Wedding Mania
My best friend is getting married in six weeks.
She just got engaged on April 15, so this is a hurriedly planned wedding. It’s going to be small, and informal, but still. There’s a lot of stuff that goes into planning a wedding, and when you only have seven weeks altogether, all that planning’s got to be crammed into a very short amount of time. So, phone calls have been flying back and forth between me, the bride, and the groom's sister and mother, all of whom have an intense interest in the planning of this wedding, and get no end of fun out of talking about it.
Last night the bride and I went and looked at wedding dresses. She’d found two that she liked, and I wanted to see them. I spent an hour and forty-five minutes at a work meeting last night, all the while impatiently thinking “When can I leave? Do we have to discuss this? Can we come to some kind of conclusion RIGHT NOW? You people drive me nuts. I have wedding dresses to look at!”
Fortunately, after a mad dash through the wind and the rain, we got to the shop before it closed. I liked one of the two dresses she tried on very much, and I told her she should buy it. It’s her size, and there’s no time to order a dress and have it altered. That takes months. She wasn’t planning to spend that much money, but really, it’s not too expensive. For a wedding dress. And the dress has a name. It’s called Kate. So now we refer to it that way. Kate is very beautiful. It’s time to take Kate home with you. The only problem is that Kate is kind of long, with a small train, and that’s just too much for her. Kate should be floor-length. But that’s an easy alteration to make.
I think I’m considered the bridesmaid in this affair, which means I have to find a dress of my own. The bride is very flexible . . . she doesn’t care what I wear, or what color it is, since I’m the only person in the wedding party other than the groom and his best man. This leaves me with a zillion options, but I don’t think it’ll be that easy. Finding a dress that I like and that looks good is always a problem.
In other news, I bought a digital camera. That I’ll take with me to Las Vegas tomorrow! My new plan is to win $10 million on nickel slots.
And I might be getting a new job (if the whole winning $10 million doesn't work out). Interviews have taken place. References have been called. More about that if it actually happens.
She just got engaged on April 15, so this is a hurriedly planned wedding. It’s going to be small, and informal, but still. There’s a lot of stuff that goes into planning a wedding, and when you only have seven weeks altogether, all that planning’s got to be crammed into a very short amount of time. So, phone calls have been flying back and forth between me, the bride, and the groom's sister and mother, all of whom have an intense interest in the planning of this wedding, and get no end of fun out of talking about it.
Last night the bride and I went and looked at wedding dresses. She’d found two that she liked, and I wanted to see them. I spent an hour and forty-five minutes at a work meeting last night, all the while impatiently thinking “When can I leave? Do we have to discuss this? Can we come to some kind of conclusion RIGHT NOW? You people drive me nuts. I have wedding dresses to look at!”
Fortunately, after a mad dash through the wind and the rain, we got to the shop before it closed. I liked one of the two dresses she tried on very much, and I told her she should buy it. It’s her size, and there’s no time to order a dress and have it altered. That takes months. She wasn’t planning to spend that much money, but really, it’s not too expensive. For a wedding dress. And the dress has a name. It’s called Kate. So now we refer to it that way. Kate is very beautiful. It’s time to take Kate home with you. The only problem is that Kate is kind of long, with a small train, and that’s just too much for her. Kate should be floor-length. But that’s an easy alteration to make.
I think I’m considered the bridesmaid in this affair, which means I have to find a dress of my own. The bride is very flexible . . . she doesn’t care what I wear, or what color it is, since I’m the only person in the wedding party other than the groom and his best man. This leaves me with a zillion options, but I don’t think it’ll be that easy. Finding a dress that I like and that looks good is always a problem.
In other news, I bought a digital camera. That I’ll take with me to Las Vegas tomorrow! My new plan is to win $10 million on nickel slots.
And I might be getting a new job (if the whole winning $10 million doesn't work out). Interviews have taken place. References have been called. More about that if it actually happens.
posted by Melanie at 10:53 AM
