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The explanation of "Aunt" Jane.

4 (10.8%)

An "Erotic Photographer!"

0 (0%)

Lace Panties and a Garter Belt. (I could really use some more material for my upskirt site!)

3 (8.1%)

"Marten, be a good boy and look away." (Yes, mother.)

2 (5.4%)

Does it, um, bother you? What your mother does? (Nah, I'm used to it.)

0 (0%)

It must've been weird growing up.

0 (0%)

It was pretty funny seeing other parents "recognize" her on Career Day...

6 (16.2%)

The Artistic Equivalent of Name Dropping (Charles Stross, Keith GWS, Cassandra Clare, Holly Black)

0 (0%)

Who were all those people? I have NO idea.

5 (13.5%)

A female Officiant, White Tux, a Flower Girl, Maurice comes in on... a WHITE HORSE?

6 (16.2%)

Your noble steed is now grazing on the azaelas.

2 (5.4%)

Henry Reed and Maurice Duplantier.

0 (0%)

Ring exchange, kiss, "I now pronounce you married!"

0 (0%)

Claire: "That's IT?"

9 (24.3%)

Total Members Voted: 35

[Loki]

Akima, you have turned into a gray eminence.

Now if you die in a heroic battle and mystically get back from the dead, you shall be a white eminence.

[RedWolf4]

So Akima is one of the Maiar now?

Cool. . .

[DSL]

If you strike her down, she will become more powerful than you imagine.

[Border Reiver]

Aaaaaand he decided not to wear a tie. I guess that was just ...

... knot happenin'!

*puts on sunglasses*
YEEEEEEEAAAAAAAA-GHURLP!

*drags body off to lab*

Lab?  Sausage grinder's in the next room, don't be letting all that go to waste.

[Carl-E]

Aaaaaand he decided not to wear a tie. I guess that was just ...

... knot happenin'!

*puts on sunglasses*
YEEEEEEEAAAAAAAA-GHURLP!

*drags body off to lab*

Lab?  Sausage grinder's in the next room, don't be letting all that go to waste.

Don't let it all go to waist, either...

[Lubricus]

Lab?  Sausage grinder's in the next room, don't be letting all that go to waste.

I somehow read that as "sauce grinder" and got all confused... Long, hard day at work today. Looking forward to the weekend. Yep. 

[judemorrigan]

See, this is about when Akima comes and tells me that I'm talking rubbish.

I have not done chemistry since high-school, but your explanation of isomerism looked OK to me.

I'm sure you mentioned that you're a meterial engineer or something. I wonder who that was, then...

While I'm quite certain I wasn't the person you were thinking of, I happen to be a degreed chemist.  While I found your description of trans fats to be a bit kludgy, I thought your post was a very nice description of isomerism overall.

[sitnspin]

I think it is funny how Marten and Claire have the exact same facial expressions here.

[Soulsynger]

Marten is pretty much mirroring his mother as well. I always thought people that sit with their arms dangling on their sides like that look like they're slouching, as if collapsing in their seats. And it still just looks weird and out of place to me.

Also, it would've been funnier if he'd ridden in on a brony PONY!

[sitnspin]

Except that in the second panel his mom is smiling while he and Claire are not.

[jwhouk]

Your Favorite Awkward Wedding Moment So Far?

