Last Sunday was the last of our ten-month-long wedding extravaganza. Sunday was Steve and Rose’s wedding, our seventh wedding in the last ten months. Steve and Rose were both CVCA students, and Steve was one of the founding members of my Royal Fools improv group. Steve and Rose have been dating since their senior year at CVCA seven years ago, and they are a very cute couple, so I was excited for their wedding.

In addition to the fun of the wedding itself, Mer and I love catching up with Steve and Rose’s classmates. We were both pretty close to that class of students, and we have stayed in touch with that particular group of friends. It was a very good time to get to see them again at a wedding and reception.

The wedding was lovely, and was held in a private room of an orchard/restaurant. The ceremony was originally supposed to be outside, but the skies looked as if they might rain, and it had rained earlier in the day, so we ended up inside. One very funny and fun moment – the bridal party came in from outside, and had to pass a huge window that looked into the room where we were seated. To keep the proper suspense about seeing Rose, the wedding coordinator hid her behind a large umbrella so we could not see her go by. It was very cute. The ceremony was quite good, with the minister giving some points on how to make a marriage work, which included things like “Don’t let the sun go down on your anger.” The minister also read the love chapter from Corinthians, reading most of chapter 13. That was good to hear, since Mer and I had been a bit snippy at each other of late, and it helped us both reflect on how we should be better to each other. Toward the end of the ceremony, Steve and Rose also tied two pieces of rope together with a strong knot, and that was cool. They also personalized the ceremony with a recessional to the theme from the original Star Trek movie. That was great.

The reception was much fun, starting with the popular-with-us “candy bar” in addition to appetizers. The “candy bar” was new to us with this round of weddings – it is a bar area with various candies available as part of the pre-meal munching. In this case, it included full-sized packages of M&Ms as well as other candies. Yum. The real appetizers were also excellent (cheese and crackers and Swedish meatballs and such). Mer and I sat with Matt and Clarice, and we had a great time getting caught up with them. We had not seen Matt in awhile, so it was very good to hear how he was doing. Mer and I were both pleased that when we went over to see the cake, we saw that there was a second small cake with a TARDIS on it, from the science fiction show Doctor Who.

The bridal party arrived and a buffet dinner was served. Steve and Rose cut the cake after supper, and then the dancing started. The DJ did a decent job of mixing slow songs with line dances and with faster songs. Mer and I danced the slow songs and did some basic swing dances to many of the faster songs. It was gratifying to put the lessons to good use, including being out on the floor at times when many of the younger folks were all sitting down. We closed the party out at about 10:30 and headed home. We’re both very happy for Steve and Rose, but sad that we do not have another wedding on our social horizon for the first time in over a year.