Friday June 22 2007
Woke up early because Tad and Judy were leaving town, so unfortunately, I had to pack up and move to a friend’s up the road. The price you pay for being too cheap to get a hotel. A nice old Vineyard farm house, with a lovely garden, and bee hives in the back. Dunbar and Meredith and their daughter Mary Jane, and her wife Chris welcomed me. Mary Jane took me and my tux to the bus station, and it was like that Mastercard add from a few years ago (”priceless”) with the bridesmaid in the sea-foam green dress who takes the city bus to the wedding. It was really easy, and the bus stopped right outside “The Outermost Inn” (in Menemsha) which is a lovely seaside inn, owned by James Taylor’s brother, Hugh. He welcomed me, and I was the first one of the groomsmen there, and he gave me a glass of water and he was singing to himself, and he has an excellent voice! But the Outermost Inn is quite a place. Beautiful! It sits on a hill, overlooking a lovely meadow, and beyond that, a lighthouse, and the sea! The rest of the groomsmen arrived, and I thought I was coming down with the flu, but Gabrielle, Angelo’s daughter told me it was allergies and gave me a claritin and some advil and she was right! We got dressed and it was funny, a bunch of musicians struggling with their tuxes, and it was me and Billy Beard, Frank Swart, Chuck Prophet and Frank Petraglia. We took a few pics at the outermost, and I forgot that Angelo gave us all binoculars. We got in a van to go to the wedding, and it looked like it was going to storm, but it held off. Eulene took a while to get to the church and everyone was sort of anxious. The wedding co-ordinaters were calling the chauffer’s cellphone and there was a lot of whispering, but she arrived and was stunning, and she knows the way to make an entrance! The wedding was one of those lovely short-ish weddings and we took some pictures, then it looked stormy again, so we went back to the Outermost Inn, and it was pouring! Everyone was kind of clustered together inside, and it was kind of nice, and then the clouds broke, and a rainbow appeared, and everyone cheered, and it turned into a beautiful starry night! Dinner was really good (surf and turf) and I got kind of drunk, and danced with some different people. I asked Ang if I could stay at the inn, but then I thought what am I doing? He just got married, why would he want to be bothered with sorting out my accommodations? I could feel Leslie kicking me in the shins as soon as I said it! But we all had a great time, and it’s probably the most fun I’ve ever had at a wedding. They really did it right! Took the last shuttle home and it dropped me on M. and D.’s doorstep. Staggered up the steps and somehow remembered to take some advil!
