My friends
I've said it before, and I'll say it again - I am blessed with incredible friends and family who are each on their own brilliant and amazing.... and are currently massing for one hell of a party.
The best part of my nearest and dearest is that they're additive. Just this weekend, I pulled together people from all walks of my life and watched them dance, laugh and bond over roller coasters.
After recovering from our respective bachelor/bachelorette parties this evening, Nick and I were doing final selections for the music. We needed to choose a song that we, the bridal party and our parents could all dance to. To me, that calls for a song that reflects the people I hold closest to my heart. Ultimately, we settled on something with a slower tempo - but this is the song that most accurately depicts all of my cherished memories.
"There's 30 people in the kitchen and there's always room for more" - parties at Castle Bradakis, with a kitchen that somehow holds more people than should be possible given square footage. Gathering around in Michelle's kitchen while her husband cooked up mountains of food for us tipsy and newly-matched med students.
"Come on off we go now, heel to toe now, to the jigs and reels" - from actual jigs and reels from generations of SCA dancers all over Michigan to dancing along to rock band or in the DJ booth at WORW. I would never claim to be a graceful or rythmic dancer - but I always made up for it in enthusiasm.
"So pile your boots up in the corner" - always, with piles of shoes. 8 pairs of girls shoes stacked up just inside my flat in Australia, to the pile of K-quad muddied sneakers that littered the doorway of my best friends' college dorms - you knew who would be there to greet you just by looking at the shoes.
"There is no place quite like this place" - only coming up with the adjective "Utah-esque" to describe the beauty of the Rockies while skiing with my parents, Nick and I finding our favourite seafood place just outside of the town that would become our home, complete with fishing boats and alligators.
"Well there'll be smilin', there'll be laughin' - well that's good enough for me." After months of planning and the God-sent help of my family, my family to-be and friends who all humble me with their willingness to pitch in and get things done - we're going to have a wedding. I don't know if everyone's shoes will match, I don't know if it will rain, I don't know if our dog will eat our wedding presents during our honeymoon....
but there will be smiling and laughing at that will always be good enough for me.
The best part of my nearest and dearest is that they're additive. Just this weekend, I pulled together people from all walks of my life and watched them dance, laugh and bond over roller coasters.
After recovering from our respective bachelor/bachelorette parties this evening, Nick and I were doing final selections for the music. We needed to choose a song that we, the bridal party and our parents could all dance to. To me, that calls for a song that reflects the people I hold closest to my heart. Ultimately, we settled on something with a slower tempo - but this is the song that most accurately depicts all of my cherished memories.
Click to view"There's 30 people in the kitchen and there's always room for more" - parties at Castle Bradakis, with a kitchen that somehow holds more people than should be possible given square footage. Gathering around in Michelle's kitchen while her husband cooked up mountains of food for us tipsy and newly-matched med students.
"Come on off we go now, heel to toe now, to the jigs and reels" - from actual jigs and reels from generations of SCA dancers all over Michigan to dancing along to rock band or in the DJ booth at WORW. I would never claim to be a graceful or rythmic dancer - but I always made up for it in enthusiasm.
"So pile your boots up in the corner" - always, with piles of shoes. 8 pairs of girls shoes stacked up just inside my flat in Australia, to the pile of K-quad muddied sneakers that littered the doorway of my best friends' college dorms - you knew who would be there to greet you just by looking at the shoes.
"There is no place quite like this place" - only coming up with the adjective "Utah-esque" to describe the beauty of the Rockies while skiing with my parents, Nick and I finding our favourite seafood place just outside of the town that would become our home, complete with fishing boats and alligators.
"Well there'll be smilin', there'll be laughin' - well that's good enough for me." After months of planning and the God-sent help of my family, my family to-be and friends who all humble me with their willingness to pitch in and get things done - we're going to have a wedding. I don't know if everyone's shoes will match, I don't know if it will rain, I don't know if our dog will eat our wedding presents during our honeymoon....
but there will be smiling and laughing at that will always be good enough for me.