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almost there: the final countdown

Sun, 2006-07-30 16:49 — dave

As I'm writing this, there's just over 5 days to go until I get married. People have asked if I'm nervous, or if I have cold feet, and I don't. That's the way it should be, right? There shouldn't be apprehension, there shouldn't be a fear of what's about to happen...

It should be something that you're looking forward to. K and I have talked about this, and at this point, we just want to get to the day and get to the marriage part. In case there's anyone thinking about getting engaged, or hasn't started planning their own wedding, maybe a few words of advice:

Go somewhere beautiful with just your parents (and maybe immediate family), have the whole short and sweet ceremony put on video, then have a huge cookout (or several) with people you care about. There will be a lot less stress, a lot less planning, and fewer people will end up letting you know that they were "hurt that I/we weren't invited..." Hell, have as many cookouts as you need to show people the ceremony, or package it onto DVD and send it out...

We opted for the "invite as many people as cost allows" option, and as much as we're looking forward to it, we really thought about the other way.

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Sun, 2006-08-06 10:22 — sean

Heh

your countdown is counting up now :)

Mon, 2006-07-31 00:20 — sean

We screwed ours up..

..in all kinds of ways.

The plan was good enough - small wedding in the parents backyard, j-of-the-p presiding, and immediate family and close friends only.

Well, May in NOLA was frickin hot... outside in 90F+ in a tux sucked bawls.

It rained the day before, so the backyard was a sloppy mess. Also, the neighbor's doberman apparently had objections to our intentions, and was pretty vocal about it.

My dad invited a bunch of his buddies without asking me. :/ Too many people and not enough chairs.

My best pal from the Navy came to the ceremony - he's a photographer, apparently, so he offered to shoot the wedding for free. Well, you get what you pay for. I don't know how he makes a living, but every single shot was grainy and over/under exposed. We have *no* wedding pictures to speak of. After the ceremony, my new mother-in-law walked in on him and his girlfriend while she was giving him a bj.

So - to answer your question - the *marriage* thing is not what you should worry about. The *wedding* thing - that's the kicker. :)

AWOA - eat as much as you can at the reception. If you don't, you'll feel bad when you hear about how great the food was at your wedding.

Plus, you'll need the calories on your wedding night :-D

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