The Wedding

It was on a Sunday. The weather has been very bad for a couple of days prior to that. Bad means lots of winds, clouds, and occasional rain. Luckily enough the weather was close to perfect as the time for the wedding approached. I went briefly to Safita to get my new suit for the occasion. I think I was pretty, sorry… handsome (LOL).
Before the wedding started, a number of cars in single file went around the Kafroun and Al-Mashta prior to picking up the bride from her home. There were tons of people at her place in addition to a folklore wedding group فرقة عراضة شعبية dancing with swords and armour. Traditional songs were also played, no singing.
Getting up to the mountain, where the wedding took place, was a bit difficult. The road is narrow, and already there were many people already there and the place was full of cars. I almost screwed the transmission system in the process of parking (stick shift driving).
There were lots of people there, probably more than 2,000. All well dressed and lots of young people too. Always a pleasure to see that there are still some who are close to my age around (LOL, as if I am a hundred year old). The mountain has an old Roman (I think) church, but the ceremony took place at a mock altar that was built for the occasion outside that one, due to the number attending.
I liked the wedding, I felt it was short (compared to ours), without much gap filling with verses and reading that make no difference or sense at all. Despite that, Wael said it was long!!! But anyway I said my famous phrase, that I will marry a Maronite and wed at her church.
أزعجني شيء واحد وهو الاغتيال شبه المتعمد للمفعول به، من قبل رجال الدين، الذي رُفِع في أكثر من مرة، خاصة عندما يقولون أحبوا نساؤُكم بدلاً من نساءَكم.
After congratulating the newlyweds and their families, me and two new friends went and ate shawarma at a place called Al-Majd Cafeteria. A highly recommended place for a shawarma meal.
Afterwards we arrived at Al-Shurfeh were the cocktail party was. Again, lots of drinks. I met many new people, and danced almost all night. It was one of the best party I attended. The D.J was very good, and everyone who didn’t come missed a lot. There were some old acquaintances that I knew, or new my brother there. I didn’t take any pictures, unfortunately, so this will be a personal memory.

Things that can happen at a wedding (remarks from me and Wael):
1. A woman who has single girls, gave all her attention to the best man and almost ignored the newlyweds
2. I was introduced to a woman who knows my aunt for no more than a minute, in which I said hi, and got introduced to her two daughters. I hear later through my aunt that I am very nice, speak well, was surrounded by girls all the time and so forth… I am not sure how did she gather all that from one minute or how she said all that about me, but can any one guess (LOL)???

Anyway, the conclusion is that weddings are too bothersome, except for the party part. So my advice to all is marry “khteefeh خطيفة”, but have a party afterwards.