my younger cousin got married last friday. congrats to her and her new husband.
the engagement lasted 2 years. it must have been truly difficult to remember a date 2 years into the future. i don't even know what i'm doing 2 hours from now. it would be just after 10 in the morning, so that really limits the options.
anyhow, i took friday off so i could attend the wedding. when i reminded my immediate supervisor of this, he said "oh yeah... well that really sucks." considering i put in for that day off about a month ago, before the slew of new shit to inspect came in, he was pretty disappointed. tough luck, i gave you plenty of notice. that, plus the fact that this was the first day off i've ever taken in my 8 months working there, and you really can't blame me.
the wedding was at a lutheran church. at first, the couple went around to different churches asking to have the ceremony there. with my cousin being catholic and her then-fiance being lutheran, the divine wrath was cast down upon them by both churches. i don't know much of the specifics, but i do know that one of the catholic churches would only marry them if they promised to raise their kids catholic. my cousin couldn't promise that, so it was out the door with them. how uptight does religion need to be? their paying the church for the ceremony, what do they care about the kids? are they looking to get paid for baptisms and communions and all that other stuff? their moving to pennsylvania, you wouldn't get that anyway. happily, they found a lutheran church that would marry them close to where my cousin lived, and all was right with the world.
the processional song at the wedding was pachelbel's canon in D. oh, i had fun with that. if you're not familiar, it's a piece of classical music that has the same chords repeated throughout the entire song, and many popular songs you may know use those same chords. therefore, as the music was being played, i was lightly whispering "as we go on, we'll remember, all the times we, had together" from vitamin C's "graduation" song, "do you have the time, to listen to me whine.." from green day's "basket case", "i'm all out of faith, this is how i feel..." from natalie imbruglia's "torn". for more information, see http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JdxkVQy7QLM
the bride's maid of honor was her older sister and the groom's best men were his brothers. when we noticed this, my brother and i had a discussion, and came to a mutual realization that we were both on the same wavelength. that realization is that if either of us were to get married, we would NOT be each other's best man. absolutely not. he brought this up first, and i whole-heartedly agreed. i told him, "oh hell no, of course you wouldn't be my best man. doug would. you'll still be a groomsman" doug is my old college roomie. you may start thinking to yourself, "why not your brother?" there is a simple reason, and it is as follows: i've lived with my brother for a good part of my life; i've lived with doug for a good part of my life. when my brother farts, i wretch in disgust; when doug farts, i laugh. that is the reason why doug would be my best man. if he should rip one during the ceremony, we would both laugh gingerly at each other and the wedding would proceed.
there was too much food at the reception. by the time dinner was served, everyone was nearly full. the staff was kind enough to wrap up our dinners to go. when they did so, the wrapped of the foil in the same of a swan. aww...how cute. of course, the first thing everyone at my table did was to pick it up and imitate an outtake from the movie "liar liar" where jim carrey takes a piece of paper, crumples it, then makes a mini bird out of it and proclaims in a comedic falsetto "a goose!" before tossing it aside. we soon found out that if birds aren't your thing, you could fix that. just press the head and tail down flat, and you've got yourself a flounder or fluke. god, i need to go fishing again.
i got invited to a bachelor party for september, a casino cruise around manhattan. should i bring a gift? i'm not invited to the wedding, which is fine 'cause i don't know the groom overly well-enough to be invited. still, should i get something on the registry?
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