part deux: meghul's karaoke wedding rager

so the first half of the night was beautiful, elegant, touching, and very personal. what you may not have known is that meg and rahul planned a costumed karaoke reception for their guests. and not just any normal karaoke event, but one led by the most awesome karaoke dj in the world, DJ PURPLE. major props to him for having every english song on hand, but also foreign hits that were in their native language! yeah, we heard german punk/pop for the first time and some familiar indian hits. it was as if all of their friends had been waiting for ages to have a proper stage to show off their guns and roses chops.

meg and rahul had been telling their friends to bring a costume and their a-game. the madness was brought and the rest is now history.

meghul, you guys ROCK HARD.

Dress--Amy Kuschel Bridal
Shoes--Franco Sarto
Green Florist--Emily Dreblow at SoulFlower
Green Caterer--Eric Fenster at Back to Earth
Karaoke DJ--DJ Purple
Biodiesel Buses--Bauer's Transportation
Organic Wine--Organic Vintners
Hairdresser--Carla at HairPlay in Noe Valley

ingrid snuck off with the rings and came up with this cool shot

yup, that is meg's father in a tutu. i heart him.

it was very hot and heavy at times

love this shot of her feet!

you gotta love family

meg's mom bringing down the hammer!

this is why we've stayed away from nikon. it does things to your brain.

anybody that wears red hot vinyl pants on their wedding day is my friend for life

DJ purple was the man. he would rip on the sax when people were struggling with lyrics and bring up the energy levels

the words below won't be doing justice to the awesomeness that is meghul. meghul's union was LEGENDARY. we will be telling our kids bedtime stories about this very night. a wedding that was pregnant with the loftiest expectations and yet managed to exceed them beyond our wildest dreams. by now, we've been to a bajillion weddings, but for meghul, ingrid almost cried several times.

it was so good that we had to split the post into two sections, less ye be blinded by the glory of their wedding. part two will include the reception alone. here is their sneak peak pictures of what is to come of their reception post. their ceremony was so genuine, hilariously informative, and very exciting to watch. friends came up and made poems for them with costume changes. another group changed the lyrics of a song to fit them and brandished a hundred cards with pictures and quotes on them. rahul's father officiated for them in such a sweet and personal manner.

not only that, but the whole wedding was GREEN! we haven't written much about our love for greening weddings on our blog yet, but we're proponents of getting weddings as green as possible. they bussed people in from san francisco on biodiesel buses! which tackles one of the biggest problems with weddings not being green - the huge amount of traffic generated from traveling guests. eric fenster from back to earth catered the shindig with some really delicious vegetarian cookin'. say what? a vegetarian meal for a wedding?! we were so thankful the whole night, cuz meat make photographers all gassy and sluggish during the reception. the list of green awesomeness goes on and on that i could just cry. the vendor list will be forthcoming in the second post, i promise.

this first post is the calm before the storm. now we leave you to it.