The wedding juggernaut lumbers on, all but wholly destroying my interest in traditional internet related pursuits. This site, and ironically the wedding site as well, are the casualities of this obsession. It happens.

Amazingly, we have suffered precious few setbacks in our planning. I suppose it makes the entire process easier when you don’t have any princesses in the mix and don’t attempt to micro-manage every aspect of your celebration. Maybe we’re just good at it.

There has been one rather expensive change of plans. I’m convinced it will be for the best, because as the title indicates it will cement our nerdiness against all doubters and naysayers. It involves the rings. We have already purchased rings. Bought with the spoils of my recent eBay closet cleaning I had selected two matching titanium rings that we rather liked. However, after the order complications arose.

Concerns about the resiliency against attempts to resize the bands coupled with an overall lack of personalization in these bands left a poor taste in Staci’s mouth. She wanted something more. We aim to retun out titanium rings for gold ones. Not just any gold rings though. They will be special rings. . . engraved with this:

Edited 08/29/2006: Finally remembered to upload the proper inscription and typeface.

I’m no Sindarin scholar, but I’m pretty confident that I’ve made a passable translation. What it says is:

emel nín cirban lín
rancin nín bar lín

Edited 08/23/2006: I found a better glossary and realized I had used the wrong word for “heart.” Here’s the new quote:

hûn nín cirban lín
rancin nín bar lín

In the common tongue:

my heart is your shelter
my arms are your home

This is a quote modified from a set of vows Staci found online (I don’t have a link) that we both rather liked. One line of inscription will go on each ring so together they will spell out the full passage.

See? Bigger nerds. My apologies. We’re just better at it than you are.