Life According to Mike: Thought on Weddings and being Single

MARRIAGE AMONGST THE RUINS OF SINGLENESS

Saturday, I shot a wedding.... by shot I don't mean I went out with a bushmaster .223 assault rifle and upheld all the lousy reasons that I have remained single.... no actually I videoed a wedding filled with beautiful people and not so beautiful people.

It was so beautiful and thus fairly depressing

going home alone.

Michael, forever the bridesmaid never the bride... thank the stars!

I guess it should be groomsman and not the groom, save that I have never even been that.

I ranked up as usher at my brother's wedding. zip at my neice's wedding, semi photographer at a cousin's wedding. you can see where this is going...

Let me not to the marriage of true minds

Admit impediments. Love is not love

Which alters when it alteration finds,

Or bends with the remover to remove:

O no! it is an ever-fixed mark

That looks on tempests and is never shaken;

It is the star to every wandering bark,

Whose worth's unknown, although his height be taken.

Love's not Time's fool, though rosy lips and cheeks

Within his bending sickle's compass come:

Love alters not with his brief hours and weeks,

But bears it out even to the edge of doom.

If this be error and upon me proved,

I never writ, nor no man ever loved.

People get married.

Couples get married.

This is the way of things.

Not my way of things apparently.

I suspect I will end up being like that woman in 27 dresses, although I am way past 27 by now. of course, I have only videoed 4 weddings where I knew anyone there.

I video the one above. this is my favorite picture from that wedding. I love them both, and wish them well. I know that some of what I want is a matter of compatibility. On the other hand much of it seems to be luck.

This is me

Me blowing bubbles.

this is me, single and largely unloved in the romantic way, anyway wondering that for someone who would have termed himself a romantic to not be or for the most part ever been in a romance.

Wanting what "everybody" wants

wanting to be with someone

makes me think of Queen. A song:

As snug as a bug in a rug, We all need somebody to love... right?

I love my cat.

I'd love somebody to love.

The romantic in me calls out for this, but more than this (yes another song comes floating up from the past)

There is definitely something about weddings that make me think of songs that formed the core of my sense of passion.

It's the moment he slides the ring on, the moment that she bites her lower lip and admits that you are the only one she has ever loved. It's the moment in almost every "Rom-Com" movie where you know that dreams could come true.