Wedding & Honeymoon (Part I)

Most blog posts of any poker player are properly poker related. In this blog entry, you will get minimal poker references and mostly nothing but cheesy awesomeness about the wedding and the honeymoon with my wife Breanna.

A brief precursor...
April 15, 2011 Black Friday.
April 15 - May 28 Mega freak out over poker.
May 28, 2011 Move into a new house.
Wow, exact date? ruh roh. Purpose to girlfriend.
November 5, 2011 The wedding.

The wedding was 100% awesome. Unfortunately, it rained. Many, including the lady who helped me rent my Tux, insist that rain represents good luck and fortune in marriage. But coming from a very logical poker philosophy I can't help but assume that sunshine represents bad luck. So to the vast majority of people who get married in beautiful weather, apparently you're SOL. The employee at The Men's Wearhouse (Suit store) didn't find that too amusing. Sorry mang.

The wedding began at 4pm in the afternoon and after dreading the rain, it finally came. The hour by hour forecast did say it would start raining at 4pm (really? the exact hour?!?!) and it actually started to rain at 3:50pm. Sigh. Ty outdoor weddings.

The positive side was that we prepared for the rain and had canopies prepared just in case. It didn't rain too hard until later in the night, but since we moved the reception mostly indoors it was okay after all.

The wedding was fairly small, just family and a few life long friends. Traditionally, the wedding is "supposedly" paid for by the bride's parents. I don't know where this tradition comes from. Sigh #2. lol.

The ceremony was beautiful and went very well. Having tons of family around is really a special thing. Seeing all the people you love sitting in front of you is pretty cool. Even if they are all sitting under a giant canopy.

After the "I do's" we took a bunch of wedding photos with our wonderful photographer Danielle Albini. Who is this? Here's the quick story written in third person.

Matt plays poker
Matt becomes coach
Matt coaches dude named Travis Albini (tbini87)
Travis wins a lot
Matt and Travis find out they live relatively close
Matt and Travis hang out
Travis introduces Matt and Breanna to his wife Danielle
Danielle does baller pictures
Danielle does Matt and Breanna's Engagement Photos
Danielle takes pics at the wedding

Oh, and solid brag, Travis turned his $75 coaching investment into $15,000 which he used to buy his wife a car. Boom.


The pictures are still being worked on, and my wife and I are very excited. Here is one picture we have already that Danielle showed us as a teaser:).


After the photos, we went inside to visit, eat dinner, drink a few beers, eat cake, watch a tear-jerking slide show my dad made (aweeesome), and dance.

I could go on forever and write tons, but this seems like enough for now. Part II coming soon.