{"id":1609,"date":"2009-10-11T13:00:00","date_gmt":"2009-10-11T13:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/yogisden.us\/?p=1609"},"modified":"2014-06-15T05:11:41","modified_gmt":"2014-06-15T05:11:41","slug":"perfect-pairing-ill-fly-away","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/?p=1609","title":{"rendered":"Perfect Pairing &#8211; &#8220;I&#8217;ll Fly Away&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I love weddings.&nbsp;The brides are so beautiful, happy, and radiant. The bride&#8217;s parents, different story. They are stressed. They are also considerably poorer.&nbsp; The groom, they look happy generally, most of&nbsp; the time anyway. Modern weddings take considerable time, money, and attention to detail. I try and pay attention to the little things like the altar flowers, and the pew flowers and the little details. Somebody sweated bullets and paid a fortune for them and so I try and take notice. Anyway, weddings, I love&#8217;em.<\/p>\n<p>A week or so ago Sweetie, Nana, and I went&nbsp;to a wedding. Sweetie and Nana were friends of the brides parents. I had met them but didn&#8217;t know them really. I had never seen the bride or groom.<\/p>\n<p>The wedding was beautiful. These Generation Y weddings, what can you say about the Groom and his groomsmen? Nice guys,&nbsp;I like the fist bumps they gave each other as they came up one by one. The bridesmaids were grinning ear to ear. They were pretty also. I mean, pretty as they could be in the dresses they had to wear. (Just kidding, the bridesmaids really were very pretty.)<\/p>\n<p>This wedding had something a little different. I had never seen it before. Afterward they left for the reception in a helicopter. No lie!!! I was there to document the whole thing.<\/p>\n<p>Here they come:<br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/28381904@N06\/3996656608\/\" title=\"20091008_4 by alnbbates, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"20091008_4\" height=\"375\" src=\"http:\/\/yogisden.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/3996656608_a16235ee4b-300x225.jpg\" width=\"500\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Here they are at the chopper. Notice the bride has changed to her cowboy boots. I got into a discussion with a lady next to me who claimed that the bride wore the boots during the ceremony. I respectfully told her that nope, the bride wore appropriate shoes for the occasion. I saw them. She disagreed, She&#8217;s wrong.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/28381904@N06\/3995897541\/\" title=\"20091008_6 by alnbbates, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"20091008_6\" height=\"375\" src=\"http:\/\/yogisden.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/3995897541_01e38558c2-300x225.jpg\" width=\"500\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Off they go, we saw them later at the reception.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/28381904@N06\/3996660512\/\" title=\"20091008_12 by alnbbates, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"20091008_12\" height=\"375\" src=\"http:\/\/yogisden.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/3996660512_8375c21c72-300x225.jpg\" width=\"500\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Anyway, I&#8217;m going with another hymn on this perfect pairing. Instead of using an out of context Bible quote. 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Modern weddings take considerable time, money, and attention to detail. 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