Our guest blogger, Joe, is back. Not only does Joe write about the marriages to help me, he has become our TV Buddy. Regular readers know we are having issues with installing our satellite dish, so no TV at our place. Last night was the premiere of Downton Abbey and Joe and Sue had us over to watch it with them. Good caring friends.
My apologies to Miss Janet. The holidays have been a period of
much
activity, not least at the Marriage Factory. Here's a rundown of
the
last three weeks.
The day before the weekend before Christmas Eve
was surprisingly busy,
with almost 10 weddings (that means 9), a couple of
whom even
mentioned the predicted end of the world. Several of the couples
had
kids, none cuter than the little one who held her mother's bouquet
in
front of her and said, "I'm a bush!" One of the grooms, taking me
for
a judge, asked me how I came to marry people. I explained how
to
become a deputy marriage commissioner, and he seemed interested.
Even
with Miss J back, we still need all the help we can get.
The
cutest couple were a pair of "hipsters" - piercings, ear gauging,
the whole
lot. She wore a short ecru dress with a blue petticoat that
matched his
tie.
New Year's Eve Eve Eve Eve Day was slower. Images: a
babe-in-arms,
slowly pulling petals out of her mother's bouquet, examining
them, and
dropping them on the floor. A bride in a raincoat and boots
who
removed the coat to reveal a beautiful red wedding dress with
a
tutu-like skirt. A wad of gum on the underside of the podium. (Gross)
Incidents
like that reassure me that I'm not getting baselessly
crankier as I'm getting
older. Sometimes, that crankiness is
warranted.
This Friday started with a kerfuffle
over foreign language ceremonies.
I'm qualified to do weddings in Spanish
& English. We have staff who
can do weddings in Cantonese, Lao,
Vietnamese, and Mandarin. A couple
had a Mandarin wedding scheduled, but the
person who does them had
work to attend to, so I took up another couple for
an English
ceremony.
As I was talking to the upstairs clerk about the
first
couple, my couple overhears and decides they want a Mandarin
ceremony
too. 2 problems: 1) I'd already printed my name on the
license;
normally, the clerk could just reprint it, but 2) the license is
from
San Francisco. Solution from the HoR geniuses: I did the
absolute
necessities (what I call "Do you/Do you/Power vested in me"),
thus
marrying the couple, and the Mandarin-speaking clerk did the
full
ceremony. Everyone was happy, and no reprinting was
necessary.
The rest of the day was busy but less complicated. Lots of
beautiful
dresses, including a floor-length white gown, a tea-length white
dress
with lace side panels, a mini with snow boots, and a "little
black
dress" in orange. The snow boots couple had recently lost their
dog,
and so had his/her tags wrapped around the stems of the bouquet.
They
are forever awesome for doing that.
Most season-appropriate
apparel: the bride & groom in matching 49ers
jerseys. Go Niners!
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