Friday, September 02, 2005
The Dress continued; The Wedding Party
MOTB starts sewing in earnest, cutting out the satin and lace and stiching away.
So the dress is in train, so to speak. Now it's time to assemble the The Wedding Party. TGTB has three close old friends. He also has a nephew and a close female friend he wants to be in the party. One problem: the nephew is very tall (over 6'5") and weights 350 lbs. Who can he be matched with? AFter some discussion TBTB and TGTB decide not to worry about it. One old friend becomes Best Man, another old friend and nephew are groomsmen, third old friend and the female friend become ushers.
TBTB has an easier time, at least at first; her Matron of Honor is a close friend from the ship; good friends from Columbus and upstate New York are invited to be the bridesmaids. So that part seems easy. But then a problem appears: New York friend doesn't respond to emails, notes in snail mail, phone messages. So she's replaced by another Columbus-based friend. All seems set. Ring bearer will be 8 year old daughter of close friends, who adores TBTB. Flower girl will be TBTB's cousin's two-year old daughter--except she'll be a butterfly girl, not a flower girl. She'll have packets of butterflies, to be handed to guests and released when TB and TG recess--apparently it's possible to buy butterflies that are somehow semidormant. Haven't any clue how this works, but TBTB says it'll work. And certainly the folks at the Cultural Arts Center think this is better than rice tossed about their brick courtyard (or birdseed--when POTB were married rice was verboten for the same reason--but birdseed was ok, since it'd get eaten by the resident pigeons at that wedding in New York City. So we were pelted with millet and sunflower seeds. Butterflies are a decided improvement). Invitations issued and accepted. Now it remains to settle on the bridesmaid's dresses. And housing the party and guests.
