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Yesterday, I went with

bethje to the wedding of her cousin Bobby. It was all right, but I'm usually somewhat uncomfortable being in crowded, noisy places for long. When Beth was talking to someone else (usually her cousin Dorothea), I couldn't hear the conversation at all, so I felt left out. I guess that's not a problem with the wedding itself, though. I did notice that the preacher told the same joke as the one at Bobby's dad's wedding last year. The food was actually quite good. I had a meatball sandwich, a stuffed shell, green beans, and rolls with butter. The music selection was a bit odd, because it started out with pretty much nothing but bland old stuff, and then switched to rap music toward the end.

Going to weddings sometimes makes me wonder what I'd want my own wedding to be like, if I were ever to have one (which I seriously doubt I will). I think Beth (assuming she's the one I marry ;)) and I would make the music selection ourselves, although I'd probably let her do most of it. If I were to decide myself, I'd probably pick a lot of obscure stuff that would confuse people. I'd definitely want to include SOME stuff from my own music collection, though. Maybe I'd try to come up with some good instrumentals, since then people not knowing the lyrics wouldn't be a concern. Even though we're gentiles, I'd probably want to include some of that klezmer music that they apparently play at Jewish weddings (at least according to the media; I've never actually BEEN to a Jewish wedding, so I wouldn't know how accurate that conception is). And we'd probably have "It's Not My Birthday," by They Might Be Giants, played at some point. Beth says she's want to have sushi appetizers, and I told her I'd want to have little slices of appetizer-style pizza. It probably says something about me that my imaginary wedding details are so focused on music and food. {g}

On a completely different note, I understand that they're raising the price of stamps again next year. Unfortunately, I just ran out of stamps, and I don't want to buy another sheet of stamps that will be practically worthless in another two months. I guess I'll have to pay postage on each item as I mail it. It's not like I really send that many letters.

While I'm complaining about things, I might as well mention that my cell phone just today told me about a message from Wednesday morning. Come on, that's ridiculous! It wasn't anything all that important, but if it keeps up, it could cause problems in the future. I wish there were some way to get the phone company to fix that, but I know there probably isn't. I'm already signed up for a two-year contract, so what reason would they have to care whether I'm satisfied with the service? Stupid phone companies.

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I went to a Jewish wedding this past spring and there was no klezmer music. The liberal media has lied to us about Jewish weddings! ;)

When Scot and I got married, we chose most of the music ourselves. We hired a club DJ though and were basically able to just give him a list of bands we liked and a few songs that we definitely wanted to play. I would totally recommend using a club DJ over a "wedding DJ". When we told our DJ not to play "group dance" songs (i.e. Macarena, the Chicken Dance, YMCA, etc.), he listened -- unlike the DJs some of my friends had the misfortune of hiring for their weddings. (In one case, the DJ told the couple that people expected the songs and, therefore, he would play them no matter what. Personally, I wouldn't have said "Fine. We won't hire you then!" But, that's just me.)

Yeah, I've heard that about people expecting the group dance songs. I tend to doubt most people in either Beth's or my family would want to participate in the group dancing, though. I probably wouldn't have hired that DJ who insisted on playing them anyway, because, well, why would I pay for someone who wasn't even going to listen to what I wanted? Of course, this is all hypothetical anyway, but still.

A few years ago, we went to the wedding of a girl Beth used to be friends with, and I think she and the groom actually picked all the songs themselves. A fair number of them sucked, mind you, but at least no one was being PAID to choose sucky songs.

Heh, I was telling my uncle, like, two days ago that I would NOT have a DJ who was going to play the Chicken Dance and the Electric Slide and all that junk. Then he told me that I would have to, because people expect it. And he's kind of right. At the wedding last night, the only such song played was the Electric Slide. And a good number of people ran out onto the dancefloor for it. But not a single one of them was on my side of the family. My family (and I assume Nathan's) don't like to participate.

I really couldn't see most of the people in my family participating in stuff like that.

Even though we're gentiles, I'd probably want to include some of that klezmer music that they apparently play at Jewish weddings (at least according to the media; I've never actually BEEN to a Jewish wedding, so I wouldn't know how accurate that conception is).

Although, I swear, I have had AT LEAST one but I'm pretty sure more dreams in which you appeared and you also happened to be Jewish. Like, it's reoccurring. But then people randomly being Jewish is a theme that actually turns up relatively often in my dreams. I still can't think how to interpret it.

Actually, I'd be wary of doing ALL your own choice of music.

jenhime's idea of getting a DJ who will play some music you select is a better idea. I heard of a wedding where the couple-- actually just the bride-- just made CDs of songs she liked and played that, and the general crowd reaction was that this was INCREDIBLY BORING. A professional deejay knows stuff about timing and reading the crowd and can play the music that will get people up and dancing and having a good time. A wedding reception isn't about listening to the music, it's about dancing to it. And to tell the truth, as long as people are having fun, and you get a few important songs played (like our deejay didn't believe that playing "Smoke on the Water" would be a huge hit with our particular guests, but we convinced him to do it anyway, and he was pleasantly surprised), you don't really notice the music in your memories. But of course, seeing as you're not actually planning a wedding anytime soon, you need not mind this advice, anyway.

I had a dream where I was telling someone that one of my cats was Jewish. Now I kind of feel like my cat David really is.

See, I never thought about how a professional DJ can read the crowd and all that. I guess last night's guy could read us all well enough to know that my cousins and I would get pretty excited about the Hand Jive song from Grease, something I wouldn't think to play on my own. None of us got up to dance. My family isn't into participating, but we were excited to hear it.

Now I kind of feel like my cat David really is.

He doesn't keep kosher, though.

Actually, I'd be wary of doing ALL your own choice of music.

I guess that's true. I've come to realize that there's a lot of music that I love, but other people find really boring. I can't understand it, but it works in the opposite direction, too. I guess the important thing is to make sure they play the songs you absolutely want played, and that they avoid the ones you definitely DON'T want played.

We're gonna have metroids at our wedding.

Won't they try to eat the guests?

Well, you can always buy stamps and then when the rates change buy 2 cent or whatever stamps to use with all the old ones you have left.

True, but that's kind of a pain, so I was hoping to avoid it. Honestly, if they're going to be switching over the stamps in a little over a month, I don't see why they don't just start selling the new ones already.

What I might end up doing is buying just a few stamps (like ten or so) to tide me over until the end of the year. That's assuming the post office will let me buy stamps in that capacity, but I don't see why they wouldn't.

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