Heavy J2-Tinhat content ahead with a focus on Jared & Genevieve’s wedding but with mentions of both weddings.
Turn back NOW please if you know that reading this will upset you!
First, a quick overview of the dates and locations of both weddings:
Jared & Genevieve: The Valley Country Club (Sun Valley, Idaho), 2/27/10
Jensen & Danneel: Crescent Court Hotel (Dallas, Texas), 5/15/10
So, even just based on that tiny bit of info alone, it’s already weird that neither J was married in a church despite religion playing a role in both of their respective families (especially in the Ackles family).
Also, neither marriage was blessed by a priest.
A bit strange...right? *ponders*
Another interesting fact: Jensen was alone at Jared’s wedding (without Danneel), and Jared was likewise alone at Jensen’s wedding (without Gen).
But, anyway, moving on to the main point of this particular post: a few extra tidbits about Jared & Genevieve’s wedding that I haven’t talked about yet.
I have things to add about Jen & Dan’s wedding as well, but I’ll save that for another time.
1. There were two wedding cakes! Which definitely caught my attention, because that’s...pretty odd without the reason being some dietary restriction someone in the wedding party has or something like that. But no....even then it would still be a very unusual thing to do.
Here’s the cake that was cut by him and Gen:
The second was baked in the shape of Texas and was also colored accordingly (I’ll re-find and add a pic).
Which two people constantly bond over a deep, shared love of Texas, though? A love of Texas that also happened to play a huge role in kickstarting their relationship with each other wayyy back in the beginning?
I mean, I don’t know. Just sayin.
2. Jared and Genevieve messed up their wedding kiss and had to try it again to ‘get it right.’
(since this is the second try, it’s VERY hard to imagine what the first try was like...)
3. The flowers chosen for the ceremony were white lilies, a particular kind that are very commonly associated with funerals, death, and mourning. So commonly, in fact, that when I did some verifying research, it was the first-used description of the flower’s symbolism on all but one or two of the sites I browsed (the only description on some of those sites), and when I tweaked my search to “funeral flowers,” it was the first flower listed on every single page I visited as recommended for funerals, mourning, and sending in sympathy to grieving loved ones.
A collage of various text-clips from some of those sites, just to give you a general idea:
So, make what you will of that. Or don’t!
4. The set-up/decor of the ceremony, right down to the specific lights, was borrowed from a show called Wildfire (from the wedding scene) that Genevieve acted in.
Now, I don’t know what I’m trying to imply that might mean...but I do know it feels like a weird, impersonal thing to do...
5. Jared and Gen did not initially go on a Honeymoon. Jared was spotted flying right back to Vancouver the Monday after the wedding. The two did take their supposed ‘honeymoon’ later on.
My thoughts? Jared, as we know, struggles with anxiety and depression. Getting through the faux-wedding with a smile (wellll...he tried his best to smile anyway...*see below image*) was already hard enough in more ways than we could probably ever imagine. A faux-honeymoon immediately afterward would have just been way too emotionally and mentally difficult.
I’ll leave you with these photos of Jensen during Jared’s rehearsal dinner:
And this wedding hug between the two of them that continues to break my heart into a thousand pieces every time I see it:
