Weddings and funerals
It was all go last night. I bumped into the father of one of my friends on Piccadilly and we went to the Carlton Club for a glass of champagne. He was saying that he's going to quite a few funerals at the moment and hoped that I'd go to his. "Only if you come to mine!" I quipped.
On to dinner at Home House with my San Franciscan friend whose English boyfriend proposed to her on the Golden Gate Bridge at New Year. The wedding will be in Oxford in August and they're in the middle of organising a three day event for the American contingent. "It's going to be a non-kiddy wedding," she announced. "We've invited 240 people and adding up the numbers, if they all brought their children there would be 112 of them there!"
posted by Whispering Walls at 10:10 am
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This story about an American lady and an English gentleman reminds me of one of your other posts where a lady got asked about her prospective in-laws views on divorced people re-marrying before she could join a club, or something vaguely like that.
It was a few months back, so I have probably got the wrong end of the stick entirely. The last time I went to a wedding in Oxford it was the first 'civil' ceremony I had been to. And only the second 'non church/chapel' wedding I had ever attended.
It was my Welsh cousin marrying an English chap at Headington Hill Hall, sometime 'residence' of the late Robert Maxwell...Impressive do and a nice enough place; I'm sure I could get used to living there.
I feel it only fair to warn you that if there are lots of Americans over they will probably all have very noisy cameras if my experience is anything to go by. And a unique taste in millinery. But keeping the kids away is a good plan. They hate weddings anyway - it's tiresome for them, although watch out for the bitchy comments from people who've had to get babysitters for the day.
It's the same girl: the season of second marriages begins!
Well, you should keep your eyes open for some of the dishy Americans that may be over...
Meanwhile, a quote from wonderful Simon Hoggart in today's Guardian...
"You have to look on your books as you do your children: you are delighted that they are there, but wouldn't dream of making money from them." [Apparently the average author used to make 7 grand a year, but this has now dropped to 4 grand a year, no doubt to keep Peter Kay in clover...]
The idea of having 240 guests at a wedding is absolutely ridiculous.
Surely the purpose of the wedding party is to allow both sides of the kith and kin to get to know each other ? Although that objective never seems to be met by an wedding that I have ever attended.
Spending 2 minutes talking to each other guest would take 8 hours !!!
Add a couple of hours for speeches and the ceremony and that is the whole day gone. So the chance is that you are never going to get to know the vast majority of the attendees, which surely defeats the object ?
If it was an Indian wedding where people spend the best of a week at the party that would make some kind of sense, but either this is pointless showing off, or aiming to ensure that no-one feels 'left out' even people they never ever see..
A kiddy-free anything would be unthinkable here! Have you read about the child-free gated community in the Moray Firth?
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