Public Garden Weddingpalooza

So it's about 5 this evening and I'm waiting to cross from the Commonwealth Avenue Mall into the Public Garden. A white stretch limo pulls up & disgorges a wedding party-- bride, groom, bridesmaids, groomsmen, and photographers. The light changes, I cross & I enter the Public Garden behind the wedding party, which heads for the Washington statue with its encircling plantings to take a photo. Unfortunately, there are already two other wedding parties there jockeying for position. So this gang heads toward the bridge. I'm still behind them since I'm heading for the Common & Park St. station. I look to my left and another wedding party is setting up for a shot by the lagoon. Then to my right a similar scene is unfolding. The wedding party ahead of me stops mid-bridge & begins to arrange itself for photos. I cross over to find three more wedding parties on the other side wandering around looking for a good place to pose. Eight wedding parties in all-- a veritable invasion. Along with those of us left gawking, it made for an unusually crowded Public Garden. One guy on the bridge joked that it was an epidemic & we should all head to CVS for shots. Unfortunately, I didn't have a camera with me to chronicle this Fellinian, well-dressed chaos.