I love a good wedding!
I could be at a Prodigy gig tomorrow, and also seeing Pendulum, Enter Shikari, and a couple of others.
Instead, I’ll be at another wedding.
The girlfriend’s still going to the gig though. Dammit!
The girlfriend and I at the wedding.
And yes, I had to answer mumble my way through avoiding answering the question of when we’re getting married umpteen times. Sigh…
Anna & Dave’s First Dance
(via KateMacey on Youtube)
Two of my best friends got married on Friday, and it was an amazing day. I’ll write a bit more about it later, but somebody has already put the video up of their quite fantastic first dance.
I never knew he had the moves in him!
Oh, and that idiot on the right who is also filming, then fiddles with the camera and gets his beer in the way? That would be me.
Going to the chapel, and my friend’s getting ma-a-a-a-rried!
Woah. One of my good mates has just asked me to be the videographer at his wedding next spring.
This is massive. Wow.
I’m delighted to do it, really excited already. And also incredibly nervous. I might have to get some practice in over the winter so I’m on top form by April.
I’m also brimming over with ideas for what to do ahead of the wedding, such as DVDs for the bride and groom a few weeks beforehand. I’ve known her longer than I’ve known him, actually, so I can’t wait for this wedding. It’s going to be a great day.
But also, holy shit I’m nervous.
If you've not been reading jss' recaps of her wedding, you're missing out
I think she’s just coming up to her first anniversary, so this week has been posting a series of little snippets from her wedding day, which looks like it was an absolutely fantastic event. Almost makes me want to get married.
One of the girlfriend’s friends has just got engaged, and sent round an email this morning about the rough plans for the wedding. Yep, already! But she’s been hankering after getting engaged for a while, so I’m very happy for her and her fiance (who, incidentally, is an absolutely top notch guy).
The friend, like my girlfriend, is Zimbabwean, although she lives just near us in southwest London nowadays. As such, the wedding is going to be back in Zimbabwe, giving an opportunity for all of us non-Zimbabweans to experience the country where so many of our friends/girlfriends grew up. My girlfriend in particular is very excited about showing me her homeland.
The wedding is pencilled in for shortly before Christmas at the end of 2010, and the girlfriend is already planning to make a big trip of it, culminating in Christmas Day on the beach in Cape Town with her extended family. Sounds good to me!
God knows what kind of state Zimbabwe is going to be in in 18 months time, but I feel that it can’t get much worse. With any luck “Bob” (as white Zimbabweans call Robert Mugabe) will have popped his clogs and things will have improved.
The girlfriend constantly tells me that I just don’t know what it’s like in Africa, and that it will be a massive shock for me, but I’m already really looking forward to it. We’re in Egypt in about 6 weeks time for a holiday, which she’s claiming isn’t proper Africa, as it’s not sub-Saharan. We’ll see…
You can tell we’re getting older as it’s time for another member of the Melksham Group to take the long walk down the aisle. It’s Eddie’s turn to say goodbye to laddism and enter into a new life as a married man. The up side of this is of course we get to have a weekend of drinking to celebrate Eddie’s final outing as a single man.
The intro to an invite to a stag do for one of my good mates. We’re having a long weekend up in Newcastle at the end of April, which will no doubt wipe five years off of the life of my liver. The two best men organising it should be putting on quite a programme of events, I reckon.
I’m an usher in the wedding, the first time I’ve been involved in one since I was a pageboy at the age of about six or seven, dressed in maroon corduroy knickerbockers. I’m very, very excited.
Eddie’s the second of our group to get married, which is about right for a bunch of guys in their mid-20s. Another one got engaged over Christmas, while at least five of us live with long-term girlfriends. Two of the guys also turned out to be gay. There’s only a couple of kids around, that I can think of, but no doubt that’ll increase in the next couple of years.
It’s weird to think that we’re all adults now, seeing as I’ve known most of them since we started secondary school nearly 14 years ago, and a couple of them for even longer than that. Although we’re spread out across the south of the country nowadays, it’s so easy to slip back into the old ways when we’re all together, which is unfortunately ever more infrequently.
So it’s another wedding this summer, possibly one more next year, and then who knows. One of the best men, who has been living with his girlfriend for a while now, was using the other best man as a buffer to hold off proposing, as best man number two has been with his missus for years and years without popping the question. Of course, with best man number two doing so at Christmas, that’s switched the peer pressure from himself to best man number one.
And I guess that would put me next in line after that.
There’s a wedding at the church next to my office today, evidently. Awwwwwww.
