Going to the Chapel

The engagement of Laura and Gavin... and then some.

Tuesday, January 02, 2007

Good Thing Our Wedding Will Only be 1/4 Italian

It was a wedding-themed Christmas this year. Our gifts were oddly adult, including kitchen appliances off the registries, tools, a cake topper and girly luggage for the honeymoon. Oddly, we were pumped about everything! We're definitely feeling the urgency of just three months to go now.

In keeping with the Christmas theme, we gave our parents a
wedding-appropriate gift this year. A little preview of things to come... in a much more dramatic manner. We treated our parents to Tony n’ Tina’s wedding at Piper’s Alley in the city.

For those not familiar, it’s a tacky but very fun clash of improv, musical, Broadway play and audience-interactive performance. Tony and Tina are a stereotypical Italian couple getting married with all the gaudy frills and taste to match. Slicked hair, sequins, gold and poofy, bedazzled dresses were all the rage among the bridal party.

We had a great time and loved getting to hang out with them all together. They definitely laughed harder at the jokes and over-the-top antics than Gavin and I, but that’s probably because they’ve been to enough weddings that a lot of those antics actually brought up “remember that time when…” conversations about weddings they had attended!

To me, it was weird how much the show really felt like a wedding. Things were crazy all around the room and the conversations the cast struck up with the “audience” were inane, but it didn’t seem THAT weird. Maybe it was the cold medicine. Or maybe it was because we’re sure to have some wacky moments during our own wedding day that will turn into future “remember that time when…” moments for our guests.

Exhibit A: The awesome invites Gavin and I made for the parentals.