Re: Back to school blues

Calum <com.gmail@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:

>nowhere@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
 wrote:
>> Calum <com.gmail@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>> 
>>> Anen wrote:
>>>
>>>> So how'd it all go? How many cops did it take to break up the
>>>> reception? Any interesting disasters of the kind that would win big
>>>> money on Funniest Home Videos?
>>> No, the day itself went unerringly smoothly (and the reception was
done 
>>> by about 1am, it not being a proper Scottish wedding), it was just the

>>> arrangements that were a nightmare.  (Brother who didn't come because 
>>> wife wouldn't let him because we didn't invite her psycho daughter, 
>>> father-in-law who didn't talk to us until the day itself because we 
>>> didn't like the waistcoat he wanted to wear, and that sort of thing.)
>> 
>> I avoided all that kind of grief by not inviting any family to the
>> wedding.  (and I did the same when I got married the second time)
>
>Would have been easier, except I don't really have a plethora of friends 
>to start with, and most of those couldn't come anyway, so I had to make 
>up the numbers somehow!  (As it was, most of my side of the church was 
>made up of my mother's schoolfriends and ex-cow-orkers, who I wouldn't 
>know from Adamski...)

At my first wedding, there were 10 people.  Just as well really - the
Registry Orifice in Peterculter is tiny.

At my second wedding, there were also 10 (not the same 10).

Saved a fortune.  Didn't have that array of ridiculous hats, s****ted
by distant relatives who you only ever see at weddings.
No family arguments.

Both weddings were really enjoyable.


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Chimaera