Well, it happened. I stood up and performed a wedding. it was a beautiful day, Ethan and Julie looked fantastic, and their friends and family are kind and generous people. Which you would expect of two kind and generous people, had they not been friends of mine. I practiced my little speech for hours with my extremely patient wife, and as a result I projected well and only forgot about a third of it. The most important third, the go-for-the-heart third – but I don’t think anyone really noticed. I think I could do it better given one more chance. Not another wedding, mind you, just that one – one more time.
Oh, and I was so full of adreneline before the event that I forgot my camera and didn’t get a single picture. Hopefully I’ll get a couple from some of the other people there.
[edit] It seems that Julie created a Flickr Group named Ethan and Julie get Hitched. Right now there are only two pictures in it, and none of the wedding day, but hopefully that will change.
To those of you who don’t know/use Flickr – use it. It is awesome. And it doesn’t make you create a damn login to see pictures that other people have uploaded. I’m looking at you, Zardaiken, with your damn Snapfish full of damn pictures that I can’t see. Damn damn damn. [/edit]
The bride was lovely, the groom was appropriately adorably scruffy-gets-tidied-up-in-a-suit, and you, my dear Rhett, looked kind of like a nervous Paul McCartney – a marvelous good time all around and just the kind of wedding I love to go to!! Ok, so the Lovely Wife makes wedding dresses, you perform ceremonies – do I sense a new career move for you two?!
And your head looked deflated – have you been losing weight?
Personally, I think I looked like an aging queen, forced by convention to put on men’s clothes and go out without makeup for the first time in 20 years. So I’ll take “a nervous Paul McCartney” as a compliment. And as for my head, maybe it was just the shoulder pads in the suit jacket making my head look smaller, because it’s still enormously rotund.