Weddings Galore!

I absolutely love weddings.  I love the beautiful ceremonies filled with joy and tears.  I love the enormous amounts of delicious food.  I love dressing up and dancing the entire night away.  I love the open bar.  Ever since I started dating my boyfriend, I have attended a ridiculous amount of weddings.  It seems as if all of his friends are getting engaged, married, and having babies every other day.  This past year has been so jam packed with all of these happy occasions.  His friends from high school just had twins, making them a 27-year-old and a 26-year-old with three kids under the age of 2.  We just attended a wedding this past March, have another wedding in two weeks, another in June, and my college roommate is getting married in July.  All of the weddings, luckily, are New Jersey natives.  The June wedding is down the shore, which is a bit of a drive from where my boyfriend lives in Central Jersey.  The July wedding is a destination wedding in Stuart, Florida July 3rd.  At first, we were not too thrilled with that situation since it was a holiday weekend and since it would be extremely expensive.  We have considered not attending that wedding, but it is my closest friend from college and I must go.  The past two summers, we have vacationed in Myrtle Beach and the thought of not being able to this summer saddens me greatly.  Ken's parents rent out their condo during the winter months so the summer is really our only time to visit.  They are selling the condo and just bought a house, however!  So next winter break (while his job is off-season), we plan on making a little trip.  Instead of moping around because we have to wait an extra six months to see our future city of residence, we have decided to embrace our Florida vacation.  Orlando is only an hour away from Stuart, so we are going to spend 3-4 days there, visiting Universal Studios and Disney World.  I cannot be more excited!!  I haven't been to Disney since I was little and cannot wait!!  If not for this destination wedding, we would not be visiting the happiest place on earth!!  Once our summer weddings are finished, we have a nice lull until February, when another one of Ken's college roommates gets married.  As much as I love weddings, I do not love all the money that leaves my bank account, but it is all worth it because there is no greater feeling than seeing two people commit to a life together. 

Ken and I in Greenport for his college roommates wedding last July

Vocabulary-
delicious-adjective-highly pleasing to the senses, especially to taste or smell
ridiculous-adjective-causing or worthy of ridicule or derision; absurd; preposterous; laughable
destination-noun-the place to which a person or thing travels or is sent
considered-adjective-thought about or decided upon with care
residence-noun-the place, especially the house, in which a person lives or resides; dwelling place; home
lull-noun-a temporary calm, quiet, or stillness

Exercise-Matching-Match the word to its definition (the numbers with the letters below)

1.residence                                                           
2. destination                                                       
3. considered                                                        
4. lull                                                                  
5. ridiculous                                                         
6. delicious                           
                               
a. a temporary calm, quiet, or stillness          

b. highly pleasing to the senses, especially to taste or smell
c. causing or worthy of ridicule; absurd; laughable
d. the place to which a person or thing travels or is sent
e.  the place in which a person lives

f. thought about or decided upon with care

Grammar Point-Proper nouns versus Common Nouns

A proper noun is used with a name of a person, animal, place or organization, for example, James, Snoopy, England, Paris or Motorola. A name is a noun, but a very special noun—a proper noun. We always use capital letter for the first letter of a proper noun.  A common noun is a noun that refers to a person, thing and place.

Examples: dog, house, picture, computer.  Common nouns are represented in the singular and plural form.  Common nouns are represented by lower case letters.