought a little chaos to the day.
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We then proceeded to walk through a graveyard, shadowed by special bouncers you have for weddings, also known as the best man and the ushers.
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Finally we got to the wedding car and the most important part of the wedding - the booze! :smalltongue:
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Little did we know that the ride to the reception venue would be a stand-up white-knuckle ride of pure terror! Fortunately my face doesn't show it, as I'd drunk most of the bottle of champagne on the way.
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After the ride I was just happy there was more wine, and flowers for me to make me look all pretty! It didn't work :smalleek:
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Fortunately a friendly man was on hand to roll out the red carpet and keep the wine flowing...
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I had drunk about enough by that time for the silly hat contest amongst the important male guests to begin in earnest.
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I had a Muskateers hat, but you can't have just one all on his own. So I decided to pretend to be a pirate instead.
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In the end we graduated from bad hat class! Time for the bit where everyone throws their hats up in the air and gets injured when they drop back down.
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No winner had been decided, but I still think my hat was the best....except for the fez of course. :smallbiggrin:
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As a Muskateer I decided to be chivalrous and walk Mrs B through the wonderful garden of the reception venue...
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...but couldn't resist the cue for a dramatic picture. Mrs B was either happy or horrified, I couldn't quite tell!
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After all the silly business it was time to get onto the speeches. Public speaking time! I don't look too terrified do I? Might of helped that I'd only made two lines of notes!
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Before we knew it the meal was over and it was time for the cutting of the cake. For some reason I decided this was the perfect time for my "I'm a Little Teapot" impression.
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It was then time for the bride and grooms slow dance....to "I Believe in a Thing Called Love" by the Darkness, naturally. Nobody caught us doing air-guitar to the solo....fortunately. :smallamused:
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Beetlejuice arrived a little later to get the party started. :smalltongue:
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...after that it all got a bit messy. I was caught doing my best dance moves with the best man to "My Sharona" by The Knack. It had to be done :smalltongue:
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...It was all too much for some people!
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So that was the story of Banjo and Mrs Banjo's wedding day. :smallsmile:
More pictures will probably follow, especially of the honeymoon when we get them sorted, but your safe for now. :smallamused:
Is this at least enough pictures to prove it did indeed happen?

[rakkoon]

How do we know that's really you?

Kidding, looks great, really does, you guys had fun!

Did you go to the island of love?

[banjo1985]

You can tell because I'm always pulling a stupid face of some sort, either intentionally or not. :smallamused:

We did have a bit of a walk around Lovers Island, and nearly got capsized in the boat back to the resort...scary as hell that journey was. :smalleek: Never quite got around to visiting Ston though.

[rakkoon]

We just went there because it was raining all the time....damn I want to go on holiday.

[Mauve Shirt]

That looks like it was an absolutely lovely wedding! :smallbiggrin: You both look great!

[drakir_nosslin]

Those look shopped. (http://knowyourmeme.com/memes/this-looks-shopped) I can tell from some of the pixels and from having seen quite a few shops in my time. :smallbiggrin:

Seriously, that looks like a fantastic wedding, congratulations to the both of you!

[Recaiden]

Congratulations to both of you. It looks like it was a wonderful wedding.

[Grimlock]

Looks like you had a grand time.... With some fine hats thrown into the mix! Glad you had such a good wedding/honeymoon. All the best for the future!

[CoffeeIncluded]

Aww, congratulations! I hope the two of you have a long and happy life together!

[Mrs Banjo]

Thank you to everyone, you luck seems to have worked we had a fantastic day, everything went to our querky plan (yes beatlejuice was planned). Really wish you all could have come too. :smallbiggrin:


You will look goddess like I am sure and on the bright side you can eat as much cake as you want cos big dresses hide all that!!!

and as for the training OMG | am SO jealous!!!!!!! A big congrats on that one!!!
I have so many annoying and useless questions I will restrain myself though :smallbiggrin::smallbiggrin::smallbiggrin: Have a FAB day!!!!!

Thank you for the help and kind words they seemed to work, I didn't trip and did get to eat cake without worry :smalltongue:
Hehe as for the training you have to set to rules from the start. We had a fantastic day was perfect. :smallbiggrin:


Congratulations! :D I hope that this is the beginning of many happy years together. Do you plan on having children, or are you not going to have any?

Thank you. Erm hard question, Banjo's unsure at the min so really rests on him :smallsmile:

[LCR]

Dude, that waiter looks totally like Quentin Tarantino!
http://img195.imageshack.us/img195/2126/wakas.jpg

[Kroy]

Congratz! Have many, happy years of marriage!

[Coplantor]

1-Banjo looks epic on a tux! (though it should worry you that you somehow remind me of Weird Al)
2-The bride looks gorgeous!
3-Super special awesome congratulations again!

This pics made me go "awwww!" have a happy life toghether!
Transatlantic hugs for you!

[CurlyKitGirl]

Thanks so much everyone, your kind words, luck, and congratulations are great to read now we've finally returned! Anyone miss me while I was gone? :smalltongue:

I don't think I could possible describe how great the wedding day was, it was truly beyond words, and it all went by so quickly. We didn't exactly do some things by the book...as you'll probably see from some of the pictures. :smalltongue: The honeymoon was equally awesome, Dubrovnik is quite a magical place and the prettiest city I've ever had the pleasure of visiting. Makes Birmingham look even crapper now I'm back home. :smalltongue:

We haven't got any official wedding photo's back yet, and we haven't sorted our honeymoon pictures out yet, but I have got a choice selection from several wedding guests to show you. As everyone said "Pictures or it didn't happen" I suppose I'd better show that it did!

WARNING - Wedding Photo's will probably bore you senseless!
*snippage*
So that was the story of Banjo and Mrs Banjo's wedding day. :smallsmile:
More pictures will probably follow, especially of the honeymoon when we get them sorted, but your safe for now. :smallamused:
Is this at least enough pictures to prove it did indeed happen?

First off, congratulations!
Second off, you both look lovely, especially Mrs. Banjo. That dress is amazing. As is the musketeer hat. (I am a bit surprised at how much Thufir looks like you Banjo, are you clones?)
But in all seriousness, may you have a wonderful life together.

[Thufir]

(I am a bit surprised at how much Thufir looks like you Banjo, are you clones?)

Pretty sure not.

Whenever I look at some of those photos, with some of the poses, and the musketeer hat, I keep thinking Banjo looks like an aesthetic poet.
Well, actually, more specifically I keep thinking he looks like Bunthorne (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patience_(opera)).
I mean, look:

Banjo's wedding:
http://img41.imageshack.us/img41/2162/meinhat.jpg

http://img534.imageshack.us/img534/6826/bouquetj.pngNUGSS 2009 production of Patience:
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http://sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/photos-ak-snc1/v2356/160/107/223700945/n223700945_6896910_7915119.jpg

[Nameless]

Might be a little late but... Congratulations! :smallbiggrin:

[Fifty-Eyed Fred]

Congratulations on your marriage! Oh, and nice hat. I approve. :smallwink: