No, I am not planning to embark on endless exciting rounds of
wedding blogging, even though my world is already full of exciting new discoveries, like did you know that if you try on fifty or so rings in a day, your finger will swell up and you will have difficulty removing the later selections? Virtually any woman in America would make a better wedding blogger than I would. But a reader sent in
this, which is useful for anyone with a cutlery drawer. No, seriously, click through. You don't think you want to, but trust me, you want to.
Seems to me that a true knork, splayd or spife would be not too practical. If the knife feature is sharp enough to be useful, wouldn't it result in a high incidence of oral laceration?
I am more intrigued by the naming of the first-generation secondary utensils, which are either not following a sound taxonomic conventions or are revealing a heretofor unexplored dominance in the spoon primary family. If Spoon + Fork = Spork, as is well established, shouldn't Fork + Knife = Fife (or Fnife) and Knife + Spoon = Knoon?
Instead, witness the Spife, as well as the third generation Spayde. The spoon leaves an idellible impact on all families that it touches -- perahps the spoon is a sort of White European Male among cutlery?
True, no one wants endless wedding blogging, but there are some very bizarre "Markets in Everything" cases in wedding planning that I hope you'll joke about here.
Megan,
We have two daughters (and 3 sons, but sons can be ignored when discussing wedding planning).
One daughter did the entire 2-year-long wedding plan cycle. Her wedding was in a church, with a priest. The reception was in a function hall and was catered and included professional music. She had a lovely gown.
The other decided to get married because she and I had a serious disagreement about her boy friend. Her wedding was in a church, with a minister. The reception was in a country club and was catered and included professional music. She had a lovely gown. The wedding was less than six weeks after the argument!
They are both still married 20 and 25 years after the respective weddings.
I'll leave it to you to discern any moral from the above.
I want my click back.
I'm not sure where I just was but it gets way more interesting past the forkage.
The Star Wars bar scene has nothing on that place.
Megan, being of the ancient (50-something) male persuasion, wedding blogging is not something I'd normally be interested in. But I must tell you that if YOU were to actually start wedding blogging, I'd actually read it.
Our best wishes to both of you, with or without wedding blogging...
verb sap: marriage good, weddings bad.
Congrats. Love the ever present "head tilt" in the photo. Why do we all do that?
Hmmm? Is Megan trolling for cutlery as a wedding gift. Careful what you wish for, you may end up with more knives than Jim Bowie!
That's a handsome couple.
Least you're not stuffing the cutlery draw with sporks from KFC; our fist set of eating utensils.
and I adore the tiara.
Try this book if you're interested in the history of cutlery:
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/product-description/0313316856/ref=dp_proddesc_0?ie=UTF8&n=283155&s=books
If I remember correctly, they said that the silverware manufacturers were pushing 150 different types of silverware that were "needed," including such items as an asparagus fork.
The picture was borken for me but I googled splayd and found some pictures. I like the term "runcible spoon" even though it's really a nonsense term. I've always liked sporks for some reason and adding a (not razor sharp) cutting edge sounds like a good idea.
As far as weddings go, I'd love to hear your take on the wedding industry. My ex and I got married semi-traditionally... we had a priest and a reception but got married in a national park (the weather was perfect).