Wedding two of six down, and I just realized with a start that the remaining four don't pick back up again until Labor Day. Crazy! Wedding season hiatus. (And yes, at last night's festivities, they did play the aforementioned song, the ultimate inappropriate wedding song, about how Gl*ria G*ynor should have changed that stupid lock. It always is shocking to me that it's on so many wedding playlists -- is it that the wedding couple is thoughtfully putting others' interests ahead of their own, just because they know people like dancing to it? Is it that they are just totally not superstitious about potential implications of a song about a terrible breakup being played on their Very Special Day?)
Apologies for the stereotyping, but I was reminded just how much fun it is to be at an event like this with the right kind of gay guy. The one I was with last night, another friend of the bride who hadn't been invited with a date and didn't know most of the other people there, was just the right kind: funny, charming, wonderful dancer, brings you drinks, willing to be catty at all the right moments, way more considerate and good date-ish than any straight guy (maybe one exception, but just one) with whom I've ever gone to a fancy party. And this was FANcy -- at the D.C. R*tz C*rlton, black tie, incredibly beautiful with candles and red tulips everywhere, etc. I did see a bunch of college people I never was really close to there, and they were lovely and cool and more fun than I remembered. One of them lives a five-minute walk from me, and we will start hanging out, I think. I am starting to think that part of the reason weddings exist in their present form is so people can act way outside their normative social sphere, whether it's friendlier or sluttier or funnier than they usually are, and that's why weddings can be so good or so not-good, depending on... how they are. This one was good, though.
Very profound. I need some breakfast.
But, and this is the real reason I started posting -- for all the Narnia fans in the last comments, you can watch the trailer online here. Go, watch, win.
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Yeah, Amanda and Tom didn't play "Ordinary Day," even though she loves it (her theme song on the Sisterfriends CD-ROM) because Tom felt the day wasn't ordinary so they shouldn't play it. She agreed, and they were both completely opposed to break up songs. It's funny how things like that become important.
I like what you said about weddings giving you license to be drunker, or sluttier or whatever. True, true...
At my friend Tony's wedding, they played a song which postulates "if you cannot be in the vicinity of the one you love, then perhaps you should just love someone in your vicinity."
I found it bizarre and ironic. I don't think anyone else cared.
Well, I've told our DJ that we don't want any break up songs or butt songs or the macarena/electric slide/paradise by the dashboard lights. No songs with any sort of little dance to go with it. Except the YMCA. That one is okay:>
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