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Bachelorette wedding

I caught the end of the Bachelorette wedding (that's actually an interesting article) tonight on TV, and I now know one thing for sure: When/if I ever get married, there will be no helicopters circling overhead. Of course, getting a $3.8 million wedding for free might help drown out the choppers. (For those who haven't followed the tale, Trista Rehn was on "The Bachelorette," where she had her pick of a whole bunch of guys. She chose a guy named Ryan Sutter.)

I didn't plan to watch the show, though I knew it was on because a friend of mine was so into it that she and her roommate unplugged their phone for the two-hour show. However, I happened to turn on the TV to see something else, and the whole screen was awash in pink. That's another thing I know about any future wedding of mine: No pink.

My conclusion about this televised wedding stuff is this: It's an interesting phenomenon, but it made me feel lonely, then stupid for feeling lonely, then more lonely. And old, even though I'm not.

Posted by Layla at 11:34 PM, December 10, 2003

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I confess. I watched it too. Actually I taped it since I'm too impatient to sit through commercials - especially when I know there's going to be stupidly planned suspenseful moments - and then I watched it this morning. It wasn't too bad, but it was pretty cheesy. I came out hating pink as well and it will have no part in my wedding.

The only thing that I got out of this was a great desire to write these two and tell them how lucky they are. Most people plan a wedding without the massive amount of help they had and even more without the money. And some crazy people have to try to plan a wedding without causing an international incident. ;-)

I have to say if I got the same offer they did to get married on TV I'm not sure I'd turn it down and my guess is Ross wouldn't either.

Posted by: famous at 7:45 AM, December 11, 2003

Now, how long will the marriage last?

Posted by: Ferrick at 11:01 AM, December 11, 2003

Oh, yeah. What a waste.

Posted by: Ferrick at 11:13 AM, December 11, 2003

Well, I am old, and watched the remake of Battlestar Galactica instead.

But it is weird how there is this moment in one's twenties or thirties when it suddenly dawns on a person that he or she is not going to grow up to be the starlette or the major league pitcher or whatever. And there is a sense of feeling old. But then there comes a great moment when you write a really great bit of prose (even though it's one sentence in the midst of 10 pages), or paint a bit of sky that seems to glow, and, for the moment, you are the greatest.

Posted by: shapeshifter at 10:55 PM, December 12, 2003

Layla,

I didn't watch it... but I love the last lines of your post... "it made me feel lonely, then stupid for feeling lonely, then more lonely. And old, even though I'm not."

I think there's a conspiracy among the networks to make us all feel lonely, stupid and old.

Posted by: Tom at 11:15 PM, December 12, 2003

Tom: And fat.

Posted by: Layla at 10:03 AM, December 13, 2003

I think you guys are getting far too cynical in your young age and should shut up and listen to Ell's mother. =-O

Posted by: Sarah at 2:17 PM, December 13, 2003

Young people. No respect for their elders, telling them to shut up.

(I finish my third decade on Wednesday. I don't know if that makes me feel like anything.)

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