Mom Trying to Pair Marten Up with Claire    2 (3.7%)
Claire blushing over Marten's Dad!    1 (1.9%)
"And he's got a really big-" I'LL BE AT THE BAR WITH MOM    2 (3.7%)
"Single malt older than you." YESSSSSSSSS    4 (7.4%)
Do as your mother says and drink it.    0 (0%)
Rehearsal dinners are like wedding purgatory.    0 (0%)
That wasn't so much a wedding as a three-ring circus. (Multiple ambulances by the end of the first dance)    0 (0%)
What was the name of that band we had play? Black something? Black Flag? (YOU'RE $#!++!N@ ME)    2 (3.7%)
Um, it's actually Claire. Funny you look more like a Clarice to me.    1 (1.9%)
Yes ma'am my name is Clarice from now on ma'am (You've got your dom-voice on, mom.)    3 (5.6%)
OH GOD I'M SO LONELY    5 (9.3%)
I used to have six pack! A SIX PACK! (Put it away, mom.)    2 (3.7%)
Lady and the Tramp, except with cocaine.    1 (1.9%)
$#!+! LUBE! I knew I forgot to pack something!    2 (3.7%)
I would've been fine but now you've got me THINKING about it and it's AWKWARD    5 (9.3%)
I know it's supposed to be a casual ceremony, but you should at least put on some pants.    3 (5.6%)
IT'S FINE IT'S PERFECT    10 (18.5%)
Jane and "Vicki" exchange insults. (Suddenly my taste in friends makes a lot more sense to me.)    3 (5.6%)
More material for my upskirt site. (Marten, be a good boy and look away.)    5 (9.3%)
It WAS pretty funny watching some of the other parents "recognize" her on Career Day...    3 (5.6%)

Total Members Voted: 54

[TinPenguin]

I've just realised how coincidentally timed is this arc. Tomorrow I head down to Oxfordshire for my sister's wedding. And now I'm going to be disappointed when she doesn't arrive on a white stallion.

[Aethien]

Get her a white stallion so you won't be disappointed.

[TinPenguin]

Wise words!

*whistles for Shadowfax*

[pwhodges]

I head down to Oxfordshire

<FX:> Paul and Gareth wave out of their windows.

[Blood-Tree]

I still assume Blood-Tree knew they were chairs and was making a joke.

I realise the moment has passed but, yes, it was a joke. 

I'm slightly surprised no one has pointed out that this is all a clear reference to the wedding scene in Napoleon Dynamite. I predict that next there will be a super awesome wedding song.

Also, is Dad Harder wearing Riding Brogues?

[Kugai]

Wise words!

*whistles for Shadowfax*

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m-up4ZojWQQ

[Akima]

Riding a horse up the aisle sounds... messy.

[mustang6172]

I can't believe they wore white.

Who said that?

 

[Bluesummers]

Riding a horse up the aisle sounds... messy.

It's ok, the horse is house-trained.

[MillionDollar Belt Sander]

I'm going to run pure oxygen through 'm  and use 'm to slice up some scrap-metal.

Aaaaaand he decided not to wear a tie. I guess that was just ...

... knot happenin'!

*puts on sunglasses*
YEEEEEEEAAAAAAAA-GHURLP!

*drags body off to lab*

Lab?  Sausage grinder's in the next room, don't be letting all that go to waste.

[Carl-E]

Wait, was this a response to my welding question in another thread? 

[Arancaytar]

Did anyone else think "Dora?! Wait no" at the woman with the yellow dress and purple hair?

I know Dora's hair is back to normal now, but still.

[jwhouk]

Also, too long.

[Is it cold in here?]

Poor Dora. Once again missing the chance to be the flower girl.

[ankhtahr]

woo! Comic!

Claire's reaction is great!

[Method of Madness]

Ha, until the final panel I just assumed he wasn't showing the stuff that happened in between, but apparently there wasn't any.

[Redball]

Well, a purpose of the ceremony is that the community witness the union. That function was carried out. I had figured the officiant was carrying a Bible. Maybe it was a clutch.

[celticgeek]

Poor Claire bought a fancy dress for THIS?

[Redball]

Well, the reception hasn't started.

[Is it cold in here?]

It did not go to waste. It has served its purposes of honoring the event and making Claire happy.

[slydon]

"That's it? For crying out loud, somebody throw a pie!"

[GarandMarine]

The perfect wedding ceremony!

I wish I could get hired to officiate a ceremony like that one!

[Overkillengine]

This ceremony appears to dispose of all the fluff and get right to the point. I approve. This should become a thing.

[mustang6172]

I'm with Claire.  Civil weddings are a sham.

