Now THAT'S What I Call A Wedding

If only for the song choices, my friend Ces' wedding to her long-time boyfriend would be one of the most enjoyable weddings I've attended. Renditions of "Beautiful Day"(U2), "Sunday Morning"(Maroon5), "The Sweetest Thing"(U2) amongst other cool tracks were sang in the church. Cool huh?

Of course there're the usual stuff: the groom cries as the bride walks up the aisle, the officiating priest singing second voice (with blending) to "Our Father", Snoopy dolls with flowers instead of baskets are carried by the flower girls, a 5.3-intensity earthquake, and another 6.5-intensity earthquake. Hm. So it wasn't the usual stiff stuck-up matrimonal ceremony after all. The uncommon-ness extended to the reception, when the couple entered shaking their booties to, if I'm not mistaken, an alternative rock song. And there the cool soundtracks continued as well.

The main highlight for me was a video-slash-movie-slash-filmoire of the day's events. Can you imagine the speed of editing, and real-time direction needed to transform the wedding activities in the morning into a movie, complete with voice-overs, blocking, panning, and soundtrack so that it can be shown at the wedding banquet around lunchtime? Note to self: hire Wally Gonzales Photography for your own wedding IF you win the lottery.

The trail-blazing aesthetics aside, it was the most enjoyable one I've attended so far because the couple really looked like they were having so much fun, which is very contagious. And you can see how they're really into each other. Talk about MFEO. I've never seen a newly-married couple having THAT much fun on their wedding day, at church and at the reception. Weddings can be that much fun pala. It made me think about how I want my wedding to be like, but after leaving the hotel I get to think about the housing loan and construction, Mama's chemo and future treatments, work, getting a car, and I'm back to my reality. Oh well. I live vicariously through other people sometime so the happiness at that wedding helped to distract me a bit.