Our Happy Lego Home

So we finally found the numerous hours needed to build our Home.  Coincidentally, its completion marked the, albeit slow, start of our real house hunt. Probably because we finally have settled back into work and life here and now have time to do more than catch up.

Our guestbook, no matter how confusing to people, was by far one of my favorite parts of the wedding.  I love the fact that, unlike a book, this is something I will look at from time to time.  I swear, my journals are only dust free because we recently moved.  I am, in fact, wavering about recycling them or not.

Now that I said this, I should also admit that I did not even come up with this idea.  It was Man's Best Man who synthesized all my possible guestbooks with such a brilliant idea.  Somehow the card boxes and our Lego themed website built into a fabulously unique (as far as I have seen) perfectness.

The first step was to demo the guestbook.  I don't know what happened, but our careful organization of floors and signable pieces failed.  Instead, we brought home a lopsided tower of love and bricks.

The original builders (our guests) took a few liberties in wall height and stability, leaving our house...not quite up to code.

photo from Azzolina Photography

It's okay, we aren't all meant to be Lego architects.  There were, however, plenty of wonderfully geeky people, as experienced below.  Marriage FTW, indeed!

Throughout the construction, we had two small Lego figures overseeing our progress.  It had, after all, started with them.  Who would have known that in creating a wedding website using Lego pictures (since we had a sum total of 3 pictures together..), we would have created a mini theme for the entire wedding.  We certainly hadn't planned it that way.

Slowly but surely the house was built.  Brick by brick and floor by floor.  Having modular floors makes it delightfully easy to hide the notes inside...and get access to them when we're feeling sentimental.

And yes, the beautiful bay window and the full length window next to it open and close.  The wondrous uses of Lego will never end.

The final result?  Pretty dang awesome.

Without the signatures, the back would be kinda boring in photographs.  I assure you, that black box is a lot cooler looking in person.  I just couldn't capture the intricate detail of green house in picture.

And in case anyone feels gypped, the gold signature comes from one of the people we bought the Legos from.  They heard our plans and loved it so much they sent tons of extra bricks and signed some for us!

And we cannot leave the notes themselves out.  Here is a quick sample that I found either very encouraging or...very amusing.  (Huck, in case you are wondering, is a mere 2 years old.)

There were so many cute, fun and touching signatures on the whole house.  But I figured I should end on one that was not only encouraging, but rather creative.  

People weren't supposed to write on the windows, but I have to admit this is brilliant, so to speak.