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Needs more sesquipedalia. (and congratulations, LJ)

Aimless, Friday, 2 December 2011 00:52 (twelve years ago) link

wow lj
also wow i have been spite n ease since '09

spite n ease (harbl), Friday, 2 December 2011 00:55 (twelve years ago) link

<3

dayo, Friday, 2 December 2011 00:57 (twelve years ago) link

aw, congratulations lj and darling bride who has miraculously rendered him speechless.

estela, Friday, 2 December 2011 00:58 (twelve years ago) link

are you smoking a party-size bong with an oversized eagle? the future is confusing to me

sarahel, Friday, 2 December 2011 01:06 (twelve years ago) link

lj -my man

Sad Banter (p much resigned to deems), Friday, 2 December 2011 01:10 (twelve years ago) link

you're too late.

estela, Friday, 2 December 2011 01:12 (twelve years ago) link

ya that does give off a dustin hoffman-thru-glass vibe doesnt it

Sad Banter (p much resigned to deems), Friday, 2 December 2011 01:14 (twelve years ago) link

That is a really happy series of posts. Congratulations LJ!

remy bean in exile, Friday, 2 December 2011 01:16 (twelve years ago) link

v strange perspective on the middle photo up there. makes LJ look x2 size of wifey

blood (fart), Friday, 2 December 2011 01:16 (twelve years ago) link

That comic invite really is stellar. Best to both!

Ned Raggett, Friday, 2 December 2011 01:21 (twelve years ago) link

LJ! I was wondering when the wedding was going to be. Congratulations!

Christine 'Green Leafy Dragon' Indigo, Friday, 2 December 2011 02:01 (twelve years ago) link

wow, good for you lj

smoove operator, Friday, 2 December 2011 02:03 (twelve years ago) link

Aw, I heard about this through the grapvine. Was waiting for you to post to WDYLL. Congrats Louis.

~curious orange~, Friday, 2 December 2011 02:07 (twelve years ago) link

Wow you guys!
Also is that CHEESECAKE?

kinder, Friday, 2 December 2011 02:11 (twelve years ago) link

and why does the cheesecake require salt and pepper?

tehresa, Friday, 2 December 2011 02:12 (twelve years ago) link

can i have the best man's phone # pls why because he look interestng

bene_gesserit, Friday, 2 December 2011 02:16 (twelve years ago) link

FYI lj being married is fucking awesome! Enjoy!

PROVEN BY BOOZE SCIENCE, Friday, 2 December 2011 02:16 (twelve years ago) link

Only just saw this - congrats LJ! Amazing photos.

Illia Rump (emil.y), Friday, 2 December 2011 02:18 (twelve years ago) link

Congrats, LJ!

William (C), Friday, 2 December 2011 02:19 (twelve years ago) link

louis! you guys are too cute!

superb mario bothers (crüt) (step hen faps), Friday, 2 December 2011 03:25 (twelve years ago) link

lj! Well done, well done!

ljubljana, Friday, 2 December 2011 03:39 (twelve years ago) link

congrats, very happy for you

eboue I, Friday, 2 December 2011 03:49 (twelve years ago) link

is the vampire weekend guy LJ's brother?

sarahel, Friday, 2 December 2011 03:54 (twelve years ago) link

LJ that is fantastic and you are the best.

not uplifting (Abbott), Friday, 2 December 2011 04:25 (twelve years ago) link

THIRD EYE

not uplifting (Abbott), Friday, 2 December 2011 04:25 (twelve years ago) link

Well done, LJ!

dyao think i'm sexy (jaymc), Friday, 2 December 2011 04:32 (twelve years ago) link

LJ!!

congrats man!!

