This is how a typical conversation goes when someone finds out I got engaged week ago:
Person: Wow! Congratulations! When's the wedding?
Me: September 26th.
Person: You set a date already? That's fast!
Me: (head explodes)
Then I have to spend five minutes explaining that we want an outdoor wedding, which means we have to hold it this fall or next spring and neither of us wants to wait a year to get married because we've lived together for a year and a half and it's just silly to take 12 months to plan what will be a small wedding. Blah, blah, blah.
Seriously? Why, why, why, why do people ask me when the wedding is and then express surprise when I can answer the question? Are you asking me with the assumption that I'll just shrug? Because that's stupid. It'd be one thing if the question was "Have you set a date yet?" or "Do you know when you're getting married yet?" But NO.
Sigh.
Bitch session over.
Hopping up and down excitedly beginning.
I bought a dress! I bought a dress! I bought a dress! It's so beautiful! Yay!
Don't you dare say "That was fast!" I will fuck you up.
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On a completely unrelated note, you might remember my Lament of the Shattered Green Mug. A few months after that unfortunate incident, my friend Christina bought me a replacement mug. Well, one of the feline trio knocked it off a table last night and broke it into beautiful little green shards. Waaaaaaaaaaah.
4 comments:
Well, people are surprised because most, not all women, take a long time to choose a dress, and there is, sometimes, but not always, lots of family bruhaha around when or even WHERE the event will be.
But, who am I to talk, we had reserved Frost Chapel before we were officially engaged, so when people asked us when we were going to get married, we, too, already had a date dictated by availability of location.
Congrats in any event. Don't sweat the small stuff now, people will get even weirder.
I think maybe they're suprised AT the date, not that there IS a date, you know? Like, if you said June 2010, they'd be all "Oh, that's nice. A summer wedding is lovely."
But since you are super-together bride and have your aforementioned reasons of outdoor wedded bliss, you've got an earlier date.
Problem solved. :)
Yay for planning.
Okay, I had a dress within 2 weeks, so i think it's totally normal. I think it's necessary, in fact, since it takes so long to come in. And no, 6 months is not fast. you can do it. :)
You're getting MARRRRIEEEED!!!
"Sometime in the fall, we think."
Or, "we're hoping for September."
I'd guess that that's what they expect to hear. The fact that you have an exact date means that you also have a venue booked and all that's a bit fast for most people.
But then, you're a fast chick.
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