# Going to a wedding **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [June 18, 2009, 11:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/going-to-a-wedding/500236 "2009-06-18T23:46:10Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 15\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![gigi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a587f6/32.png) [@gigi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gigi)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2009, 9:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/going-to-a-wedding/500236/21 "2009-06-22T21:52:20Z")
> [@Jolly\_Roger](#): > > Man, most of my immediate family are gone. It felt good to have someone tell me I was family to them. I was already grinning about the wise words concerning prejudging _anyone_ and then this–I’ve got a lump in my throat now. 🙂 I’m so happy for your great weekend! ---
**Author:** ![Sigmagirl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c89c15/32.png) [@Sigmagirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sigmagirl)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2009, 10:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/going-to-a-wedding/500236/22 "2009-06-22T22:21:53Z")
> [@Jolly\_Roger](#): > > When I get settled I’ll try to post some of the photos! How will we know which one is you?😛 ---
**Author:** ![Jolly\_Roger](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/91b2a8/32.png) [@Jolly\_Roger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jolly_Roger)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2009, 10:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/going-to-a-wedding/500236/23 "2009-06-22T22:23:54Z")
While I’m not a big fan of putting my own image onlie, [this is a pic of the bride, eith me in the background](http://s366.photobucket.com/albums/oo105/d4everman/?action=view¤t=IMG_0502.jpg), so to speak. This is a photo of my wife, and her mom, sisters and brothers. [Keep in mind this does not include offspring from them and in laws.](http://s366.photobucket.com/albums/oo105/d4everman/?action=view¤t=IMG_0492.jpg) This is a large family. ---
**Author:** ![thirdwarning](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ecccb3/32.png) [@thirdwarning](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/thirdwarning)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2009, 10:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/going-to-a-wedding/500236/24 "2009-06-22T22:24:47Z")
Smiling and a little teary-eyed here. Sounds like good people to be family with. Try not to let it be so long until the next time, okay? I’m glad everybody had a good time. And I’m seconding the pictures request. Man in uniform, hmmm. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![suranyi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e36b37/32.png) [@suranyi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/suranyi)\ **Post date:** [June 23, 2009, 12:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/going-to-a-wedding/500236/25 "2009-06-23T00:23:16Z")
This is one of the best threads I’ve read on the SDMB in a long time! ---
**Author:** ![Monstera\_deliciosa](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/monstera_deliciosa/32/109_2.png) [@Monstera\_deliciosa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Monstera_deliciosa)\ **Post date:** [June 23, 2009, 8:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/going-to-a-wedding/500236/26 "2009-06-23T20:44:09Z")
> [@Jolly\_Roger](#): > > While I’m not a big fan of putting my own image onlie, [this is a pic of the bride, eith me in the background](http://s366.photobucket.com/albums/oo105/d4everman/?action=view¤t=IMG_0502.jpg), so to speak. The bride is lovely, and you look so proud (and handsome). Thanks for sharing the photos, and for the sweet, touching thread. ---
**Author:** ![Ferret\_Herder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/e47774/32.png) [@Ferret\_Herder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ferret_Herder)\ **Post date:** [June 23, 2009, 11:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/going-to-a-wedding/500236/27 "2009-06-23T23:41:49Z")
I bet you’ve never been so glad to have been wrong. 🙂 What a wonderful experience, and great pictures! ---
