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Love and Laughter at Weddings!
June is truly wedding season! Everywhere I look, I see wedding photos on social media... so much love and laughter. It always puts a smile on my face.
Weddings also remind me of one of my favorite stories from our new humor book, Chicken Soup for the Soul: Well THAT Was Funny. It's a fun story about how our writer and her husband accidently walked into the wrong reception at a wedding. Here is a sneak peek:
In Alice Muschany's story, "The Envelope, Please!" Alice and her husband were invited to a wedding—the son of one of their co-workers. They had never met the son but they had been hearing about him for years from his dad.
They arrived at the banquet center and walked into a gorgeously decorated ballroom. Alice found the gift table and a miniature antique white trunk for wedding cards. She stuffed their envelope into the slot in the trunk. Then she and her husband enjoyed the open bar and lots of delicious appetizers.
The wedding party waltzed in, and the beaming couple greeted guests as they made their way to the head table. The groom shook hands with them and Alice’s husband told him how much he looked like his father.
Then Alice and her husband found two seats at an empty table and joined the long buffet line that stretched past an open doorway. And that’s when it happened. They were standing by that open doorway and Alice looked out in the hallway and saw a woman from her office walk right by and keep going.
That’s when Alice realized they were at the wrong wedding reception. They were supposed to have gone down the hall to a different ballroom.
And that’s when it got embarrassing. Alice tried to lift the metal clasp on the vintage trunk into which she had stuffed their wedding gift, but it wouldn’t budge. Then she knocked one of the gifts off the table. A man appeared and asked if could help. It was the father of the groom and at first he was not amused, but then Alice showed him the invitation to the OTHER wedding. He unlatched the lid on the box, chuckling, while Alice pawed through the envelopes to find the one addressed to the couple in the ballroom down the hall. And off they rushed to the other wedding, hoping they were in time for the meal.
Amy Newmark
