FAQs

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Where should I park

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There are plenty of modes of conveyance to our wedding. For those arriving by foot, bus, or perhaps bagpiped unicycle, Portland is a place and you are definitely in it. For those of you who have arrived, perhaps apologetically, in personal automobiles: please park near Portland Center Stage (our reception venue, which you will return to later, full of feelings and ready for food, probably salmon), and avail yourselves of the Wedding Shuttle, a charming school bus that will, with somewhat regularity depart at 3:30, 3:45, and 4:00 p.m. to ferry guests to Cinema 21, which is where the ceremony itself will occur, the actual vows, the thing that is the reason we are all here. Street parking is not free, however the price is nominal compared to the price brought to you by Big Parking and private lots nearby -- and whatever temporal restrictions that normally govern it will have dissolved entirely by 7 p.m., at which point you are, legally and spiritually, on your own.

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How do I get to the Reception from here?

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The distance between Cinema 21, where you will have just witnessed two people make promises to each other, and Portland Center Stage, where you will shortly be drinking in response to this, is 0.8 miles. Which is, by any reasonable measure, "walkable". Flat, even. And yet, there are heels to consider. And this other category of person who is not in heels but who has looked at the 0.8 miles and made a quiet, private decision, which is also valid and which requires no explanation or defense. For both of these populations -- the heel-wearers and the emotionally full -- the Wedding Shuttle will be making rounds, which is to say it will come back, more than once, in the manner of something that has been specifically arranged to help you.

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Can I bring a plus-one?

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Kindly note that attendance is limited to those guests named on your invitation. Unless your RSVP explicitly includes a plus-one or lists an additional guest by name, we respectfully ask that you plan to attend on your own. As we have planned for a specific number of guests, we are unfortunately unable to accommodate additional attendees. We are so grateful for your understanding, and cannot wait to celebrate with you.

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Is there a theme for the wedding?

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Our wedding celebrates a classic Cinema theme, and we warmly encourage guests to embrace Old Hollywood glamour in their attire. Think timeless elegance, think black tie; jewel tones, satins, and sequins. Ready, set, action!

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What is on the menu?

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The cocktail hour will, as cocktail hours do, offer things to eat while you are standing up and figuring out where you know people from, but more importantly something to drink while you pretend to remember people you in actuality don't. The dinner is pizza. Which is (and K & I are aware, fully and without defensiveness, of how that lands) not what you were necessarily expecting. There is a version of you that has attended weddings, many certainly, with their passed canapés and their plated entrées (chicken or fish), and that version of you is doing a small recalibration right now. Completely fair. Here is what you should know: this is Portland, and Portland is a city that has thought longer and harder about pizza than most places have thought about anything. Here pizza is not a fallback or a denominator but a genuine and ongoing civic project, taken seriously by serious people, and the results are, by any honest accounting, unparalleled. Kennedy and I have done the research. Years of it. We have not simply ordered pizza. We have ordered PIZZA. The distinction is real and it will become apparent to you shortly. Obligatory: there will be vegetarian, vegan, and gluten-free options, because we are thinking about you.