Marine wedding.

[xoxoxoBruce]

Damifino...that's what his Grandpa told me.

Nothing against your friend, what-so-ever, but the Pocatello paper needs to get a better reporter:



As Crystal walked out of the glen and across a footbridge over Dempsey Creek, the flower girl sprinkled rose petals at her feet while country western singers played guitars and sang love songs. The groom took her by the hand and escorted the bride to the stage under the large pavilion. Mayor Ray Bailey of Lava Hot Springs officiated.

The two lovers, exchanging vows and thinking only of each other, forgot for a moment the service to country and a war-torn Iraq. It was a very peaceful ceremony as the birds sang and the background.

That has got to be one of the worst bits of writing I've ever seen.

(I'm sure your friend is very happy despite the newspaper coverage of the event)

[Elspode]

I'm betting there are relatively few aspiring Hemingways willing to work for Pocatello-scale wages these days.

Originally Posted by Elspode

I'm betting there are relatively few aspiring Hemingways willing to work for Pocatello-scale wages these days.

From the example above, I'd say there were very few high school graduates willing to work for those wages, either. Pocatello is kind of a cool town in a Idaho sort of style, by the way. You'd think the paper could scrape up a cub reporter who had passed English class in 10th grade.

[xoxoxoBruce]

At least it didn't start with "It was a dark and stormy night...."
The ceremony was held was at a mountain top picnic grove that they accessed by a 1 1/2 hour horsedrawn wagon ride. I can picture these people, in their Sunday best, sweltering in a porta-potty that's been sitting in the August sun.