Summer Weddings!
Thursday, May 25, 2006
“No april rain,
No flowers bloom
No wedding saturday within the month of june”
I Just Called to Say… – Stevie Wonder
Wonder what day and age he’s talking about!! I’ve got so many wedding saturdays to go to that I’m in danger of needing a few extra weekends for the month. And it’s not just the saturdays either. 
*Sigh*
Life was so much simpler when I was a kid. Weddings just meant being forced into nice, female, frothy concoctions and hair being tied into ribbons and forced into these torture devices called clips and then I was allowed (at times) to run wild with the others like me, crushing any adults that dared to be in our way with their shoes, and handbags and those stupid chairs till my woe begone parents grabbed me and politely said their good byes while trying to manage a wriggling, wiggling bundle only they could identify as the well-dressed princess they had brought with them. And soon I would be in the comfort of my home and my mama would be having this amazing conversation with me about what my behavior had been like and what she would have liked to do with me etc etc.. I realize now that this was a completely one-sided conversation!
Now, I am in most cases, one of those resigned, thoroughly bored looking adults, again forced into formal finery, enduring stepped on toes, shoved chairs, screams and general annoying antics of kids being kids sitting there because of some weird twist of fate that meant that the marrying parties or any one of them is a colleague, neighbour, acquaintance and you have to attend. What’s worse is that the only person you know at the whole shin-dig is first getting preened at a beauty salon and then sitting on stage being immortalized on film with that halo of bright yellow light around them and God bless the camera men, women, girls and boys now equipped with cell phones…
And this summer heat really is not helping… I’m at a point where come June, I will be in the perfect position to sympathize with the Wicked Witch in The Wizard of Oz…
“I’m Melting! I’m Melting…”
