My cousin Shanah is getting married on Saturday. She's the one sitting between me and her sister Sally on the left side of the photo. Ever since the weekend of Sally's wedding ten years ago, the phrase "We're practicing" causes us to smile and giggle if we are able to catch each other's eyes. It isn't completely an inside or private joke, because you can understand at this first event kicking off the wedding this weekend we all were practicing smiling for the camera and having our picture taken. Kathy, Shanah and Sally's sister-in-law, photographed on the right, is sitting behind her daughter Mary Katherine and Sally's daughter Anda. The girls were beginning to practice what it will be like to be bridesmaids together at their aunt's wedding while we ate at a Korean restaurant in mid-town Manhattan.
By the time dinner was over and we were on the subway,
the girls were practicing bigger smiles.
They were even practicing looking like real New Yorkers and standing on the subway
Then they got into playing the "don't-touch-the-pole-while-riding-the-subway" game. I am sure by Saturday, they will be practiced professionals at everything that has to do with being a bridesmaid and having one's picture take 2,000 times (Anda has another 1, 986 times before she reaches her limit). Not only that, they will be ready for their own wedding one day, because that is another thing to practice for as well.
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