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Jun. 17th, 2007 03:48 pmI'm back from Portland, where I had a great visit with the niece and her future husband, despite feeling congested by the cold. We visited the wedding site at Kruger's Farm on Sauvie Island, just outside Portland on the Columbia River, and we ate fresh strawberry shortcake and roasted corn at the farm's foodstand. We looked through three dozen scripts from a wedding planner in Bel-Air, and it was numbing to see the boilerplate used over and over again. We talked about the wedding plans and about weddings. My niece just learned last week from my mother that Dad proposed to her in Forest Park in Portland, which is where my niece was proposed to as well. It's a bit mind-boggling to know that my father, who never liked the big city, made his proposal there, especially considering that neither he nor Mom was from Portland. Mom was apparently living there for the summer that year, I can't remember why, and Dad would come up to see her. Then one day, they were walking through Forest Park ...
It was a good visit with J & J. I have a much clearer idea of what I want to say at the ceremony, although still little in the way of specifics. I think the theme will be transitions, and I also want to talk about how marriages bring together more people than just the two getting married. Also how the wedding has been going on for weeks and months now, with all the different celebrations and consultations and planning for the future. What do y'all think about the proper sentiments for a wedding ceremony? Feel free to share whatever you used at your own wedding, whether legal, illegal, or dubious.
Oh yeah, and Portland is so cool! Got to visit the Pearl District downtown for the first time (I've been hearing a lot about it), and the engaged couple live in a beautiful new condo on Belmont, which is lately hip. We ate at a great little Mexican restaurant called La Calaca Comelona, which means The Hungry Skeleton. They tell me that Division is the latest area of hip development. Division! Just a thoroughfare in south Portland, back in the day. But Portland seems to have been sprouting funky little coffee shop, bar, and restaurant areas all over the place in the past decade. Decidedly more intimate than Seattle neighborhoods, it feels to me, although they're starting to get a condo boom as well. (And the Pearl District is nothing but, and is much more upscale and less funky than Belmont or Hawthorne.)
It was a good visit with J & J. I have a much clearer idea of what I want to say at the ceremony, although still little in the way of specifics. I think the theme will be transitions, and I also want to talk about how marriages bring together more people than just the two getting married. Also how the wedding has been going on for weeks and months now, with all the different celebrations and consultations and planning for the future. What do y'all think about the proper sentiments for a wedding ceremony? Feel free to share whatever you used at your own wedding, whether legal, illegal, or dubious.
Oh yeah, and Portland is so cool! Got to visit the Pearl District downtown for the first time (I've been hearing a lot about it), and the engaged couple live in a beautiful new condo on Belmont, which is lately hip. We ate at a great little Mexican restaurant called La Calaca Comelona, which means The Hungry Skeleton. They tell me that Division is the latest area of hip development. Division! Just a thoroughfare in south Portland, back in the day. But Portland seems to have been sprouting funky little coffee shop, bar, and restaurant areas all over the place in the past decade. Decidedly more intimate than Seattle neighborhoods, it feels to me, although they're starting to get a condo boom as well. (And the Pearl District is nothing but, and is much more upscale and less funky than Belmont or Hawthorne.)
