Last assignment about food.

It is surreal to be sitting at the wedding party table during the reception at your wedding. All of your friends and family are spread out before you, with those you care about most deeply to your left and your right. And, of course, you can’t see them, or the mischievous things that they’re plotting.

Every few seconds, someone will start tapping on their glass or champagne bottle, and you kiss the one that you will love and cherish to the end of your days. You’re lucky if you get to swallow two bites between clinking glass, doubly lucky if you can swallow before you kiss.

Also, you get to watch all of your friends and family file to get food, while you’ve already snagged whatever your too-nervous-and-happy-for-words stomach will let you eat. They’re all looking up at you and talking to other guests, and you know that they love you. You know that they are there to witness your joining, and share food with you in celebration.

And that’s not even mentioning the after-party at the bar.