In the year 2015, there exists technology to tally bowling scores and display them on a screen overhead. In the absence of that function, those who grew up with access to it all their lives will resort to anarchy.
That is my takeaway from a tremendously fun weekend celebrating the wedding of my friend Jon, with whom I shared a room for our last year of college and during grad school. You may remember Jon from such films as “We Had A Mouse In Our Apartment And Now We Don’t,” “I Used To Eat Terrible Hot Dogs” and, well, an actual film I made about our college newspaper.
After the rehearsal dinner Friday, we went out for some duckpin bowling where we were handed a transparent score sheet and a marker. We only used one of the lanes for our rousing team competition (college friend Laura and I somehow lost badly despite being named Team Dynasty). The result? Well, this happened:
Before you go rolling your eyes at boys, I think (but cannot prove) one of the bridesmaids was responsible for writing that.
Saturday’s ceremony and reception continued the theme of good times with excellent food.
I would advise anyone looking for wedding speech advice to study the video of this event (I’m sure the NSA has a copy) and its examples of mixing the combo of humor and poignant, kind words about great friends.
Also, let’s get more photo booths out in the world:
Groom and groomsmen ready to fight crime
Thus ends what has been an insanely busy April for me. I hope you’re ready for lots of posts here in May since I’ll actually have time to write things!