A Boston Proposal and Force Fed Lies

My weekends, though often useful and interesting to me, rarely seem to yield something to talk about up here. I’m delighted, with that in mind, that a couple of really fun things happened this weekend that I can talk about. I’m further delighted to say I was there with camera in hand so I can also share some pictures from the big events.

It all started on Friday, when at “team lunch” at work, my coworker Dan Bryan requested that well all gather around and heckle and generally make him as nervous as possible as he played his way through a couple of songs on the accordion. It seems one of his friends was orchestrating a surprise proposal on Saturday, and wanted Dan to play a couple of songs for them to dance to after the big question was popped. Much fun and merriment was had in the office, but being overly sentimental and curious as I am, I decided to take Dan at his word that we should go check out the festivities.

Such it was that my friend Anna and I found ourselves wandering around Copley Square, ready to appear suddenly in front of the Boston Public Library (at around 2) to witness the big event. It was really lovely how it all came together. He had gotten her there under some pretense, and then, at a signal, an a cappella group descended out of nowhere and started singing to them. They performed 4 songs in the frigid cold, and then he dropped to his knee, fumbled for the ring a bit, and popped the question. The lucky lady luckily said yes, and while she was nearly shaking with joy, and he was grinning ear to ear, Dan Bryan popped up with his accordion and decked out in a tuxedo to serenade the lucky couple. It was lovely.

Sunday evening found me wandering my way over to the Fenway area to find a venue called Church. I’ve talked about my friend Ken’s band, Force Fed Lies, on here a number of times. I think I’ve even mentioned I was on their album briefly (gang vocalist). Well, this Sunday was finally the release party for their album, and as their intrepid unofficial official photographer, I grabbed my gear and wandered over. It was a great evening. It was a show entirely of friends and family. There was a great turnout, the bands were awesome, and it was just a lot of fun. It was also a lot of fun to see how many people I’m starting to recognize at their shows. It certainly makes Boston feel a lot smaller and more closely knit that it has in the past. Anyway, here are some of my favorite images from the show.

Ciao,

- B