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It's my birthday today. I am celebrating it by practicing, playing orchestra excerpts for Joan (violist in the Houston Symphony) and then rehearsing with my trio.
I was thinking today that, while it is the 21st century, certain rules of wedding etiquette are still valid for very obvious reasons. For instance, the bride should always include at least one member of the groom's family SOMEHOW in her wedding. Even if, say, one of the members (oh, let's just say the sister, for example) is a professional musician and is asked to play a movement of Bach or something before the wedding starts. Or, while it is presumptuous to think that if the groom has THREE sisters one of them might be a bridesmaid (or the very youngest a junior b-maid or flower girl), at the very least the GROOM, who should know his sisters love him, might ask one of them to stand up behind him and be a groomswoman. This familial inclusion is symbolic of two families joining together, and also it's just plain nice to make the groom's family feel included. A wedding is for TWO people.
I was thinking today that, while it is the 21st century, certain rules of wedding etiquette are still valid for very obvious reasons. For instance, the bride should always include at least one member of the groom's family SOMEHOW in her wedding. Even if, say, one of the members (oh, let's just say the sister, for example) is a professional musician and is asked to play a movement of Bach or something before the wedding starts. Or, while it is presumptuous to think that if the groom has THREE sisters one of them might be a bridesmaid (or the very youngest a junior b-maid or flower girl), at the very least the GROOM, who should know his sisters love him, might ask one of them to stand up behind him and be a groomswoman. This familial inclusion is symbolic of two families joining together, and also it's just plain nice to make the groom's family feel included. A wedding is for TWO people.