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Jul. 1st, 2007 05:47 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
trombonishSO, I'm generally not into weddings. I generally rank them only slightly above graduations in terms of sitting through traditional, ceremonial mishmash done to give parents some feeling of finality. Yesterday's wedding I went to mostly as an obligation, to family and friends. But it ended up really meaning something to me.
Maybe it was because it was Lynelle - she's a special sort of friend. Her parents and my parents were very close friends in college, so I have known her literally all my life. Me, her, and my sister are nicely spread in 2 year intervals, and there was a lot of mutual parenting and her being my 'almost sister' when we were growing up. Clear up to us both being engineers at CU - she just graduated in May - we could just talk and talk about classes and band and never get bored.
So the closeness that comes from knowing how each other thinks contributed to it being special. But mostly it was watching her with her boy - "that boy from oklahoma", the stranger she met in her online gaming and then a year later brought home to meet her parents, who got over their reservations and accepted him - watching them whisper and giggle and snuggle, oblivious to the other 75 people in the room, seeing her so happy and thinking - "you know, I think I know what that smile feels like" - seeing someone else in love, and knowing how it feels.
Maybe it was because it was Lynelle - she's a special sort of friend. Her parents and my parents were very close friends in college, so I have known her literally all my life. Me, her, and my sister are nicely spread in 2 year intervals, and there was a lot of mutual parenting and her being my 'almost sister' when we were growing up. Clear up to us both being engineers at CU - she just graduated in May - we could just talk and talk about classes and band and never get bored.
So the closeness that comes from knowing how each other thinks contributed to it being special. But mostly it was watching her with her boy - "that boy from oklahoma", the stranger she met in her online gaming and then a year later brought home to meet her parents, who got over their reservations and accepted him - watching them whisper and giggle and snuggle, oblivious to the other 75 people in the room, seeing her so happy and thinking - "you know, I think I know what that smile feels like" - seeing someone else in love, and knowing how it feels.