Knox The Hatter
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...to TTD and Shygirl for inviting my wife and myself to their wedding, which was held last night.
It might be the most fun wedding that I've ever attended. Ninety-nine percent of the time, it's patently obvious that the bride is overcome with nervousness, wishing and hoping to the point of despair that everything goes correctly, and that the groom is annoyed that the bride's making such a fuss over everything.
Not THIS wedding.
I've never seen a bride and groom have so much fun at their own wedding. The ceremony itself might very well have been a page clipped out of a night at the Improv. In fact, the ceremony was played in such a key that I had no self-consciousness about eating from a bowl of nuts while it was going on. My wife and I had just arrived, after a horrific three hour drive, and I was famished. While Ed and Patti were mangling the vows, I'm sitting there eating almonds and cashews.
As the night carried on, I realized that this was the kind of wedding I had been keen on attending...after bitching and moaning recently about having to attend yet another wedding (mandatory: the wife's boss' daughter
) with the same food, the same DJ playing the same boring Techno-Turd music, the same same same, I envisioned going to one that was DIFFERENT. This was certainly it.
One of the highlights of the night was the appearance of a professional clown. A very petite woman, dressed as a borderline sociopathic Jewish aunt, in a white wig, glasses, rouged cheeks, and Charlie Chaplin tramp shoes and floppy socks. She came in, hung around Ed's table, and for twenty minutes or so, hilariously insulted the bride and groom (using Jewish phraseology that I'm sure only a few people beside myself would've understood). The funny thing was that I've actually known real people like this, and have been tempted, at one time or another, to have thrown them out on the highway after an insufferable car ride with them...but that's a story for another day.
Once again, thanks to Ed and Patti, my favorite bride and groom.
It might be the most fun wedding that I've ever attended. Ninety-nine percent of the time, it's patently obvious that the bride is overcome with nervousness, wishing and hoping to the point of despair that everything goes correctly, and that the groom is annoyed that the bride's making such a fuss over everything.
Not THIS wedding.
I've never seen a bride and groom have so much fun at their own wedding. The ceremony itself might very well have been a page clipped out of a night at the Improv. In fact, the ceremony was played in such a key that I had no self-consciousness about eating from a bowl of nuts while it was going on. My wife and I had just arrived, after a horrific three hour drive, and I was famished. While Ed and Patti were mangling the vows, I'm sitting there eating almonds and cashews.
As the night carried on, I realized that this was the kind of wedding I had been keen on attending...after bitching and moaning recently about having to attend yet another wedding (mandatory: the wife's boss' daughter
) with the same food, the same DJ playing the same boring Techno-Turd music, the same same same, I envisioned going to one that was DIFFERENT. This was certainly it.One of the highlights of the night was the appearance of a professional clown. A very petite woman, dressed as a borderline sociopathic Jewish aunt, in a white wig, glasses, rouged cheeks, and Charlie Chaplin tramp shoes and floppy socks. She came in, hung around Ed's table, and for twenty minutes or so, hilariously insulted the bride and groom (using Jewish phraseology that I'm sure only a few people beside myself would've understood). The funny thing was that I've actually known real people like this, and have been tempted, at one time or another, to have thrown them out on the highway after an insufferable car ride with them...but that's a story for another day.
Once again, thanks to Ed and Patti, my favorite bride and groom.