**Author:** ![Jolly\_Roger](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/91b2a8/32.png) [@Jolly\_Roger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jolly_Roger)\ **Post date:** [June 23, 2009, 11:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/going-to-a-wedding/500236/28 "2009-06-23T23:56:49Z")
> [@Monstera\_deliciosa](#): > > The bride is lovely, and you look so proud (and handsome). Thanks for sharing the photos, and for the sweet, touching thread. Thanks! And **Ferret Herder** …I have stopped referring to the wedding as “my wife’s niece” and I’ve been saying “_ **MY** _ niece”. Because, while I still have a niece and nephew from my late sister and a few cousins and unts and uncles left, my wife’s family made me feel like family too. After meeting them again after all of these years and meeting some of her aunts and uncles I’d never met before, I just know they don’t refer to me as the “colored guy she married”. They were great, and I told you that her mother cried when I came in the door she was so happy I’d come. Heck, during the wedding dance when the bride and groom had their solo dance, my mother in law came up and grabbed my hand, buried her face in my ribbons and said “I am so happy.” while crying. That she grabbed my hand when 10 of her 11 children were there meant a lot to me. Wouldn’t it be great if the whole world could feel like this? ---
**Author:** ![Jolly\_Roger](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/91b2a8/32.png) [@Jolly\_Roger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jolly_Roger)\ **Post date:** [June 24, 2009, 1:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/going-to-a-wedding/500236/29 "2009-06-24T01:04:33Z")
I’m still going through photos and trying clean up the poor ones… (camera was really low onm power, so the auto focuse was not really good)…[but her is the bride and groom on their first dance as man and wife.](http://s366.photobucket.com/albums/oo105/d4everman/?action=edit¤t=IMG_0512.jpg) [This was touching enough to make an old grouch like me feel tears. Amanda does not have the use of her legs, so her husband picked her up and carried her through the dance.](http://s366.photobucket.com/albums/oo105/d4everman/?action=view¤t=IMG_0516.jpg) Maybe you had to be there, but you could feel the love in their eyes and movements. I was overwhelmed by it. _ **I am so happy for them.** _ ---
**Author:** ![Scarlett67](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/scarlett67/32/7387_2.png) [@Scarlett67](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scarlett67)\ **Post date:** [June 24, 2009, 11:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/going-to-a-wedding/500236/30 "2009-06-24T11:59:47Z")
> [@Monstera\_deliciosa](#): > > The bride is lovely, and you look so proud (and handsome). Thanks for sharing the photos, and for the sweet, touching thread. Seconded! > [@Jolly Roger](#): > > I’m still going through photos and trying clean up the poor ones… > (camera was really low on power, so the auto focus was not really good)…but here is the bride and groom on their first dance as man and wife. > > This was touching enough to make an old grouch like me feel tears. Amanda does not have the use of her legs, so her husband picked her up and carried her through the dance. Hmm, all I see is a buncha cats. 🙂 Just kidding, more great photos. They both look so attractive . . . and happy. Ain’t love great! ---
**Author:** ![Jolly\_Roger](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/91b2a8/32.png) [@Jolly\_Roger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jolly_Roger)\ **Post date:** [June 24, 2009, 10:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/going-to-a-wedding/500236/31 "2009-06-24T22:40:18Z")
You could see that they love each other at the wedding. It was really great. ---
**Author:** ![thirdwarning](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ecccb3/32.png) [@thirdwarning](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/thirdwarning)\ **Post date:** [June 24, 2009, 10:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/going-to-a-wedding/500236/32 "2009-06-24T22:53:27Z")
I do love wedding pictures where they actually look happy. And those two do. Now aren’t you glad you went? 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![gigi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a587f6/32.png) [@gigi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gigi)\ **Post date:** [June 24, 2009, 11:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/going-to-a-wedding/500236/33 "2009-06-24T23:48:23Z")
> [@Jolly\_Roger](#): > > Amanda does not have the use of her legs, so her husband picked her up and carried her through the dance OK, now I’m all verklempt! ---
**Author:** ![Jolly\_Roger](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/91b2a8/32.png) [@Jolly\_Roger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jolly_Roger)\ **Post date:** [June 25, 2009, 12:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/going-to-a-wedding/500236/34 "2009-06-25T00:11:55Z")
What does verklempt mean? ---
**Author:** ![gigi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a587f6/32.png) [@gigi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gigi)\ **Post date:** [June 25, 2009, 5:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/going-to-a-wedding/500236/35 "2009-06-25T17:17:57Z")
“choked with emotion” 🙂 [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/going-to-a-wedding/500236.md?page=1)