Wedding Bliss

I love weddings. Do you know the movie "Wedding Crashers"? Well I'd love to go weddings all the time. Not to hook up, like the guys in the movie, but because I think weddings are so wonderful.

First of all, one of the key components of a wedding is cake. I adore cake. It's hard to be sad around cake. That's why they serve cake at celebrations and rarely ever at solemn functions like funerals. Cake is festive and fun, And a wedding cake? High tiers of fluffy white cake covered in mounds of butter cream icing, it sends me over the moon just thinking about it. I'm not as fond of the tradition of smashing cake into the face of the bride or groom because that's a waste of perfectly good cake. But hey, as long as they leave enough for me, I'm happy.

Weddings make everyone feel like family. You chat with strangers as if you knew them because you are all related by how you know the bride or groom. And it doesn't matter that you haven't seen the groom since third grade when you were in Little League together, if they invited you to the wedding you're still family. You can dance with the bride's strange Uncle or just watch your friends dance like crazy people. (Whoever invented the line dance had a wicked sense of humor). You can Macarena or Hokey Pokey or Chicken Dance and not feel like a complete idiot. (And there are so very few places you can flap your arms in public and not be taken in for a twenty-four hour psych evaluation.)

But I think the reason I like weddings so much is because they are all about hope. It's easy to get cynical about love when the divorce rate is so high. But at a wedding there is a sense that here is the basic idea that love does exist and two people believe in that love so strongly that they want to commit themselves to that love for the rest of their lives. Only the future will tell if a couple can endure the trails and tribulations that life serves up but for those beautiful moments at a wedding, one can believe in 'happily ever after'. It's special to see a groom cry at the beauty of his bride, or a father tear as he gives his daughter away. It makes you believe that love is possible, life can be romantic and that there is someone for everyone. What a lovely way to be reminded of the happier side of life.

So thank you, Nicole and Michael, for letting me share a tiny bit of your joy. I wish you both a life as wonderful as that night was. Enjoy the magic and be happy. And the cake was delicious.