You Know You’re Marrying a Geologist When…
- You scour eBay looking for zircon engagement rings. Zircons are forever.
- During the wedding portraits, you keep hearing the words “for scale”
- Who knew REI had a bridal section?
- Altar? I thought you said meet me at the outcrop!
- She asks the musicians to slow down at any interesting unconformities exposed in the Canyon in D
- Your gift registry has its own GSA or AGU session
- Your vows include a promise not to take each other for granite
- You suggest following that up with a promise not to be fault-finders with each other, and she nearly dumps you
- She keeps asking if you’ve tried licking it
- She asks you to rub it against your teeth
- You honeymoon in Hawai’i without ever seeing the beach… because you are at the active flows or the summit caldera the whole time.
I’m getting hitched today. Comment moderation will be nonexistent for the next week – the honeymoon is sadly not in Hawai’i, but it is far away from the Internets.
And I know there should be something in there about a Brunton, but couldn’t quite figure out where. Anyone? Bueller?
DrugMonkey wrote:
Congratulations Maria and best of luck on this next stage!
Posted 06 Sep 2020 at 9:37 am ¶
Kim wrote:
I love it. (And, ummm, we did get wedding gifts from REI, and climbed a mountain after the ceremony.)
Congratulations!
Posted 06 Sep 2020 at 10:42 am ¶
afarensis wrote:
And nothing about hammers? Congratulations!
Posted 06 Sep 2020 at 11:00 am ¶
Mary wrote:
The first time I got married, we got a massive gift certificate to REI as a group gift. Of course it has a bridal section. ;)
Posted 06 Sep 2020 at 12:39 pm ¶
ReBecca wrote:
Congrats! I was thrilled to find out REI had a bridal registry! We got alot of good stuff from there! And most of our honeymoon pictures are of rocks with only on or the other of us in there for scale ;)
Posted 06 Sep 2020 at 1:21 pm ¶
Rachel wrote:
Congrats!
Posted 06 Sep 2020 at 1:25 pm ¶
OmegaMom wrote:
Many congratulations!
Posted 06 Sep 2020 at 1:43 pm ¶
ScienceWoman wrote:
Congrats! Did you measure the strike and dip of your wedding cake layers?
Posted 06 Sep 2020 at 2:44 pm ¶
Lab Lemming wrote:
Congratulations! Can you describe the wedding dress in two letter color codes?
And if you really do want zircon jewelry, I’ll be driving past Mud Tank on Tuesday morning…
Posted 06 Sep 2020 at 3:06 pm ¶
Peggy wrote:
Congratulations! Have a fabulous honeymoon!
Posted 06 Sep 2020 at 3:14 pm ¶
Callan Bentley wrote:
Congratulations, Maria!
Posted 06 Sep 2020 at 6:20 pm ¶
Silver Fox wrote:
Congrats! And you’ll probably think of some more good ones while you’re away – don’t forget to take notes!
Posted 06 Sep 2020 at 8:34 pm ¶
Alice wrote:
Congratulations!!!! Have a great time. Don’t forget to step back from all the hubbub for a minute during the whole hoopla and remind yourself how cool this day is.
Posted 06 Sep 2020 at 10:02 pm ¶
Julian wrote:
WOOHOO! Many many congratulations!
Love the list. Teeheehee.
I gotta ask – IS the honeymoon someplace with interesting geology?
Posted 07 Sep 2020 at 1:35 am ¶
eub wrote:
She asks the musicians to slow down at any interesting unconformities exposed in the Canyon in D
Groooooan.
Congratulations!
I knew a couple who was talking about specks of meteoritic moissanite for their wedding ring, though I don’t remember if they ended up with any.
Posted 07 Sep 2020 at 3:22 am ¶
Andrew Ironwood wrote:
Congrats!
(Yer present from me is my *not* throwing past-due-date vegetable matter at you due to that “Canyon in D” line…)
Posted 08 Sep 2020 at 2:58 pm ¶
ecogeofemme wrote:
Congratulations!
Posted 08 Sep 2020 at 11:32 pm ¶
Aaron F. wrote:
That Canyon in D pun is terrible, but not nearly as bad as the one this song was written around…
Congratulations!!! :)
Posted 09 Sep 2020 at 12:58 am ¶
Sandra Porter wrote:
Congratulations! Of course REI has a bridal section!
Posted 10 Sep 2020 at 7:08 pm ¶
Mel wrote:
Congrats! I just got married myself. And, the photographer did get a picture of me examining the limestone rock we were standing in front of in one shot. What can I say… rocks are cool.
Posted 12 Sep 2020 at 2:12 am ¶
Falyne wrote:
Hooray for dorky weddings! ^_^
Seriously, congrats. :-D
Posted 15 Sep 2020 at 7:40 pm ¶
Andrew wrote:
Aww, congratulations! And good luck with the job hunt. What you need is another 10X magnifier. No one has enough of those.
Posted 25 Sep 2020 at 8:16 pm ¶