Saturday afternoon, Gina and I drove up to Chicago for the wedding of one of my fraternity brothers. We skipped the ceremony, since there was a 4 hour break before the reception started.
The reception started normally, with hourdevours and mingling. Great time to catch up with old friends I hadn't seen since the last fraternity wedding. It's funny how some people never change.
But when the formal reception began, things started to get a bit strange. Here are a few of the highlights:
-Boisterous singing of "God Bless America" at three random times throughout the night.
-A very long presentation by the father of the groom of a package that arrived from the Chicago Polish Consulate (bride is Polish), congratulating the son of a displaced Prince of Slovakia (groom is Slovakian) on wedding one of Poland's daughters. Bob's dad, three uncles, and an aunt wore sashes bearing Slovakia's colors and put Polish regalia on the bride and groom. Hilarious.
-4 men in banana costumes appeared and surrounded the groom at the head table using bananas for guns (groom's father is a Chicago cop). Didn't matter that it didn't make sense.
-One of the banana men later spilled red wine all over the front of himself. Bloody banana man.
-"Happy Birthday" was sung twice, once for the groom's brother (21), and again for Aunt Fossey (80).
-Beets for dinner. Very Dwight Schrute.
-During a slow dance, a literal ball and chain was padlocked to the groom's ankle.
-The entire wedding party danced to "Soulja Boy." I was impressed.
-The photographer sweated PROFUSELY the entire night. He changed outfits 3 times.
not kidding.
I'm sure there were other events I'll remember later. Gina has pictures I'll upload later. All wedding should be as entertaining. maybe.
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hilarious. taking notes for your wedding? :)
Who got married?
Hey, we saw a whole family dancing to "Solja Boy" right next to us at the bowling alley in Bloomington on Sat. night. The little guys must have been 5 & 6 years old. One little guy tossed his bowling ball down one of the lanes we were using. He had no idea he was in the wrong lane. Quite a surprise to Ashley Dessing when she was just getting ready to throw her second ball!!! :-)
Bob Mladic and Kim.
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