September 13, 2010
No Children
Date: August 5, 2006
Location: Los Angeles, CA
Description: Every wedding has its share of memorable moments – beautiful vows, a poignant toast at the reception, someone getting drunk and falling into the bowl of punch. But this picture captures the most memorable moment in any wedding I’ve attended. In lieu of a band or a DJ, Kevin and Angela had created a playlist on their iPod for the event, knowing they had a limited time at the reception hall. They had timed it so the last song would be No Children by The Mountain Goats, which is a song about the ultimate explosion point of a doomed relationship, which was surprisingly not at all surprising as their choice of song. Enough of my friends had known of this band by now where a large cadre of people were singing along to the powerfully hopeless lyrics. At the song’s conclusion, Kevin laughingly asked the group if they wanted to hear it again, which was met with a resounding yes. It was during the second time that this picture was taken, during the line: “You are coming down with me, hand in unlovable hand.” I had chills running down my spine as they grabbed each others hands and shouted out the lyric at the top of their lungs. The button to the story is a comment by Kevin’s mom, who nodded disapprovingly and said “These are your kind of people.”