Go Pass a Good Time (Wordless Wednesday) and Words for Wednesday

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Linking up with Wordless Wednesday and Sandee at Comedy Plus.     

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Words for Wednesday was begun by Delores and has become a moveable feast of word or picture or music prompts to encourage us to write stories, poems, or whatever strikes our fancy.    

This month, the prompts are being provided by C. Lee McKenzie.     

enchanted

lavish

scurrying

bouquet

smash

anyway

and/or

champagne

caviar

candlelight

heart-shaped

flee

excitement

If i'm involved, you know it's not going to be an ENCHANTED wedding, there will be mess ups, mix ups, and general mayhem involved in some way.

That's okay, those are the things you remember, right?  That's what makes for the EXCITEMENT.

The florist didn't get my updated list and sent flowers for 4 bridesmaids and one flower girl instead of 3 and 2.  The BOUQUET, well, let's just say it looked better in pictures than in person and i wasn't sad to toss it at the end.

The limousine company made a boo-boo.  They sent all the limos to the house instead of sending one to the reception venue to pick up the groom and groomsmen.  The caterer at the venue, a friend of the family, was about to stuff all of them in the back of the catering van and bring them himself when the limo pulled up.

When we arrived at the church, the candles for the CANDLELIGHT wedding hadn't been lit.  The groomsmen rounded up cigarette lighters from as many smokers as they could find and ran up and down the aisles getting the candles lit.

During the wedding, the lights were dimmed of course.  What the nice lady who'd dimmed them didn't know what that she'd also accidentally turned off the organ.  The sweet organist went to play the recessional and there was a flurry of lights flashing on and off all over the church as she looked for the right switch.  The organist finally had to come out from behind the organ and cross to the piano, and everyone saw that she was wearing the most beautiful wedding worthy blouse imaginable and pedal-pusher pants with flip/flop shoes.  Under normal circumstances, no one would have known as she'd have just been seen from behind the organ.  Thinking back, she was dressed zoom-meeting-worthy before Zoom was even a thought in anyone's mind.

Our wedding wasn't LAVISH by extremely wealthy standards.  My dress had been chosen off the discontinued rack (it was beautiful to me and that's all i cared about).  CHAMPAGNE, yes, CAVIAR, no way.  Everything in the wedding wasn't HEART-SHAPED, and this was in the day before you had to send your guests home with elaborate mementos.

The receiving line lacked bridesmaids, they'd decamped to the restroom and didn't know they were needed until we'd greeted just about everyone!

We didn't have a sit down dinner, just tons of finger-food served by waiters from the catering company SCURRYING among the people, or serve yourself some of the more elaborate dishes at the buffet.

This was also in the days before it was custom to SMASH the wedding cake into each other's faces.  We held a piece of cake together and each took a bite at the same time.  Sweetie got all cake, and i got all frosting, but since he's a bigger fan of cake than frosting, and i'm the opposite, that was just fine.

After dancing and eating and just enjoying a good time as much as we could with a photographer chasing us all over, Sweetie and i changed clothes, said good-bye, and slipped out.  We'd hidden the car so it wasn't a sight to behold and we didn't have to FLEE.

That's going to be 37-years-ago this summer.  A blink, really.  Watching what people go through to plan weddings today, i'm glad we got it right the first time.

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Today is:

Curling Is Cool Day -- embrace the Olympic sport the whole family can play; sponsored by Wellcat Holidays

Defenders of the Motherland Day (formerly Red Army Day) -- Russia and some former Soviet Republics

     Homeland Defenders' Day -- Kyrguzstan

     Motherland Defenders' Day -- Transdniestria

Diesel Engine Day -- Rudolph Diesel received his patent in Germany on this day in 1893

Easy Divorce Day -- marking the passage, in 1915, of the Nevada law granting easy divorces after only a 6-month residency, the first such in the US

Inconvenience Yourself™ Day -- enrich your life by looking for ways to make a positive impact on the world, even if it inconveniences you 

International Dog Biscuit Appreciation Day -- while i can't figure out who started this one, even Mr. Google says it's celebrated today

