A Funny Thing Happened

So my brother got married on Saturday.

The ceremony was pretty low-key, just some of their closer friends and relatives. The ceremony and reception were held together at the Fireman's Park in our hometown. As the Best Man, i held the bachelor party the night before. When he had originally posed the idea of the bachelor party to me, he had thought it would be difficult for me to come up with something to do, since he doesn't drink and isn't overly interested in strippers. My response was, "Are you kidding? This is the easiest thing ever! The bachelor party will be you, me, and Andre in my basement playing Halo on the projector all night!" And that's pretty close to what happened.

He had been telling me that the ceremony was going to be short and simple, and that neither of them were even going to have any lines except "I do."

As it turned out, the pastor maneuvered them into some vows and a couple other speaking parts, but it was still pretty minimal. All in all, it was a nice and fitting ceremony. I don't think that an extravagant churchy wedding would have worked out for them at all.

There's really nothing inherently funny about this post, i admit, and it's not supposed to be. I just wanted to share the joy of what's happened and welcome Jo to our family. I've finally got that sister i always wanted.

Well, there is one thing that's kind of funny. I'd been told i wouldn't need to make any speeches, and in fact i was discouraged from it. Really, though, if i hadn't been so bogged down with school that a speech didn't even occur to me until the day before, i would have written something which would probably be long winded and a little embarrassing to him. You should know that, though, whoever you are; i mean, you do, after all, read my blog. Right? Maybe not.

So that worked out about as well as the whole "we're only saying two words during the ceremony" thing. Here's an interpolation of the speech i ended up doing:

"So a funny thing happened to me today. I went down to Marshall, and my little brother got married!" (big applause)

Then my mom breaks in: "Oh wait, were you recording that? I was standing right in front of the camera! Do it again."

(loud exasperated sigh)

"So a funny thing happened to me today! I was at my brother's wedding, and i was giving a speech and my mom walked right in front of the camera and asked me to do it all again! Well, congratulations, you guys! Let's have a toast."

I guess the moral of the story is that i'm the best Best Man ever.