Wedding Time is Craft Time

Last night I went to Debbie and Tracy's house.

They're getting married. Susie and I helped Debbie glue little wrapped paper flowers and little bows onto bottles of sparkling apple cider. There were 100 bottles, and it took all evening, though we were distracted by the tele-- OK, fine, *I* was distracted by the television for some of that time.

Sounds like a lot of work, eh? Well, get this: The bows weren't prepared, we made them from ribbon. Sounds like more work now, eh? Well there's more: The flowers were bought separately, and then sorted by color and wrapped up with cloth tape, along with little pearl bead strands. And the bottles had their labels soaked off -- but not the gold label at the top, which weren't soaked off so that there would be some place to glue the flowers and bows.

Oh, and they're making custom labels to replace the ones they soaked off.

Weddings make people do crazy things.

For our wedding, Susie and I wanted all the invitations to smell like strawberries. So we drove around the city every day for three weekends, looking for strawberry scent it every new-age-y incense store we could think of, and when we finally found some, it was strawberry oil, which stained the invitations, so finally we got the idea to scent the envelope under where the glue would stick, and we had an entire apartment filled with envelopes propped up to dry, on little stands made from folded paper clips, all this done on envelopes that Susie herself hand-calligraphied to save money.

I think two people mentioned that the envelopes smelled lovely and that it was so nice we had a theme to our wedding (i.e. strawberries), and one person said the envelope smelled funny and one other person said her dog ate it. Glad we went through all the trouble.

But it was nice that we got to help Debbie and Tracy, nice to see them, nice to think we contributed to their special day in a way that was more than just buying a casserole pan. Ooops, I wasn't supposed to tell them what we got... oh well.

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