Saturday, May 27, 2006

Wedding Crashers

It's Saturday night and I'm supposed to be packing to go to SBP but I'd rather blog. Today was really stinkin' funny. This morning I went to a wedding with Matt, mistake #1 (j/k). I'm getting ready this morning and for some reason I start to feel weird (women really do have intuition). I'm thinking it might be really weird for me to be at this wedding, eventhough I'm supposed to be Matt's date (plutonic of course). I 'm sort of distant acquaintances with the couple (but definitely not close enough for them to invite me to their wedding)and they know me and Matt don't date so I'm thinking they might just think I randomly showed up. So when I get in the car I say, "Matt, you don't think people will think it's weird that I'm at this wedding?". To which he replies, "No way, you're my date." So I assume all is well. We get there and sit down on the back row and it's seriously like the smallest wedding I've ever been to. Matt leans over and whispers "There's like nobody here" so I reply, "I know I feel really weird since I wasn't directly invited". Then he says, "Well, they didn't send me an invitation but I saw them out one night and they told me I could come". AAAAAAAAAAh! Who invites a date to a wedding they really weren't invited to. I felt so awkward, I told him we weren't allowed to eat any food since we weren't real guests - but I changed my mind after I saw the food and I think we were one of the only people who went back for seconds. My old friend Boojie was there and it was so good to talk to him but he made so much fun of me for being at the wedding that I think most of the guests knew I was an impostor. There was this seperate room where the bride and groom were cutting the cake and it was really small so they were like the wedding party can go in and any guests that will fit. The two of us stayed at the table and ate seconds until we were the only ones left in the reception area and we felt obligated to go into the cake room and talk to people. Matt greeted the couple but I hung back on the wall because I seriously didn't know what I would say - "Hey I mean I know we've only talked like twice but I'm super glad you guys got married", or "I was really hungry and I thought it'd be fun to get dressed up and get a free lunch - thanks for putting this thing on". I'm never going to be able to look that couple in the eye again, good thing they won't be living in Birmingham. Living on the edge baby!

2 comments:

alisa said...

renee, you make me laugh. i only wish i could have heard this one told verbally in your animated way. i love you.

jeff said...

Thats great!!! I wish it was recorded. Did you wear sunglasses inside to disguise yourself?