02:16 PM
TV I'm such a sap

A romantic sap, that's me. It's become a summer ritual for me to watch the Today's wedding series and vote on everything. The first two couples were pretty much yuppy fare, this one is normal people! All different sizes and shapes, the parents include the bride's single mom raising two daughters, one disabled. The groom's parents are echoes of 9/11, his mom is a United flight attendant and his dad is a retired firefighter. The bridesmaids are all kinds, thin, fat, pretty, not so pretty, in between, the groomsmen are normal 20somethings, Marcus' brother tho, is in college (Stanford, I think) on a full ride, both academic and athletic, that's amazing, that he excelled academically as well as athletically. Hard working kids.

I'm still a romantic sap, tearing up at the minister's words about love and marriage and the future together. Cool minister too, black baptist from down south, he puts some real meaning in the words!

And now they're off to Tavern on the Green for the reception and then on a *really long* flight to Bali! I would have picked New Zealand but it was so obvious that they wanted Bali, I voted for that. I hope their honeymoon goes well, last year's got interrupted by 9/11, I was thinking about that couple, stuck over in the Mediterranean, so far from home when everything fell down.