My Wedding Day (c)
By
Michael Casey
Now my Wedding Day is probably the most "different" ever.
It started at our house and then William PhD and his beach life saver wife picked us up and took us to the Register Office.
The Registrar was the sister of the guy I worked with in a dungeon of a computer room, perhaps even built on a graveyard.
My friend from grammar school signed the register as a witness, he was a PhD too. My brother was the 2nd signature.
We then went to my sisters for a reception. William PhD was a PhD in metallurgy so meeting my dad was a thrill for him, because my dad was a Blacksmith and worked in a steel works.
After the reception we went around the corner to my house, where friends had left 2 bunches of flowers on our doorstep.
There we chilled for a few hours, my Chinese wife now had a new name, Mrs Casey. Then we went to MacDonalds for burger and chips, we met my friend the PhD, he and my wife did Chemical equations on the napkins, both my new wife and my friend were Chemists.
Then we went to the music pub and the back of Broad St, it used to be owned by members of the Birmingham Symphony Orchestra. There we joined the 25th year class reunion of my grammar school. So we had a few beers and met a few friends.
I even met one of my old postmen, he thought it was funny, a wedding and a reunion in one day. I told him I had been Shanghaied, the wife is from Shanghai after all.
Then we went home. Now we have 2 bilingual daughters who both have a good sense of humour.
P.S. Now we have Totoro the cat and she is bilingual too
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