Logan is beautiful in the morning

So I am stuck in Logan having just been involuntarily bumped from my flight. My work colleague made it on the plane but alas I did not.

Trying to look on the brighter side of things:

• I will be flying first class to Chicago and then on to Cincinnati later today which is fun I guess. I have never flown first class before.
• I received a free round trip ticket to anywhere in the US.
• I saw Milan Lucic at the airport. I didn't know who he was until a guy asked for his autograph. He wasn't flying first class.

Since I am here for another four hours I may update the blog with the ongoings and shenanigans of the airport. People should hang out here more often.

Tonight the part of bride will be played by...

While under the effect of the sugar high at the Cupcake Cafe that led to the POTFR discovery (read about it here), we (me, BM Kim, E the J and POTFR Kevin) were talking about my wedding program. POTFR Kevin came up with a great idea of making it like a Playbill and then putting in a piece of paper that said "At today's wedding, the part of the POTFR will be played by So and So" as if they were an understudy. We discussed celebrity names we would place in the program.

This discussion took on a whole new meaning after the realization that POTFR Kevin forgot he was asked to do the reading. Because then we were laughing about the fact that he would have discovered he was doing a reading by opening the program and an understudy might have really been needed.

Our wedding challenge

At pre-cana one of our discussions lead us to both saying that we wish we did more acts of service and volunteering. While I was on the plane last weekend I thought about something we could do instead of gifts to each other. It is kind of a wedding challenge of sorts.

I told B that instead of gifts we should commit to one day of service (together) every month for the first year of marriage. While it doesn't have to be the same thing each time, it would be nice to get in a groove somewhere.

I think we are going to start out with something like BostonCares and maybe go from there.

We hope to turn the wedding web site into a blog of sorts for after the wedding so you can follow up there to see how we fare we the service challenge.

As you wish...

I saw this posting on indiebride.com. And I am flabbergasted. She must really like the movie, "The Princess Bride".

"I'm trying to do something special for my cocktail hour - hiring 3 actors to mingle with guests and act as part of the "Princess Bride" movie. I would be buttercup, my fiancee: Westley, two of the actors would be Westley's friends and the 3rd would be the evil prince.
Any recommendations?"

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I saw this posting on Indiebride and just letting people know about it.

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Hmm, this is interesting...

This social experiment would be have good for some kids in Gloucester, Mass.

Basically the show, Baby Borrowers puts teen couples in charge of real, live babies that poop and cry for a few days. And this would have been beneficial for the teenage girls in Gloucester who made a pregnancy pact. 17 girls are pregnant in the school which typically sees 4 pregnancies a year. Maybe if they actually had to take care a baby they would back out of the pact.

And where do you put that...

I have been watching all the bridal shows for some time now and one is Rich Bride, Poor Bride. The episode I saw today that got me cracking up is one where the couple wanted to (and actually did) rent an ATM for their reception. Why did they rent an ATM? Perhaps it was a cash bar and they wanted guests to have a chance to drink more? Um no. They wanted the ATM there so that if a guest came to the reception and saw how nice it was, they would be able to add more cash to the cash gift they were giving.

Even if they did want to give more, won't the envelope be sealed?

People are crazy, just pure crazy.