Wedding Bread – The Weird Side of the Internet

Wedding Bread – The Weird Side of the Internet – by Liam Sweeny.

There’s a lot that goes into weddings, and a lot that goes into understatement and I offer both. Weddings are the most beautiful, most nerve-wracking events in an adult’s life, and not so much because they’re weighty, or expensive, but because you have to put so much thought into them. You spend months, maybe years working on fashioning every element of something that’s going to be your memory forever.

Even a low-key wedding can be a tough ordeal. Money was tight when my parents met, and they had a two-hundred-dollar wedding back in the seventies. This meant the reception was in a bar and involved deviled eggs. Probably. I don’t know, I wasn’t even born. But they had a good time and plenty of love, so they may have had one of the few zero-pressure weddings out there.

But let’s talk the creative aspect. Aside from the importance of the act, a wedding is many people’s only shot at showing off their creativity. And Manila couple Jazmin Reyes and Miguel Sotto might just have taken the cake, in the form of bread invitations, invitations that are basically a loaf of bread with the couples’ wedding logo stamped on it.

Pretty cool, right? The wildest thing about sending bread to maybe two hundred plus people is that it costs less than paper invitations.

And it’s bread! I would love to get bread from my friends in the mail. I guarantee I’ll remember the wedding, and my gift has gotta come high to match that energy. I wonder how many people are going to think they’re clever in bringing a toaster for the wedding gift.

Moral of the story I guess is that if you can’t do reality-TV level ostentation, go for doing weird sh*t. You’re going to have far more fun telling your grandkids about the bread letter office that you will about rose crystal or whatever. In short, make it all memorable.

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