Absolutely NO trades this week. Not even if I tried to. Here’s why…
Besides some heavy duty business calls in Maui and Kona, I’ve come to the end of the week where I’m met with anxiety. Tomorrow is the wedding of my friend. I just picked up my Tux, nicely tailored- pants, arms, and jacket. She’s old and sickly, but her hands are still steady enough to create unparalleled symmetry in my jacket.
Tomorrow morning I’ll be picking up the limo… six groomsmen, six bridesmaid, two witnesses, flower girl… it’s gonna be tight up in there. At least I get to hold it overnight. Look out Waikiki, we’ll be coming with the top down! Or maybe I’ll pass out in the jacuzzi?
We drew numbers, and I’m assigned yet another wedding speech. How am I supposed to give out advice if I have none, no experience. I’ll try not to bore the audience like I did last time. Is it cool to tease the groom and bride? It’s always entertaining, but I never felt it to be cool.
So, I’m supposed to like weddings, but really, it’s stressing. Women please tell me, is it really worth all the work? Why would you go through all this? Is it worth it? Yes it is, I know- it’s your night. I’ll take two days off just so you can remember this for your lifetime. Congrats bud!
… see the rest of yall on Sunday!
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Somewhere along the line, weddings for local people in Hawaii became a huge thing in comparison (from what I understand) to your “average Mainland wedding” in terms of size, cost, overall production, etc. It wasn’t uncommon for even middle class couples to have weddings with say 300+ guests, served dinner at a nice hotel banquet facility, with professionally produced media production, long wedding programs, band and/or DJ, etc. It got to be ridiculous – like some kind of Hollywood production. And naturally, friends had to match or beat their friends’ weddings – a vicious cycle.
Nowadays, I think sanity as well as economics are beginning to reign, and local weddings are tending to be smaller, simpler, brunches or lunches (instead of dinners), shorter and sweeter… and cheaper!!
It’s better for everyone involved – the couple, the wedding party, and the guests (but bad for the hotels and others who used to make $$ off of those fancy weddings, I guess).