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Chris and Simi's Weddings, Part 1: The Rehearsal Dinner

6/24/2018

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"Equal and Opposite Reactions is a rollicking good yarn about complex relationships and emotions in middle-class American culture. The author has created an incredibly funny romantic comedy, which transcends the ubiquitous romantic triangle and expands it into a quadrangle, complicated by the interweaving of relationships between the children of the principal characters.  Cleverly plotted, twists and turns, and exceptionally well written, this part drama and part slapstick comedy is a tour-de-force. Bravo Patti."
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Chris and Simi's Wedding, Part 1: The Rehearsal Dinner

...Continued from yesterday:
    Chris and Simi at the Mehendi ceremony a few days before the wedding (see post from 6/21/2018)
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   Though the the wedding celebration of my nephew Chris and his bride-to-be Simi had been going on for several days, Tom, Tommy, Emily, Callie, Theresa and I joined in the festivities at the rehearsal dinner on Friday evening.
    On Friday afternoon we met up in the hotel lobby with a number of relatives who'd traveled from near and far to Philadelphia for the wedding,
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...including Claire and Miguel (see yesterday's post),
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...and my sister Romaine who flew in from Portland.
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     The rehearsal dinner was held at Pietro's Coal Oven Pizzeria on Walnut Street, just a few blocks from our hotel (see yesterday's post), so we  walked, enjoying the downtown Philadelphia scenery along the way.
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...until we reached our destination,
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​...where there were more happy reunions,
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...amidst the general joy.
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     Chris and Simi
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​Theresa and my brother Jimmy, parents of the groom
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Kashmira and Jayendra, parents of the bride
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​The bride-to-be and her girls
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Me with three of my four siblings
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     The food, prepared by the chef, right, and her assistants,
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...was out-of-this-world and just kept coming all night long, from the appetizers, 
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..to the salads, which I forgot to snap, but there was a whole table full of them - here's the tomato and mozzarella in balsamic vinaigrette:
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...to the entrees,
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...to the desserts.
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    There were lovely, heartfelt speeches full of good wishes for Simi and Chris, by the father of the groom,
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...sisters of the bride,
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​...and good friend of the groom.
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     It was a beautiful night.
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     At the end of the evening we walked back to our hotel.
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     The best was yet to come.
​     Ben Franklin atop City Hall.
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