The Evil Princess and I recently attended the marriage of the daughter of a dear friend.  Times have changed.

The minister delivered a moving ceremony.  He read his Bible passages from a Kindle.

The music was administered from an electronic board that resembled something from the bridge of the Starship Enterprise, complete with attached laptop.

The commemorative ice sculpture was fitted out with tubes through which icy martinis were mixed and dispensed to the attendees.  In assorted flavors such as apple and raspberry.  It turns out that raspberry vodka martinis are blue, and apple ones are green and don’t actually taste too bad…I never had a tart martini before.

I suddenly felt very, very old.

I hadn’t felt that antiquated since the marriage of my older daughter. I told her that since she was supposed to wear “something old, something new, something borrowed, and something blue,” I’d be happy to let her borrow the old, blue steel Smith & Wesson .38 Chief Special I was wearing under the cummerbund of my tux on the night I married her mother almost thirty years before, and I’d be happy to buy her a new thigh holster so she could wear it under her bridal gown.

She told me I was unclear on the concept…

Is it me, or have wedding customs changed?

The minister reads the vows for the happy couple from a Kindle.

 Hi-tech ice sculpture martini mixer.

 Apple flavor green martini makes its way through the ice cavern.

1 COMMENT

  1. Best wishes to Erica and Scott, for now and the future.

    The ice-sculpture is seriously cool . . .

    (Ouch! Sorry.)

    Well I guess things have changed. I thought that traditionally the only gun at a wedding was supposed to be the father of the bride’s shotgun . . .

  3. I’m a wedding officiant and I read my weddings from a tablet computer! But your idea of the bride carrying your old gun in a new holster makes perfect sense to me! Thanks for a great article. Love the pictures!

  6. If it dispenses martinis, I’m for it; blue, green, what ever (as long as I’m not paying for it).

    I’m for equal rights. Both the parents of the bride and groom should be allowed their choice of firearms.

    Kidding aside, they look like a couple very much in love. Some things don’t have to change.

  7. I was not able to carry a handgun at my wedding, but I did choose my Spyderco Ayood model to clip to my pocket. With a 16 month old daughter and a 2 month old son, guess I’ll see which one gets it for their wedding.

  8. Nice Mas! I’m not sure what’s funnier, the fact that you were packing a revolver under your tux or that you offered it to your daughter! One thing I do know, I’ve got a serious hankering for a martini now.

  9. What I want to know is did you and the Evil Princess sport any “other” accessories, or was this a “gun-safe” zone? Makes and model to suit the attire? Prolly a silly question, as I have the feeling y’uns carry everywhere. Just curious if you ever run up against prohibitive protocol, not necessarily illegal, and how you handle it. For instance, I have trepidations about carrying in some people’s homes if I know they wouldn’t approve, even though they never told me not to. If it’s not illegal, I generally go with don’t ask, don’t tell. Better to ask forgiveness than ask permission.

  10. Sorry Mas, but that looks like an IPad to me, not a Kindle. I may be wrong, pretty much catching up with technology myself.

    Good post!

  11. Mas, I think your offer was right on. I can’t think of something better (Old) to loan. But it really does show our age. HA HA. But those new fangle gadgets at the wedding is just like our firearms having those new materials and new fancy gadgets hanging or attached to them.

  12. Well, she didn’t wear it at the wedding, but my engagement present to my wife was a Ruger GP100 in .357 Magnum. It’ll be 11 years in December, and we’ve gone shooting many times since the wedding.

  13. I know a guy who does a lot of church work (funerals, weddings, etc) and he delivers all his sermons from a PDA (at least he used to use a PDA, probably a smart phone now). Pretty sure he has an app and database with him for any occasion. Think he started using tech when the Palm Pilots were new…

    I already told my fiancé I’m carrying for our wedding. Probably the usual SW 442 and a XD45 or 1911.

    Mas, if it makes you feel better, this young’un only knows SW revolvers if they have 3 digits 😛

  14. I truly do not enjoy weddings, or most any other social engagement. Guess I’ll make sure I have the deep concealment holster for the one I’m going to this weekend.

    During the Father-Daughter dance at my daughter’s wedding, my daughter leaned in close and asked, “Dad, is that a pistol in the back of your cummerbun?” I laughed and said of course, the CS Voyager was in my sock.

  15. Hey Mas, enjoyed recent MAG40. I may be old but I carry two things to the pulpit (sermon, weddings, or funerals) one is an Ipad and the other is a GLock, left the 1911 at home with the KJV leather bound, both too heavy for old bones.

  16. When I got married I gave my wife a shotgun.
    🙂 weddings have changed alot… But I think
    marriages have to… Our people.. Our country… Is dieing…
    When a nation rejects the God of the Bible (KJB) it does’nt
    take long….

    Whats the stat on divorce these days? 75% end…..

  17. Mas,

    What are your thoughts on drinking alcohol and carrying, I personally am not comfortable carrying and drinking, I often times would rather carry than drink. Just wondered how you handle such a situation, as always I am sure it all has to do with moderation.

    -J. Aldridge