Wedding!
28 March 2005, 10:26
Our dear friends J&H (they are one, now) got hitched out at Montsalvat yesterday afternoon. Beautiful, casual & intimate, with H mc’ing the whole thing, given their celebrant was apparently a bit of a nutter…
When we first discovered that the wedding was going to be “dry” (and I don’t mean ginger ale), I was a little concerned. How were any of us (read: me) going to have any fun without alcohol, particularly as I didn’t know anyone bar Husband and one other guest?
Post ceremony, most of their friends headed straight to the bar at Montsalvat to down a champers or two, pre-reception. At our table at the reception there were ambiguous whispers of “what does “dry” mean? Can we buy drinks ourselves or are we not supposed to drink? Would it be that bad? Couldn’t we stash a couple of beers under the table and swig silently through the night? What does this all mean????” We started to sound like a bunch of useless alcoholics who couldn’t survive a night without the demon brew. In the end, we decided not to drink out of respect for H’s parents, even though none of us knew them.
I soon discovered that drinking around 2 litres of Coke has roughly the same effect as drinking a bottle of wine anyway.
The shebang turned out to be great fun – we had a middle eastern banquet washed down with lemonade (I woke up sans hangover – v. cool), there were quizzes and fill-in-the-gaps games, both of which our table really should have won, but family politics were victorious in the end (not that we’re sore losers or anything…)
All up, a very unyeeeewshul wedding, but then J&H are certainly not eeeewshul people, which is precisely why we love them! Thanks guys, for a top-shelf party – we do love a good marriage!!!
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