It wasn't that long ago that I seem to remember what regular folks did on Memorial Day weekend. Putting the flag out, getting the coals ready (no one does that anymore, I know), burning the hot dogs. But all of that seems like forever ago. I haven't had a free Memorial Day in at least ten years and this weekend wasn't any different. It's all good, 'cause I need more hot dogs like a hole in the head.

This Memorial Day weekend I  had two great weddings, both in Georgetown, and both under the most gorgeous summer skies you can imagine. Since two weddings equals a heck of a lot of images to go through, I'll go easy on the prose tonight so I can get you to the photos quicker.

I'll start with the second of the two weddings first, the marriage of Darren Wechsler and Katie Stevens, simply because those cards got downloaded first! And tomorrow (I hope), I'll follow up with a second gallery of pictures from the wedding of Karli Coury and Kevin Edwards. And if any of you guys want to come by and help me edit (or just take pity), I'll be right here at MMP World Headquarters, where we don't go to bed until the wee hours.

Katie and Darren were married on Sunday at Evermay. Needless to say, I spend a lot of my weekends at Evermay and have grown to love the place. Like Halcyon House, the mansion where my other couple were married, Evermay wears its history on its sleeve. I feel like I've said so much about Evermay in the last year that I must sound like a broken record. It's fantastic. Alexandra Kovach works so hard to make sure every wedding runs flawlessly, and Kirsten Michels of Capitol Catering still makes the best tenderloin around. (Thanks, Kirsten!) After that, all you need are some fun folks ready to have a ball and dance, and lord knows they were in abundance at Katie and Darren's wedding, complete with personalized flip-flops.

Come to think of it, there was an abundance of a lot of things at this wedding, from golden sunshine streaming down on the ceremony to great music coming from the band. There were great jokes, as Darren's best man moonlights as a stand-up comedian. And let's not forget the popcorn--lot's of popcorn. For health reasons, Katie can't eat cake. So these guys did what anyone would do--they swapped a cake for a huge bowl of popcorn. And though they couldn't catch a kernel in their mouths until the 18th try (who's counting?), the whole effort was hysterical and warm.

As I said at the outset, I'm going to cut the verbiage a little short tonight, as I still have an entire other wedding to comb through. So let's cut to the chase: to see a quick mini-gallery of photos from Katie and Darren's Evermay wedding, click here.

And stayed tuned to The Dark Slide for part two of No Barbecues for Old Men, with great photos from Karli and Kevin!

See ya,

Matt