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The most recent noteworthy thing to write about was a wedding I helped out with.
The marrieds were a couple who turned up for my All's Well auditions, new in town and with not so many friends, whom I very promptly grew very fond of. It was a bitty little wedding, and better than half the gathered was TheatrePeoples.
Everything about this shindig was crowdsourced, which I think is awesome not only as a practicality, but because of how much now, over a decade later, all the crowd-sourced components of my own wedding make me feel happy and connected to my circle of friends. (Even the bittersweet ones where I don't speak with those people so much anymore).
The venue was Adelphi Mill, in which I just keep on building more and more memories. I took charge of setup. (Noteworthy: they replaced all but 4 of their folding tables with rounds which are 1. very pretty, 2. cannot be used for buffet/setup tables. Meaning, if ever you use that venue and plan on serving food, double-check the number of still-working rectangles and maybe think to add your own. There are also two small rectangles suitable for special purposes, like staging wedding props or parking a guestbook).
The space is pretty enough to require minimal decoration; 3 white strings of light upstairs and 1, maybe 2 multicolor ones downstairs, and it looked perfectly festive.
One of the marrieds works in a mediocre sandwich shop in Greenbelt; a coworker of theirs who does catering on the side (outside said sandwich shop) provided the food. The food was Mexican and largely non-me-compatible, but those things which I can try were excellent, and the chef was a foodie whom I had a total blast chatting with. Cake was by the ever-incomparable tompurdue.
The officiant is dating at least one or possibly both of the marrieds (I can't keep up); the resulting ceremony was perfectly perfect for all involved.
Y'know how if the groom is pre-staged and the bride enters processionally everybody stares at the bride? Inevitably, watching the groom's face is the better show: the bride looks stunning, but is preoccupied with navigation, whereas the groom has nothing to do but _react_. For a bonus, at this one you got to watch the officiant watching the couple; as all three of them as well as the best man are on my short list of favorite people in the world, so the shmoopiness levels of the occasion could only be higher had I been a direct participant.
At the end of the evening we discovered that the basement floods quite impressively (but safely draining and sump-pumping) when it rains. Waiting out the worst of the storm with the rest of the teardown crew, relaxing, conversing and passing the remaining open bottles of wine back and forth was the best afterparty anyone could ask for.
The marrieds were a couple who turned up for my All's Well auditions, new in town and with not so many friends, whom I very promptly grew very fond of. It was a bitty little wedding, and better than half the gathered was TheatrePeoples.
Everything about this shindig was crowdsourced, which I think is awesome not only as a practicality, but because of how much now, over a decade later, all the crowd-sourced components of my own wedding make me feel happy and connected to my circle of friends. (Even the bittersweet ones where I don't speak with those people so much anymore).
The venue was Adelphi Mill, in which I just keep on building more and more memories. I took charge of setup. (Noteworthy: they replaced all but 4 of their folding tables with rounds which are 1. very pretty, 2. cannot be used for buffet/setup tables. Meaning, if ever you use that venue and plan on serving food, double-check the number of still-working rectangles and maybe think to add your own. There are also two small rectangles suitable for special purposes, like staging wedding props or parking a guestbook).
The space is pretty enough to require minimal decoration; 3 white strings of light upstairs and 1, maybe 2 multicolor ones downstairs, and it looked perfectly festive.
One of the marrieds works in a mediocre sandwich shop in Greenbelt; a coworker of theirs who does catering on the side (outside said sandwich shop) provided the food. The food was Mexican and largely non-me-compatible, but those things which I can try were excellent, and the chef was a foodie whom I had a total blast chatting with. Cake was by the ever-incomparable tompurdue.
The officiant is dating at least one or possibly both of the marrieds (I can't keep up); the resulting ceremony was perfectly perfect for all involved.
Y'know how if the groom is pre-staged and the bride enters processionally everybody stares at the bride? Inevitably, watching the groom's face is the better show: the bride looks stunning, but is preoccupied with navigation, whereas the groom has nothing to do but _react_. For a bonus, at this one you got to watch the officiant watching the couple; as all three of them as well as the best man are on my short list of favorite people in the world, so the shmoopiness levels of the occasion could only be higher had I been a direct participant.
At the end of the evening we discovered that the basement floods quite impressively (but safely draining and sump-pumping) when it rains. Waiting out the worst of the storm with the rest of the teardown crew, relaxing, conversing and passing the remaining open bottles of wine back and forth was the best afterparty anyone could ask for.