- I love my friends.
- Don't leave the blog in the hands of the inmates.
- When flying to Cleveland, no matter what the weather actually is, remember that you will have your flight canceled due to weather. GRR.
- And then not get on the next flight because it's overbooked.
- Airlines are run by complete morons. If you want to make a fortune, run an airline and start off by knowing where all your planes are and where you need them to be. If you can do this, you'll be far far ahead of all your competitors. If you can get them there, too, you'll make a mint. Someone should write a Dayenu - Airline Version. (G?)
- It always snows in Cleveland, even if it was 57 degrees the day before. Or 80, last time.
- "Out of town" weddings are nicer, period. Every time I go to a wedding in Cleveland, a friend who is visiting from elsewhere remarks "This wedding is so much nicer than most weddings. It's simpler, it's not gaudy, it's not overdone... it's so nice."
- Weddings should be smaller and a little further away from where the people who are getting married live. It ensures that the people who come actually want to be there, which makes for an amazing time for all. I've been to three weddings the past two weeks, and all had those aspects to them, and all were fun. And the people were genuinely happy.
- I love my friends. All the travel hell in the world is sometimes worth it.
Tuesday, February 19, 2008
Notes to Self... or Whomever
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Mazel Tov and :)
ReplyDeleteI N M A T E S ? ? ?
ReplyDeleteSheesh. Some host YOU are. (and when was the last time you had 21 comments on a thread?
;-)
I love my friends. All the travel hell in the world is sometimes worth it.
ReplyDeleteAwww :)
Mazel Tov
I echo Jameel. It seems to me you BEG these inmates to post on your blog ;)
ReplyDeleteYes Jameel, and most of them were yours.
ReplyDeleteNext time Ezzie, keep the inmates in their cages.
Yup, Cleveland weddings give you some experiences you don't get anywhere else, particularly with the snow. At one chupah the snowflakes came drifting in through the opening over the chupah and with all the photographer's lights they looked like little crystals falling. And this was sukkos time. Made for awesome pictures.
ReplyDeleteHate to burst your bubble though about the excess not being there. Thinking of two Cleveland weddings in particular, I have never, ever seen anything like this in NY. The mechutanista had the hall and smorgasbord room redecorated and reconstructed to fit what she wanted to do for the wedding.
Note to Ezzie: DRIVE to Cleveland. It's not worth flying here.
ReplyDeleteAlso, this particular wedding wasn't the typical Cleveland wedding (different hall than anyone else).
ProfK: I live here. I don't know what you're talking about. Most weddings here don't even have a shmorg, never mind being fancier than New York.
Diana - :) I'm amazed you didn't come up with another comment there.
ReplyDeleteJameel - I didn't say I minded, just that I need to keep an eye out. :) And I get that when I actually have time to write... :(
SaraK - :)
Shoshana - :P post, not fight! But the fighting is entertaining, I'll admit. [munches popcorn]
HH - Who says you're not one of them? :)
ProfK - That's really cool about the snowflakes! :) But I'm with anon - where was that mechutanista from that did that? I've never seen that at a Cleveland wedding, and Cleveland weddings don't really have shmorgs, at least not similar to NY weddings. It's fruit/veggies and maybe some hors d'oeuvres (like last night's franks 'n blanks, bourekas, etc.).
Anon - I would drive, but it's busy season. As it is getting permission to go is a process. I can't take off the time to drive...
Granted about the hall, and I don't know how expensive that was/is, but a lot of the rest of the wedding is easy to gauge: The chupah, the tables, the food - all very nice, all not extravagant. Feel free to e-mail me.
I was too busy dallying with non-Members of the Tribe
ReplyDeletePS Make sure Search sees that comment; she'll know what I meant
Of course I'm not one of them. I have far more respect for my fellow bloggers.
ReplyDelete>Anonymous said...
ReplyDelete>Note to Ezzie: DRIVE to Cleveland. >It's not worth flying here.
>2/19/2008 02:22:00 PM
Sorry, but those Cleveland tickets are just not worth it...
mazal tov and that's a lovely post. you're right that travel is worth it for a simcha.
