Wedding Du Jour, Part 3

Ok, this is the last of a 3 part series I'm doing on the weddings that I've attended in September. Now that September is over, no more weddings!

Again, it was a wedding for one of Joe's cousins, John. It was a very informal ceremony outdoors at a reception hall. The outdoors part was much to the anguish of Grandma Metzger, as she thought John should have had a wedding at a church. "12 years of Catholic school...!", she cried.

John actually cried whilst repeating the vows and Caryn kept her cool. I thought that was awesome. Mike the Best Man even called him on it in his toast.

We sat at a table with Joe's parents, Aunt Arlene and Terry, Chad and Cousin Jennifer, and Cousin Amanda. Jennifer must've been frontloading before the wedding, because one glass of wine and she was already rowdy, pointing at Cousin Adam who finally publicly showed up with a boyfriend, and laughing at some overzealous dancers. Oh well, it made the evening interesting.

We chowed on prime rib, which was actually good. (We passed on the other options - chicken and shrimp or vegetarian.) The green beans were pretty tasty, although Joe despises any vegetable being cooked at all. The twice baked potato however, was a little sketchy. It was pretty obvious that the potatoes were kept in the oven at a low temperature to keep them warm, because the outside got dry and papery. Overall, not too bad. The rail drinks were free, anything fancy was cash-only. That's ok, I can totally understand that.

We avoided the dance floor all night until the very last dance. Cousin Ryan dragged us out there and we had to cut a rug real quick and then go hide ourselves. Well, I wasn't really scared of the dancing, it's just Joe that I'm scared of. He pulled out some Fonzi move where he dances with his thumbs out. [Shrug] Beats me, I don't know where he learned that.

Overall a very nice night. It was especially nice that flip flops were the dress code, made things so much more comfortable.