filling in at shortstop…

No this is not a baseball entry. But the phrase comes to my head because that’s how I feel now that I’ve been subbed-in as an Usher at my friend Sarah’s wedding this Saturday. I don’t even know who got kicked out of the wedding party or if they just somehow forgot they needed one. But she’s a good friend and I’ll be there early anyways since my wife is a bridesmaid so it works out

This is the same Sarah I wrote an entry about like two entries ago with her disaster of a bachelorette weekend. She called me yesterday and asked me to be an Usher, I said as long as I get to wear my khaki suit I planned on wearing anyways (it’s my fav suit)

Then she said something else that didn’t really register until I got off the phone with her. She said, "You’ll be walking Brad’s (the fiancee) mom down the aisle". Why would I be walking the groom’s mom down the aisle? Maybe she meant her mom?

This is the same petty, possible controlling, yet unpopular fiancee I wrote about in that entry. The one where no one did anything (not a single thing, even a split second) for his bachelor weekend, not his brother and not any of his gromsman. So does that theme follow to the wedding to where his mom doesn’t want to walk down the aisle with him so they ask me to do it? I don’t know, hopefully she just mixed up who she meant to say I’ll be walking with

A lot of question marks about their relationship, a lot of people thinking it won’t last (which sucks because Sarah’s an amazing person). I mean Sarah balled her eyes out and was torn up by her parents getting a divorce a couple years ago, yet here she is marrying someone who’s been divorced. Logical? No. And how many relatioships has Sarah been in before? Zero, anyone else she’s dated lasted less than a month. She has a college degree, she has a career path. He doesn’t (at least no one knows if he’s ever graduated), and does not have a career path. He’d rather be sitting at home baking cupcakes all day (true story!)

moral of the story: I’ll show up to the wedding with a full flask, and re-fill it on the way to the reception

Have a Nice Day!