Having been in attendance at a wedding this past weekend, with another slated for the weekend to come, I can understand the impulse to stand out a little. When you're spending thousands upon thousands of dollars for a single day, a few memorable touches never hurt, something that distinguishes you in the minds of your guests so that, in future years, you don't just become "oh yeah - what did they serve again? No, no, that wasn't at Jim's, that was at Jenny's, right? Oh, honestly, I don't even remember."
But there's memorable and there's memorable, people.
Okay memorable: a made-to-order seafood bar, where guests can get southern-style cooking with exactly the flavors they want. Wrong-reasons memorable: getting married in the garden section of Wal-Mart.
I get liking your job, even when that job is at Wal-mart. You spend a lot of your time there, you meet your future love in the grocery section, which you find more and more reasons to visit, coyly asking for an extra salami or two for the deli, where you work. Hell, most Wal-marts I've been to - and I'll be honest, it's not a HUGE sampling - are fully functional living environments, with tents, grills, every sort of food, even guns to shoot intruders on my proper-tay.
And I get not wanting the big, white wedding. I have no intention of walking down a church aisle, or spending more money on my flower arrangements than on my mortgage, or buying a dress whose value could feed a small island nation for a year. There's no need to be fancy - this special day is about YOU, not how much you spend.
But seriously, people, the garden section at a Wal-mart?
If you're going down that road, at least keep it classy for the reception. Hold it in the home improvements section of the attached-via-suburban-sprawl Loew's.
-Posted by Jilly
Thursday, October 1, 2009
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This reminds me Jilly, please disregard the invitation to my Home Depot-themed wedding which you should be getting in the mail soon.
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