Over the past decade, I can't tell you how many shows I've been at where a band was playing for an audience consisting of Molly Flynn, Alex Howard and not too many more people than that. They're two of the most loyal members of the roots-rock end of the local-music flock, and they've also been regulars on Guitartown going back to the pre-Facebook era. For most of those years, they'd show up at clubs separately. At a certain point, they started showing up together. This past Saturday, they got married.

It was a lovely affair on the deck overlooking Lake Johnson, and of course there was music before, during and after. Tres Chicas, Small Ponds and Kenny Roby sang at they ceremony, and they were all part of the nightcap show at the Pour House. The whole thing was great, but the highlights for me were Roby's quietly soulful version of Magnetic Fields' "The Book of Love" during the ceremony; and Mic Harrison's karaoke-style bar-band takedown of "Forever and Ever, Amen" as the happy couple beamed (Howard felt compelled to correct Harrison's identification of it as a Randy Travis song, pointing out that Durham native Don Schlitz actually wrote it).

They also had about the coolest wedding party favor I've ever seen, a 21-song mix CD titled Best Song Ever: Molly and Alex -- September 24, 2011. Listening to it brings back a lot of those nights out in clubs, and it's an excellent sampler of the roots-oriented end of the local scene with songs by Small Ponds, Backsliders, The Old Ceremony, Love Language, Goner, Mayflies USA, Max Indian and more. It's not for sale, of course; but if you see Molly or Alex out at a show, you might be able to talk them into sending you a copy or at least a track list.

God bless 'em.