Echolls Estate [Saturday Evening]

[bridge_carson]

The ballroom of the mansion is done up in the same mostly-green colour scheme as the wedding ceremony. There's no assigned seating- unless you're in the wedding party, and then you're at the head table (unless you felt like moving around, of course, because gluing people to their seats was not part of the plan)- just several small tables around the room. Off to the side there's also a table meant for wedding gifts. There is, of course, plenty of food and drink, including the most important food-item of them all: the cake Piper had crafted exactly to Xander and Bridge's specifications.

[ooc: Reception is open for business!]

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Arrive!

[bridge-carson.livejournal.com]

Again. You know you want to!

Presents!

[bridge-carson.livejournal.com]

Leave 'em here.

Head Table!

[bridge-carson.livejournal.com]

For the grooms, groomswomen... and Anders. Or for people to wander up to talk to same.

Tables!

[bridge-carson.livejournal.com]

Claim a seat, or wander around and mingle.

Dance!

[bridge-carson.livejournal.com]

There's plenty of moddable music.

Cake!

[bridge-carson.livejournal.com]

Courtesy of the talented Piper Halliwell, the cake is definitely not a lie. It also happens to be shaped like a giant cupcake. Because have you met Bridge and Xander?

OOC!

[bridge-carson.livejournal.com]

...I really want a giant cupcake of my very own, you guys.

Re: Head Table!

[bridge-carson.livejournal.com]

Bridge is sitting at the table and still grinning uncontrollably. At this rate his face is going to freeze like that.

Re: Arrive!

[notstakedyet.livejournal.com]

Angel had been more than willing to avoid 1) parties and 2) parties involving nice things happening to 3) Xander. But it had been made clear to him that if he avoided all gatherings this weekend there might be wooden objects in his not so distant future. So there he was. Appreciating the open bar.

Re: Head Table!

[lilpunkinbelly.livejournal.com]

Dawn got up from her seat and walked until she was standing near Bridge, then squatted down a bit so she could talk to him. God, he looked happy. "Congratulations, you. Thank you for making him so happy."

Re: Head Table!

[bridge-carson.livejournal.com]

"Thanks," Bridge says. "And I have to say, I think it's a pretty fair trade for how happy he's made *me*."

Re: Head Table!

[lilpunkinbelly.livejournal.com]

"I'm not sure," she teased, shaking her head. "Him without you? Very, very different. You guys just work, y'know?"

Re: Tables!

[cameronmitchell.livejournal.com]

Cameron had claimed his seat and had found some food and something with alcohol. One without the other seemed like a bad idea.

Re: Head Table!

[needsaparrot]

Xander is... not moving very far from Bridge.

He will. Eventually. Sometime. But not now.

Maybe next year.

Re: Head Table!

[izzyalienqueen.livejournal.com]

Isabel took her seat, grabbed a drink from a passing waiter and smiled. Despite the minor hiccup of a momentarily missing groom, everything had turned great.

Re: Head Table!

[izzyalienqueen.livejournal.com]

Isabel leaned over, "Can I ask what happened?"

Re: Head Table!

[bridge-carson.livejournal.com]

"It means a lot that you think so," Bridge replies honestly. "Seeing as how you've known him- or a him- for forever and all."

Re: Head Table!

[multiplez]

Z leaned over to ask, "Did he have cold feet? Do you need me to kick his butt--wait, no, he showed up. Do you need me to kick someone else's butt?"

Re: Head Table!

[cantgetnorelief.livejournal.com]

Honestly, from the stunned look on Anders's face you'd think he was the one who'd gotten married and for whom the reality was only just now sinking in.

Which, of course, wasn't the case, but at any rate there was no shortage of celebratory glee at this particular seat.

Re: Head Table!

[cameronmitchell.livejournal.com]

"I think congratulations are in order?" Cameron wandered over when things had quieted down a little and not too many people were crowding around.

Re: Head Table!

[lilpunkinbelly.livejournal.com]

"He was my first crush," Dawn confided, though this probably wasn't exactly news to Bridge. "Possibly my second, too, once I got here. He...I can't really explain who he is to me anymore, but I can't imagine my life without him--both hims--in it. And you're part of him forever, and have been for a long time. This just made it all legal."

Re: Tables!

[time-flyer-5.livejournal.com]

Jen was lost in thought, staring at the centerpiece on the table, doing her best to pretend she wasn't kind of wistful and mopey herself. Her best wasn't all that great tonight, though.

Re: Head Table!

[cameronmitchell.livejournal.com]

Which made it easier for Cameron to find Xander once he was done talking to Bridge. "Congrats, dude."

Re: Head Table!

[lilpunkinbelly.livejournal.com]

And that would be Dawn giving him ye olde stink-eye from down at her end of the table and mouthing, "You okay?"

Re: Tables!

[once-a-king.livejournal.com]

Peter had claimed food and something to drink and was torn between reflecting on how much he enjoyed seeing everyone and how nice it was to be at a party where he wasn't king.