Friday, August 9, 2024

Summer of Love Redux --- Days 13/221-227

Walks: Hood errands (and quick stop at urgent care for wrist fracture 😒)

Distances: Average 4 miles


So Ciwt thinks it is very dear that a new San Francisco 'thing' has begun: Getting married at our famous, internationally attended Outside Lands music festival.  

The festival now includes a new "City Hall" wedding area, just off a dirt Golden Gate Park footpath heading to one of the performance stages.  With a little advance preparation (a valid marriage license, a reservation, and $361.95) couples can reserve the little grove for a 15-minute, nondenominational wedding, complete with an officant and a photographer.  Friends and family can sit on log benches and, when the new spouses kiss, Outside Lands volunteers shoot streams of bubble into air from soapy guns.  

Today is the first day, and all 14 wedding time slots were sold out.  It is a three day festival, and it looks like a new institution is beginning.  So new that one young Outside Lands attendee on her way to the stage carrying a neon can of energy drink, stopped to ask  "Is that a real weddding?!"







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