DINOSAURS!

As an impartial member of the DiDonato family, I got a great view of the wedding mayhem. Particularly fun were the deliberate things my mom and sister were doing to have ‘fun’ with one another.

a few days pre-wedding

Alicia: MIKE! don’t shave for a couple days. then, on the morning of the wedding come out with a mustache. Mom will freak out!!

day of wedding (before the mustache stunt)

Mom: Mike, see if you can time your shower downstairs so that it starts right when Alicia gets in the shower upstairs. You’ll steal all her hot water.

Awesome.

Before leaving for my sister’s Cape Cod wedding, I sent out a quick e-mail to my coworkers informing them that I would be absent.

I always try and include something fun in the e-mails because “out of office” e-mails are notoriously boring parts of the cubical lifestyle. This time, I described the music that was planned for the wedding:

Fun Fact:
My sister is a professional flutist. As such she has a lot of classical musician friends who have offered their services at the wedding. The ceremony will include the following music:

Pre-ceremony
Selective Airs From the Renaissance and Baroque periods by a professional violist and cellist.
Ave Maria sung by professional Soprano

Processional
“Spiegel im Spiegel” for Cello
A piece by an Estonian composer (‘spiegel im spiegel’ means “mirror in mirror” in German)

All Mass Parts are from the Renassance composer William Byrd to be sung in Latin by a countertenor and two tenors

A response psalm sung by my other sister accompanied by some guitar by me.

Next, I will rock the heck out of the Alleluia on guitar. My eldest sister asked for acoustic, but I might bring out the electric with some heavy distortion just to shock the classical crowd.

After the vows there will be a performance of a Bach Flute solo, a Bach gigue for solo violin, and Panis Angelicus for soprano and flute.

The recessional will just be rocking loud organ.

One of my coworkers replied with this fantastic response:
“Is a countertenor anything like a counterterrorist? Is that an anti-tenor?”

Hilarious.