If a cow ever got the chance...

Well, this weekend's wedding was uneventful. The Lutheran minister my friends had picked out refused to marry them because they were already living together. Uh, can you say counterproductive? Or like way to establish a spirit of love and caring? Anyway, they decided to just get married in a tiny ceremony at the courthouse (which happened two weeks ago), so this was just the reception.

It was a little weird, I have to say. The bride had already bought her wedding dress (and the bridesmaids had gotten theirs), so that's what they were wearing. The groomsmen (and the groom) were all attired in matching short-sleeved plaid shirts and khaki pants. The guests were split pretty much the same way--there were people in prom dresses and people in tank tops and shorts. Everyone was sort of sullen and pissy or overheated and pregnant (okay, just the two high-school classmates I ran into) and couldn't even be bothered to clink their silverware for the bride and groom to kiss. Then the wedding party left for two hours after dinner to go bar-hopping, at which point most of the rest of us left too.

It's not that I'm a big snot who thinks every wedding has to be totally formal and cost ten thousand dollars. (see this entry for proof) It's that if you're going to get married that way, everyone has to play along or it doesn't work. The wedding is exposed as a big pointless piece of expensive scenery, with weird costumes that you can only wear once.

I don't know, it's hard to express. It just seems to me that you either have to go through all the motions or none of them. Plus, their combined income is like $18,000 a year, so they could have saved a lot of money by just having a celebratory (non-wedding-themed) barbecue... of course, that's ridiculously easy for me to say. I will now stop attempting to tell everyone else what they should do.

Not much news on C's friend. He is "stable" and under heavy sedation, but it looks like he will pull through. No one knows the extent of his brain damage, and won't know for awhile yet. But the immediate crisis seems to be over and the family is no longer on 24-hour vigil at the hospital.

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