The Wedding in Redlands

This weekend I went to a wedding in Redlands.  It was my mom’s best friend sisters’ son.  He had just gotten out of jail for a 3 years stay in the state prison for armed bank robbery.  I used to play hide and seek with this kid growing up.  The girl who he is getting married to is his brother’s long-term ex-girlfriend.  They didn’t start dating until he was already in prison.  She is 26 and a nurse and he is 23 with a felony and no chance of getting a great job.  They waited 2 weeks to get married after he got out of prison.  So you see why I had to attend this event.

The actually wedding was nice.  It was at a 100 year old castle house called, Kimberly Gardens, and it was a beautiful location.  The reception was 30 miles away in a place called Beaumont.  Half of the houses were boarded up and it was a very bad neighborhood.  I guess the reception was in some community center with over grown weeds and a dirty swimming pool.  The music playing had cruse words in it and there were small children running around.  Some of the small kids got into the keg and no parents were telling them not to drink the beer.  The food was disgusting.  The only thing the maid of honor said was can somebody please return the brides’ purse because it is missing.  People were serving themselves cake even before the bride and groom cut the cake.  They did not have a first dance.  It was so windy outside that all of the table setting blew off.  The groom left the party for a while to pick up one of his friends.  People moved their tables into the shade because it was so hot.  The father of the groom left the party to do drugs.  Then when they finally had a chance to thank everyone before the toast they left out my mom’s best friend, Cathy, who paid for a lot of their wedding and was the ordained minister who married them.  They finally cut the cake, shoved it into each others faces, started making out and ended up making out on the ground in front of the whole wedding party.  Everyone left right after the cake cutting including the mother of the groom. 

When I asked the mother of the groom why they want to get married so fast she said that they want to have children right away.  Why would anyone want to bring a child into this type of family?   I guess the pattern of bad parenting will continue for this family. 

Just a side note drugs do horrible aging effects to people.  For example, this one girl I used to know was at the wedding.  I used to envy this girl because she was older than me and was super skinny with long straight hair.  I saw her at the wedding and she had a pot belly, a shirt on that said “I Love Dicks” (sports shop), her hair was all frayed, her face was drooping, and she was now dating the grooms father who was 30 years her senior.  That should be an anti-drug commercial. 

1 comment April 15, 2008