January 26, 1987
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Wedding Supplement
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Don 't squeeze Charmin; marry her in Reno
WTiat can you say about a girl you pieces of music, just a wedding march,
just met three hours ago, who seemed ceremonies in four different languages,
to be everything your mother warned complimentary child ring bearer.
you against, who liked craps, blackjack
and Budweiser. Try "will you marry
me?"
"Yes, how fun."
I proposed over $2.99 Prime Rib in
Reno across from Harrah's casino.
We'd met standing outside the Circus
Circus Big Top Lounge, where Andy
"A ring," I said aloud.
"Got one."
"Oh," I said.
We decided on a ceremony in a
foreign language Spanish because
we both understood it. We wanted a
little music besides the wedding march.
Gibb was playing all week "and then Maybe a little "Lord's Prayer" or "Is
going up for a weekend inTahoe, just now to be among us at the calling of our
hearts" type stuff. Both of us wanted
the cute kid ring bearer.
before a whole week at the Jackson,
Mississippi Fair and Auto Expo."
Charles
Lieurance
She was drunk and I'd been on the
road for 10 hours, suckling a twelve
pack of Red, White and Blue beer I'd
purchased at some gas groceriesbeer
hardware place under the overpass in
Ogallala for two bucks and some
change. The lemming instinct had taken
over and I'd heard a lot about Nevada
weddings.
Just beyond the endless maze of
neon, chrome and green felt tables that
made up the citadel of casinos in the
hei-t of Reno were small, white houses,
turned chapels, bordered with charm
ing little white picket fences. Here
men and women shell-shocked by mara
thon sessions at the gambling tables,
escaped into cursory decencies, wedded
for company, leaped from the cliff of
lonely addictions and combined their
neuroses for a sketchy embrace with
someone whose silhouette was charged
with neon and trick mirrors on the
night of their union before God and the
state of Nevada (represented by some
whorish civil servant).
Turned out both Charmin and I had
purchased the 45 of Andy Gibb's bighit
"Love is Thicker Than Water" when we
were 14. You don't run into coincidences
like that every day.
Not only that but we both preferred
blackjack to roulette. Slot nachines
were for Gray Line Bus Tours. After this
discussion of our values and a few more
drinks, we found ourselves in the midst
of a row of very unassuming wedding
chapels. Waist-high billboards adver
tised what you could get for $15, for
$50, for $100. One piece of music, two
This narrowed things down to two
chapels. We dug up $50, some more for
the wedding tax (everything in Nevada
has a tax or fee) and enough for the
licensing fee. We chose the chapel with
the baby blue neon around the door.
"Lovers Lair" it was called. No apos
trophe. Inside, Charmin showed me her ring.
It was beautiful. I never thought to ask
her where she got it.
"Don't lose this." She pushed the
ring into my palm.
The whorish civil servant met us at
the door. He took some money, went
through the fast-motion version of the
legalities. Some aged crone walked up
and handed us a bouquet of flowers. Ve
never saw her again.
We filled out a form. And we filled
out another form.
"Here's your choice of music, kids,"
the owner of "Lovers Lair" said, handing
us a list of songs. He was a retired sea
captain or something with some power
vested in him by God and the State of
Nevada. We chose Miss Peggy Lee's
"Fever" for the music. I tried to kiss
Charmin but it felt ridiculous.
The sea captain went to wake up his
granddaughter to be our ring bearer.
Another couple with their excited
friends came into the waiting room.
They looked genuinely happy, as if they
would have gotten married by their
family minister in their hometown were
it not for some glitch in circumstance
or logistics.
The sea captain's granddaughter
came out pounding her small coiled
fists into her eye sockets to wake
herself up.
"Angel, this is Charmin and this is
Charles. They're the lucky couple." The
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