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Two years later, thanks to emerging video technologies... we're finally posting our wedding video online! Each is about 10 minutes long. For a very condensed version, click here.

The Ceremony...

The Reception...

announcement - 12/15/04

Our OFFICIAL photo album has finally been posted, which includes the long-awaited photographer's photos!

Two versions have been posted -- one is best for viewing (at fotki.com), the other is best for ordering prints (at imagestation.com) and requires you to set up a free login name. Hope this makes sense, email us if you have any questions.

Additional photo galleries have been posted of special interest to the Weber extended family and people in the wedding.

Full-sized digital photos can also be downloaded from any of the galleries below. ("View Image Info" at ImageStation, "Get Original Uploaded Image" at Fotki)

The Wedding Album:

The Official Wedding Album (best for viewing)

The Official Wedding Album (best for ordering prints)

Special Interest Galleries (best for ordering prints):

Weber Family and Extended Family Photos

Posed Wedding Potraits

Alexa's Wedding-Related Photos:

Alexa's Honeymoon Highlights

Alexa's Rehearsal, Family Gift Shower, and Preparations Photos

Friends' Wedding Photos:

Holly's Album

Dan's Album

If you have additional photos from the wedding you'd like to share, let us know!

"He has made all things beautiful in time...
yet we cannot fathom what he is doing from beginning to end."
-Ecclesiastes 2:11

The wedding was perfect.

It was MADE perfect, actually -- because before the wedding, the lesson I would tell everyone I was learning is that, "NOTHING is perfect, but that's okay." I could have told you the something that was not quite perfect about every little element of the wedding. But as I see it now -- God took all of those imperfect things, and somehow made them into something absolutely perfect.

So it often is with the work of God! And he carried out much of this work through some INCREDIBLE people: What was perhaps the greatest part of this wedding, was the opportunity to bless so many people, often by doing nothing more than allowing them to bless US. We were blessed by SO... MANY... PEOPLE... Especially by family (as the Webers kept saying: "family -- that's what it's all about") and close friends, but even by people who hardly know us, and by everyone who blessed us by their presence. As soon as we can, we will be thanking you all one by one.

Anyway, after a honeymoon that was almost as perfect as the wedding, spent at Cape Cod, MA and in New York City, we're back in Columbus now, and our apartment is taking shape. The transition to married life was so shockingly smooth that in some ways it's almost as if nothing changed, despite all that is new. But I think this is as it should be. The wedding was perfect and wonderful, but in looking back, we see it not as a mountaintop, but maybe simply as a door through which we'll continue on as we did before, only now, together.

"The road goes ever on and on, and I must follow if I can."

When I told friends that our wedding would have a “Lord of the Rings” theme, several raised an eyebrow as the image of a cheesy, “movie-themed” wedding flashed through their mind, and responded with something like, “Well then, can I come as an Orc?” But The Lord of the Rings, for Seth and I, is more than just “the movie that everyone’s been talking about.” This book, this epic story, has touched the way we think and talk about our lives and love. We have found that when we think in story terms, we can see life for the grand adventure it truly is. As C.S. Lewis wrote, “the value of stories is that they restore a rich significance to the mundane things of life we’re all-too-familiar with.” And so we planned our wedding. We took the traditional elements of a wedding—the elements we’re “all-too-familiar with” and rewrote each one in the language of our Lord of the Rings theme. We designed our ceremony to be deeply rich in significance and meaning, so that through The Lord of the Rings, we might have opened the eyes of our guests to the wonder of this epic narrative we are all a part of—a story that Seth and I are merely caught up in.

Here is a complete copy of the wedding ceremony script, in Acrobat/PDF form, for you to download or print for personal use.

sethandalexa-wedding.pdf

To save it to disk, right click on the link and choose something like, "Save Target As..." If you can't open this file, download the free Acrobat Reader program.

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how to contact us by...

speaking
Seth or Alexa AND-druh-JESS-key

writing
Seth and Alexa Andrzejewski
454 E. Northwood Ave, Apt. F
Columbus, OH 43201

calling
614-299-7267

emailing
"alexa" or "seth" @jewskistreet.com

aim-ing - alexa
The Lady Lexy
aim-ing - seth
Andrewjeskey


Rachel Szczepinski
maid of honor
friend
 

Andrew Moon
best man
friend
 

Hannah Richman
bridesmaid
friend of bride
 

Zach Weber
groomsman
brother of bride
 

Samantha Weber
bridesmaid
sister of bride
 

David Andrzejewski
groomsman
brother of groom
 

Bethany Andrzejewski
bridesmaid
sister of groom
 

Daniel Andrzejewski
groomsman
brother of groom

Marissa and Ali
flower girls
nieces of groom

Mr. and Mrs. Weber
Mr. and Mrs. Andrzejewski
parents of bride and groom

the forecast, the week before the wedding

the wedding symbol

Seth and Alexa's "wedding symbol" was designed by Alexa. It portrays two branches merged into one, with the longer branch reaching around to protect the smaller, fruit-bearing one. It was inspired partially by the engagement ring (the yellow gold ring, shown here with Alexa's band).

some wedding colors

Sage Green
Cream
Gold
Dark Blue
Earthtones

wedding flowers

Calla Lilies

recommended reading

Books that inspired much of this ceremony's content are:

The Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkien
The Sacred Romance by Brent Curtis and John Eldredge
Wild at Heart and Waking the Dead by John Eldredge

"This is a world of magic and mystery, of deep darkness and flickering starlight. It is a world where terrible things happen and wonderful things too. It is a world where goodness is pitted against evil, love against hate, order against chaos, in a great struggle where often it is hard to be sure who belongs to which side because appearances are endlessly deceptive. Yet for all its confusion and wildness, it is a world where the battle goes ultimately to the good, who live happily ever after, and where in the long run everybody, good and evil alike, becomes known by his true name.

That is the fairy tale of the Gospel with, of course, one crucial difference from all other fairy tales, which is the claim made for it that it is TRUE, that it not only happened once upon a time but has kept on happening ever since and is happening still."

Frederick Buechner in Telling the Truth: The Gospel as a Fairy Tale