Adam & Suzy
Wedding Belle Friday, March 7, 2008 at 6:20AM At this weekend’s wedding I experienced something I never expected…well really a few things I never expected, but here’s just one of them. Adam was quite surly all evening. Suzy wanted a massive dance party that went on all night. When it was time to do the chair dance and the Hora the (Jewish) groom had no desire to participate. The (Chinese) bride was obsessed with making sure that it went off perfectly.
This dynamics made for a pretty thin line for us to walk that evening. We had to get everything in that Suzy wanted, without pushing Adam too far. And we were pretty successful with the first dance, the Hora, the cake cutting, etc. Adam was grumpy, but did what he was told. But then the evening was drawing to an end. At midnight Adam made no bones about wanting to leave. The reception was slated to go until 12:30 a.m., so Suzy was having none of it and kept dancing. I was in charge of calling a car for the couple at the end of the night and knew it would take at least 20 minutes for the car to arrive. I told Adam I was going to call a car and have it here ASAP…then I ordered it for 12:40…and I told Suzy it was coming at 12:30.
Did I care that I told each of them a white lie? Not at all. I knew that Adam would feel better knowing there was light at the end of the tunnel and I knew Suzy wouldn’t want to leave one minute before 12:30 but that it would also take her a while to actually get out the door. In the end, they both got what they wanted and were none the wiser.
Coda: If you’re like me, you’re wondering why Adam was such a pill at what is supposed to be the happiest day of his life. Well, it turns out that they had already had a big wedding in China and he’d been sick for the past week. The poor guy wasn’t being a jerk, he was just partied out.
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Fantastic wedding ceremony!! wish you all the best and your fine luck. ;)