[Magdalen] Throwing a Cr*ppy Dinner Party

[James Oppenheimer-Crawford]

"Police were sent to fetch the hesitant groom...."



James W. Oppenheimer-Crawford
*“A life is like a garden. Perfect moments can be had, but not preserved,
except in memory. LLAP**”  -- *Leonard Nimoy

On Wed, Sep 21, 2016 at 6:09 PM, Roger Stokes <roger.stokes65 at btinternet.com
> wrote:

> On 21/09/2016 21:53, James Oppenheimer-Crawford wrote:
>
>> How often have we seen people agonizing over their preparations for their
>> entertainment.
>>
>
> The supreme example of that is probably arranging a wedding.  I sometimes
> ask someone I know is planning a wedding if they have ordered the weather.
> The problem with trying to arrange "the perfect do" is that something
> beyond their control will go wrong. The trick then is not to break down but
> make something of it.  Perhaps the best example I have seen of that is when
> the groom's car, and the other one sent to fetch him, broke down on the way
> to the wedding. He arrived at the church in a police car which had
> responded to the emergency. That surely led to some memorable pictures, and
> probably some comments at the reception.
>
> Roger
>