this is just to say....

[nuri]

I went to a bad wedding this weekend. I hate saying that, because really, weddings are not about the guests. They are for sharing love and affection with us, yes, but it's what the bride and groom want. But yesh, ugly megachurch, creepy wife-submitting without irony verses, a far too long wait between the wedding and the reception (whereupon we found a dive bar and invaded in our dressy clothes). The hall was capital K Klassy, had horrible service, gave us cold food, there was a bone in my soup...

The list actually goes on, but I'll stop there and say what I did like: The favors were fun ribbons on a stick, which is really quite novel, the colors were bright and cheerful without being neon, the bride looked great, the groom did too, and the dive bar was a blast. And they sat us with a bunch of our friends and we were rowdy, singing and laughing, learned a polish drinking song.

It left me socialled out for the entirety of today. I feel like I have a hangover, and I didn't even drink anything. It's kind of silly.

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[ct]

My cousin got married last month, and the main, very explicitly stated point of the sermon was that wives should respect their husbands and husbands should love their wives. The one you heard sounds even worse... ugh.

[flameinbloom]

I went to a Catholic wedding recently that was all "the wife should take care of the husband and bear him children and be all following wifely duties and the man shall be faithful." And then at the reception there was no food left for my table and they took away all our silverware while we were at the buffet table (after sitting for almost an hour while the other tables were allowed to eat.) But the bride was one of the most beautiful I've ever seen.