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grigorss - 2007-05-12 16:29:22
BEST MAN�S DUTIES
Plan and pay for bachelor party w/groomsmen.
I'd like to hear some "reminiscences" regards that, myself.
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Greg - 2007-05-12 19:07:01
Weddings... oh weddings. I do have really special memories of mine, but the beginning. We had lived together for a while and had decided that one specific weekend we would start planning. Friday came about and there was a wicked storm, snow and ice paralyzing the city. We both got out of work early and met for drinks. Instead of going home we booked a suite in the Statler, checking in with nothing but shopping bags containing a change of clothes and new toothbrushes. We spent the evening wandering about the icebound city talking and then went back to the hotel for bottle of champagne and room service--probably the most romantic night I've ever experienced. We decided at some point that night, in front of the window watching the snow, to skip the big wedding, and spent the rest of the weekend buying gold bands and planning a killer honeymoon... and it was a killer, 4 weeks in Mexico--Aztec and Mayan ruins, barracuda fishing with a guy we met in Valladolid, long drives across the Yucatan. It was pretty special--can't say enough about marriage and all that. But that night in the snow planning the whole thing... absolutely magic.
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Janet - 2007-05-12 22:37:48
Congratulations! Andy's best man was a woman. Still is, too! We had a great wedding, & have a great marriage 9.85 years on.
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Janet - 2007-05-12 22:45:51
Oops! Too busy reminiscing to close the damn anchor. You may want to clean up this mess, sorry.
I meant:
Congratulations! Andy's best man was a woman. Still is, too! We had a great wedding, & have a great marriage 9.85 years on.
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Steve - 2007-05-12 23:30:14
Rent and pay for a tux, and go for fittings
One benefit to being a best man (or groomsman) as opposed to a bridesmaid is that you can RENT your wedding costume!
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Paula - 2007-05-13 10:06:38
Grigorss: Uh...there was none of that
Greg: Wow, that sounds amazing.
Janet: Your wedding was the best wedding I never attended--it still has legendary status amongst our mutual friends.
Steve: luckily the dress code for the wedding party was just "black"--no tuxes; in fact the wedding invite called for "no ties." It was very casual and totally delightful.
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Bina - 2007-05-13 11:18:24
I'd try to describe a Pakistani wedding (not my own, thankfully), but nobody would understand it, least of all me.
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iwombat - 2007-05-13 14:08:19
well that's a coincidence, I was at a wedding yesterday myself, and although the best man was nervous about her toast, it was very nice!
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Paula - 2007-05-13 18:12:29
Aw, thanks. Someone gave me the very good advice: "You may be tempted to just get up there and 'speak from the heart.' Big mistake. Write it out first and bring notes." I agree.
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2fs - 2007-05-14 10:42:50
This train's long since left the station, but...we surprised most of our friends by getting married after nine years of living together, and we figured that we'd just do it rather than make a big deal of it. So no one except the four friends we chose as witnesses even knew about our getting married until after fact. At the marriage itself, the judge who normally conducted marriages was out, recovering from a heart attack, and so we found ourselves in a regular courtroom, being used for small-claims hearings. So it was an endless procession of "Wisconsin Electric vs. Joe Deadbeat" (for most of which, "Deadbeat" didn't even bother to show). This was in the ancient days when one could actually light up a cigarette in the august halls of justice, and so our friend Eric popped out for a cigarette. Of course, this is when we were finally called...so someone had to go fetch Eric first. At the time, I'll say it was a bit annoying - but it becomes ever more amusing as years go on. PS to Janet: "9.85 years"? Can I have that calendar that divides the years into 100ths? But thank you for the reminder that your 10th anniversary is coming up soon!
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Janet - 2007-05-14 11:08:39
Jeff: 10/12 is about .85, that's all. If you'd gotten married 9 years earlier, Eric might've been allowed to light up right in the courtroom. But then you wouldn't have this particular funny story to share.
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