The
O'Coin/
Reizner Wedding Site
Will there be a Pie Fight?
Sorry, but no.
The Pie Fight has been indefinitely suspended due to several reasons, including but not limited to:
1. Rose Festival tying up the parks
2. Need for wedding participants to have a rehearsal at the same time.
3. Lack of cooperation by fire truck owners
4. No overt enmity to assuage resulting in no patent reason to have the fight. See history below.
What the Pie Fight is Not
The Pie Fight? does not arise out of that curious custom where bride and groom are supposed to feed each other of the wedding cake. It is odd that one or both often seem to think that much of the cake should go up their new spouse's nose. While this practice is somewhat amusing, it has nothing to do with the Pie Fight.
Why a Pie Fight?
Twenty-five years ago Bob worked for the University of Michigan in their Energy Management Department. His immediate supervisor was a very nice man from India named Abul. Abul explained that he had an arranged marriage and that his wedding took place over three days. Apparently this is a relatively short wedding for that part of the world, but still quite elaborate.
Abul's wedding took place in some kind of a rented wedding palace or facility that had a large walled yard. The yard had a processional path up the middle and set into the ground along either side of the path were long bamboo poles or sticks wrapped with garlands of flowers. All in all a lovely effect.
Abul explained that on the third day the families and friends all gathered in the court yard arranged on either side of the path with groom's parties opposite bride's parties.
At an announced moment the groups crowded forward and pulled the bamboo poles from the ground and proceeded to - as Abul put it, "Whack the hell out of each other". He noted that the bamboo was actually center cut in the manner of classic slap-sticks and no one would get hurt. Flowers pretty much exploded all over the place.
Of course, I wanted to know "Why?" Abul calmly explained that "You cannot have a three day wedding without pissing someone off. This way everybody can get it out of their system".
Could this be true? Do people occasionally get disgruntled in connection with weddings? Oh, of course not.
Obviously, we cannot produce a full-fledged floral Samurai Attack without significant risk. On the other hand, the same effect can be had with a short, but furious Pie Fight. Remember, Soupy Sales was from Michigan.
Tentative Recipe for Pie Fight
Light cream pies in aluminum plates.
Several tables to bring pies up to grabbing level
To be held on an open grass field in Ella Sharp Park -weather permitting on Saturday June 2nd. Cancelled, Sorry.
Try to get a fire truck to rinse off combatants.
No frozen pies allowed.