Tranny Capital
So this weekend I went up to the self-styled Tranny Capital of the Fens, Kings Lynn, for Becky and Jane's wedding. It was a lovely weekend and I was really happy to have been a part of it.
Jane and Becky make a fantastic couple and I wish them every happiness for their new married life together.
I must admit I hadn't worked on my cover story of how I knew the happy couple and so when asked by an aunt at our table "were we friends or relatives" I said "Oh just friends", and hoped the conversation would move on. Instead I got "So how did you meet?"
Of course the correct answer was "Well you see I run a website for transvestites and Becky is a transvestite. We met up at several Transvestite gatherings along with other transvestites, several of whom are sitting at the table behind you......" etc etc. But I sensed that answer was not going to be popular.
An even better answer is to pass the buck and to say "Oh I know them through Sophie, sat over there...." and left it at that. It's a technique I use with my parents - everyone's a friend of a friend.... But instead I mumbled something about meeting via the internet and then followed up badly with a recovery about friend of a friend but it all came out a little crap.
But apart from that, the day went very well. The ceremony went without hitch, the wedding breakfast was superb and nobody got too drunk to do their speeches.
The evening was fun. We hadn't been to a wedding with a crafts area before - we spent a lot of the time making the balloons neutrally buoyant with straws and cocktail sticks, and then sending them off to float towards the DJ. There were prizes for an impaling, but we kept getting thwarted by the air conditioning vents.
Our hotel was OK, if a little old but what I found amusing was the really scary fairground horse that lived under the stairs on the way to reception.
Also amusing was the advert for a wedding photographer that seemed to change the aspect ratio for every photo they took. Every picture looked slightly squashed.
Jane and Becky make a fantastic couple and I wish them every happiness for their new married life together.
I must admit I hadn't worked on my cover story of how I knew the happy couple and so when asked by an aunt at our table "were we friends or relatives" I said "Oh just friends", and hoped the conversation would move on. Instead I got "So how did you meet?"
Of course the correct answer was "Well you see I run a website for transvestites and Becky is a transvestite. We met up at several Transvestite gatherings along with other transvestites, several of whom are sitting at the table behind you......" etc etc. But I sensed that answer was not going to be popular.
An even better answer is to pass the buck and to say "Oh I know them through Sophie, sat over there...." and left it at that. It's a technique I use with my parents - everyone's a friend of a friend.... But instead I mumbled something about meeting via the internet and then followed up badly with a recovery about friend of a friend but it all came out a little crap.
But apart from that, the day went very well. The ceremony went without hitch, the wedding breakfast was superb and nobody got too drunk to do their speeches.
The evening was fun. We hadn't been to a wedding with a crafts area before - we spent a lot of the time making the balloons neutrally buoyant with straws and cocktail sticks, and then sending them off to float towards the DJ. There were prizes for an impaling, but we kept getting thwarted by the air conditioning vents.
Our hotel was OK, if a little old but what I found amusing was the really scary fairground horse that lived under the stairs on the way to reception.
Also amusing was the advert for a wedding photographer that seemed to change the aspect ratio for every photo they took. Every picture looked slightly squashed.
posted by Joanna @ 10/30/2007 08:04:00 PM
1 Comments:
At November 01, 2007 2:24 PM,
Becky said…
It was great to have you there.
That fairground horse is a relic from King´s Lynn´s proud history as the manufacturer of such items.
This comment should have smilies but I can´t work out where the keys are on this keyboard!
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