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Saturday, we went to a wedding in Richmond. I hadn't been terribly keen on going to this, as our (or at least my) relationship to the bride is nebulous, to say the least. (The bride is my brother-in-law's wife's niece!) But in any case, I had left the decision as to whether to go up to my wife, so I guess I can't really complain about going.
I hadn't really paid much attention to the invitation, but it didn't surprise me terribly to find myself at a rather lovely Catholic Church in Richmond, as my BIL's in-laws are Catholic. However, when we got into the church and I started looking over the program, I was surprised to find that we were in for an actual Nuptial Mass, complete with Latin responses and great classical music! My attitude was starting to change for the better (though my wife was becoming less enchanted, I suspect!). It was a lovely mass, with some amazingly talented voices singing the Latin responses, and I thoroughly enjoyed explaining the Latin to my older daughter.
Afterward, I was talking to someone at the reception, and I was trying to remember the last actual Nuptial Mass I attended. If I'm not mistaken, I was an altar boy for that one, which means it was more than twenty years ago! I was a bit surprised that it had been that long, but very few of the weddings I've attended in the meantime have involved Catholics. While I might have liked to have had a mass for our wedding, Mrs. Qgeek is not Catholic and objected pretty strongly to her wedding being that long!
I ended up having a pretty good time, all things considered. I have a full slate of weddings on tap this year, with my immediate supervisor getting married in April (suburban Maryland), my best man getting married in June, with me in the wedding party (upstate New York), and a cousin also getting married in June (Delaware). Add all this to our usual rounds of travel, and its looking to be a busy year.
I hadn't really paid much attention to the invitation, but it didn't surprise me terribly to find myself at a rather lovely Catholic Church in Richmond, as my BIL's in-laws are Catholic. However, when we got into the church and I started looking over the program, I was surprised to find that we were in for an actual Nuptial Mass, complete with Latin responses and great classical music! My attitude was starting to change for the better (though my wife was becoming less enchanted, I suspect!). It was a lovely mass, with some amazingly talented voices singing the Latin responses, and I thoroughly enjoyed explaining the Latin to my older daughter.
Afterward, I was talking to someone at the reception, and I was trying to remember the last actual Nuptial Mass I attended. If I'm not mistaken, I was an altar boy for that one, which means it was more than twenty years ago! I was a bit surprised that it had been that long, but very few of the weddings I've attended in the meantime have involved Catholics. While I might have liked to have had a mass for our wedding, Mrs. Qgeek is not Catholic and objected pretty strongly to her wedding being that long!
I ended up having a pretty good time, all things considered. I have a full slate of weddings on tap this year, with my immediate supervisor getting married in April (suburban Maryland), my best man getting married in June, with me in the wedding party (upstate New York), and a cousin also getting married in June (Delaware). Add all this to our usual rounds of travel, and its looking to be a busy year.
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Date: 2006-01-10 05:37 pm (UTC)(no subject)
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