A post more epic than Marriage?

Posted by Reid at 10:42 p.m.

From me, no. From Kim, the author of Reflections on Choas, possibly. You can see her post on Marriage: Institution or institutionalization? by clicking.

As often occurs, people our age (20-25) are "tying the knot" (thank-fully not the umbilical cord, yet) and we are finding outselves involved in weddings. Last summer I went to/was involved in two weddings, thankfully neither requiring any speech on my behalf. One wedding was between a 23 and a 24 year old, the other was between a 20 and a 23 year old (The girl, 20, was married on her birthday. If you are going to gyp yourself out of dating many people and having fun, at least milk the wedding day for gifts. Putting both on the same day means you are going to get half the gifts you deserve 10 years down the road).

I've never heard of totally winging it to make it sound more from the heart. I am pretty sure that's why the one speech from the Maid of Honour at one of the weddings was awful. I was embarrassed for her and I didn't even support the wedding. Regardless of how much you disapprove, I am sure you want to do a good job. I would say the most important thing to a good speech at a wedding is bullshit. Just let it flow like a bad bout with diarrhea (banned topic). If you've ever written a reference letter, just do the same thing but throw in a few "love"s here and a few "happy"s there. Like a reference letter, nobody is really going to care if it is fantastic or just good. So long as it isn't bad, people will love it.

One to two minutes seems a little long. My arm gets tired after 15 seconds and my desire to pound the drink increases as each second goes by. Here's my stab:

Harmony. A beatiful thing. Music to many a many ears. Your harmony, celebrated here tonight, is the tune beating in your hearts hearts. Let your hearts beat together. Let them sing each of your own songs. Let them forever sing in harmony for all of us to enjoy.

Too cheesey and music related? Seriously, I actually bullshitted that. You can google search that shit, as non-solid as it may be. At a wedding nobody is going to care if it makes sense, as long as it sounds loving. Note I didn't use two becoming one, I let them keep their own hearts but they had to work together to make something different.

Kim is one of the handful of girls that seem to have such an awesome (and vocal) outlook of what things should be like. This could be due to the lack of religion, it could just be good parenting. It could also be due to the fact that she has a brain, rare in many people. Whatever it is, it is welcome here.

Truthful? Most certainly. Motivating? Indeed. Justified? Of course. Epic? Well, since it beat out marriage in all the preceeding categories...possibly.