We packed our heavy leather wedding-gift luggage, placing the tablecloth carefully inside, encased in the tissue paper to keep it from creasing.
I had a couple who said they typed in "heavy metal comedian wedding officiant," and I came up.
Founded by ex-Salesforcers Dave Yen and Michael Wang, the company's early customers include Salesforce and Dropbox, as well as a heavy percentage of weddings and personal trips.
If these works are lush, lurid wedding cakes, heavy on the frosting, then "The Rite of Spring," which closed the concert, is simultaneously the cake and the knife that cuts it.
Your mind now, mouldering like wedding-cake, heavy with useless experience, rich with suspicion, rumor, fantasy, crumbling to pieces under the knife-edge of mere fact.
There's been no other era in which 28-year-olds have had access to a personal directory of friends that updates in real time and includes everybody from casual middle school acquaintances to current best friends, and while in many ways, this is an asset, the ways we communicate and connect now do change the force with which a wedding-heavy year can hit you.
The men wear double-knit suits and sport gold wedding bands or heavy brass rings stamped with mottoes; the women, their hair neatly coiffed and lacquered, wear demure print dresses and single-diamond engagement rings.
(Although the modifications we made to the site were all temporary, our wedding involved some heavy landscaping, such as stonemasonry, the installation of a small fake pond, and other theatrical flourishes that might have disqualified it).
Janice Atkinson, the Sonoma County clerk, said her office would stay open late for the rest of the month to accommodate what she expected would be a heavy load of same-sex weddings.
