Party Pix

So if you want to see all of the great costumes and how well I decorated the house and stuff, you can look on OFOTO here for all the pix. I do NOT have time to make a huge gallery of all the pix by myself, and Ofoto is very easy.

There were some really cute, very creative & original ideas this year. We had a pretty large crowd show up, too. For a while, the area around the bar was so crowded I had a hard time getting from one room to another!

Here are a few photos for those of you who don't want to make the trek to OFOTO, (although I don't see why. The link up there doesn't require you to create an account, actually.)

This is the "Theme Cake!" and the reason for the theme cake-- a fun & silly cake topper I found online. I actually had seen it for very expensive on this wedding cake topper website, and after Liz posted a comment about it on her wedding blog, realized it was available on E-bay for much cheaper. I don't think it would be right for a "normal, everyday" wedding, but it was a hoot for the idea of having our costumes fit the evening. Andrew is the "Grave Groom" and I am "Skeleton Bride."

I did the makeup, and boy am I good or what? Andrew & I have been married a long time, but on our tenth anniversary, when I was going to have a special cake, we didn't get to do that. So this time, I had a special "wedding theme" thing going, with our costumes & stuff. We decided to get cutesy and cut it, as though we were really at a wedding. It was a really delicious cake-- chocolate with a strawberry filling. I had a hard time not having cake for breakfast today. :) We also have a picture of us feeding each other a piece of the cake. When we really got married, I said "ooh, I want the big piece with the frosting" and apparently Andrew had never seen what one does with frosting covered cake at a wedding. So I smeared it all over his unsuspecting face while he gently fed me. Poor thing. Sucker! So when we did it again, this time, we behaved cause it really would have messed up the makeup. Later, when Andrew washed the makeup off, it took forever to get all that black stuff off our eyes, and we both looked very very Goth, like we were about to pop over to the nearest Rave. We're soooo cool. This morning, he actually had a teeeeny bit of it still left on one eye. Since he's in the military (sort of) I wondered whether anyone would say anything. Heee Heee! Next year, I'm going to try to get him to be Frankenfurter. Since he's shown a willingness to wear makeup, then I think it would be fun!

Now here are pictures of the two costume contest winners. The first one actually catches them standing next to each other (what a coinkydink) but you can't really see Steve in the background, so I have another later. Jeffrey was "Jesus Christ, Superstar" and it was such a clever costume (he went around acting like a superstar all night, saying "I'll have my people call your people" and stuff like that. I really liked his shepard's crook, which was covered in sparklies. It's also good to have Jesus "owe you one" so I figured there was an added bonus in giving him one of cute little first prize ribbons I found. It was hard, actually, because everyone who came to the party made an effort, and most people's costumes were so cool! But I did warn them on the invitation that judging would be totally unfair. :)

Then Steve was the guy from The Jerk*, in the scene where he says "All I need is this remote control. And my dog Sparky, and this chair, and this magazine" etc. etc. He went around ALL NIGHT with his pants around his ankles (which you can't really see in this photo but was hilarious.) And he carried the chair, remote, etc, all night too. This was a major high-maintenance costume, and very funny!

*And in fact, if you look at the IMBD listing linked there, the movie poster has the picture of what Steve was going for.