The Wedding Planning
I think there are three ways to plan a wedding. The first way is to count every cent, justify every cost, and keep the budget tighter than the corset the poor bride has to wear on that fateful day. The second way is to throw caution to the wind, and just spend like crazy — after all, it’s a once-in-a-lifetime affair, right?
The third way, is somewhere in between. Where exactly, that’s up to each couple and their families, but there is usually some compromise in budgets verses desires, some debate about what is justifiable and what needs no justification, some amount of digging through couches to find the spare change is done, and things tend to work out fine. But, regardless of where you are on this spectrum, one thing’s for sure — there’s gonna be a whole lot of arguments.
Ok, argue might be a bit of a strong term. But there’s bound to be a whole lot of misunderstandings, words spoken to one person then reported wrongly to another, words thought had been said but hadn’t…
(I was going to put in a joke about playing Chinese whispers (geddit?), but I couldn’t think of a funny one.)
Luckily for us, the hardest part is over; we’ve booked a place for the reception. We’re having it at Zilver, which suits us because it’s in the city, and they do wedding banquets very well; and it suits the family because Mum knows someone who knows someone, and we scored a 10% discount. Win-win doesn’t get much better than that.
Now there’s just the dress, the suits, the venue for the ceremony, the celebrant, the band, the photographer, the flowers, the hair and makeup, the rings, the plane tickets and travel arrangements for families overseas, accommodation arrangements for friends coming from overseas, the choosing of brides-maids and groomsmen, and the limo to go.
Easy.
What’s happened to your grammar? The title of this section has been called ‘my wife and I’. Now Johnny-Boy, if it were not about you and your wife, would you title it ‘I’? No. It would be ‘me’; so the same works when adding another person to the sentence. The title should be ‘My wife and me’. Do try to not forget your grammar just because you take kick arse pics and design awesomely!!! Mwah!!
Comment by Kirily — July 6, 2008 @ 8:57 am
does that mean your paying for my suit?
Comment by drock — July 9, 2008 @ 12:53 am
We’re trying to sort that stuff out now, but it looks like we’re not going to ask you guys to wear matching outfits and all that crap. So as long as the bridesmaids and groomsmen are dressed in the same style, and look good together, I think we’re ok.
Or, I’m gonna hire a tux anyway, so we can all hire the same style or something.
Comment by JohnK — July 9, 2008 @ 5:24 pm