GREAT READS → REAL LIFE Issue 823 · August 12, 2020

The Backyard Wedding of 2019 

This was the realest fake wedding I’d ever attended

The Backyard Wedding of 2019 

As an assistant director of Camp Nageela Midwest, I’ve received interesting and unusual requests before. But something was funny about this one. Every summer, the Spivaks travel from Portland, Oregon, to Camp Nageela Midwest, where Meira is director of our girls’ teen division. They’ve been coming to camp for about ten years, and camp always falls out on the same dates, give or take a day or two.

Ummm…Is this the first time your anniversary is during camp? I texted back.

The response was quick in coming. Oh man. Don’t ask. I bomb this one every time.

Now this was exciting. Getting the go ahead to plan “something fun and embarrassing” for a head staff member is almost like getting an unlimited camp budget. Almost.

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