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May 08, 2005
Love really is all around
ABC is showing "Four Weddings and Funeral" tonight as its "late nite" movie, and thus I am currently watching a cove band strum their way through "Love is All Around" (the 90s wedding classic by Wet Wet Wet). The movie drives home how very imminent is the wedding of my dear friend Amanda to the lovely and charming Rick. In fact, I pick up my altered bridesmaid dress on Tuesday, when I will give $100 to a feisty Czech woman who yelled at me for ordering the wrong size, and, in fact, who told all the customers entering the shop exactly what size I had ordered (16) and what size she estimates I should have ordered (12).) I have also been working on memorizing my reading for the ceremony -- "Union" by Robert Fulgham.
It's wonderful thing, to be in her wedding. But it's at the same time very odd -- after all, she's getting married at the Chapel at Naper Settlement, where we both worked during high school. In fact, we used to read the little "Your Wedding" pamphlet books the Settlement kept on hand to give to prospective brides (which, by the by, recommended "Love Is All Around" as a first dance song) while directing the steady stream of couples and mothers who paraded through looking the Chapel over for potential rental. It will be an odd thing to stand at the front of the chapel in formal wear and address a crowd, not of Civil War reenactors, but of friends and family. It seems only fitting that the first wedding I have been a member of (since getting shut out of the flower girl role at my aunt and uncle's weddding in 1986) will be Amanda's, and that it will be at Naper Settlement. Now, if she has some Wet Wet Wet at her reception, now that truly will make the event.
Posted by Jen at May 8, 2005 11:51 PM
Comments
That definitely has all the makings of a return trip home movie where you are reunited with your high school sweetheart. So I guess, after all, getting those round trip tickets was pretty wasteful since you'll be running away with him.
It is my duty to be really lame and unromantic on the plane so he can dash through the airport at the last minute and present you with a wooden gnome he carved for you in the fourth grade because he has always loved you.
Even though I represent security and convention you will be won over by his artistic side and his spontaneity.
Posted by: Nate at May 11, 2005 10:25 AM