The Zen of Nuptials

There is a definite Zen to someone ELSES’ nuptials. The reason it has to be someone else’s is because it is almost impossible to reach a truly Zen-like state at either your own wedding or the wedding of a child at which you carry any responsibility. Only at the wedding of someone else can you sit back and relax, enjoy cake, music, dancing, and reminiscing about what you can actually remember of your own wedding day (or the courtship surrounding it.)

Today was a Zen wedding for me, not so much for the First Office of my riding club, for he was the father of the bride. Remember that movie, the one with Steve Martin, where the day before the wedding they had a rare/never freeze and they had to move the geese into the bathtub to keep them from freezing. I also remember one of the funny thing I thought was so funny was them using hair dryers on the flowers they had staged the day before. And they ended up having to move much of the wedding from the back yard into the house and under a tent, which turned out to be beautiful, all because they had originally intended to have an outdoor wedding.

Well, fortunately for all involved in today’s wedding, there was not near the mad dash to move everything due to the “Oklahoma Spring” weather (which if you read yesterdays blog came in EXACTLY as expected!) All parties involved are life long Okies so they know much better than to plan anything outdoors for any season in Oklahoma without an indoor backup, or in the case of a wedding, you just don’t plan them outdoors EVER!

It was a beautiful wedding, the bride was blushing in white, the groom was tall and sharp in Marine Dress uniform, which always looks amazing at weddings. Brought back memories of my own wedding, not that I was a tall Marine, far from it, just brought the memories. One day, when I am not writing at midnight I will have to tell the story of how the wife and I met and our wedding. I was in trouble often in planning it. Today was much better, show up, sit back, enjoy, eat, dance, go home.

Happy Wedding Day, and many good wishes Bride and Groom Andrea and Brandon.


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