Sunday, 11 September 2011
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Watching a Wedding from Afar
I've mentioned in previous posts that I've never been to a wedding before, but this past weekend I was able to "watch" a marriage.
I was walking around Central Park with my boyfriend, and we saw this crowd of people in the Conservatory Garden with someone speaking about love and how she could have gotten married years ago in either Connecticut, Iowa, Vermont, New Hampshire, or Massachusetts, but she and her partner wanted to wait until New York passed their same-sex marriage law so they could get married in their home state.
My boyfriend and I stopped to watch this wedding, along with a few other people who did not know the couple. A few guards had also gathered with us, and one of them even started crying.
Both women read a poem to each other--that was a shared love of theirs--took their vows, slipped rings on the other, and were wed! I couldn't hear all of what was going on because I was outside of the area they were standing in, but I could see the tears of happiness falling down their faces, and the kiss and long embrace they shared after they were married.
Have you ever been to a wedding? What's it like? Ever "see" one from afar?
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- About Me: My name means "daybreak" and I'm usually awake to watch the sunrise every morning. I'm a college student, obsessive tea drinker, and contemporary dancer. My first love was the piano before I learned how to love people. I love my R.O.B.--Really Outstanding Boyfriend--who gets just as excited as I do over antique books, soft-baked cookies, and Sporcle.
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Aww, I love this!
Erasure - Always
You Give a Good Love
I've been to a couple so far actually. This year is the first times since I was 11 to attend weddings. I've seen the grooms get really nervous and one of them start crying as he gave his vows. Very emotional. I had lots of fun going to them!
It is much like this, though maybe less touching.
Went to my bf's brother's wedding. That threw an interesting, way more romantic spin on the average wedding.
so cute!!
i actually went to the first of my friends' weddings this weekend! (i have only been to one other wedding when i was 14) it was a lot of fun!! especially since the couple who married were such a fun couple already. it was an open bar, loads of food, and we all stayed at the hotel, so continued to have fun throughout the night in our hallway lol. its touching to think about, because i am actually close to the people who married and i know that 3 years ago, this kid would have laughed in your face if you mentioned marriage to him! lol. its crazy, being this age where people are actually having serious weddings.
I worked at weddings for three years as bar/waiter. It was at Durham Castle (google it). Very good location, but I only worked at one wedding which could be described as magical, and that was because the guy who got married was the son of a Qatari Prince. That was an awesome wedding. The rest, well, they quickly become mundane and humdrum, at least the after parties do, the more you go to them. Everyone gets drunk, there is drama, a shit disco, the end. So yeah, not a fan of traditional weddings.
Then again I was working, and was therefore at over 200 weddings at the same location, so I guess it would be asking a lot to have many be "special".
I love weddings! Especially the romantic and sweet sentiments during the ceremony. That's my fave part.
I'm going to wedding #4 of this year in a few weeks... one more to go in November. Makes me really want what they all have.
Never been to one yet.
Weddings are overrated. Happy for the ones that don't think so. I've been to plenty in my lifetime so far and the one I regret being at the most was my own. Everyone has their own experiences but when you're standing on the alter ready to say "I do" make sure you're not wishing it was someone else and really want the one standing next to you. Jus'sayin.
@troubled_spirits@xanga - gotta agree weddings are overrated(especially when they make them so grand) but i do admire those small, simple and sweet weddings.
i've been to a few family weddings. and man are they long and emotional! makes you wish one day you could have that special wedding
aaw lucky. Say yes to the Dress had a female couple on recently, and it made me smile, but that's as far as my personal experiences go. ;P