Puppets Stand Up for California Couple at Unusual Wedding
They were going for creative and fun, and they got it.
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— -- At every wedding, you've got the usual suspects. There's the minister. The judge. The wedding crasher.
In that respect, Tammy Caplan and Joe Gold's wedding was pretty typical. Not typical: the usual suspects were puppets.
"Weddings can be so serious," Caplan said. "We wanted a creative, fun vibe."
The couple had plenty of time to figure out exactly how they wanted their wedding to play out. They've been together for 15 years.
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"We had plenty of ideas," said Gold.
"More ideas than we have time," Caplan added.
The puppet idea won out and was a huge hit with family and friends. The wedding images were captured by photographer Robert Orsa.
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"We kept it from everyone except the vendors until the day before the wedding, when we had to tell the wedding party," Gold said. "but the guests were totally surprised."
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The team of puppets included in the ceremony: a judge, a ship's captain, a rabbi ("I grew up Jewish and I thought my parents would want a rabbi," Gold said) and a minister. It was the minister puppeteer that was ordained and actually married the couple. The couple's wedding video captures the humor of the event.
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"We did actually want to get married," Gold said.
The puppet theme continued with puppet making at the reception. There was then a puppet dance at the end of the night.
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So what's next for the couple?
"I don't know. Maybe Tammy will give birth to a puppet," Gold joked. "But I think our parents might be a little disappointed."