
A second reason for remembering the wedding and
choosing the topic for this Post was that Mary’s Book Club, which met a week or
so after the wedding seemed to spend as much time talking about the wedding as
they did about the book. It got me
thinking about the subject of Destination weddings, those where the wedding site
is neither the home of the bride or groom, and a select number of guests are either
transported to the destination or, more likely in the case of the
Clooney-Alamuddin ceremony, pay their own way to the occasion

Dancing went on all night with three top bands from
the U.S. providing music.
A civil ceremony the next day allowed for some
photographs, since the wedding and reception were closed events. Even guests
were asked to leave their cell phones outside. Apparently right to the official pictures were sold by the couple for one-million dollars, which they donated to
charity.

My first and only invitation to a Destination Wedding
was in 2002, when nephew Matt Green invited our family to Key West where he and
Teala, would tie the knot. Since they
met on an airplane, finding the trip compatible while occupying adjacent seats,
neutral territory for the service seemed fitting. We guests enjoyed the fact that we could be
tourists as well as onlookers or participants, especially pleasing. At the time there were several celebrity
Destination Weddings, one from Hollywood, where the guests travelled to London
on what was virtually a chartered Virgin Airlines flight.
Most recent celebrity
weddings, discounting the British Royals, are more private affairs. The Brad Pitt/Angelina Jolie recent marriage
being a case in point. Justin Timberlake
and Jessica Biel being another.
The Clooney wedding purportedly cost $13 million,
which must be some sort of record, again excepting the Royals. There is speculation on where all the money
came from. Certainly George could afford
it, but the best guess is a more traditional source: the bride’s parents. Maybe it was a sort of dowery.

In my next Post I will share with you my discovery of
a new genre in books: Adult Graphic
Novels. I think you’ll find it
interesting. Please join me.
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