Reply #38: Another friend's wedding [View All]

A friend of mine married Martha Stewart's evil clone a few years ago (since divorced - she was cheating on him). Anyway, that friend, our other best friend, and I always promised we would have swords at each others' weddings, and she thought that we were serious and even asked her fiancee, "They're not really going to have swords at *MY* wedding, are they?" Not "our wedding" but "MY wedding." :)

At the rehearsal dinner, my friend's dad gave them a photoshopped picture of them together - there was a word balloon going to the bride's mouth saying, "Of course you can have swords at our wedding! And spears and nunchuks and anything else you want!" The priest looked at it, and we explained the joke, and he exclaimed, "No swords at church!"

The wedding was the most overblown one I've ever been to - full Catholic wedding, six groomsmen/bridesmaids on each side (only 50 people showed up), and the priest threw in a few things that they didn't practice in the rehearsal including sending the couple over to put roses at the feet of the holy family (friend isn't Catholic, his ex-wife is). Their back was to most of the guests when over there, but I could see his face, and know him as well as I do, just the expression on it was hilarious. She was reverently praying at the feet of the holy family, and he had his arms clasped in front of him and was rocking back and forth on his heels while looking up at them, thinking, "Yep... This is the holy family all right. This wasn't in the rehearsal though... Yep."

Finally reception time. And what do the happy couple first see when they make their grand entrance? The decorative set of sumarai swords on their holders on the wedding party table that our other friend and I had bought them. His face was lit up with delight. Hers had a smile on it that didn't reach her eyes. The groom cut the cake with the long sword.

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