One of my highlights last week was definitely attending the wedding dinner of a church friend of mine whom I’ve known since my childhood days.
It’s always a wonderful occasion to witness the marriage of a longtime friend, especially when you’ve seen each other grow up in church all your lives.
It was especially enjoyable also when you consider that many current and past church friends were invited to the wedding as well, which made it a mini-reunion of sorts.
The activity at our table was pretty lively, and some interesting things transpired during and even after the dinner, ha!
Was sitting next to my good buddy who’s just back from the states (yes that’s you CH), and I realised that we’re still as tight as ever and often make a good double act.
Not that it is a conscious effort or anything, but I think there exists some vague form of understanding and comic timing between us.
We complement each other in a number of ways, and the fact that our personalities and preferences are so different means that we often are able to fill in each other’s gaps.
Oh and speaking of differing preferences, last week’s wedding dinner was another fine example of how we really have rather different tastes, and yet, it is precisely this very fact that makes us live in harmony for so long. =)
Anyhow…
You can always judge the enjoyability factor of a wedding dinner by how early or late you want to leave your table and go home.
The next time you reach the end of a wedding, just take a look around you.
The ones that make a dash for the exit (or better still, those that left even before the dinner ended) were the ones that didn’t enjoy their stay one single bit.
(Either that or a) they have to go back to tend to the kids, or b) they have a football match to catch.)
The groups that stay back till the very last moment, till the wait staff have cleared up all the other tables, are inevitably the tightest-knit bunch…usually close relatives or old classmates or really good friends.
(Never colleagues…cos colleagues are just too sick of seeing each others’ faces as it is.)
The three of us actually left our table really late last week, so I guess it was a case of “having so many interesting things to talk about that we didn’t really want to leave just yet”.
All in all, it was definitely a highlight for me last week.
Weddings of good friends don’t come by that often, so it’s always nice to enjoy them as and when they come.
haha… yeah!!! i’m mentioned by name :)
Well technically you were mentioned by initials, but now that you’ve come forward to claim ownership of the initials, then yeah everyone knows the full name now, haha!