Originally posted: 2011/12/09
…continued from: We Did It Our Way – Part 2
After the court-house, we headed to the Empire State Building.
These display gears worked well with our attire, so we had to stop and get a picture.
Huge problems in the Empire State Building. We were severely discriminated against.
The short story: we got kicked out. But the long story is a little more interesting…
Originally posted: 2011/12/05
We were amazed at how many people were trying to figure us out during the day. Only one guy got it right at the courthouse, when he said “Cool! Steampunk!” as we were walking by. Another person said “Time Travelers!”
But other assumptions were severely distorted. Everything from ‘Little Red Riding Hood’ (from a subway drunk), to ‘Alice in Wonderland’ (in the Empire State Building Elevator), to ‘Napoleon’ (old guy selling things on the street corner). Whether they understood us or not, they all cheered us on, and asked to take pictures. Everywhere we went through the city, there were so many compliments and applauds.
Her boots are the coolest!
Jenny did some custom modifications to her dress/corset. It originally had buttons on the front, but the buttons were plastic, and a few of them broke. Jenny decided to sew in some gears to replace them; it actually looked better than the original. She also sewed the train (I suppose you call it that) in place to give it a more elegant and flattering look.
Originally posted: 2011/12/03
Today is the real deal with Jenny’s hair at K’s Salon, and it turned out excellent. Not only that, but the customer service and atmosphere was most impressive (Jenny can’t say enough about how great it was).
She knew exactly what she wanted, and was a little worried about a hair stylist understanding and executing it. Jenny fell in love with her octo-clip (called ‘stolen pearls’) and chose to accent her hair with pearl-pins to give the octopus even more pearls to steal. Kaye was so amazing, and produced a true work of art!
(If you haven’t already seen the hair pictures, see this post.)
We just had to get a shot with Kaye (left), and one of the staff before leaving.
So now that we have revealed our theme, there will be no holding back!
Steampunk Themed Wedding (or elopement, you could call it).
No white dress, no black tuxedo, no flowers, no ‘let’s do what everyone wants us to do’.
We had been planning this for months, and wanted to do something that we both enjoyed.
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Jared and Jenny 