I\'ve reached that time of my life when everybody I know seems to be getting married. Already this year I\'ve been to four wedding and I still have another to go to before the end of the year. For each of the weddings I\'ve attended this year I\'ve been hugely impressed with the amount of care and attention to detail that has gone into the planning and execution. Each one has outdone the previous one in terms of being a spectacle. Wedding planning is no longer a straightforward affair where a church and party venue are booked and that\'s all there is to it. It\'s a bit more involved nowadays. The third wedding I went to this year was in Essex and so far, there are still a few weeks to go before my next wedding, it take the award as the best and it has to be said the weirdest. From the moment I stepped out of my taxi to the moment I left the Essex golf club where it finished I felt like I was on another planet! It was a huge affair with over 100 guests. The couple who were getting married are what you\'d describe as the life and soul of the party and the guest list was a clear reflection of this. They are both also art school graduates which adds a certain degree of creativity to everything they do and the wedding was no exception. After meeting at a pre arranged venue in the town centre we were treated to several rounds of specially created cocktails. A barman, or mixologist, as he preferred to be called, had created his and hers cocktails especially for the occasion. Although the ingredients were kept secret it appeared that \'his\' was whisky based with a hint of orange while \'hers\' was vodka based with a mint and liquorice after taste. Both were good and it was a novel way to start proceedings. From there we made the short walk to the town hall where the ceremony took place. At this point responsibility for proceedings passed from the mixologost to a well known DJ. The wedding ceremony, apart from the exchange of rings, was more like an evening in a nightclub. Classic tunes from the 70\'s, when the happy couple were born, were expertly mixed with modern dance tunes by the DJ and pumped out through huge speakers during the ceremony. It was a change from the funereal sound of \'Here Comes The Bride\'. While all this was going on some of the older guests wondered if they\'d come to the right place while the very young performed knee slides down the aisle;it was unlike any wedding I\'d been to before. After the ceremony the baton was passed from DJ to photographer, and as you might expect, the photographs were taken but not in the traditional way. We were instructed to wander around for half an hour while the bride and groom floated about the room and were captured in various poses with various guests by the said photographer. I guess the idea was to capture the moment in the style of a paparazzi photographer, which I later learned he was. From there we were whisked away to the Essex golf club for the reception but in keeping with the \'off the wall\' approach to everything that day, it wasn\'t a case of calling a cab or getting into the back of someone\'s car, we got the bus, but it wasn\'t just any old bus. A 1950\'s routemaster with a uniformed driver took us to the reception at the Essex golf club while a selection of classic 1980\'s sweets and confectionary was passed around. I hadn\'t had a gob stopper in twenty years! At the Essex golf club we were treated to a jazz band, traditional English food, a fireworks display and of course a round of golf, although I declined that particular invitation. It was quite a day. The final wedding I\'ll be attending this year will have to go a long way to outdo that one!
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