(I'd Go The) Whole Wide World

The bride and groom exchange vows

We took the ferry from Manitowoc, WI to Ludington, MI, en route to our family vacation last week. On the way home -- and it literally was on our way home -- we stopped off at the wedding of our dear friend and former nanny.

The wedding was held at the groom's family farm -- which was beautiful and complete with cows, kittens, roosters and hens.

The wedding was beautiful too, and I especially liked the song they chose for their first dance. The original was by an artist I've never heard of -- Wreckless Eric -- but The Proclaimers also do a great rendition:

My family with our honorary family member

When I was a young boy
My mama said to me
There's only one girl in the world for you
And she probably lives in Tahiti

I'd go the whole wide world
I'd go the whole wide world
Just to find her

Or maybe she's in the Bahamas
Where the Carribean sea is blue
Weeping in a tropical moonlit night
Because nobody's told her 'bout you

I'd go the whole wide world
I'd go the whole wide world
Just to find her
I'd go the whole wide world
I'd go the whole wide world
Find out where they hide her

Why am I hanging around in the rain out here
Trying to pick up a girl
Why are my eyes filling up with these lonely tears
When there're girls all over the world

Is she lying on a tropical beach somewhere
Underneath the tropical sun
Pining away in a heatwave there
Hoping that I won't be long

I should be lying on that sun-soaked beach with her
Caressing her warm brown skin
And then in a year or maybe not quite
We'll be sharing the same next of kin

I'd go the whole wide world
I'd go the whole wide world
Just to find her
I'd go the whole wide world
I'd go the whole wide world
Find out where they hide her

Super sweet, romantic song, and I'm really, really happy for them. He found her, and they've got the whole wide world ahead of them. They're off to Indonesia for a honeymoon and then I have a feeling, before too long, our super awesome babysitter will start having babies of her own.

But I'd be remiss if I marked this day without also mentioning that when we arrived at the wedding, I was exhausted from the family vacation, and the kids responded to that by full-on fighting: swearing at each other and chasing each other with sticks. It was ugly, and it made me wish for someone else on my team. A partner. You know, someone who'd go the whole wide world just to find me...