Surviving the wedding season
admin June 2nd, 2008
As of 31st May the unofficial wedding season will commence, a season in my eyes more expensive than Christmas! After all the engagement presents, engagement parties, hen parties/stag doo’s, outfit- including hat- buying or renting of kilt, wedding present buying and then the ridiculously overpriced reception party you are left skint, times this by three and you have the hell that is to be my summer!
Putting aside the gross-overspending weddings can be good fun and with them veering away from the traditional they can turn out to be quite the good day out.
With the Marriage and Civil Partnership laws allowing couples to get hitched where ever takes their fancy Scottish weddings could not be anymore fun! Interesting venues include Edinburgh Zoo or Loch Lomond , last year one of my friends attended a wedding on the beaches of Leith with the happy couple saying their vows framed by the Fourth Road Bridge, this of course followed by fireworks! A bit chilly perhaps, but somewhat more romantic than a hotel.
If you are fortunate enough to be invited to a Loch Lomond wedding then be prepared to see the bride making an spectacular entrance in a hot air balloon or seaplane. Something guaranteed to liven up any ceremony! My favourite wedding entrance has to be seeing one my next door neighbour’s daughter pimping it up to the church in a stretch Hummer limo … the image kept me in giggles through the entire service.
Although the ceremony is probably the most important part of the entire day; what with the exchanging of vows and blessing blah blah blah… the bit we are really interested in is the reception. Good food, plenty of drink and a mediocre DJ can usually keep a reception going till the early hours but being a chocoholic it all lies with the wedding cake - it has to look good and it has to taste good. The last wedding I attended the cake was two 2 iced figurines of the couple (freakily spot on) sitting atop three sponge filled iced cushions. Alas, I was too drunk to actually to get some for myself but I am told it was delicious. Sponge cushions, however, is tame- should you want it there are cake specialists that can create your very own Helter Skelter (the crazy spinny slide carnival ride) cake complete with figurines mid slide, or for the grooms little princess (pass the sick bucket) you can order a Disneyesque castle complete with glitter fairy dust.
All we have to do now is hope that our soon to be married friends will choose to indulge us with some of these unique touches, after all given that we have to remortgage our house to attend the bloody thing they should at the very least put on a good show.
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