be in a wedding - but not as the bride

You wouldn’t believe the kinds of things you can get roped into.. I’m lucky I didn’t have to be the caterer as well. I even had to stand in for the best man at one point… and I should have done the music, it was a technical disaster (painful feedback and other loud noises on and off).

I was in my college roommate’s wedding. Then when I got married, I also asked my college roommate and college suitemates to be in my wedding, with my sister being the maid-of-honor. One of my college suitemates is getting married in September and she’s asking the same crowd to be in her wedding; so off I will go, at that time, to be in her wedding.

Besides those two, I was matron-of-honor in my sister’s wedding,

I’ve played the music for a wedding, too. Does that count?

The wedding was on Saturday – it went great. I can’t wait till the photos come up on the photographers’ website!

my invitation to the rehearsal dinner yesterday. Kind of funny, since he’s my brother, I’m IN the wedding, and of course I’ll be there. But it’s a nice formality. The invite was pretty, I suppose, guess my mom did them, cuz no way my bro had anything to do with “pretty”.... ha!

I said not worth it, not because I would want to be the bride, but because weddings are generally not the most exciting parties in the world, and I have been to quite a few.

Some weddings stand out:

• My own wedding, for obvious reasons.
• The one in which I was best man, but was not allowed to give a speach, probably because I had joked too much about what I was going to say. I also remember having to dance a waltz with the bride just after the groom had, in front of everybody forming a circle. Luckily nobody watches you when the bride is near.
• The one I went to when I was single. I found out that girls are very keen when their siblings get married. I was also involved in a reenactment of a Monty Python thing that nobody got.
• The one where there was too much booze and the father of the bride started singing a song late at night. The lyrics would translate into something like “I want a divorce, I’ve had enough of you”.
• The one where the couple was wed by the prime minister at the time. My wife danced with him during the reception. Probably the only time she will dance with a prime minister.
• The one where the bride was 30 minutes late for the ceremony.

and we’ve tentatively chosen this dress (in a deep red).

i’m going dress shopping!

...I have no idea what this is going to entail, but I feel as if I should prepare myself. I hope there’s no bubble-gum pink or fluffy ruffles involved. That’s all I’m saying.

I heard from my bro and Gina wants me in the wedding! So I will be able to complete this goal in December….

So, my brother’s fiance wants to set a date really soon, and she wants the date to BE really soon, so I think my brother’s getting married in December. Yeah. I will have-literally-just gotten back from Oxford. Still not sure if she wants me in the wedding or not…