Z S, Friday, 2 December 2011 04:48 (twelve years ago) link

also awesome comic. :)

Z S, Friday, 2 December 2011 04:48 (twelve years ago) link

I was DEEPLY ANGRY at the ILXor who decided it was appropriate to post so many intensely personal LJ pics until I realized it was LJ. Then I was happy.

not uplifting (Abbott), Friday, 2 December 2011 04:50 (twelve years ago) link

mazel tov

є(٥_ ٥)э, Friday, 2 December 2011 04:51 (twelve years ago) link

which ilxors were in attendance

silent (fart), Friday, 2 December 2011 04:52 (twelve years ago) link

WOW!

dealwithit.gif, Friday, 2 December 2011 05:20 (twelve years ago) link

damn, ol boy really got married huh?

congrats big homie

v-shasty, Friday, 2 December 2011 05:24 (twelve years ago) link

congrats! <3 <3 <3

c sharp major, Friday, 2 December 2011 10:42 (twelve years ago) link

lj congrats dude!!! <3 <3 <3

lebateauivre, Friday, 2 December 2011 11:10 (twelve years ago) link

\(^o^)/

congratulations to l & e

nakhchivan, Friday, 2 December 2011 11:30 (twelve years ago) link

i remember you mentioned the buddhist wedding idea but i presumed you would settle on something more conventional in the end (oh me of little faith)

nakhchivan, Friday, 2 December 2011 11:32 (twelve years ago) link

i'm all teary, in between returning incomplete assessments

Sad Banter (p much resigned to deems), Friday, 2 December 2011 11:32 (twelve years ago) link

i think you should evict a young polish family by way of commemorating this momentous event in the life of ilx

nakhchivan, Friday, 2 December 2011 11:35 (twelve years ago) link

today of all days, i will allow lj to post a simple thumb pointing up or down to decide their fate

Sad Banter (p much resigned to deems), Friday, 2 December 2011 11:37 (twelve years ago) link

All posting conceits are there to be flouted, and so it goes again. (Given that I hadn't posted in two weeks on the main board, this could be considered making up for lost time - or a piece of craven wish-fulfilment for the sesquipedalia-spotters among us)

Anyhow, you are all the sweetest and I thank you a thousand times over. Every <3 is requited, every encomium for the bride is blushingly forwarded. As you can imagine, it was the greatest of days - bookended by my stag night and our honeymoon flight (why waste time in between?) and featuring friendship at its most vivacious. Also featuring half the wedding party being led into the backwaters of industrial Chiswick, but if a groom can't muster a faulty inner GPS then frankly who can? So yes - polyphonic chanting was meditated upon, string was tied, rings were worn, delightful roast food and mulled wine were scoffed and quaffed alongside the Thames, and three days of Dublin were a fresh way to start married life.

Now for some end credits. The invite, which has turned a few glances, was the work of a man called Winston Rowntree, E's favourite webcomic artist. Once he'd agreed to her commission, she drew a very rough draft of what we wanted on Photoshop, sent it off, and let him do the rest. As you can see, his gifts are fairly extravagant. If there's any interest in his other work, it can be found at www.viruscomix.com - where a litany of genuinely brilliant strips can be found, usually with an articulate social or philosophical point spun imaginatively into the seams. Another feather in Rowntree's cap is that he writes so well - so feelingly - from the female perspective that long-term fans E and I were absolutely convinced he was a woman until after we initiated communications!

Next up, To Arms Etc. - the band I persuaded to play our wedding. Short story: I found their leader on a member recruitment page and struck up a friendship centred around our mutually-compatible tastes. Then I listened to their music, which was predictably thrilling progressive-edged pop. Then they sent me their 2011 album, which was nothing short of stunning as I have previously attested. Throw in a couple of nitro'd-up live gigs (one of which I DJ'd at, fact fans) and it became a no-brainer to get these guys on board - and boy, they delivered. They even learnt one request from each half of the couple in the two weeks beforehand - E's being FNM's From Out Of Nothing, and mine being (predictably enough) Cardiacs' Flap Off You Beak, both of which they nailed flat.

