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My cousin got married tonight. I love weddings; they are so much fun.
I should probably amend that. I've been to weddings that bored me to death.
I love weddings in my family.
I was told, once, that we have polish weddings. Well, actually I was told that during my own wedding some thirteen years ago already. The concept of a polish wedding is this: You start on Friday night with the Rehearsal and rehearsal party. You hardly slow down the party throughout Saturday morning through the wedding and then the reception, dinner and dance. Then you have a big "after wedding" party on Sunday where everyone is invited to watch you open gifts and party some more. The idea was, IIRC, that having people stretched out sleeping on the lawn each night was not that unheard of.
Now I have to admit, that's how we have weddings. Which is odd, 'cuz we're not polish.
Mine started out Friday with the rehearsal dinner and party that went close to midnight before we separated to follow the old "can't see the bride before the wedding" thing. Then we decorated the hall on Sat. morning (we had the dance in the "Moose Lodge" so, no, there were no professional decorators) and then the wedding and dance. We left the dance shortly before midnight, and not too long before the dance broke up. On Sunday we had a pig roast (yes a whole pig and that was done by my family, too) and opened gifts. It was late in the day when my hubby and I finally headed off.
It was a three-day party.
So to get back to the topic: I love weddings.
And not just for the whole marriage thing, either. Although being married, I think that's important. But rather I like weddings for the whole "many generations getting together and having fun" thing. To see 60-year-olds and 6-year-olds dancing the Twist together is amazing. To watch a 2-year-old learn that adults can have fun is incredible. To see self-conscious 13-year-old girls (are there any other kind of teenage girl?) dance their hearts out because you've just assured them that "I'm dancing and there's no way you can look more stupid than me" is close to a miracle.
No one stood back and said, "I can't do that because my parents/grandparents/children are doing that". No one pointed fingers and said "You're too old or you're too young." Everyone just had fun.
Tomorrow I get to go to the gift opening and party some more. It's supposed to be cold. But someone will turn on the Packer game and someone will bring a frisbee or baseball. There will be lots of good food and there will be music. The gifts will be opened and spirits will be high. And once more, everyone will have fun.
Like I said, I love weddings.
I should probably amend that. I've been to weddings that bored me to death.
I love weddings in my family.
I was told, once, that we have polish weddings. Well, actually I was told that during my own wedding some thirteen years ago already. The concept of a polish wedding is this: You start on Friday night with the Rehearsal and rehearsal party. You hardly slow down the party throughout Saturday morning through the wedding and then the reception, dinner and dance. Then you have a big "after wedding" party on Sunday where everyone is invited to watch you open gifts and party some more. The idea was, IIRC, that having people stretched out sleeping on the lawn each night was not that unheard of.
Now I have to admit, that's how we have weddings. Which is odd, 'cuz we're not polish.
Mine started out Friday with the rehearsal dinner and party that went close to midnight before we separated to follow the old "can't see the bride before the wedding" thing. Then we decorated the hall on Sat. morning (we had the dance in the "Moose Lodge" so, no, there were no professional decorators) and then the wedding and dance. We left the dance shortly before midnight, and not too long before the dance broke up. On Sunday we had a pig roast (yes a whole pig and that was done by my family, too) and opened gifts. It was late in the day when my hubby and I finally headed off.
It was a three-day party.
So to get back to the topic: I love weddings.
And not just for the whole marriage thing, either. Although being married, I think that's important. But rather I like weddings for the whole "many generations getting together and having fun" thing. To see 60-year-olds and 6-year-olds dancing the Twist together is amazing. To watch a 2-year-old learn that adults can have fun is incredible. To see self-conscious 13-year-old girls (are there any other kind of teenage girl?) dance their hearts out because you've just assured them that "I'm dancing and there's no way you can look more stupid than me" is close to a miracle.
No one stood back and said, "I can't do that because my parents/grandparents/children are doing that". No one pointed fingers and said "You're too old or you're too young." Everyone just had fun.
Tomorrow I get to go to the gift opening and party some more. It's supposed to be cold. But someone will turn on the Packer game and someone will bring a frisbee or baseball. There will be lots of good food and there will be music. The gifts will be opened and spirits will be high. And once more, everyone will have fun.
Like I said, I love weddings.
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Date: 2002-10-13 03:08 pm (UTC)From:My last wedding was in the wilderness, on a bridge over a river we'd canoed to arrive there. We had to stop the service for a moment as the pastor picked a wood tick of my wife's collar.
We decided not to kill him. We had such a small audience we set him on a tree stump so he could watch the big kiss. Even bugs have fun at weddings:)
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Date: 2002-10-13 07:12 pm (UTC)From:That sounds like a great wedding. I don't plan on every getting married again, but that sounds like the way to do it.
Well, especially since I already did the "Big Party" version.
:-)