A hipster wedding

\hip-stur\n. One who possesses tastes, social attitudes, and opinions deemed cool by the cool. (Note: it is no longer recommended that one use the term "cool"; a Hipster would instead say "deck.") The Hipster walks among the masses in daily life but is not a part of them and shuns or reduces to kitsch anything held dear by the mainstream. A Hipster ideally possesses no more than 2% body fat.

-The Hipster Handbook, Robert Lanham

Hipsters also reject mainstream fashion, opting for vintage and thrift-store apparel, hats, sneakers and thick-rimmed glasses.  Their taste in music is just as un-mainstream – very ‘emo’, obscure, underground.

I just came from a hipster wedding. I’m so glad I’ve got hipster co-workers.  I get invited to their weddings which are more fun than usual.  My friends’ invite says “till death do us party”.  Couldn’t have been more apt.

Their invite also came with a 45 vinyl, and sartorial instructions: look dandy (bowties, neckties, vests, sneakers, hats, suspenders).  The couple exhorted their friends not to gift them with rice cookers.  Wedding ninang Raquel thought times had really changed. Parents are more accepting of their kids’ eccentricities.  When Raquel sent out her own wedding invites, her mother-in-law was shocked that hers didn’t have a second envelop.

The dandy groom with a funky brooch

The bride in a Mich Dulce. Awesome.

Pre-nup pic

The VW bridal car

The U.P. Bonsai Garden

Part of the entourage

Vinyl installation

Most guests wore Chucks.

Cotton candy giveaways

Yup, that's a skull on the wedding cake.

Thanks to the newlyweds for making me a part of their fab wedding.  Congratulations, and I pay further tribute to you by sharing a clip of the ultimate hipster movie.  Nothing’s more ‘cool’ than Godard’s 1960 classic Breathless.  You’re our modern-day Jean-Paul Belmondo and Jean Seberg.