nice day for a warm wedding

[jazzfish]

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I spent Satyrday at 80% of an an outdoor wedding in Culpeper, followed by an outdoor reception, where it was both hot and humid. I hate Virginia summers. uilos was gorgeous in her purple bridesmaid dress and sculpted hair, as was rislyn, who simply glowed.

Like every wedding I've been to, this one sharply reduced my desire to ever get married. This should be taken as no reflection on the happy couple, merely on my own tolerance for Ceremony and Tradition and Doing It This Way Because My Relatives Insist. If my relatives (or my partner's) want a party they can throw it themselves, preferably without inviting me.

The cake can stay, though.

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[thanate.livejournal.com]

Just recently read a Cat Valente story with the following concept in: It's important to marry someone, she said. Not because you need them to complete you or because you ought to be someone's wife by hook or by crook. It's just that worlds want to combine, they want to marry, and they use people to do it, the way you mix medicine in with something sweet, so it's easy to swallow. That's why we have to have all those silly things: a frilly dress and something blue and a bachelor party and a priest. Just so that a boy and a girl can live together and make babies? Posh. Because the big worlds inside us are mating, and they need the pomp.

Of course, we chopped everything down to the smallest possible, and had about 5 minutes of ceremony with somewhere between 30 & 40 people (we had a bunch of no-shows at the last minute), and then food & cake. If grauwulf hadn't wanted his grandparents to be there, we would have seriously considered not making a big thing of it at all, although my objection was more to the planning part.

Also, I feel for your friends-- we had a 90 degree day at the end of April, which was really a bit much.

[jazzfish]

I like the sound of that. I just. . . have no use for the pomp, myself.

Ask tamnonlinear about "Good news! We're getting married! And you're all invited!" sometime. Best possible wedding, in my opinion.

(Also, this summer has been simply horrid, and it's not even started yet.)