Ian & Brittany

Date To Be Announced

Ian & Brittany

Date To Be Announced

Q + A

Do you have a hotel room reservation block?

Yes we do, we will be at the Hilton Double Tree in Eatontown / Tinton Falls. Click on the "Travel" tab for all the information.

I Tried To Make A Hotel Reservation But They Said The Block Has Expired

Unfortunately the block only lasted until December 4th. There should still be rooms available.

Hey look There's Two Bottles Of Water Already In My Hotel Room Waiting For Me That's Nice

Wait no don't drink those, those aren't from us (the ones in the welcome bag are) those are from the Hilton and aren't free. They cost $3 unless you're a Hilton honors diamond gold or silver member. Because I guess nothing is sacred anymore can't even give us free water

Will there be transportation to and from the venue?

Yes, we will have a shuttle service going to the and from the venue from the hotel. If you do not wish to take the shuttle, the venue will have complimentary valet parking. Check the "Travel" tab for more information.

What is the dress code?

Formal attire is required

What time does the ceremony start?

The ceremony starts at 5pm. Please make sure you're there before then, we recommend 4:30pm.

Will the wedding be outside?

Although there will be outdoor areas available during the cocktail hour and reception, the ceremony will be held indoors. The venue will also have a complimentary coat check.

Are children allowed to attend?

Although two children will be a part of the wedding party, we are not allowing anyone else under the age of 21 to attend. We want to make sure everyone can enjoy the night without having to worry about their children.


Any other children found at the venue will be forced to do shots of Jägermeister

Can I bring a +1?

Each invitation will say who is invited and if you can bring a guest. If your invitation does not say you can bring a guest then unfortunately you cannot bring a +1.

You don't understand if I don't get a +1 I will literally be stabbed through the heart with a wooden stake, doused In Holy Water, decapitated, have garlic shoved down my throat, and my body thrown into running water.

First off, are you a vampire? Second, if you really need a +1 that bad, reach out to Brittany or I and we will see what we can do

Do You Have A Registry?

We do, you can click on the registry tab here in our website. We are registered on the knot store, Amazon, and don't forget to scroll all the way down and follow the link to view our Cutco registry.

Would Ian still love Brittany even if she were a worm?

Absolutely he would, just not in the same way since she would now be a worm and that would be weird.

Are all the fun facts about the wedding party true?

Absolutely

Did you just lie about the fun facts being true?

Absolutely not

How can we be sure?

This is the internet, if you can't trust what you read here what can you trust?

Why don't you guys have a fun couple name?

Well if you put our names together it's either Iattany, which is weird, or Britian which sounds too much like Britain which is a country that we do not want to be associated with.

Why do uppercase I's and lowercase l's look alike?

Blame your phone or PC, it seems that however you're viewing this decides the font.




The actual reason requires us to go back through history and the changing of writing from Trajan to Times through Rustic, Uncial, Caroline, Protogothic, and Humanist.


Note the progression of ‘i’ and ‘l’ from ‘I’ and ‘L’ from Trajan to Rustic and then Uncial. The evolution of the Latin script culminated into the humanist minuscule

As you can see from the ‘l’ in the first row, the humanist letter starts with a diagonal stroke to the left at the top, and then a vertical downstroke which ends in a curved terminal. Or alternatively, one would start with a downstroke to the right to make a tilted rectangle, and then the downstroke which ends in a curve.


The humanist minuscule is crucial when it comes to answering this question, as it is the script on which all serif typefaces—and by extension sans-serif typefaces as well—are based.


Now we jump all the way to the late 18th century, when sans-serif lettering was first used on building facades . Or perhaps rather, the early 19th century, when the first sans-serif typeface emerged in print. Have a look at the revival Caslon Egyptian, based on Caslon’s Two Lines Egyptian from around 181.


Caslon’s Egyptian is what ultimately became known as a grotesque typeface (later also grotesk, after German), which is a class of low-contrast sans-serif typefaces. With the serifs removed and the weight contrast lowered, sans-serif typefaces embody a sense of minimalism. In Caslon Egyptian, some texture remains, such as in the spur of ‘a’ (which is often absent in later sans-serif typefaces) and the sharp terminal ending of ‘r’, but the design is a lot more minimal, and the curved terminal of ‘l’ is gone.