It would be remiss of me to go this far without mentioning the pub itself - the Bell & Crown on the Chiswick/Kew border. Wonderful location, cosy atmosphere, amazing food, delightful and affectionate Irish landlady, and all this with a heaving regular clientele in the other half of the premises. Plus, they have a really, really lovely dog.

And lastly - if you find yourself in the Sheffield area, pop along to the Heavenly Cheesecake Company because my fucking god if you told me I could sort out the wedding cake - four tiers - for 80 quid, and receive the most astonishingly perfect cheesecake I've ever consumed in my life, I'd have probably asked repeatedly for the catch. (The catch, as it turned out, was that THCC don't deliver outside Sheffield, so I had to get my youngest brother, who is at university there, to visit the shop, pick up the cake-box, be graciously ferried to the station by the shop-owner and stupendous confectionery doyenne, and escort it to St Pancras, whereupon I had to carry the blessed thing all the way to Chiswick - a necessary sufferance, and one that reaped a suitably karmic reward)

Anyhow, that's enough blather from me for a lifetime of sandboxing. Thanks again folks; the response here has been really warm, and I return the feeling in full. Here's to an equally eventful and joyous 2012!

once a lifetime is ample, Saturday, 3 December 2011 12:37 (twelve years ago) link

Well done my man. I wish you both an endless torrent of sickening happiness :)

Julie Lagger, Saturday, 3 December 2011 12:43 (twelve years ago) link

you might want to learn the titles of Faith No More songs if you're gonna keep her sweet tho ;-)

Julie Lagger, Saturday, 3 December 2011 12:46 (twelve years ago) link

belated hearty congrats LJ, may Charlton vanquish all before them in 2012

pandemic, Saturday, 3 December 2011 14:28 (twelve years ago) link

that is a VMIC wedding for sure

also it will never not be lol and rather touching that one of ilx' most effusive posters announces life-changing events on innocuously titled old sandbox threads

nakhchivan, Saturday, 3 December 2011 14:55 (twelve years ago) link

speaking as a sandbox regular:

it is a great honor that the auspicious announcement was made here. many hearty congratulations to the lovely couple, and happiness to you always.

lxy, Saturday, 3 December 2011 16:31 (twelve years ago) link

i think that our congrats need to be as exuberantly verbose as we can manage given the recipient, and i regret my sincere yet brief message tbh

Sad Banter (p much resigned to deems), Saturday, 3 December 2011 19:08 (twelve years ago) link

i went to see a Cardiacs cover band to honor LJ's nuptials

sarahel, Saturday, 3 December 2011 19:17 (twelve years ago) link

Imo eat some cheesecake to honor them.

nickn, Sunday, 4 December 2011 07:34 (twelve years ago) link

ilx poster 'DJ Mencap' tips his hat to you LJ

I really want some of that cake

Extreme Lifestyle, Sunday, 4 December 2011 16:50 (twelve years ago) link

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you might want to learn the titles of Faith No More songs if you're gonna keep her sweet tho ;-)

― Julie Lagger, Saturday, 3 December 2011 12:46 (Yesterday)

ahaha

missed this, congrats!

sleeve sandbox, Sunday, 4 December 2011 17:44 (twelve years ago) link

congratulations, louis!!!

horseshoe, Sunday, 4 December 2011 20:09 (twelve years ago) link

nine years pass...

oh man

mookieproof, Friday, 12 February 2021 05:47 (three years ago) link

three years pass...

this thread is a good auld lang syne read

estela, Monday, 21 October 2024 04:19 (one week ago) link

no.

i don't even particularly like louis, but if someone called a thread devoted to my failed marriage 'a good read' that would suck

mookieproof, Thursday, 24 October 2024 03:33 (one week ago) link

tbf louis’s marriage appeared two years after the thread was started so it’s not really devoted to that.
i read it as a classic jergins thread which is a genre of thread i have always enjoyed.
i also think that if louis (who i always got on perfectly fine with) saw this he would be mainly pleased with himself for ’enconium’

estela, Monday, 28 October 2024 02:34 (three days ago) link


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