Matthew and Kim's Wedding

Besides hunting for rings, Daorcey and I attended Kim and Matthew's wedding. Daorcey has been Matthew's friend since playschool, so he was a groomsman. So thanks to Matthew and Kim for inviting for us.

The wedding was beautiful. Kim was stunning and Matthew looked very handsome. I thought a black vest and tie would be too dark but it looked nice on him. The rest of the groomsmen looked good for the ceremony and most of dinner, but when that was over, off came the vests and ties. The open bar might have had something to do with it too.

The speeches for the most part were good, except poor Chris got the short end of the stick. He was characterized as a "computer geek," "a professional student" and "single because he's an accountant." And apparently Daorcey works for Petro-Canada which prompted him to say, "Great now people think I pump gas."

While Daorcey was away playing groomsman, I was fielding the same question over and over again: "Well, taking good notes?" Yes, I was noting what I liked and didn't like, but there were no notes taken and I was not paying rapt attention to every detail. Oh well, with the wedding pretty soon I won't have to answer such questions ever again. Poor Toni, Brad's fiancée; she has to endure one more wedding with those questions.

It was a bit strange to see the camping crew there. Usually when we see them it's jeans and a Tilley hat, but at the wedding it was suits and ties so it was a little disorienting.

This was the first wedding for this group of friends. Matthew, Daorcey and Brad, friends since playschool, are all getting married at the same time. It's funny when you think about that but I guess weddings come in waves.

On the way home to Calgary, Daorcey and I dreamed up these funny t-shirts. On the front there would be some cool logo and on the back the text "Wedding Tour 2005" plus all the dates and locations of the weddings we would be attending like Will and Melissa's, Brad and Toni have to attend Toni's cousin's wedding and Kim and Matthew are going to Kim and Darren's. So you can see everyone will be wedding-ed out by the time August rolls around.

And today we're doing the first bit of registry stuff at the Bay. We have to meet with the registry coordinator or something. Maybe we're being lectured on the dangers of the scanning gun like don't point it at anyone's eye.