Iwo Jima Day -- commemoration of the US flag raising

National Banana Bread Day

National Day -- Brunei

National Rationalization Day

Pebbles Day -- Pebbles Flintstone was born this day around 10,000BC

Republic Day (Mashramani) -- Guyana

St. Milburga of Shropshire's Day (Patron of birds)

St. Polycarp of Smyrna's Day (Patron against dysentery and earache)

St. Serenus the Gardener's Day (Patron of bachelors, falsely accused people)

Teal Ribbon Day -- Australia (wear a teal ribbon, raise awareness of ovarian cancer) 

Terminalia -- Ancient Roman Calendar (festival for Terminus, god of land boundary markers)

Birthdays Today:

Emily Blunt, 1983

Niecy Nash, 1970

Michael Dell, 1965

"Bobby" Bonilla, 1963

Howard Jones, 1955

Patricia Richardson, 1951

"Too Tall" Jones, 1951

John Sanford, 1944

Johnny Winter, 1944

Peter Fonda, 1939

Sylvia Chase, 1938

Donna J. Stone, 1933

Paul Tibbets, 1915

William L. Shirer, 1904

Victor Fleming, 1889

W.E.B. DuBois, 1868

Emma Hart Willard, 1787

George Frederic Handel, 1685

Tokugawa Tsunayoshi, 1646

Samuel Pepys, 1633

Debuting/Premiering Today:

"Fortune and Men's Eyes"(Play), 1967

"Pinocchio"(Disney Cartoon), 1940

Today in History:

Emperor Diocletian orders the general persecution of Christians, 303

Traditional date for the publication of the Gutenberg Bible, the first Western book printed with movable type, 1455

France begins its fifth "holy war" against the Huguenots, 1574

Baron von Steuben arrives at Valley Forge, Pennsylvania to help to train the Continental Army, 1778

The first US raw-cotton-to-cloth mill is founded, in Waltham, Massachusetts, 1813

The first US pharmaceutical college is organized, the College of Apothecaries in Philidelphia, 1821

Santa Anna begins his siege of the Alamo, 1836

John Newman leaves the Anglican Church and is welcomed into the Roman Catholic Church, 1846

In Mexico, American troops under General Zachary Taylor defeat Mexican General Antonio López de Santa Anna, 1847

Great Britain formally recognises the independence of the Boers in the area between the Orange and Vaal rivers, signing the Bloemfontein Convention with the Orange Free State, 1854

The London Times publishes the world's first classified ad, 1886

Charles Martin Hall, assisted by his sister Julia Brainerd Hall, produced the first samples of man-made aluminum, 1886 

The French/Italian Riviera is struck by an earthquake that leaves 2,000 dead, 1887

The Tootsie Roll is introduced by Leo Hirshfield, 1896

In France, Emile Zola is imprisoned for writing his "J'accuse" letter accusing the government of anti-Semitism and wrongly jailing Alfred Dreyfus, 1898

The Cuban state of Guantanamo is leased to the US, 1903

The US acquires control of the Panama Canal Zone for $10 million, 1904

The Rotary Club International is founded in Chicago, 1905

Russian Tsar Nicholas II dissolves the Diet of Finland, 1909

The US state of Nevada enacts a convenient divorce law, 1915

The February Revolution begins in Russia, 1917

Plutonium is first produced and isolated by Dr. Glenn T. Seaborg, 1941

The International Organization for Standardization (ISO) is founded, 1847

The first mass inoculation with the Salk vaccine begins in Pittsburgh, 1954

First meeting of the Southeast Asia Treaty Organization (SEATO), 1955

The United States Environmental Protection Agency announces its intent to buy out and evacuate the dioxin-contaminated community of Times Beach, Missouri, 1983

Supernova 1987a is seen in the Large Magellanic Cloud, 1987

A small fire occurs in the Russian Space station, Mir, 1997

An avalanche destroys the Austrian village of Galtür, killing 31, 1999

Unknown criminals pour more than 2.5 million liters of diesel oil and other hydrocarbons into the river Lambro, in Northern Italy, causing an environmental disaster, 2010

The journal Nature Human Behaviorpublishes a study of the discovery of the oldest Australian rock art, a 17,300-year-old painting of a kangaroo in the Kimberly region of Western Australia, 2021