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August 26, 2005
Love, honour AND OBEY
… so said the groom’s tshirt the morning after the wedding (the capitals were implicit on the original). A fine choice of tshirt on such an occasion. For her part, the bride made no secret of the next step: babies.
Kilkea Castle was wonderful. The wedding dinner had four types of potato, all delicious, and a residents’ bar open until 5 am. Of course, we all wound up in there singing rebel songs. It must have been the four kinds of potato combining with some latent Irish gene. The bride’s grandfather, a man of 82, put us all to shame by standing up and belting out a perfect rendition of some Australian song about an Irish convict. None of us knew the words and it was actually quite moving to sit there and listen and not be able to ruin it by roaring out the chorus. Though the alcohol helped some of us in trying.
The best man’s speech was very well received (I helped a little, as his “beautiful assistant” with a slideshow; we were both intensely relieved when it was all over), as were the heartfelt speeches by the proud-as-punch fathers of the newlyweds.
The band were excellent, being friends of half of us in attendance that evening. My sweetheart (heart-stoppingly beautiful in a dress she took care to hide from me until that evening) and I had great fun running around on the dance floor dodging questions about when we were going to follow the example of the bride and groom. Understanding looks were exchanged with other couples sharing the same fate. The last song played by the DJ was AC/DC’s Thunder which is still in my head almost a week later.
As I type the happy couple are in Peru, on the way to where they first met. They’ll be traveling around South America for four weeks before coming home to the (cue ominous undertone) rest of their lives. Although, knowing this couple, they’ll have as much fun as they had at the wedding.
Posted by Oliver at August 26, 2005 04:08 PM
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