I dunno why I bothered blahgging at all yesterday. I didn’t have my laptop with me and the two people who mainly keep track of me were… staying in the hotel room next door to me.

So the “formal” wedding I had been so stressed out about has come and gone. The bride is the daughter of a MacMu cousin I was very close to. We spent time together as children and she started bringing her daughter Ana up to visit the moominbeach when Ana was a baby. They are not on the side of my fam that owns the moomin but they were always welcome and The Commander (my cousin’s aunt) LOVED when they visited. My cousin died a couple years ago, way too early, but we had become an important part of her daughter’s life and as a young adult, she continues to make an effort to visit each summer.

We love her and even though I am not a huge fan of weddings or any large social events, there was NO WAY I was gonna miss this wedding. So I sucked it up and went. Of course I didn’t know a whole lot of people there except the six of us traveling from The Planet Ann Arbor. But I hugged my cousin “Salwa”, older sister of the late mother of the bride and we were seated with my late cousin’s best childhood friend. We had never met before but she knew about her friend’s trips to the moomin and it was wonderful if a little bittersweet to meet. There were a few tears.

A couple other highlights were when the bride’s Man of Honor included an unexpected shoutout to the moomin in his speech (he has been a guest there), saying he wanted to die there 🤣🤣🤣. Then a woman I didn’t know sought me out and come to find out she has been dating the bride’s dad. I don’t know the dad very well but I know he sorely misses my cousin (he’s quite emotional). I feel good that he is able to move forward. His new girlfriend is LOVELY and we (beach urchins and I) greatly enjoyed talking to her. I approve! Not that my approval is required.

All in all, it was a wonderful Big Fat Greek Wedding. My cousin married into a large Greek family and apparently the bride and her dad have watched all of the movies umpteen bazillion times. He did a lot of the shtick in his speech (in between a few tears). I will have to revisit that movie series.

So what did I wear? It was kind of a mish-mash but it worked and it’s the bride people are supposed to be looking at anyway. After spending all fall ordering multiple skirts, etc., online, I didn’t end up wearing the black sequin skirt I thought I would (but am definitely not giving it away). Instead, I wore a plainer black lace-trimmed Chico’s skirt, which I bought as a by-product of all my shopping. I decided in the end to wear The Peacock, a loose-fitting Chico’s jacket the beach urchins goaded me into buying a couple years ago. It has an abstract pattern in peacock-ish colors. The sequin skirt was too much for that jacket, hence the plainer skirt. Black tank top and a black sparkly scarf The Commander made in the last couple years of her life. All of us FinFam gals wore talismans from The Comm and Radical Betty. We did not coordinate that.

Oh, and the peacock purse in the pic from yesterday, the only pic I took at the wedding. (A wedding photographer I am not.) I scouted this out (Etsy) after my antique beaded “evening bag” disintegrated during an August wedding and I realized I had donated my newer, sturdier ones. The peacock purse sorta matches The Peacock jacket and fits my cards, phone, Cygnus fob, and a neat little folding hairbrush I got on Amazon. The brush was probably my BEST wedding-related purchase. My hair is very unruly and needs a quick brush once in a while if I don’t have it tied back into my usual fugly ponytail but full-size brushes don’t fit in a small evening bag. A couple other people also used it (it’s okay, it was close family members). Stocking stuffer maybe?

Brunch near the hotel this morning, then home on a warm, bright November Sunday. Oh, and carpooling was a fantastic idea. For one (major) reason, it kept yer fav-o-rite blahgger calm to have an adult daughter and friend in Cygnus with us.

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