Along with that sense of minimalism, the ascenders of b/d/h/k/l are the same height as capital letters, and as such, there is virtually no distinction between l and uI.


But this is not always the case. As with these two archetypal minimalist sans-serif typefaces, Neue Helvetica and Futura.


As you can see, in (Neue) Helvetica the ascenders and capital letters are the same height, while in Futura—similarly to serif typefaces—ascenders are taller than capital letters.


And some typefaces, like Meta, still retain the curved tail on the ‘l’ in order to distinguish between l and uI. The increased distinction between letters improves what is called legibility, which is the ease at which letters can be distinguished from each other, which in turn improves readability.


A grotesk typeface is always going to be lower in legibility than a humanist typeface; even though Graphik does distinguish between l and uI when it comes to the height of letters, it still retains a minimalist design and texture, unlike Meta Headline, which is high in legibility but has a more unruly texture.


There are no hard rules when it comes to which typefaces differentiate between l and uI however. As you can see the word ‘Ill’ (ill) in Univers (grotesk), Founders Grotesk (grotesk), Nobel (geometric), Fedra Sans (humanist), Basic Gothic (gothic), Geogrotesque (grotesk).


While some geometric typefaces—like Futura—feature taller ascenders than capital letters, this is not the case in other typefaces, like Nobel, which is based on Futura. Also, while it is very common for humanist sans-serif typefaces—such as Fedra Sans—to differentiate between ascending letters and capital letters, it is less common for gothic typefaces (the American grotesk variant) or grotesk typefaces, and yet differentiation can be seen in Basic Gothic and Geogrotesque as well.


But it should be noted that even those typefaces that seemingly don’t differentiate between l and uI, generally actually do. When a typeface is done right, usually the capital letters are slightly thicker.


All this really proves is that Serif fonts are better then sans-serif.


Now if you lasted this long, one good for you I'm actually kinda shocked you're here, also that The Knot let's me write this much, second, here's a fun comic https://xkcd.com/1105/

That was actually pretty informative, do you have any more obscure facts to share?

I do. In the Pokemon Sapphire game, you face off against Team Aqua, the infamous water themed criminal syndicate whose plan is to release an ancient primordial force of nature to create non-stop rainfall thus expanding the seas.


In the original Pokémon Sapphire game, none of Team Aqua's Pokémon know any water type moves. I do. In the Pokémon Sapphire game, you face off against Team Aqua, the infamous water themed criminal syndicate whose plan is to release an ancient primordial force of nature to create non-stop rainfall thus expanding the seas.


In the original Pokémon Sapphire game, none of Team Aqua's Pokémon know any water type moves.

That was interesting I guess, but I was thinking something more historical and not about video games though.

In that case, King Mongkut, leader of then Siam, now Thailand, had a great relationship with the United States, exchanging letters with multiple presidents.


In fact, King Mongkut sent two gifts to President Buchanan during the last month of his administration, a sword and a photograph of the King with one of his children. In the accompanying letter, dated February 14, 1861, King Mongkut said that he has heard that the United States had no elephants. As a remedy, he offered a gift of elephants—several pairs of them—that could be "turned loose in forests and increase till there be large herds." The elephants would be useful in the unsettled parts of the United States, he continued, "since elephants being animals of great size and strength can bear burdens and travel through uncleared woods and matted jungles where no carriage and cart roads have yet been made." President Buchanan's successor, Abraham Lincoln, responded to the extraordinary offer. In a letter dated February 3, 1862, he graciously accepted the sword and photograph from the King but politely declined the elephants, explaining that the geography and climate of the United States do not "favor the multiplication of the elephant."


Bonus Fun Fact about Abe Lincoln: Before he became president, Abraham Lincoln was an elite wrestling champion. In 300 matches, he only lost one.

So we almost had elephants? That is pretty cool, anything else?

Sure, the Greek playwright Aeschylus was killed outside the city of Gela by a tortoise dropped by an eagle which had mistaken Aeschylus's head for a rock suitable for shattering the tortoise's shell.

This has kinda gotten a bit off the rail and is no longer about the wedding, don't you think?

