Alicia Carlson & Jace Milstead
Location: Point Dume (Malibu, CA)
Ahh, starving artists or as sticklers for truth might term it, "poverty." However you term it, the necessity of pursuing a dream while still managing to eat is the challenge for Los Angeles actor types. Their poverty drives them to work many survival jobs to help pay them bills until such time they can buy and sell anyone they want. It is that poverty that drove Jace to get a job at a legal recruiting firm. He started on a Thursday. On Monday, he walked in to find the most beautiful woman in the world...in his chair. Even the least sharp among you could guess, this person replacing him was Miss Alicia Carlson. Knowing better than to argue with a beautiful woman, Jace chose to befriend Alicia, and that friendship blossomed into love and now that love has turned into gifts. We hope.
A wedding is to be the celebration of the love between two people. Our wedding will differ, only in that we hope to cast a wider net. We want to celebrate the love we have for all of those attending. You, our family and friends, are the people, without whom, we never would have met or fallen in love or even been here in the first place. We hope that with this ceremony, you feel the connection we have to each other and to all of you.
The ceremony will take place at 5pm on July 2, 2006 at Point Dume State Beach. A link to the map is below:
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The reception. That special time where man and wife smash cake into each others face as revelers feign shock at their audacity. The reception is where friends of the beloveds toast their benefactors with hilarious stories of the time they mooned the mayor. Alicia, I'm looking in your direction.
Yes, our reception will be just like this, but with food and alcohol and maybe door prizes, but probably not. We may also have clowns, ice skating and balloons for the kids, but don't get your hopes up. If I were to describe the reception in 3 words, I would say, "After the ceremony..." If you forced me to cut it to 2, I would say, "After ceremony," hoping "the" would be implied.
The reception will take place at a lovely cafe, and will be free to all but the parents of the bride.
You know in these tough times of worldwide strife, of upheaval in villages abroad to the government at home, where hunger and desolation go unchecked, while evil fat cats get rich on its existence, it is important to remember one thing:
What the world needs now is love, sweet love. It's the only thing that there's just too little of. Well, love and oil.
So, please celebrate with us our love, as it truly has changed the way we view the world, messed up or not. We have found each other, and so we have found paradise, a world made better everyday by our place together in it. While we will not cure hunger (at least until Alicia learns how to cook), we will spread love from ours. It will, we hope, radiate out like the fluttering of a buttefly's wings and create rain in China. I think