Counting days until Frank picks up our marriage license at the DC Courthouse. Counting responses for the wedding and reception. Counting people for the rehearsal and the dinner afterwards. Frank is making reservations at Buca di Beppo (spelling?) just up the road from the Meetinghouse. We set the rehearsal for 6 pm since some of the ushers will have to come from work.
I know some might wonder how you rehearse for a Quaker wedding! Well, we don't have to worry about the choir, or the music, or the preacher since there aren't any of those. But as our Oversight Committee would say, "there's always something"! So we will run through the sequence of events, where the desk with the marriage certificate that Frank and I sign goes, the vows, the rings, where the three ushers will stand and direct people to sit (and remind them to turn off cellphones etc.), where family members and ushers will sit during Meeting, where the desk with the certificate goes after Meeting for all of the guests to sign, and probably a number of things that haven't occurred to me yet.
Last night I suddenly remembered we hadn't taken my trousers for hemming but Frank said there's plenty of time. Why do I feel like we're running out of time then?
Mark
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