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wow, good for you lj

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

Wow you guys!
Also is that CHEESECAKE?

and why does the cheesecake require salt and pepper?

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

FYI lj being married is fucking awesome! Enjoy!

Only just saw this - congrats LJ! Amazing photos.

Congrats, LJ!

louis! you guys are too cute!

lj! Well done, well done!

congrats, very happy for you

is the vampire weekend guy LJ's brother?

LJ that is fantastic and you are the best.

THIRD EYE

Well done, LJ!

LJ!!

congrats man!!

also awesome comic. :)

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.

mazel tov

which ilxors were in attendance

WOW!

damn, ol boy really got married huh?

congrats big homie

congrats! <3 <3 <3

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

\(^o^)/

congratulations to l & e

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)

i'm all teary, in between returning incomplete assessments

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

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

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!

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

Imo eat some cheesecake to honor them.

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

I really want some of that cake

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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!

congratulations, louis!!!

oh man

this thread is a good auld lang syne read

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

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’