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November 22, 2005
Wedding Video: Director's Cut
In which we survive a big wedding celebration and manage to not humiliate ourselves too badly
You know you had a good time at a wedding when it's 5 o'clock on Monday afternoon and you're still a bit weak-kneed from the festivities. My oh my -- it was quite the party. At the risk of revealing too much/ talking out of school (while at the same time acknowledging that I was very involved in the event), I'd like to offer a short tribute to some of the weekend's events that likely won't make it into the official wedding video.
I'm Glad We're Recording This: so as we're milling about in one of the many upstairs salons and warrens of the wedding facility prior to Go Time (and there were indeed many upstairs salons and warrens), I decide that I'm going to try to make some funnies about the extent of said facilities. So I lean over to the groom and some groomsmen and deadpan a "So have you guys checked out the consummation stall yet?" And yes, said crack made me feel very clever. At least until I looked up and saw the official videographer pointing the official camera right at my face. Oh, the memories!
They Must Have Been So Proud: the official parents of ThatKidInTheCorner were in attendance at this weekend's festivities. It looked like they were having a pretty good time. And, shockingly, most of my cronies did a good job of not being too drunk in front of them. At least until the end, when a couple of them kept "falling into" said parents and wildly slurring their speech. Our best and brightest!
It Wasn't Our Fault That The Surface Was Perfect: also not captured in the wedding video (though it doubtless made a command appearance on the hotel's security cameras) was the ostensibly stealthy pilfering of a table from the hotel bar. That is, the hotel bar was about to close, and the party was about to move up to the after-party suite (duh). There had been rumblings in re: the importance of drinking games in said after-party (highlighted by a lengthy description of the groom's quarter-bouncing talents during the father of the bride's address at the reception), and we just wanted to be sure we had a "good surface." Right. So we waited until "the coast was clear" (= the guy at the front desk was looking down) and then shuffled across the lobby into the elevator with the table. Tiptoe in, tiptoe out. Like a cat, one might say. Very impressive.
Parents Do Not Need Birthday Shots At 2 a.m.: Speaking of parents and afterparties, there was a little session with another set of parents to celebrate a birthday at the hotel bar. I mean, I'm sure he was flattered, but whiskey shots with grownups right before last call? Maybe that was a little superfluous.
Not Exactly At The Top Of My Game: so among my duties as the best man was collecting all the rental tuxedo stuff from the other groomsmen and returning said items to the tux shop in the city. And in this most meager of duties, I managed to completely fail. Errr, ooops. Apparently I remember someone telling me that I didn't have to do this, but apparently sometimes we hear what we want to hear, especially when the Eagles-Giants game is on. Also, later in the day I put a paper bag in the freezer. That paper bag was empty. Not so impressive.
The wedding was a blast, though. Good times indeed. Hopefully I'll get some hits from the New Zealand servers on the honeymoon.
Posted by thatkid at November 22, 2005 1:10 PM under
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so, as chris takes in 9 holes at one of the best courses in new zealand, i decide to visit thatkid, hoping there's a wedding recap, and lookie here, he delivers.
my wedding goals were accomplished: we partied until 6am, i remembered everything (did NOT black out), and i didn't stain my dress with red wine. it's good to have goals.
after 32 hours of door-to-door travel, we got into new zealand and promptly drank as much as possible, which isn't too hard when you've got cocktails at 7pm, followed by a five-course meal and some older british folk insisting you must taste the glanmerangie (whiskey) after dinner.
our first big activity was some horseback riding. i was thrilled--especially when the woman on the farm told us there was a litter of five-week-old black labrador puppies to play with. (you've got to be kidding.)
last night, which was sort of thanksgiving in the states, we were served "guinea" and pretended it was turkey. you do your best with what you've got.
chris has also enjoyed a second viewing of star wars episode III, for which they rolled a flatscreen tv and dvd player into our suite.
today we leave for napier, which is the wine region. sure to do some drinking there as well.
we'll try to report back soon.
(go flyers.)
mrs. marcy paul
Posted by: Marcy at November 25, 2005 11:02 AM
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