Doughnuts and superheroes and weddings Oh MY!

So Bill and I decided to officially take the plunge. We have discussed it for quite some time and it was time. We decided that we wanted something small and fun. We wanted something very unique, so as we sat one night discussing ideas Bill says, “Hey… what about Voodoo Doughnuts?” A few years ago Lex (the step-daughter) had introduced us to this bizarre hippy place. The doughnuts are tasty and often offensive which suits me just fine. From the Triple Chocolate Penetration (Chocolate Cake donut with chocolate icing and Cocoa Puffs on top) to the Dirty Old Bastard (DOB for short, A raised donut with chocolate icing, sprinkled with Oreo pieces and drizzled with peanut butter) they are known for some interesting and quite tasty items. Later we saw a special on doughnuts on the Travel channel and it mentioned that they perform wedding ceremonies. As soon as Bill mentioned it, it was on. This would be the perfect venue for our fun and funky style.

The next item would be date. It was the beginning of October and I did not want to get married too close to Christmas or Thanksgiving (or my birthday) and waiting till next year would just be annoying. I am not a bride that wants to plan my wedding for an extended period. So having the venue selected Halloween was the next obvious choice. I was concerned that they might be booked up since it is VOODOO and Halloween but I lucked out and they had an opening (considering you make reservations for very short periods of time they can perform many weddings each day, they had 5 planned for this date).

I did not want to spend much on the wedding and so I had to start looking for the perfect outfits. While looking for a T-shirt tux for Bill I stumbled across a website that has shirts with pretty much anything you would want printed on them, including a wedding dress and bridesmaid dresses. My mother is a wedding consultant (or was) and so growing up I attended so many weddings that I can’t even begin to remember half of them. I was responsible for all manner of tasks from hanging pew bows (that terms still makes me giggle) to holding up the bride’s dress so the fan could blow under and keep her from sweating off all her make-up. I digress, in the time I spent I came up with a theory. The only 2 requirements I have for a wedding (other then obviously a groom and officiant) are a veil and a bouquet. Bridesmaids are over-rated (as I discovered in my FIRST wedding) groomsman can be handy but not necessary. For the bride you have to have a veil… otherwise how do you know who the bride is and flowers… I find are always necessary. ALWAYS. I don’t generally even need a wedding as an excuse. Hey it’s Tuesday, time for flowers.

Flowers would be easy but where would I find a veil? The dress (shirt) was purchased so now I just needed the veil. While in Florida last year for my younger brother’s wedding Bill and I spent several days at Disney World. While there we saw lots of honeymooners wearing Mickey Mouse Top Hat and Minnie Mouse Wedding Veil. This was perfect for us since we were thinking of Disney World for our honeymoon. I popped online and found them and that takes care of the veil.

Now who could come? Part of the reason we planned on having the wedding in Portland (even before we figured out Voodoo Doughnuts) was because Lex lives there and this would be a difficult time of the year for her to get away from school. Now several months ago Lex had asked Bill if she could wear a Spiderman costume to our wedding (When we got married, I guess she was ready before we were) and of course we (not planning to have a wedding) said yes. Hehe. Well it’s Halloween! This is just turning out to be perfect at every turn! We have spent some good quality time with a few of Lex’s friends and so we were happy to invite them to come to the wedding and partake of doughnuts (in their superhero costumes). I also invited pretty much anyone I thought might come and a bunch of people I really didn’t expect to come but I would have been happy if they had. My older brother and his roommate (my former roommate) and my friend Tanya, who was our photographer, all drove down for the festivities.

The ceremony lasted about 5 mins. It actually might not have even been that long, but it was perfect for us. The Voodoo spirits felt that Bill and I were perfect for each other (and who could really agree with that since we were both tickled to be having our wedding at a DOUGHNUT shop. LMAO

We had doughnuts and coffee for everyone and then headed over to Old Town Pizza (a haunted pizzeria that Bill loved when he went to Reed) and cut the sugar with a little grease.

As we were finishing our meal the sun started to peek out. I was pleased and dragged Lex, Flint, and Bill to the Rhododendron Gardens across from the college and we took lots of pictures. We had a blast and got some fun shots and some really pretty trees. There is a little pond there that had several types of ducks and a big nosed goose. The golf course also had dozens of Canadian geese. I could not have asked for a better time. It was lovely and fun and tasty. It was everything we could have hoped for and doughnuts too.

Bill says that now we can have doughnuts every Halloween for our anniversary. I just love an excuse to eat doughnuts. Don’t you?