Thanks for sharing!
By Never teh Bride
I know a goodly number of you are addicted to the WE channel train wrecks like Bridezillas and ::vomit:: Bulging Brides. As disgusted as I usually am by the brides-to-be on these shows, we can certainly agree on one thing. Getting an inside look at the intimate details of other people’s weddings is a guilty good time.
The couple above? They’re Sarah Lucas and Jonathon Kass. I know that he — a policy analyst and legislative aide to a city councilman in Washington — has major issues with indecision. She’s into boats and prefers to jump feet first into life’s choppy waters. And it took Kass eight months to finally decide that kissing Lucas would indeed be a good idea.
How do I know all this? The New York Times Vows section is getting hellsa intimate. When I think of that particular feature, I typically imagine a laundry list that reads thusly: “The bride is an A at firm B. She graduated from C college and received her MBA from D university.”
Boring stuff, all in all. But apparently, the section morphed into something a bit more personal when I wasn’t looking. Here’s a choice tidbit about Lucas and Kass’ nuptials:
Mr. Kass invoked Barack Obama’s speech on race about creating “a more perfect union” and then proclaimed, to an outburst of understanding and loving laughter, “How great to be here knowing what I want.” Under the wedding canopy, Ms. Lucas wiped away tears.
As the couple left by canoe, the bride was seated in the bow, facing forward. As if on cue, a nearby fly fisherman snagged a trout. It was hard not to see the metaphor.
Because we all know that it’s about snagging a man, yeah? Gotta get that fish on the hook! The fact that Lucas (an associate director of the Millennium Challenge Corporation, a federal foreign aid program) was happy to wait on her indecisive other half doesn’t seem to matter to the author of this piece. Bleargh.
All I can say is this: As much as I like peering into the matrimonial minutiae other people deal with when getting married, I feel like the last line of this piece put us firmly in WE territory. Frankly, I expected better!
June 17th, 2008 at 3:11 pm
I suppose we should be grateful they didn’t hold it in a game reserve.
June 17th, 2008 at 7:11 pm
Agreed, daisyj — then we’d have to hear all about how she “bagged him.”
June 18th, 2008 at 8:04 am
I can’t believe these Good Liberals aren’t wearing life jackets. It’s The Right Thing To Do.
June 18th, 2008 at 12:34 pm
And here impression of the fish thing was that it implied she was “a good catch.”
June 18th, 2008 at 4:37 pm
I didn’t think of that, TeleriB. There’s my biases showing!