[RedWolf4]

Some people want pomp, some people don't want to be pompous. It's all a ring on the finger in the end.

[WAYF]

*resists urge to bring up own wedding-related story*

But yes, the best weddings are the ones with the least pomp and circumstance. And the most partying.

[RedWolf4]

My favorites are the ones with the most rum. Rum and terrible ACDC cover bands. *Le guilt, it overwhelms me*

[cesariojpn]

Even with "comic book time," i'm with Claire. Sometimes KISS isn't the solution.

[techkid]

I'd be happy with a small ceremony. I mean, I don't need all the religious waffle (verses, prayers etc), but it'd be nice to have something better than "Oh, all right then, if you really must" (my memory for obscure Discworld references is weird sometimes)...

[ZoeB]

Even with "comic book time," i'm with Claire. Sometimes KISS isn't the solution.

Oh I don't know... yes, I can understand Claire's reaction, until now she's been taking notes for her own wedding.

SHORT DIGRESSION: I may be over-thinking this, but I suspect Jeph has done far more behind the scenes research than you realise. Take a look at Claire's body language. She "vibes" far more Girl than the others, see demure position of arms etc. Not an act, just the way some are, the way some guys are all macho, strutting like peacocks and swinging their, um, carkeys.
She's a bit of an old-fashioned girl, like me, My bet is that her dreams involve a white knight on a steed, a white picket fence, and a family. OK, adopted, no biggie. She might even have a hope chest.
/DIGRESSION

This actual ceremony was much like ours, 31 years and 9 days ago. An outdoor wedding, but the day the 3-year drought broke, so it was conducted in the shelter of a closed souvenir kiosk's awning, and somewhat abbreviated due to gale-force winds. It sufficed.

Music planned (the cassette tape machine got soaked of course so no music)

Entry of the couple and gathering of the wedding party:

Ceremony

It was playing in my heart, anyway.

I'd like to think that this wedding had something similar. Words sometimes get in the way.

Dammit, can I be tearing up over a wedding in a comic? Maybe it's a generational thing, I note Veronica is too.

[RedWolf4]

Oh man, hope chests. My mother had one of those.

Then she had me at sixteen. I wonder if she gave it to my sister. . .

"Look, you've seen your brother. Don't screw it up!"

[Soulsynger]

Oh come on, Claire. Weddings are everything BUT only about the vows, promise and kiss.

Some might even say a wedding is a ceremony lasting a lifetime... but seriously, the party is just getting started.

[DSL]

Does seem to be sort of a short ceremony for which to hire a horse. Maybe the horse had to be returned quickly to get back the deposit.

Although, as Akima hinted, getting the deposit might not be a problem.

... aw, Veronica is a sentimental horrid old ... softie. Unless she's focusing her eye laser, I dunno.

[Soulsynger]

I got the vibe the horse wasn't even planned but was a last-minute addition of Maurice's after what Veronica said about her and Henry's wedding. He wanted to knock it up a notch.

[Bluesummers]

CLAIRE: [Marvin Martian voice] "Where's the Kaboom? There was supposed to be a Earth-shattering Kaboom!"

[Sidhekin]

I got the vibe the horse wasn't even planned but was a last-minute addition of Maurice's after what Veronica said about her and Henry's wedding. He wanted to knock it up a notch.

Ah, I like that thinking.  I've not been getting inside Maurice's head at all (haven't seen enough of him yet), and it sure hadn't occurred to me, but that sounds spot-on.

[Akima]

I can't believe they wore white.

White is the colour of death and mourning. Weddings should be red!

[RedWolf4]

I vote cyan.

[bhtooefr]

Here in the US, it's traditional for the woman to wear a white dress, signifying her "purity" (read: virginity).

The nasty judgmental selectively-ultra-orthodox Judaism that we call Christianity here has all sorts of cultural memes about women not being allowed to wear white on their wedding day. Of course, most ignore those and wear white anyway.