Life On A Crag ...Weddings 3

At the end of my last post I said that the wedding on the Baseball Diamond was the most unique place, but this week I was visiting friends and was reminded about a wedding at a place where a wedding had probably never ever happened before,actually most people tend to avoid this place at all costs.

A few details before I tell you where the Ceremony took place. I met the
Bride-to-be first, she had two very active boys...actually the first time I saw her I thought, that woman could certainly use a father for those kids. A few months later I met the Groom-to-be when he called me to host his mother's funeral. At the luncheon following the funeral these two people talked, they had known and seen each other over the years but there was no chemistry between them, until, that is, whatever sparked between them at this funeral.

News quickly spread throughout that small town that R and A had been seen having dinner together, he had been seen picking her up from work etc. Before long wedding plans were being tossed around. Given that this potential marriage would be a second for both of them, neither of them were into anything big, she had already had her "Cinderella" wedding and for a man, well you all know he had other things on his mind other than an expensive party.

So the decision was made that when they were ready they would elope. I was to be ready on the spur of the moment whenever the bug bit. They graciously informed me of the time and day a couple of days prior...but where to have this thing, someplace nice, someplace similar to a church, but a place where the average person would least expect a wedding to take place, thus they would least crash the ceremony. Ahhhh the perfect meaningful place...now go back up and read where they met...at a funeral, and other than a church, funerals take place where???

In a Funeral Home...yes it was the perfect place. A nice decor, flowers and plants already on the premisis, and a limo waiting outside the door to take the Bride and Groom to their hotel in style, quiet and quaint - no kidding...I'll never forget the pause and chuckle when I got to the part in the ceremony about..."until death alone parts you..." that phrase seemed to take on a whole new meaning at that wedding in that funeral chapel that afternoon. The Funeral Director tranformed into a Limo Chaufer and delivered the Bride and Groom to their hotel where a few of us had dinner and laughed how we just did a first and made history.

I wonder what the neighbours living close to the Funeral Home thought when the people leaving the parking lot honked their horns...like they do at weddings...something weird was definitely going on at the Funeral Home that afternoon.

I was just with this couple this past week, they'll be celebrating their 11th anniversary in a few weeks...it was a joy to be with them and to reminese about their unique wedding day.