Spouses, and the friends who are even more important

Yesterday two of my friends, Russell Schafer and Alison Slowey, got married. Unfortunately since I volunteered to help DJ the reception, I missed the service since Ryan and I were setting up sound equipment. Russell and Alison are a great couple, though I'm sure I could say that about every couple that I've seen get married. Usually bad couples don't make it quite that far. The reception was great, despite the couple times that the RMC sound system completely failed on us and made Ryan and I look like idiots, and everyone seemed to have a great time.

With all of the talk at weddings about how great it is for two people to love each other, it was slightly depressing for Ryan and I since Ryan has been upset about being single for a while, and I've now been to two weddings since the last time I was able to be with Robyn in person. I could spend another post talking about how much I miss her, but I feel like there was something much more important that I got out of this wedding, and that is just how important my guy friends, my brothers in Christ, are to me.

Running sound with Ryan, and hanging out with Bobby for a bit during the reception, made me realize that I have some really awesome friends. The three of us got into a conversation about who our groomsmen are going to be at our weddings, all of which will probably be at least 3 or 4 years down the line at the very minimum. I realized that while I have no idea who I'm going to end up marrying at that point, I've got some very awesome friends that I'm sure will be standing to my left looking just as spiffy as I will when the time comes. Ryan will definitely be one of them, and Bobby might as well, depending on how many groomsmen my wife decides to let me have. I realized that I have at least 6 or 7 very, very close friends that I can talk to about anything, call anytime just to hang out, and who I share a lot of interests with, and that is truly a blessing.

Looking back, I had about as much fun spending most of yesterday with Ryan as I did spending time with Robyn the last time I was in Houston. We talked about all kinds of things, and it's hard to describe in words just how much our friendship truly means and how valuable it is, and will continue to be.

It's great that Russell and Alison love each other so much and will be spending the rest of their lives together, but the friendship between him and his bearded, deep voiced, former MOB drum minor, glasses wearing friend Jake (all characteristics of Ryan as well, aside from him being the current drum minor instead) is probably just as important for him. And those are the kinds of friends who will be with us forever.