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Life stuff is stressful. Don't wanna talk about it.
So instead, frivolous things!
- I visited my parents over the weekend. They bought a guest bed. Oh, what a lovely mattress.
- We went to a craft fair in the cold, miserable rain. Had a good time, but I felt so bad for the vendors. We did buy some things.
- I got a burger that was a brilliant, brilliant burger. You know beef Wellington, the little pastry packets of beef and mushrooms? Well this was a Wellington burger. Roasted mushrooms, truffles, carmelized onions on the burger. So, so good.
- We went to dinner at a restaurant that was having a wedding that only took half the restaurant. We didn't mind much--we were entertained by being catty about someone else's wedding in progress. But it seemed really weird to have a wedding in an open restaurant without actually renting the entire space. You had to wade through their cocktail hour (and first dances) to get to the hostess stand. They didn't turn off the house music, so there were random jazz trumpets clashing with their cocktail and dance music. Anyway, we made fun of their music choices for the announcements and dances. (It was like they went down the suggestion lists for each on The Knot, and chose the top song on each.) We made fun of the fact that they spent the entire cocktail hour mingling with their guests, then had the DJ very loudly and repeatedly ask the bridal party to go over somewhere else so that he could then announce them to their guests two minutes later. The bridal party ended up standing exactly where they'd been two minutes before, for the last hour. Their poor guests must have been so confused--"who is this strange woman in white? What is she doing here? Thank you, Mr. DJ, for telling me who I've been congratulating for the last hour, without me having to even move ten feet!" (Hey, if you don't want strangers to whisper about your wedding, don't subject them to it.)
- My parents are entertaining.
So instead, frivolous things!
- I visited my parents over the weekend. They bought a guest bed. Oh, what a lovely mattress.
- We went to a craft fair in the cold, miserable rain. Had a good time, but I felt so bad for the vendors. We did buy some things.
- I got a burger that was a brilliant, brilliant burger. You know beef Wellington, the little pastry packets of beef and mushrooms? Well this was a Wellington burger. Roasted mushrooms, truffles, carmelized onions on the burger. So, so good.
- We went to dinner at a restaurant that was having a wedding that only took half the restaurant. We didn't mind much--we were entertained by being catty about someone else's wedding in progress. But it seemed really weird to have a wedding in an open restaurant without actually renting the entire space. You had to wade through their cocktail hour (and first dances) to get to the hostess stand. They didn't turn off the house music, so there were random jazz trumpets clashing with their cocktail and dance music. Anyway, we made fun of their music choices for the announcements and dances. (It was like they went down the suggestion lists for each on The Knot, and chose the top song on each.) We made fun of the fact that they spent the entire cocktail hour mingling with their guests, then had the DJ very loudly and repeatedly ask the bridal party to go over somewhere else so that he could then announce them to their guests two minutes later. The bridal party ended up standing exactly where they'd been two minutes before, for the last hour. Their poor guests must have been so confused--"who is this strange woman in white? What is she doing here? Thank you, Mr. DJ, for telling me who I've been congratulating for the last hour, without me having to even move ten feet!" (Hey, if you don't want strangers to whisper about your wedding, don't subject them to it.)
- My parents are entertaining.
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Date: 2011-10-06 03:38 pm (UTC)From:no subject
Date: 2011-10-06 04:04 pm (UTC)From:If at all possible--take a page from the Jews and see if you can get a little bit of time right after the ceremony with just the two of you. Doesn't have to be long--a minute or five. Just a moment to take a breath, collect yourselves, and giggle about the fact you're married. We didn't, and I kind of wish we'd had that moment. Everything rushes by really fast.
Are you doing the pictures beforehand, or are you going to try to get the family ones during the beginning of the cocktail hour?