We would endure an endless homily; Catholic priests have been suspected of preaching for an extraordinarily long period of time during a wedding ceremony. After all, they have a captive audience; many of the faces in the pews during a wedding ceremony are not those of the regular Sunday crowd. Following the ‘I do’s”, the introduction of the “newly married couple”, and the traditional throwing of rice or birdseed, we would take a million pictures in every imaginable pose and then proceed to the reception, where tradition would continue to outline the …show more content…
It was the “I’m from Southwestern Pennsylvania” experience and assumption of what a wedding entails. These are two completely different ideas! A few years ago -- it’s awful, but I honestly have no idea how long it’s been since my sister’s wedding in South Carolina. It was more than ten and less than twenty years ago that my sister, Sandy, announced she would be getting married. Sandy had live in the South for roughly 5 years with her first husband whom she married in Pennsylvania in the aforementioned “system”. Said marriage did not go as planned, evidenced by the fact that I am describing her second marriage. After telling me that she would be getting married, she began to “warn” me of what to expect at her