An ode to Yim.

Weddings.

Family fun for everyone. Right? I learned some things from my wedding season this year, which will be coming to a close in just a few weeks. First, make friends with the family. On both sides. Weddings are family affairs so if you're not in with the fam, you may as well just keep quiet and put your people-watching glasses on because you're in for a long night. Second, bring a good date. If it's not someone you can make lovey dovey eyes with on the dance floor during slow, country songs, then pick the next best thing - a funny friend.

Enter..........Yim! Possibly the world's best choice for a wedding date. Yim drove all the way to MN from Iowa to spend the weekend as my +1, giving up some of the last few precious days he had to spend with his girlfriend before they embark on the ever-awesome long distance relationship train. Once he got to MN, we drove four hours up north in fairly horrific traffic. He accompanied me not only to the rehearsal, groom's dinner, wedding, and reception, but he and I also had the great honor of entertaining the groom on his last night of freedom. It was basically two and a half straight days of wedding fun, rarely a dull moment, and many a stream of tears falling from my face out of laughter.

Also, whereas I am weak and delicate like a princess, he's strong and burly like a mule or pack horse. Observe the photographic evidence:

To entertain ourselves and the people who had the great fortune of receiving our calls that night, Yim and I invented a game wherein we meld our minds together and speak the exact same words at the exact same time. Sad you didn't get a call? No worries. Yim and I called my phone so we could delight in hearing ourselves the next day. It mostly resulted in what sounds like him screaming into the phone and me yelping with glee in the background...but you get the picture. Observe:

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All in all, it was a fantastic weekend, with highlights including being upgraded to a suite, Yim sleeping in a real life murphy bed, taking the groom out for his last night, going on a rogue morning canoe ride, finding the lake entrance to Narnia, creating the best wedding game ever, and piling our plates with more meatballs and turkey and rolls and salad and carrots than should ever be consumed by any one human being. Oh, and the beer. The beer flowed like wine.

Thanks Yim!