“Where most weddings are carefully balanced equations of venue capacity divided by budget minus the family black sheep plus distant relatives your mom insists on, we were encouraged to invite everyone we could”
Photo-Illustration: by the Cut; Photos Getty Images This spring, at a roadside opera house in Death Valley, I proposed to my girlfriend. It was the ideal beginning to what would become the monthslong, painstaking process of planning the best wedding we could pull off.
Fast-forward until one day my wife gets a very confusing DM. Imagine coming out of the bathroom and trying to comprehend the sentence “We just won a wedding.” She may as well have said, “Well, you’re in charge of space now,” or, “Did you hear that Earth is pregnant?” Weddings aren’t something you can win. We had a lot of questions, but when life hands you lemonade, you drink it. We talked to the organizers and did some Googling to at least rule out that this was some elaborate scam.
Then came the mad scramble. Lodge Room gave us a guest list so large we knew it’d be impossible to max it out in a week. We invited everyone. Our mailman RSVP’d with ten guests. That is not a joke. Friends of friends drove down from San Francisco. College friends I hadn’t seen in over a decade showed up. Friends from group therapy. A costume designer I’d met once three years ago.
It wasn’t just close friends, either. The organizers had sold tickets to anyone who wanted to come to a big dance party. For them, the evening paused during the wedding ceremony and then went back to just being a night out. For the rest of my life, I’ll have no idea who exactly was at my wedding. Strangers came up to us for the rest of the night delighting in how special it was for them.
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