one more thing about marre's wedding...

[cimorene]

the funny part! at least, i have been assured this was the best anecdote ever. perhael may have been exaggerating about that, but you'll have to take it up with her.



martin's godfather got to make a speech at the wedding. he has been a missionary in kenya martin's whole life, so he doesn't actually know him. (why not have someone who did know him, like his godmother, a lifelong family friend, give the speech? the world may never know.)

so he's like, "martin, i don't really know you because i've been gone, but still, i want to tell you the things that a father should tell you, because that's my job. so i want to tell you... love god. love jesus. god is the most important blah blah. fill your hearts with love and your blah blah blah like my time in africa ministering to blah blah and that's what we tried to do there and blah blah [bible quotes].

"and okay, here's the pop quiz portion of tonight's entertainment. martin, do you know what jesus did with the blah blah blah?"

[silence falls in the room. it lingers lingeringly.]

"come on, martin. jesus... it's in such and such part of the bible... he did ... it was one of the greatest miracles... the blah blah blah... ."

[still no response.]

"it was at a wedding... a miracle... at a wedding... he was there with his mom... he did something... ."

still nothing, and then wax's granny pipes up in her squeaky little bird voice from the back of the room, like a religious hermione or something (only slower, i know hermione wouldn't wait so long to interrupt), "the wedding in canaa!"

perhael: omfg ahahahahaha
cim: so then the guy just decides to continue. he's all, "well, okay, the wedding in canaa, right, and what did he do there, martin? do you know what he did? do you?"
perhael: he turned water into wine?
cim: [silence]
cim: yes! but there's silence and everyone in the room is like <.< >.> trying not to laugh
perhael: ahahahaha
cim: and the guy's like, "he did a great miracle, one of his biggest miracles! do you know what it is?"
cim: MORE SILENCE.
cim: finally, GRANNY ANSWERS AGAIN
perhael: ahahahahahahahahahahaha

[squeakily!] "he turned the water into wine!"

so the guy continues: "yes! he did! and you know what that means, that wine is the same wine that we still drink today" (no it isn't) "and it's his blood" (no it isn't) "because blah blah the sacred sacrament and blah blah when jesus blah blah and you've already drunk his wine today by standing in front of the altar because there was a painting of jesus on the cross and being on the cross is really the same as turning water to wine because on the cross, jesus was bleeding blah blah and that's what we do blah blah and africa blah blah blah. and as a final note, it's good that you are getting married, because not that many people do it nowadays, but that is god's will."

and that was pretty much it, except bear in mind that martin and leena have lived together for five years already, mece and tina lived together for years before they were married, and there were several unmarried couples there. apparently later granny also told hanna - who lives with her boyfriend in uppsala - that she doesn't think it's okay for people to live together without being married either. so that's kind of like the surreal post-script.

Comments

[anglepoiselamp.livejournal.com]

Oh my god, that guy was on some special religious crack.

My uncle's a priest and a missionary (in Japan) but there's no way he'd ever make a speech like that. Apparently his wife might, though, and therefore mom has told me never to ask them to send me pagan plushies from Japan. :}

[cimness.livejournal.com]

aw, bummer. maybe if you could get your uncle to send them on the downlow!