Wedding Photos

For those who missed the Live Stream and aren't on Facebook...

The wedding was broadcast live over the internet via ustream.com. It was held at a small castle - what you see in the photo is all the castle there is. There's a hall, a small balcony above, and a downstairs. That's it. The atmosphere was perfect for a medieval/Renaissance style event, but not very big.

Lanterns hung from the balcony...

Groom and groomsmen before the wedding.

The wedding had a storybook/fairy tale feel, with banners, crowns, and fairies. The bride and groom even looked like a prince and princess. Much of the ceremony was taken from the books and movies they've both loved since childhood. They were prayed over and coronated as heads of their own new little family of two, and the males from both families joined and vowed loyalty to each other. Their wedding rings are green (his) and yellow (hers) so they can travel to and from Aslan's woods whenever they want. :-)

The bride and groom!

The flower girl, a groomsman, and a wedding guest.

To end the wedding, the bride and groom stood on the bridge over the castle moat and held a lit paper lantern while they sang a duet (At Last I See the Light from the Disney movie Tangled) and then let the lantern loose to float away up into the sky. it was quite dramatic.

(By the way, I was told that Disney's lantern scene was inspired by an actual event - the yearly Taiwan Lantern Festival.)


The bride and groom just got back from their honeymoon last night and are staying in Charlotte for the summer. Not sure where they'll be after that. The official photographer's pictures aren't ready yet, but she did post one as a teaser, which should be publicly viewable here.

Gifts Differing

I've been trying to wrap my mind around Myers-Briggs (MBTI) theory for a couple of years. I've read Understanding Yourself and Others by Linda V. Berens, Personality Type: An Owner's Manual by Lenore Thomson, 16 Ways to Love Your Lover:Understanding the 16 Personality Types by Otto Kroeger and Janet Thuesen, participated in a few online discussions about it (and a couple in real life), and watched DaveSuperPower's YouTube videos, which say that you can't rely on those online tests because it's all about cognitive functions, and the only way to understand MBTI is to study the cognitive functions. I am still stumped!

Gifts Differing by Isabel Briggs Myers and her son Peter Myers was recommended as a good book to help understanding the functions, so here I am, with the book, determined to figure this thing out.

First off, the four letters of everyone's MBTI are really describing two things:
How We Perceive (what we see in a situation depends on whether we prefer to notice things through our five senses or through our intuition; this tells whether we're S or N)
How We Judge (what we decide to do about the information we take in depends on whether we're driven more by impersonal logic or personal relationships; this tells whether we're T or F)

One difference between this book and others:

Linda Berens defines the four core types as:
SP (the Improvisor)
SJ (the Stabilizer)
NT (the Theorist)
NF (the Catalyst)

But Myers describes them using only the middle letters:
ST (practical, matter-of-fact)
SF (sociable and friendly)
NF (inspired, enthusiastic and insightful)
NT (logical and ingenious)

I did note that, where Myers takes a paragraph to briefly explain each of the core types, there are two paragraphs to explain NF's. It also did not escape my notice that Isabel Briggs Myers was INFP, her mother, who started the family's MBTI research, was INFJ, and her son is ENFP. In other words, a pack of NF's wrote this book, so it's no surprise that NF's get the most thorough description. :-)