Quotes from this Weekend's Family Wedding

This weekend I was in Hanover, N.H. for my brother-in-law's wedding. Congrats to Dan & Deirdre; here's some color commentary that might not make it into the photo album

• "Are you wearing a bra under that?"
  --Mother-in-law, looking at my backless dress
• "Well, there's good wine, and there's good for the price,"
  --a distinction I made to my brother-in-law, the groom, when we went to buy booze for the rehearsal dinner
• "Let's buy the Bud Light for later in the night, when people are too drunk to know the difference,"  --H-band, on his libation-buying strategy before the rehearsal dinner
• "They've got to pick up stuff at K-Mart for the rehearsal dinner, so you should go with Marilyn--waitaminute, she's got five in her car. OK you go with Mom and Dad, and make sure Jackie and Steph have a ride--oh wait, they're getting here later. When do Grandma and Grandpa need to get there?"
  --Logistics planning during complimentary continental breakfast at the Hampton Inn
• "Where's Grandpa? I thought you said you were taking him ... Oh well, I guess I'll have to go buy prunes later. "
  --My father-in-law, upon learning that he was to have taken his parents to the wedding rehearsal and turning around in a parking lot
• "Doesn't he know I'm old and in heels!"
  --Grandma Phyllis, walking across the Dartmouth Green to the chapel for the wedding rehearsal
• "Hey Gunny,"
  --Grampa Seymour, a former WWII Navy sub seaman, busting Cousin Sidney's balls. Apparently Cousin Sidney was a Navy gunman, but was never stationed on a boat
• "I was researching the migratory patterns of chipmunks. Later in New York I specialized in bats."
  --H-band's second cousin Ethan's answer to my question, "What were you studying in grad school?"
• "I wonder if Ethan's seen Fast, Cheap, and Out of Control?"
  --H-band's retort to me, after chatting with Cousin Ethan and referring to a film about someone with an eerily similar profession
• "But what if the tuxedo's scratchy?"
  --My father-in-law, Arnie, protesting when his sons looked at the 30-year-old set of Yale longjohns (complete with with ass-flap) he was going to wear underneath his outfit to his son's wedding
• "If you wear those, Dad, I'll kill you."
  --The groom
• "You HAVE to look me up next time you are in New Jersey. We'll have lunch at the mall!"
  --Cousin Lisa
• "I want a picture of that couch, and the cat you said was on it."
  --Great Aunt Hilda, 93, referring to the note I sent after my wedding last year thanking her for her gift: a donation toward new furniture
• "You and you, in! And you and you, out!"
  --Cousin Janet, who took on photo-wrangling duty
• "How are your fire-extinguishing skills?"
  --Me, to my father-in-law, during the lighting of the unity candle, during which the mother of the bride was having extreme difficulty with the Bic lighter
• "Should I keep in the joke about the blow-up doll?"
  --My husband, the best man, five minutes before toasting his brother
• "I see you've learned a thing or two from your wife about exaggeration."  --the Groom, after my husband, the Best Man, toasted him
• "I don't have a lotta money; I have enough. And this...THIS! You can't buy this."
  --Grandpa Seymour, looking out at his adult grandkids

Comments

[H-band]

For the record, it was Labatts Blue that served as the back up libation for the ex-frat boys.

It was a great wedding, to say the least, and these are some great quotes.

Grandpa's right. You can't buy it. Lovely post :)

[genevieve]

whoops, that was me. Sorry, Jory!

[Joy]

I just love Jesse's family Jor....wonderful characters and beautiful souls....every one of them. Great list to go along with what sounds like a great time. ~Mom

[Sherri]

And to think... I never knew chipmunks were migratory. You learn something new everyday!

[Elizabeth Michel]

Great snapshots, Jory, of a wonderful weekend. I'm so glad that you and I had some time together. And you and Jesse were such a great help to Daniel in organizing the rehearsal dinner.

I do have one small quibble: Dad and I had been planning to buy figs, not prunes, when we were rerouted back to the motel to pick up Grandma and Grandpa. We never did buy those figs, but when we got home we found a few sweet ones left on the trees in our garden. Something ate the rest while we were gone, perhaps raccoons or birds. We've never seen any chipmunks migrating through our yard, but maybe Cousin Ethan knows something we don't know.

Love,

Mom

[Arnold Markman]

Why would anyone be critical of an "ass-flap?"
How else could one meet one's bodily functions without disrobing completely in the bathroom stall. And with all the controversy about extraneous foot movements in Mens' Room these days, it would be asking for trouble or entrapment.

[Social Citizen]

These are too funny! I love stuff like this. Kinda like OverheardinNewYork.com.

[Social Citizen]

These are too funny! I love stuff like this. Kinda like OverheardinNewYork.com.

[Wedding Italy]

LOL, some of these are hysterical! Thanks for sharing with the rest of us :-)