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Jane and I got married eight years ago today. We watched our wedding video for the first time in many years. 1997 doesn't seem like a long time ago until you see it on video. I've never seen so many ridiculous pairs of glasses in my life.
At the time, I remember thinking we were having a "non-traditional" wedding, but now it strikes me as very traditional, in some ways painfully so. But sometimes it's best to tell hindsight to shut the hell up for awhile, and once I did that it was a fun video to watch.
There are a lot of highlights on the tape: Great jokes, jokes that never make it to the punchline, staged fights, and so on. But without any doubt, much of the video is a ringing endorsement for editing technology. There are the jokes that fall flat, the rambling drunkeness, the peeks at the people who aren't really having all that much fun. You see so many things that make you want to jump into the screen and say, "Cut!" You want to apologize to the people who don't get the inside jokes, you want to say your vows into the microphone so people can hear them, you want to tell the DJ to shut up and play music.
But that's how it all went down. While we were off having the night end too fast, other people were having their own fun, or not. You see people you never saw again after that night, and people who are your best friends now that you didn't even realize you knew when you got married. I don't know if I would edit it even if I could. It's fine the way it is, our own private little slice of October 18, 1997.
11:00:10 PM 
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