The strangeness doesn't stop there. At the wedding I mentioned, my wife chose her closest female friend as her maid of honor. Eventually, my wife was taken away to Heaven by cancer. Later I married again, and MY best man that time was the husband of my first wife's maid of honor. The minister who performed my second wedding had been one of my groomsmen at the first wedding; and when my second wife was called home by a heart attack, this minister conducted her funeral.