Not a week late YET!
I got a whole 12 more hours before I'm a week overdue for this...
Huzzah! My brother is a bachelor no more and I have gained three sibling-in-laws (or does that only count for Dennis? I don't care, Pauline's still getting called my sister cause it's funny).
I was told by several people that I looked quite nice in my bridesmaid's dress (and even a few relatives who'd seen me THE WEEK BEFORE didn't recognize me)... but I'm sure I didn't outshine Pauline. (Her dress was white, after all, it reflects light better than "Harvest Gold.")
Listening to EVERYONE embarrass Pauline with their speeches (EXCEPT my father! GO FIGURE! though he did win points with "I have a lot of things I could say about them... so I won't." I could FEEL the cringe from Pauline! Personally, I'd have considered that a wedding gift right there XD)
Drinking most of Kelly's rum and coke (I love you, sister!)
Drinking most of Jimmy's whiskey sour (I love you, cousin!)
Drinking most of Kelly's RnC x 2 (I really do love you!)
Drinking all of Jimmy's WS (You leaped over furniture to catch me, so we're even there)
Drinking most of Kelly's RnC x3 (Really, you should be happy I helped you out so much... imagine if you'd drank ALL of those yourself!)
Shier suggesting Em and I have a "boob battle" (I protested that it should be something I had a chance at winning)
Jim and Ray were AWESOME. Nothing like music everyone knows and can dance badly to!
There was more, but yeah, I can't remember it all.
Oh, and one highlight from the ceremony. It requires back story...
Are you familiar with the intentionally hokey sci-fi flick "The Lost Skeleton of Cadavra"? It's funny in that there's no way it could ever be taken seriously.
Anyways.
There's a very simple drinking game you can play while watching it. I recommend it on the first viewing. (and I recommend having a lot of drinks on-hand, too) Here are the simple rules:
Drink (i.e. SIP) each time someone says:
"Atmospherium"
"Scientist"/"Science"/"Scientific" (e.g. "I sure did get hungry while working on my science!")
"Horrible Mutilation/s" (yes, really)
Also, drink any time anyone is unnecessarily redundant. (e.g. "On Marva, the planet we are from, things are quite different than on Earth, the planet we are now on." You get that from the aliens a lot. Yeah, really.)
We watched this movie the night before the wedding (we being the female half of the wedding party) and everyone was quite enjoying helping me keep up with the drinks. Yeah, did I mention I was the only one drinking? I was. For the record, I gave up 20 minutes into the movie... they come too hard and fast and I determined I'd need to play the game with beer, not straight Jagermeister.
On to the highlight.
So as Pauline's father is giving her away, the minister asks "Who gives this woman to this man?" and her dad responds with, "Her mother and I give this woman... to this man." This isn't what he'd practiced at rehearsal so we were already grinning... then one of the bridesmaids leans over to me and whispers "Would that be a drink?" I ALMOST lost it. It was hard not to.
Huzzah! My brother is a bachelor no more and I have gained three sibling-in-laws (or does that only count for Dennis? I don't care, Pauline's still getting called my sister cause it's funny).
I was told by several people that I looked quite nice in my bridesmaid's dress (and even a few relatives who'd seen me THE WEEK BEFORE didn't recognize me)... but I'm sure I didn't outshine Pauline. (Her dress was white, after all, it reflects light better than "Harvest Gold.")
Listening to EVERYONE embarrass Pauline with their speeches (EXCEPT my father! GO FIGURE! though he did win points with "I have a lot of things I could say about them... so I won't." I could FEEL the cringe from Pauline! Personally, I'd have considered that a wedding gift right there XD)
Drinking most of Kelly's rum and coke (I love you, sister!)
Drinking most of Jimmy's whiskey sour (I love you, cousin!)
Drinking most of Kelly's RnC x 2 (I really do love you!)
Drinking all of Jimmy's WS (You leaped over furniture to catch me, so we're even there)
Drinking most of Kelly's RnC x3 (Really, you should be happy I helped you out so much... imagine if you'd drank ALL of those yourself!)
Shier suggesting Em and I have a "boob battle" (I protested that it should be something I had a chance at winning)
Jim and Ray were AWESOME. Nothing like music everyone knows and can dance badly to!
There was more, but yeah, I can't remember it all.
Oh, and one highlight from the ceremony. It requires back story...
Are you familiar with the intentionally hokey sci-fi flick "The Lost Skeleton of Cadavra"? It's funny in that there's no way it could ever be taken seriously.
Anyways.
There's a very simple drinking game you can play while watching it. I recommend it on the first viewing. (and I recommend having a lot of drinks on-hand, too) Here are the simple rules:
Drink (i.e. SIP) each time someone says:
"Atmospherium"
"Scientist"/"Science"/"Scientific" (e.g. "I sure did get hungry while working on my science!")
"Horrible Mutilation/s" (yes, really)
Also, drink any time anyone is unnecessarily redundant. (e.g. "On Marva, the planet we are from, things are quite different than on Earth, the planet we are now on." You get that from the aliens a lot. Yeah, really.)
We watched this movie the night before the wedding (we being the female half of the wedding party) and everyone was quite enjoying helping me keep up with the drinks. Yeah, did I mention I was the only one drinking? I was. For the record, I gave up 20 minutes into the movie... they come too hard and fast and I determined I'd need to play the game with beer, not straight Jagermeister.
On to the highlight.
So as Pauline's father is giving her away, the minister asks "Who gives this woman to this man?" and her dad responds with, "Her mother and I give this woman... to this man." This isn't what he'd practiced at rehearsal so we were already grinning... then one of the bridesmaids leans over to me and whispers "Would that be a drink?" I ALMOST lost it. It was hard not to.