Post #140837 by BarkerBird on Sat, Feb 12, 2005 11:58 AM

My wedding reception.

It was the PERFECT Tiki experience.

My grandfather's back yard in Rancho Palos Verdes.

He has a 1960's beachcomber bar in his house. He has a bamboo hut in his lush tropical back yard. He has a lava-rock waterfall and koi pond, on a ship's deck patio.

We had tikis from Oceanic Arts. Torches.

Wedding cake shaped like a volcano, with the bride and groom being sacraficed at the top.

Music by the live band, the Blue Hawaiians, on a stage trimmed with thatching and ringed with torches.

We had a do-it-yourself photo booth with a backdrop and a polaroid, coconut bras, grass skirts and pith helmets.

We had a "decorate your own drink" swizzle-stick bar, with dozens of the wackyiest drink ornaments ever seen.

The cake table was rigged with a subwoofer so that the volcano rumbled.

We had pinapple flambe' with the cake, a dessert we dubbed "Pinapple Eruption."

Along the jungle paths of my grandfather's yard, we put food tables from different reigons around the Ring of Fire, asian food, polynesian food, etc.

In a deep place of the jungle, we had a small shrine to Yma Sumac, decorated with pictures, insense, votives and her music, to be discovered by wanderers.

It was perfect.