At least the speaker had the decency to die during the speech and not the vows, that would've been a whole different level of hell to pay. Bad audio fades from memory but a bad best man speech gets roasted at every family dinner for a decade, so you probably got off easy. Give the bride a couple more years and a few drinks, she'll laugh about it eventually.

The corp name matching thing is real but the SOS site is actually free for the name search part. The $5 fee only kicks in if you want the certified copy or the full filing history. Just pull up the name search on the Illinois Secretary of State site before you file, takes two minutes and costs nothing. Saved me from the same headache a few years back.

Man, that quarter bounce is the whole point right there. A knee kicker gets you by but a power stretcher actually locks the carpet in place, especially on berber where one bad row shows forever. That last stretch by a closet door is exactly where kickers fail every time, the angle is wrong and you end up fighting it. Ray did you a solid loaning his out. I would just buy the same one he has since you already know it works and he can show you the tricks.