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Well well!

I got a Wedding invite from a cousin earlier this week.  I knew it was coming, but I didn't know what was coming.  It's not a Wedding day invite; it's a Wedding Festival invite.  I've never heard of anything like it.  But, for the first time ever, I'm actually a little bit excited about a Wedding!

I am festival junkie anyway, so an extra one can't do any harm.  It even says to bring wellies!!!  Apparently we camp for the weekend.  There's (and yes, I am copying this!) festival food, live music, local wine and beer, disco, open mike, story-telling, massage, duck racing, lantern making, drumming, bonfires, fireworks, chill-out tents, craic den (which on a little googling I believe to be a place to sit and engage in silly conversation, though I don't know as have never heard of it before) and 'lake and riverside entertainments'.  Oh, and speeches and a Wedding cake.  Bizarre, but brilliant. 

And, it's on my Birthday weekend.  Free partying - awesome!  Only thing is, I guess that it will mean waking up on the morning of my birthday covered in mud, sleeping in a field, with a severe hangover and a few hours on a crowded train looming ahead. 

It's nice to see that there are still a few members of my family who are up for a laugh.  I can't quite imagine how the majority are going to take the invite - it's not at all in keeping with the usual formal, dull and stressful family affairs that we are all so accustomed to. 

Anyway, rock on!!