Honestly I'm surprised anyone is still reading, which if you are did you know that the during World War II, the United States military considered painting the snow-covered Mount Fuji, Japan's iconic mountain, to some unnatural color, possibly black or red. This would have been performed by dropping huge quantities of paint over the mountain’s 370 square mile surface from heavy bombers over the winter of 1944-45, and was intended to break the fighting spirit of the Japanese before the country’s eventual Allied invasion.


Of course, the plan never got off the ground, as the unknown planner’s superiors quickly poked holes into it. One, it snows over Fuji frequently over the winter, so the paint-dropping operation would have needed to be repeated after every snowfall to cover up the fresh snow. Two, the mountaintop is often covered in clouds during the winter, so only the closest locals would have even seen the desecration of the sacred mountain. And third, there was a concern that even if the operation was carried out, it might just incense the Japanese to fight all the harder.

Ok that was interesting, got any more?

All ski resorts in North America grade their slopes and trails with either a green circle (easy), a blue square (intermediate), a black diamond (advanced), or a double black diamond (experts only). It was Walt Disney’s team that came up with that grading system.


Before he passed away in 1966, Walt Disney set out to build or buy his own ski resort. One of the proposed locations was Mineral King in California’s Sequoia National Park, but environmentalists reportedly blocked it. Obviously, Walt’s plans for a ski resort would never come to be, and if you take the “Keys to the Kingdom Tour” at the Magic Kingdom, you’ll learn about how the architecture of his ski resort lives on in the log cabin style of Frontierland.


But before the plans for a ski resort completely shut down, Disney already established its proposed trail signage.


That trail signage would survive and become the adopted method of the National Ski Areas Association (NSAA) in 1968 and is still in use today.


It’s hard to imagine, but before the 1964-65 season, there were no regulations or traditions for North American ski resorts to use when labeling their runs. Sure individual ski resorts–hopefully–had their own unique systems, but there was no unified grading scale. And there was immediate pressure on newly formed NSAA to solve the matter.


So for the 64-65 season, the NSAA released its first attempt at a universal grading system. A green square labeled the easiest runs, a yellow triangle for “more difficult,” a blue circle for “most difficult,” and a red diamond for “extreme caution.” However, skiers were still unsatisfied with how accurately those signals graded the terrain. Enter Walt Disney’s method.


John Fry and Bob Cram told the story of how Disney’s proposed resort formula became THE formula in a piece for skinghistory.org. Here is an excerpt:


The solution came less than three years later, when NSAA discovered that the Disney Company, which was thinking of buying or building a ski resort (Mineral King in California was one), had gotten as far as determining what kind of trail signs it would adopt. The company had even tested skier’s reactions to different geometrical figures, concluding, for example, that a symbol for easy terrain should be a circle, perceived as soft; its color should be green, perceived as mellow. More difficult terrain would be indicated by a blue square, and most difficult by a black diamond. NSAA saw the Disney formula as an improvement, and switched to today’s shaped colors in 1968.


It’s been over 50 years, and the Disney formula remains the standard for all ski resorts in North America, and there haven’t been any concerns that it needs to change.


Now, each mountain and resort have their own subjective grading systems, but they are all based on this scale. For instance, Big Sky Resort in Montana offers triple black diamond routes, and Steamboat Spring in Colorado has Blue-Square-Black-Diamond to signify a run whose difficulty sits between the two standard ratings. And if a relatively flat and smooth traverse leads to nothing but black diamonds, the resort will label that traverse also a black diamond. Remember always to ask the resort staff, ski patrol, and other skiers for clarification.


Bonus Fun Fact: In board sports, if you stand right foot forward, your stance is called “Goofy”. It’s believed this is because of a 1937 animated surf movie by Walt Disney called "Hawaiian Holiday" The film features Goofy taking surf lessons and he adopts a right-foot-forward stance.

Got any fun animal facts?

I love YouTube rabbit holes. Do you have any more quick videos I can get lost in?

Engineerguy is great. Check out his video on the modern marvel that is the aluminum beverage can.

Do you ever wonder why humans are predominantly right handed?

It is believed to be due to the part of our brain that helped us evolve to use tools. Also being a lefty is considered an evolutional advantage.