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August 13, 2008
Just Can't Get Enough: 8/13/08
So I'm coming up on the first anniversary of married life, which feels impossible on two fronts. It simultaneously feels like it's been six weeks and six decades since that day actually happened, which I'm sure is not a unique sensation. But I've never claimed to be unique.
Mrs. Me was in charge of 99% of the day itself. It's not because she's a control freak so much as she's got far superior taste than me in most every facet of every day life. But that 1%? Well, that was the music, a setlist that stretched from the moment the ceremony ended through the time all the guests left. That was my baby, and I spent 8 months and change getting it just right.
The day itself was a mixture of the mundane and the phenomenal, in ways I can't express and in ways I won't bore. But I do remember distinctly the moment it all felt real, in a palpable sense: when this song played during cocktail hour. That was the moment in which I truly realized it was my wedding day. I know it sounds weird or even offensive that it took a song to drive it home, but if you've ever been through it, and/or really love music the way I do, then it makes all the sense in the world.
Posted by Ryan McGee at August 13, 2008 10:45 PM