This weekend is going to be a little crazy - tomorrow is October 9th and on 10-09-08 I married my husband, so it's our two year wedding anniversary, and then on Monday is his birthday so I'll be doing a lot of nice things for the weekend.... and to share my blessed event, here once again is my wedding video -
Last night the Leivas and I pulled up the old West Hollywood website and filled out our marriage license and (gulp!) submitted it online... That's right kiddies, I am well on my way to becoming Mr. Bradley Jacobson (oh wait a minute??) Anyhoos, we are on our way to the alter.
Apparantly, we have to go pick up our license on Thursday afternoon in West Hollywood where we can also put down the payment to come back and do a civil ceremony but being WeHo this is no ordinary ceremony, no, no, instead they gather the group of would be newlyweds and trot them over to Kings Road Park where they are married under a gazebo ... it sounds fun!
However, the soonest we can book our date is October 2nd! But once we have our license we can do our own ceremony as long as there's a witness (to testify) and someone who can perform the ceremony (i.e. my pal Katie in her Bjork swan dress) - so I have one day to decide what we want to do...
I mean a swan dress on the same Malibu beach where Danny Zuko and Sandy Olsen met and fell in love, with a witness or two to declare they were there at such a blessed event... I don't know, it's tempting...
So what did I do last night? Oh yeah that's right, I went and got myself hitched. Oh yeah, I'm off the market - so sorry boys, but the Leivas and I have made it official - well official in West Hollywood anyway. In this great land known as CaliMexi there are official benefits in being married but there is also a separate license with benefits (albeit a little less) for just West Hollywood rather than the whole California state process.
Yesterday I left work a little early so my man and I could trot on over to City Hall and register as domestic partners - two words I frankly despise but what can you do? That's what they call it. I know it only took him 7 years to lead me to the alter but it was worth it - I'm sure he feels that way.
So now we are officially an old married couple - though if I go into Hollywood I think I'm still single - so watch out Spotlight patrons - I keed, I keed. As for when he can finally trot me off to the State Department and be recognized in all of California - I'm waiting until our tenth anniversary - August 20, 2010 when I am having a full on wedding whether or not we actually get gay marriage - so mark the calendars cause you just might be in the wedding party and if not, I'll still need you to bring me presents.
I now present the Leivasons (by the way that's confetti in our hair - don't ask)
Location: West Hollywood, California, United States
SHORT VERSION: Bradley Jacobson is a singer/songwriter, sometime actor, sometime writer, audio engineer and producer, and all around happy dude. He was the singer/songwriter of the electronic trashy punky pop band Swivek, but is now a "solo" artist releasing music under his own name.
