Guest guest Posted August 5, 2001 Report Share Posted August 5, 2001 Sounds as though you've been having a lovely time Ruthie! At least the weather wasn't too hot and hope you didn't get rained on. Hope you have a great and safe time away. Hannah off tomorrow! The Barmitzvah is over, it was lovely. Now one more day (family wedding tonight, couldn't really miss it) and we are off to Israel for 3 weeks, to our house in Jerusalem, where we have internet, so I'll be in touch from there! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted August 5, 2001 Report Share Posted August 5, 2001 > Sounds as though you've been having a lovely time Ruthie! At least the > weather wasn't too hot and hope you didn't get rained on. > > Hope you have a great and safe time away. > > Hannah Thank you Phyllis and Hannah, the weather was absolutely *perfect* for wearing our suits and hats, sunny breezy and not too hot! I will certainly post from Jerusalem and tell you what's doing in this most volatile of countries at the moment. We shall have to be *very* careful where we go on outings etc. No daring trips to the West Bank or anything like that. I feel a bit sad tonight about the wedding I just went to, the daughter of my first cousin. He made the most inappropriate speech IMHO as father of the bride, who is called Susie. Orthodox Jewish wedding speeches aren't an occasion for ribald jokes; they usually have some moralistic content and praise the young couple and wish them well for their future, but this! My cousin went on about how close he is to his daughter, and how he feels a great sense of abandonment losing his favourite child (he has four others!). He spoke about taking her down to the " chuppah " (wedding canopy) hesitantly, while she walked confidently. He kept saying things like " What's Eytan ( the bridegroom) got that I don't have? " but then went on to say how his daughter had found her soul mate. He ended the speech " Farewell, Eytan and Susie. " It was like a funeral eulogy not a father of the bride speech! Everyone shot each other very odd looks, and the woman sitting next to me said " I'm the most possessive mother there is, but even *I* wouldn't have made a speech like that! " I just felt so cringingly embarrassed about my cousin and felt he had made an idiot of himself. ( My cousin's speeches at various public functions have been given up more and more to purple prose and pompous pontificating, over the years, but when he speaks at one of his own children's weddings, (he married off a son 5 months ago, and the speech was also bad, although not THIS bad), he tends to go way OTT and self indulgent. DH finds the man so irritating and annoying that he (IMO although he denied it) purposely delayed and delayed going to the wedding dinner until we were almost embarrassingly late. Ruthie Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted August 5, 2001 Report Share Posted August 5, 2001 > Sounds as though you've been having a lovely time Ruthie! At least the > weather wasn't too hot and hope you didn't get rained on. > > Hope you have a great and safe time away. > > Hannah Thank you Phyllis and Hannah, the weather was absolutely *perfect* for wearing our suits and hats, sunny breezy and not too hot! I will certainly post from Jerusalem and tell you what's doing in this most volatile of countries at the moment. We shall have to be *very* careful where we go on outings etc. No daring trips to the West Bank or anything like that. I feel a bit sad tonight about the wedding I just went to, the daughter of my first cousin. He made the most inappropriate speech IMHO as father of the bride, who is called Susie. Orthodox Jewish wedding speeches aren't an occasion for ribald jokes; they usually have some moralistic content and praise the young couple and wish them well for their future, but this! My cousin went on about how close he is to his daughter, and how he feels a great sense of abandonment losing his favourite child (he has four others!). He spoke about taking her down to the " chuppah " (wedding canopy) hesitantly, while she walked confidently. He kept saying things like " What's Eytan ( the bridegroom) got that I don't have? " but then went on to say how his daughter had found her soul mate. He ended the speech " Farewell, Eytan and Susie. " It was like a funeral eulogy not a father of the bride speech! Everyone shot each other very odd looks, and the woman sitting next to me said " I'm the most possessive mother there is, but even *I* wouldn't have made a speech like that! " I just felt so cringingly embarrassed about my cousin and felt he had made an idiot of himself. ( My cousin's speeches at various public functions have been given up more and more to purple prose and pompous pontificating, over the years, but when he speaks at one of his own children's weddings, (he married off a son 5 months ago, and the speech was also bad, although not THIS bad), he tends to go way OTT and self indulgent. DH finds the man so irritating and annoying that he (IMO although he denied it) purposely delayed and delayed going to the wedding dinner until we were almost embarrassingly late. Ruthie Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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