that hangover movie has nothing on us
My buddy Frank was my “bridesman.”
That’s him all the way over on the left
At that time, Frank had just recently started seeing a lovely girl named Andrea.
A little over four years later, Frank and Andrea are getting married, and I am going to be Frank’s “groomswoman” (or “groomsbitch,” as he’s been calling me).
Groomsmen are usually in charge of throwing the bachelor party, but as it came closer to being about that time, it turned out that Frank wasn’t going to be able to squeeze it in. Money, the fact that he would need to travel from New York to Pittsburgh, saving up vacation days, and so on all prevented our hedonism. I felt kind of bad about this and told Frank that he should do something “bachelory” and we would watch via video chat and cheer him on. Since he’s not into strippers, my suggestions were to leave clothes and pizza boxes strewn all over his apartment while we watched and screamed, “WOOOO! YEAAAHHHHH! WOOOOO!”
Sounds silly, right? What actually ended up happening was not that far off. Armed with a new laptop, Frank pinged me on Gmail’s video chat on Saturday night and we decided that that would be his online bachelor party. He grabbed some beers and I made some half-assed margarita concoctions. Our conversation turned to Kicking and Screaming (alternate title: Kicking and Screaming…No, Not that Will Ferrell Soccer Movie), which is a favorite movie of ours. Rather than spending the whole night exchanging our favorite quotes, we decided to watch it…together.
“Okay, on ‘3’ I’m going to press play. Ready? 1…2…3!”
It was fun and nice and very much indicative of our friendship, but we agreed that it was kind of the most old person bachelor party ever…at least until I dozed off on the couch and Frank had to wake me up via video chat so that I could cart my old self to bed.
At least we took pictures of the wild and crazy time that we had.
September 7th, 2010 at 5:04 pm
Another reason I love you. My “bridal party” was two dudes and a butch lesbian.
September 8th, 2010 at 12:16 am
fucking.
nerds.
<3.
September 8th, 2010 at 8:10 pm
Mostly unrelated, this one friend of mine at work is always joshing me because he says every dude in Pittsburgh probably has a beard like me. I always protest and insist that I am in fact in the minority. Looking at that bridal party photo though, man, I guess he is right. Mad beards on those mugs!!!
September 9th, 2010 at 7:57 pm
I love this.
Also, you look gorgeous in your wedding photo.
September 11th, 2010 at 6:57 am
You guys are so awesome!
March 20th, 2018 at 2:59 pm
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