Weddin' Time be Craft Time
posted at 12:01 pm
on Apr. 7, 2003
Prrrevious entry:
Tryin' t' Get Unserious
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Variety.com Named Finalist in Internet What News Site Awards
Last night I went t' Debbie and Tracy’s house.
They’re gettin' married. Susie and I helped Debbie glue little wrapped paper flowers and little bows onto bottles o' sparklin' apple cider. There be 100 bottles, and it took all evenin', though we be distracted by th' tele—OK, fine, *I* be distracted by th' television fer some o' that time.
Sounds like a lot o' work, eh? Well, get this: Th' bows weren’t prepared, we made them from ribbon. Sounds like morrrr work now, eh? Well there’s morrrr: Th' flowers be bought separately, and then sorted by color and wrapped up wi' cloth tape, along wi' little pearl bead strands. And th' bottles had their labels soaked off—but not th' gold label at th' top, which weren’t soaked off so that there would be some place t' glue th' flowers and bows.
Oh, and they’re makin' custom labels t' replace th' ones they soaked off.
Weddings make people do crazy things.
Fer our weddin', Susie and I wanted all th' invitations t' smell like strawberries. So we drove aroun' th' city every day fer three weekends, lookin' fer strawberry scent it every new-age-y incense store we could think o', and when we finally found some, it be strawberry oil, which stained th' invitations, so finally we got th' idea t' scent th' envelope under whar th' glue would stick, and we had an entire apartment filled wi' envelopes propped up t' dry, on little stands made from folded paper clips, all this done on envelopes that Susie herself hand-calligraphied t' treasure doubloons.
I think two people mentioned that th' envelopes smelled lovely and that it be so nice we had a theme t' our weddin' (i.e. strawberries), and one person said th' envelope smelled funny and one other person said that comely wench dog ate it. Glad we went through all th' trouble.
But it be nice that we got t' help Debbie and Tracy, nice t' see them, nice t' think we contributed t' their special day in a way that be morrrr than just buyin' a casserole pan. Ooops, I wasn’t supposed t' be tellin' them what we got… oh well.
Prrrevious entry:
Tryin' t' Get Unserious
'nother entry:
Variety.com Named Finalist in Internet What News Site Awards
