{"id":2301,"date":"2011-06-29T07:13:46","date_gmt":"2011-06-29T14:13:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.heatherbarton.com\/?p=2301"},"modified":"2025-11-02T20:26:46","modified_gmt":"2025-11-03T03:26:46","slug":"groomsman-goof","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.heatherbarton.com\/?p=2301","title":{"rendered":"Groomsman Goof"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’ve been enjoying the blog of the brother of Girl, Corrupted.\u00a0\u00a0 And like my new Facebook friend Dhilon (who is reading my blog from the beginning.. by the time he gets to THIS one, I’ll have aged a year! lol)\u00a0 So I’m reading The Neon Lounge from the beginning and I’ve managed to make it to April 2010.\u00a0 I realized all his blogs have been bringing up LOTS of my own cute little stories that I used to blog all about but have recently stopped.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

I completely blame Facebook for completely filling up my urge to participate in conversation time and satisfying that desire to be noticed for my wit.\u00a0 Just like this blog took up my urge to be creative and WRITE and I’ve written NOTHING since I started this blog over 2 years ago and got single over 1 year ago.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

Ok.. well, maybe getting single had more to do with not writing than the blog.. but still.<\/span><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

Anyway… Tyge wrote this adorable little bit about when he was a best man at a wedding.\u00a0 A Best Man\\’s Caveat<\/a> and it completely reminded me of the best story from my brother’s wedding.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

My brother was a popular guy when he was single.\u00a0 NOT with the ladies, just with his friends.\u00a0 He was the kind of guy that is pretty easy going and almost always accepting of anyone.\u00a0 He lived the motto, “If I want you to accept me and my choices, I’ve got to start by accepting you and yours.”<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

I always admired him for that.\u00a0 (Until he got into a church… when his attitude became a wee bit more judgmental. sigh.) <\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

Any way.. I digress…\u00a0 When he knocked up his live in girlfriend, he asked her to marry him.\u00a0 When she lost the baby, he asked her to marry him again.\u00a0 The wedding was the event of the year in Burbank, California (with his friends, at least!).\u00a0 Hundreds of people there and only about 50 of them over the age of 40!\u00a0 It was a great party, where at one point the bride was dancing on the table!\u00a0 It was the only wedding I’ve ever been to where the bride and groom were the last to leave.. I know this because me and my date (mmm… he was 6 years younger than me… pattern?\u00a0 Ha!) were with them loading presents into our car to drop off at their house.\u00a0 They were helping us!<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

So.. after they came back from the honeymoon and were reviewing the wedding video they saw the most hilarious moment caught on video.\u00a0\u00a0 In the traditional toss of the bride’s garter.. several of the groomsmen all reached for it.\u00a0 One groomsman in particular, when his hand went up, felt cloth in it and thinking he had the garter began to throw his hand in the air. <\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

Only to almost strangle himself because what he actually had was his tie!<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

btw… nothing is more fun than opening wedding presents when you’re stoned!<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

Oooo.. a blender… you know what a blender is good for… smoothies!\u00a0 Lets make smoothies!\u00a0 To the kitchen!!<\/span><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

I sometimes REALLY miss my 90’s brother and sister-in-law.
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I’ve been enjoying the blog of the brother of Girl, Corrupted.\u00a0\u00a0 And like my new Facebook friend Dhilon (who is reading my blog from the beginning.. by the time he gets to THIS one, I’ll have aged a year! lol)\u00a0 … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2301","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-the-joy-of-family"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.heatherbarton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2301","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.heatherbarton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.heatherbarton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.heatherbarton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.heatherbarton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2301"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/www.heatherbarton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2301\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3095,"href":"http:\/\/www.heatherbarton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2301\/revisions\/3095"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.heatherbarton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2301"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.heatherbarton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2301"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.heatherbarton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2301"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}