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Weddings Aren’t for the Faint of Heart
Or, really, for the loveless among us
I just attended my first post-pandemic wedding. It shouldn’t have felt so odd to be in a crowd that numbered well over one hundred people, but I couldn’t help distancing more from everybody else just because I didn’t feel like I had any immune-system armor (despite having gotten my booster shot a few weeks back). Odd, really, how our social schematics can shift with just a bit of prolonged change.
But I’m not here to write about that. I can unpack all of that at another time.
It was a nice wedding, the food was decent, and the dance floor was hopping when it came time to bust out a mixture of classic tunes with some pop hits intermixed. But I think what I appreciated most was that, because the bride and groom were more shy than not, there wasn’t this large-scale spotlight on them like I’ve seen at other weddings I’ve attended in the past. I guess I’ve seen too many extrovert-headed weddings where I found myself surprised by this clear-cut difference.
Or did I notice because I’m an introvert and I could see what strings had been pulled? Hard to say. I was invited as a family friend, not one closely associated with either the bride or groom, so I don’t know how the planning went in that regard.
