Hearing the song "Keeper of the Stars" makes me queasy..
See, bridezilla and I had "
Keeper of the Stars" playing while we lit the unity candle.. I had argued against it, because I thought it was pretty stupid to play a 3 minute song as the backdrop of a 15 second action, but she insisted. The song began, we lit the candle, and then stood there like idiots for about 2m45s, watching a fricken candle burn.. Pretty nerve wracking.
It's also worth mentioning that the preacher we'd originally selected had a heart attack a few days prior and couldn't do the ceremony, and that the last-minute substitute had never done a wedding before. As it happened, he peppered the ceremony with the words "perverions," "adultery," and "be nice," and spoke at length about "keeping the marriage bed clean."
I thought standing in front of a rather large gathering of people, watching a candle burn, was embarrassing.. Well, let me assure you that you don't know what embarrassment
is until you've stood in front of those same people and had a worked up preacher give you a tongue lashing against being whores and perverted deviants..
Not so enchanting.
On the upside, it did rain that day, which flooded large parts of the state and prevented a bunch of my family from witnessing the atrocity. That's good, I guess? :lol:
Shortly after the wedding, the preacher who did the ceremony got divorced and lost all faith in religion.. It was the first and last wedding he ever performed, and I'm pretty sure he's an alcoholic now. When he got divorced, there began some speculation as to whether or not he had used our wedding ceremony to address
own wife that day.. It made good sense to me, honestly.
I probably don't even need to say that our marriage was an absolute disaster, and that I divorced bridezilla barely more than a year later...
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Just the other day, for the first time in I dunno how long, I heard the song -- well, part of the song -- "Keeper of the Stars." I'm pretty sure all the blood drained out of my head immediately.. I turned it off real quick since I was on my way to pick up some lunch, but I still came a cat's hair of losing my appetite.
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