Oh my god, I just had the best day of my life

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A really good friend of mine got married today, and I was best man at his wedding. All of the old people from the neighborhood were there; all the kids. It was so great. It was so incredible and amazing to see everybody, these people I hadn't seen in years, wowowowow!!!! Yeah, you know what I mean. It was like, SO COOOLL. Okay!!!
I ended up making out with this girl in the bathroom! Wow, it was the way a wedding should end, she said. Ha ha ha. Who was it - Sonny in the Godafather? I felt sort of like him.
But beyond the hookup part, which was nice, was the fact that I really felt like I knew where home was for the first time in my life -- it was right there among all those people that I grew up with, with common histories and stories and a shared sense of community or something like it. It made me really not want to move somewhere else, to some strange fucked up town and try to make it there. I want to make it here, wow wow!

― 57 7th (calstars), Monday, 4 October 2004 00:43 (twenty years ago)

Uh.

― Andrew (enneff), Monday, 4 October 2004 00:52 (twenty years ago)

this sounds slightly less amazing than you think it is. I'm glad you're happy, though.

― Gold Teeth II (kenan), Monday, 4 October 2004 00:53 (twenty years ago)

Wow you made out with someone! What does it feel like??

― Tous Les Garcons S'Appellent Little Lord Travolta (nordicskilla), Monday, 4 October 2004 00:54 (twenty years ago)

you guys are mean

― amateur!!!st (amateurist), Monday, 4 October 2004 01:00 (twenty years ago)

I thought nicks post was sweet! :( Ya cynical bastids.

― Trayce (trayce), Monday, 4 October 2004 01:15 (twenty years ago)

Misery love company. Happiness, on the other hand, attracts miserable sods like moths.

― nader (nader), Monday, 4 October 2004 01:18 (twenty years ago)

making out with people you meet at weddings is awesome!

― tokyo rosemary (rosemary), Monday, 4 October 2004 01:32 (twenty years ago)

It wouldnt be at most of the weddings Ive been to - they were all family! Eww.

― Trayce (trayce), Monday, 4 October 2004 02:24 (twenty years ago)

I like the story! I love weddings too.

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Monday, 4 October 2004 02:29 (twenty years ago)

rosemary otm

― amateur!!!st (amateurist), Monday, 4 October 2004 02:35 (twenty years ago)

Yeah, it's a nice post, Nick. I love weddings.

― Kevin Gilchrist (Mr Fusion), Monday, 4 October 2004 02:36 (twenty years ago)

I liked the stuff about community. And if community includes making out with girls in the bathroom, then count me in!

― Hurting (Hurting), Monday, 4 October 2004 03:09 (twenty years ago)

Yeah, the 'home' thing is OTM. I love that feeling when you are around loads of people you haven't seen in ages, and they're all laughing and sharing stories. It's nice to sit in the background and watch them for a little while. It does feel great. Unfortunately, I haven't felt that way in years. Glad Nick felt it at the wedding though.

― Kevin Gilchrist (Mr Fusion), Monday, 4 October 2004 03:11 (twenty years ago)

I also like when weddings have tasty hors d'oeurves.

― tokyo rosemary (rosemary), Monday, 4 October 2004 03:28 (twenty years ago)

"Unfortunately, I haven't felt that way in years"

Sadly, I lack that feeling. I have a small, spread out family, and I've moved several times -- no more than the average American, but enough to feel rootless.

― Hurting (Hurting), Monday, 4 October 2004 03:30 (twenty years ago)

Dude, that sounds most excellent! good for you.

― PinXorchiXoR (Pinkpanther), Monday, 4 October 2004 10:36 (twenty years ago)

I think the story is great, and can imagine just how amazing it must feel. This thread makes me glad I'm so rooted in London.

Although on first reading I thought you'd made out with the bride. That would be bad.

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Monday, 4 October 2004 10:42 (twenty years ago)

rockist

― Brigadier Rainham Steele, Mrs (blueski), Monday, 4 October 2004 10:48 (twenty years ago)

I think that is every bit as amazing as you think it is. : )

― Cathy (Cathy), Monday, 4 October 2004 10:53 (twenty years ago)

sounds like a lovely day...

Trayce, it'd have to be a strange wedding for you not to be related to at least one of the guests!

― stevie (stevie), Monday, 4 October 2004 11:00 (twenty years ago)

Trayce, i mean, it'd be a strange wedding if you were related to *all* of the guests (is this even possible?)

― stevie (stevie), Monday, 4 October 2004 11:00 (twenty years ago)

It is in parts of Orkney...

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Monday, 4 October 2004 11:13 (twenty years ago)

depends on definition of related i suppose, if you are bride's family at the beginning of the day, are you also groom's family by the end, and, therefore, would it be wrong to get off with his brother?

― CarsmileSteve (CarsmileSteve), Monday, 4 October 2004 11:15 (twenty years ago)

A gay friend of mine went to a wedding and ended up snogging the vicar

― holojames (holojames), Tuesday, 5 October 2004 11:00 (twenty years ago)

i think it sounds great. perfect, even. and i'm a miserable fuck lately.

― m. (mitchlnw), Tuesday, 5 October 2004 11:51 (twenty years ago)

I got chatted up by the celebrant at a wedding i went to (female and non-religious). It was...unusual.

― Markelby (Mark C), Tuesday, 5 October 2004 11:53 (twenty years ago)

Making out with the bride at a wedding = GREBT (esp. if you are the groom)

― Dan Perry '08 (Dan Perry), Wednesday, 6 October 2004 02:54 (twenty years ago)

And if you're not?

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 6 October 2004 02:56 (twenty years ago)

it's funny how fun some weddings can be, and how tiresome others can be, with little obvious reason.... i think it depends partly on whether you really care about the person or persons being wed, or are really happy for their union blah blah blah.

― amateur!!!st (amateurist), Wednesday, 6 October 2004 03:49 (twenty years ago)

for some reason the wedding of an old h.s. friend (who i rarely see anymore as she lives on the west coast) two years ago was ecstatically happy for me even though it was pretty sedate as weddings go. and a similarly conventional wedding of another h.s. friend (who i see occasionally as he lives right here in chicago) was pretty fucking boring. actually i think it's because the former was the occasion for a small reunion of h.s. people i actually cared about, and the latter was a bunch of h.s. people i could barely even remember plus a lot of the bride's sorority sister friends who i had nothing in common with.

― amateur!!!st (amateurist), Wednesday, 6 October 2004 03:51 (twenty years ago)

i ducked out of the latter conspicuously early, claiming i had to get up early the next morning.

― amateur!!!st (amateurist), Wednesday, 6 October 2004 03:52 (twenty years ago)

Dammit, everytime I see this thread on the new answers page, I think of Dirty Dancing.

― Pleasant Plains (Pleasant Plains), Wednesday, 6 October 2004 04:02 (twenty years ago)

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