This past weekend was a Wedding Comedy of Errors. It all began the night before the wedding, when the bridal party was driving from the rehearsal to the restaurant where we were all going to have dinner. None of us are from Boston, and two of the cars got lost. My group got back with no trouble, but unfortunately, the others didn't realize they weren't going the right direction for about half an hour. So our dinner started much later than originally planned .... but we finally all got there and had a great time catching up. It was great to see everyone again. The real comedy started the next day though.
When the wedding ceremony starts, all the bridesmaids are supposed to walk from the club house at the country club to the grassy area where the wedding is being held and then walk down the aisle. It's about 50 yards or so to the beginning of the aisle where the wedding guests are seated. (The wedding was outside. In Boston. In October. It was a bit CHILLY.) We get about 3/4 of the way to the aisle - and suddenly the maid of honor, an extremely intelligient and normally very calm person, stops and says "holy :censor:, I forgot the wedding ring". (While we are shocked that she forgot the ring, we are in more shock because of the expletive that just popped out of our friends mouth. This is a girl who's probably never even said crap!) Moving on ... Does she decide that we'll just fake it and pretend we have the ring? Unfortunately, No. She immediately turns and runs back to the clubhouse to go get the ring. The rest of us are standing there like :uhh: - trying to keep the smiles on our faces (Thankfully most of the "audience" hasn't realized we're back there yet and only 20 +/- people saw her run back inside). So I'm trying to decide if we should just wait for her, or if we should start walking down the aisle. The wedding coordinator walks over hurriedly trying to ascertain what the problem is -- and she tells us to just walk even slower down the aisle - and that hopefully the maid of honor will be back by the time its her turn to walk down.
By this time, everyone has turned around and is looking at us. I start walking down the aisle, and everyone is mouthing to me "what happened?" -- I get down to the front and Shawn, the groom, is like "What's the deal?". I tell him she forgot the ring and now all the groomsmen and the groom are trying their hardest to not laugh. About this time, the maid of honor is running, again, back to take her walk down the aisle. When she finally gets up front with the rest of us, the entire bridal party is having trouble keeping a straight face. Then we all see our friend, the beautiful bride, come out of the clubhouse and from that point on the ceremony went perfectly. (Although we did have a chuckle when the minister asked for the rings! :wink: )
The grooms ring had already been the subject of much laughter: the night before when we saw his ring, I quipped "One ring to rule them all, one ring to find them, one ring to bring them all .... ". During the rehearsal and at the wedding reception, we were all whispering "my precious" to the ring. (All you non LOTR fans aren't going to get this, so just move along .... )
The fun didn't stop there. Unfortunately for me. During the reception, I was dancing with the bride and my shoe caught in her train. And I slipped. My feet literally flew up, like you see in the cartoons, and I landed on my butt. It was mortifying. Just call me Graceful. Steve ran over and helped me up, he was laughing and saying "this would only happen to you ... ". Everybody at the reception was in a circle around the dance floor when I fell , we were doing some wierd game ... my "fall from grace" was a crowd pleaser and also signaled the end of that particular game :wacko:
Needless to say it was an entertaining weekend ... and it was great to finally see these two get married (after 8+ years of dating!). We spent the next two days in Martha's Vineyard & Hyannis ... I'll have to blog about that later!
oh, lord, now that's the kind of wedding i want. seriously. where things go wrong, but not to the point where it's horrid - just amusingly wrong, so you can laugh about it. glad you had fun, despite the um... slip up? :dance: i want my wedding to be in october as well - love fall. i'd want to take pictures outside, but having the ceremony outside in michigan? unlikely.