The Wedding Vow Of Mordor
(My boyfriend and I are at the wedding of a couple we’re good friends with. It’s worth noting that all four of us are huge nerds, and the couple have vowed to have the geekiest wedding ever. While we’re waiting for the ceremony to start, Boyfriend is reading through the program.)
Boyfriend: “Procession, vows… wait, ring warming? What’s that?”
Me: “No idea. Passing the wedding rings through the flame of a unity candle or something?”
Boyfriend: “What, to reveal the Elvish inscription and determine if you accidentally chose an evil, cursed wedding band to rule them all?”
Me: *laughing* “Well, with [bride and groom], it’s totally a possibility…”
(The ring warming actually turned out to be passing the rings among the guests and asking everyone to add their warm thoughts and good wishes to the wedding bands. It was a very cute tradition, and an impressively nerdy ceremony, but alas, no dark rings of power!)