Last of the summer wine

It has been a busy summer. There have been dances where you could win a car, dances that are actually fundraisers for the nearly wed couple and dances that celebrate the fact that you survived high school and lived to tell tall tales about it. It is the fundraisers for the soon to be betrothed that fascinate me. The premise is that you rent a hall, (the bigger the better)then sell tickets to anyone that will buy one .You hire someone to play music at ear splitting decibels and get in as much beer and booze as what is legally allowed, you are now set to party hard! Thing is, a lot of family come out to party with the crowds only - the music is so loud and everyone is so relaxed from the booze that conversations are almost impossible. I spend most of the night politely nodding my head in the “yes” response. What I am saying yes to... I have no idea, for all I know the person might have been asking me if my Aunt Lucy died or was she still in recovery mode? I don’t have an Aunt Lucy. It doesn’t matter, the main objective is to amass funds for the best wedding that the happy couple could possibly have. So let’s raise a glass in congratulatory salutation to the blessed couple who embarks on a lifelong voyage of marital bliss. To all of you who are getting married... congratulations and may you share many happy years together. Here are a few sayings to send you on your way.


Bigamy is having one wife too many. Monogamy is the same -Oscar Wilde
All marriages are happy. It's the living together afterward that causes all the trouble ~Raymond Hull
The most dangerous food is wedding cake ~American Proverb
Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, half shut afterwards -- Benjamin Franklin
Marriage is like a pair of shears Oft times working in opposite directions, but punishing anyone that comes between them ~ Sydney Smith
Only choose in marriage a man whom you would choose as a friend if he were a woman ~Joseph Joubert
Never strike your wife - even with a flower ~Hindu Proverb
He's the kind of man a woman would have to marry to get rid of ~Mae West
Marriage is a wonderful invention: then again, so is a bicycle repair kit ~Billy Connolly
Our wedding was many years ago. The celebration continues to this day ~Gene Perret
Don't smother each other. No one can grow in shade ~Leo Buscaglia
A wedding is a funeral where a man smells his own flowers ~Author Unknown
Happy marriages begin when we marry the ones we love, and they blossom when we love the ones we marry ~ Tom Mullen
To keep your marriage brimming, with love in the wedding cup, whenever you're wrong, admit it; whenever you're right, shut up.
A man in love is incomplete until he is married. Then he's finished. ~Zsa Zsa Gabor
I love being married. It's so great to find that one special person you want to annoy for the rest of your life. ~Rita Rudner
Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same. ~Emily Brontë
When love is not madness, it is not love. ~Pedro Calderon de la Barca
Off like a bride’s nightie! (When you are in a hurry) – Author Unknown
And my most fav-
Love makes your soul crawl out from its hiding place. ~Zora Neale Hurston