ReplyDelete(even when your plan gets delayed for several hours due to fire fighting aircraft needing the runway to be able to get to the bushfires that we can actually see while waiting in the plane on the tarmac.)
Even the simple Jewish weddings contain a lot of excess in comparison to non-Jewish "cake and punch" weddings I've been too.
ReplyDeleteEnjoy the weddings. I don't disagree that OOT weddings are normally simpler.
Oh come ON!
ReplyDeleteThere are plenty of people in the land of Cleve's who are more than ready, willing and able to have thrown the type of affair described.
Then again, you would have be from the right side of the tracks to know that...so don't hold it against Ez.
Ezzie,
ReplyDeleteYou may be totally right here that the fact that all three of the weddings--hubby reminded me of another one--were with out of Cleveland mechutanim may have made a difference, but they were held in Cleveland,(because all three kallahs were from Cleveland) actually all in the same hotel. And elaborate does not even begin to describe one of these weddings. How about built reproductions of the walls of Yerushalayim Ha'Atika lining the walkway into the chupah room? Or chefs imported from Europe? I kid you not. I would imagine that if you asked your parents they could confirm this for you.
D - :P
ReplyDeleteHH - HAHAHA!
Reb Abe - LOL. Come on, it was a great story... that cop?!
~Sarah~ - Thanks, and WHAT?!
SL - Agreed, but I think that's probably pushing it at the moment...
G - Har har. Willing and able does not equal having done it...
ProfK - I'm assuming the Renaissance, and those weddings are few and far between, not common at all. And even those barely match up to a NY-style wedding. There's a huge difference in general.
Also, you should get a Gmail account for the blog! :)
I'm with Ezzie. Willing and able doesn't mean they've done it. Clevelanders tend to play DOWN their wealth, not show it off.
ReplyDeleteG, you're from here?
ProfK, how long ago was this wedding? The era of Renaissance weddings is long over.
Anon - Feel free to e-mail me...
ReplyDeleteI'm with Ezzie.
ReplyDelete--"Yea, though you walk through the valley of the shadow of..."
Willing and able doesn't mean they've done it.
--In theory...but people in fact do.
Clevelanders tend to play DOWN their wealth, not show it off.
--A charitable generalization if I ever saw one. Some play down, some play up...some play at.
G, you're from here?
--Born & Raised
--I'm more than just from Cleveland... I "am" Cleveland.
ProfK, how long ago was this wedding? The era of Renaissance weddings is long over.
ReplyDelete--Really!? Please, do tell...
I'm with Ezzie.
ReplyDelete--"Yea, though you walk through the valley of the shadow of..."
LOL!!
HA 22 comments
ReplyDeleteTake THAT Jameel, alone with your crummy waffles.
along*
ReplyDeleteHar har. [HATE, ETC.]
ReplyDeleteA charitable generalization if I ever saw one. Some play down, some play up...some play at.
Most play down, as we've discussed. At least, don't play up.
I'm more than just from Cleveland... I "am" Cleveland.
*SNORT*
@HH Alone is much funnier than along!
ReplyDeleteOkay G, you can take the title of being "Cleveland"...I don't think the rest of us want it :-)
ReplyDeleteAs far as Renaissance weddings go, maybe just in my circles they're not done there anymore. And I happen to be past the wedding stage, so maybe I just don't know.
"Out of town" weddings are nicer, period. Every time I go to a wedding in Cleveland, a friend who is visiting from elsewhere remarks "This wedding is so much nicer than most weddings. It's simpler, it's not gaudy, it's not overdone... it's so nice."
ReplyDelete-gaudy, eh?
Weddings should be smaller and a little further away from where the people who are getting married live. It ensures that the people who come actually want to be there, which makes for an amazing time for all. I've been to three weddings the past two weeks, and all had those aspects to them, and all were fun. And the people were genuinely happy.
-hooray!!!
There was a wedding in Mentor recently. Is that far enough OOT for you? ;)
ReplyDeleteOur first wedding had 80 people and our second wedding had a minyan of Kollel rabbis... but we were still one short so we had to make some phone calls and wait for an ex-Kollel rabbi to be the 10th!