A lesson

Today my married friend Kathy Cockpit reminded me about a Very Important Thing to Remember: When it comes to planning a wedding, none of it is really all that important.

In other words, it's a Very Special Day, but it's not the end all and be all, the end of the world, the What Have You.

As I ruminate on how the wrong First Dance song or tent decorations will inevitably lead to unsatisfactory wedding cake and an all-but-certain dismal first year of marriage resulting in miserable children and a bitter divorce after fifty years following a spiteful and indiscrete liaison with a pool boy who was only in it for the vintage KitchenAid Mixer in Pistachio, it occurs to me that this will be a rather important reminder to remember.

While we're on the subject, though, we did end up with the exact perfect number and colors and sizes of Wedding Tent Lanterns yesterday at Pearl River, which I can only assume will be an auspicious sign of things to some.