It's funny when it's not your wedding crap
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Tuesday, July 01, 2008 10:46 AM
This weekend M and I went to a friend's outdoor wedding. Believe it or not, it was the first wedding of a my-age friend I've ever been to. I spent most of my time critiquing her ideas and if I wanted them or not. For example: aisle runner-no. They staked it down to the ground, but when people walked on it, it tore from the stakes and people down the aisle were putting their feet on it to stop it... Not worth it. Yeah, my dress will drag on gravel, but you know what? I'm going to wear my wedding dress on my wedding day and it's going to get dirty and that's who I am, the girl in the dirty wedding dress. Next example: Bottled water in coolers-yes. The caterer we are using wanted to charge like $1 a bottle for bottled water, my friend just had ice filled coolers with bottles in them, I checked prices at Sams at home... $4.00 for 30 bottles (yeah 30). Good idea!
The wedding started at 2pm, just as a thunderstorm was sweeping past the city, luckily for our friend, the park she chose was on the very edge of the storm and we got a little wet biking there, but the rain held off until the end of the ceremony (at which point the guests booked it to a barn for the receiving line.) M and I went through the receiving line towards the end (after blowing bubbles for the ring bearer and his little sister for like 20 minutes), and the first people were the groom's parents. We only know the groom through the bride, so we'd never met his parents before. I introduced myself as the bride's camp counselor of many years (true) and M got into a converstation with the groom's father and told him we are engaged and getting married soon.
The groom's mother interjected, "It's not an outdoor wedding is it?"
"Yeah," I replied, "but we have a shelter and a tent."
"You should have it in the morning," said the groom's mother. "By 2pm it could be raining" she said with a disdainful tone...
"Well, ours is scheduled for 11 and will probably be over by 2 or 3, I think we did a good job planning"
"Yes," said the groom's mother with a approving smirk, "it sounds like you did."
LOL!!! Everyone has to deal with family/wedding crap!! Makes me feel better.
Another thing I learned at our friend's wedding is to have the bubbles ready. The bubbles were passed out by the ushers who told us when to blow them, but the bottles were shut with plastic over the top. Now, I am always planning ahead, I took the plastic off at the beginning of the ceremony and had my bubbles ready when the newly married couple walked back down the aisle. But, unfortunately, I was about the only one. As the bride and groom walked past us (we were on the end of a row), I blew a bunch of bubbles at them. The bride said, "bubbles!" And looked at me kindly. I know it meant a lot to her.
So, the lesson learned there is: if you are going to have bubbles at your wedding, prepare the bubbles to be blown by the guests before they arrive (or perhaps announce that it's time to blow the bubbles so they can prepare.)