Happy Holidays from Anna Hague

My husband and I had a Christmas wedding. Not because I wanted a Christmas wedding, but rather he’d accepted a student co-op position in another state, and we didn’t want to be separated at sixteen-week intervals.

Being that we were still college students, our wedding budget was very limited. We had both the ceremony and reception in the church.

Did I mention we were still college students? Well, we borrowed a very nice punch fountain from a friend who had been a caterer, and purchased punch at cost. The whole set up looked beautiful setting next to our cake.

We were downstairs taking photos, and when it was time for my side of the family photo, I couldn’t find one of my older brothers anywhere. I grabbed my mom and asked where Gary was?

I could tell she was antsy and nervous. She told me she had to send Gary out for more punch. The fountain was nearly dry.

How did that happen? There were many gallons of punch.

What I later found out was my husband’s college roommates poured two bottles of 190 proof Everclear into the punch fountain…a fountain that not only kids were drinking from, but the minister himself. The punch ran out in twenty minutes.

My brother finally arrived with more punch, but by the time my husband and I got upstairs to do the photo with the toasting glasses, the punch was gone again.

Our wedding photo has us holding two empty toasting glasses.

I never told my mom what happened to the punch.

Anna Hague
https://www.annahague.com/