It can't be called a shotgun wedding...

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...because there were rifles and pistols there, too.

When I got married, one thing I didn't want was just a bunch of the normal boring american-gothic style wedding photos. You know, "bride and groom standing with bride's parents", "bride and groom standing with groom's parents and sibs", "bride and groom and a scenic park bench, with [relative of choice]" ad nauseam.

So since my wedding was held at my house (which simplified the logistical requirements), I asked the photographer if she would take a couple of photos with the entire wedding party armed to the teeth. She jumped all over it (always looking for interesting stuff for her portfolio).

Many of the people in the wedding are not shooters, so I took two of the groomsmen who are shooters, and we triple-checked and cleared each piece before handing it out. One of the kids (the young boy) we gave a checked-and-cleared BB gun, instead of a real firearm.

That's me with the Bushy XM17S. My lady-wife is carrying my Kel-Tec P32 (and perspective makes it look like she's covering me with the muzzle -- she's not). If you look closely, you can see a couple of Mossy shotguns, an AR-15, and maybe a Glock. The girl in the foreground (my stepdaughter) is holding a Savage .22WMR.

So. My wedding photo:
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-BP
 
No shotguns? Why thats discrimination. When the zombies or poision monkeys come you'll be begging for a shotgun!
 
Great Pic!

The real question, of course, is how many of the wedding party hauled their own shooting irons out of concealment :neener:

A few years back, I served as a groomsman at a friends wedding. Under our tuxes and bridesmaids sarongs, we were all festooned with hardware, but didn't pose thus for pictures, less the congregation soil the pews. :what:
 
If I ever get married, and ALL guns haven't been banned by that time, I want to have a similar photo taken. :D
 
In a perfect world, with a perfect girl, the the Groom's Gifts at my wedding would be DMPS Artic Panthers. (preferably carbines) White & Black to match the Tuxes -- important, 'cause they'd be slung during the ceremony!

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No shotguns? Why thats discrimination. When the zombies or poision monkeys come you'll be begging for a shotgun!
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Ransom: Look closer at the pic and my initial post; there are shottys in there, just not only shottys. The best man is holding my Mossberg 500, the girl all the way on the right is holding a pistol-grip Mossy that belongs to the best man's girlfriend.

geekWithA.45, only the best man, one groomsman, and I were packing during the ceremony; everyone else was either not a shooter, or had traveled in via air and hadn't wanted to deal with the hassle of flying with a gun.

My groom's gift to the best man was the Baikal fully-automatic BB gun; the one that looks like it was made by DeWalt.

nhhillbilly, thanks. We're starting the kids out on the pump BB rifle. Once that works out, we're going to move to the Airsoft pistols. Once they're got that down, then it's time for the Savage .22WMR bolt-gun. Eventually, I'll have them shooting my EBRs.

FWIW, they already both pretty much consider the public school system to be a thing to sit through, and then to come home and ask me what was wrong in what they were taught today... :D

-BP
 
That's as bad as those guys who got married on the bridge of the enterprise dressed as klingons...

NICE collection though. :)
 
jcrb/stickjockey:

No, not a SCAdian. I used to hang about with the folks at the Barony of Black Diamond when I was in college, though.

But I am a Rennie. I've worked the Maryland and Original Virginia and New Virginia ren faires. Thus "Lady-wife". The language habits become pervasive. It is not physiologically possible for me to say "hurrah".

Reagansquad,

I hope we weren't as geeky as the star-trek-wedding crowd. We had a (more or less) traditional wedding; we only hauled out the guns for the photo session.

Unfortunately, that collection isn't all mine. The pistol-grip mossberg and the glocks you see, and the HK USP40c that you don't because it's out-of-frame in that pic, those all belonged to friends.

-BP
 
No, not a SCAdian. I used to hang about with the folks at the Barony of Black Diamond when I was in college, though.
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Well I was close :D

oh yeah, I forgot ............ congrats!
 
I think Cslinger and Sheslinger did something very similar at their wedding a few years ago. I recall seeing a picture of them at their wedding, armed to the teeth....:D
 
Congratulations, most cool.

I'v been to military weddings with the crossed swords, with honor guards, etc., but that really is mostly Manasas. Sic Semper Tyranus!:D

So, did ya have a 21 gun salute?
 
Very cool. We would have done something like that, but some blissninnys were there and it was at a church. We did get Oleg to get some pics of us and our wedding garb. I would have also carried during the ceremony, but my dress printed to badly. I had to wear the garter around my knee instead of thigh. Oh well. I had at least one with me. We then went shooting later on our "extended honeymoon". (Trip to see Oleg and Jon's sis's wedding.)

Congrats by the way.

Gus
 
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