Domestically Challenged: Congratulations, Jess & Steve!

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Last weekend, Costin and I traveled to Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario to celebrate the marriage of our friends, Jess & Steve.

I've known Jessica since I was 16. Even though we didn't go to high school together, we were still close friends. When we went off to university, we still lived close enough to keep in touch or accidentally wake up in the other's city after a night of partying . I don't usually cry at weddings, but when Kelly, Jessica's best friend and maid of honour, began to toast her, the waterworks started. Jessica is all of the things that Kelly mentioned in her speech, but she is also a lot more. Jessica is the kind of friend who will take out your contacts or hold up a puke bucket for you if you've had too much to drink. She will drop everything and hop on a bus to Toronto if you say the words "free backstage passes" and "Warped Tour" in the same sentence. She knows all of the words to Meatloaf's Paradise by the Dashboard Light and will perform it at the drop of a hat. She is the best air guitarist I've ever seen and once schooled my little brother in the fine art. (I'm sure that that performance is one of the reasons I suspect my brother will hold her up as the standard against which to measure all women.) Not only is she built like a swimsuit model, but she's smart (as evidenced by her iron ring), witty and can drink most men I know under the table. She is a woman who will represent, who will take one for the team and who will never, ever accept that mint and chocolate is a good flavour combination.