Back in my day, a man only blogged if he couldn't get a job and couldn't find any newspaper in the garbage can at a gas station to clean your windows even when you explicitly ask him not to.
My how times have changed.
To tell the truth, I never really thought much about what the wedding-planning process would be like. I spent plenty of time as a wistful youth daydreaming about being married (manly men never do this!), perhaps even the getting crossed my mind a time or two... but the actual planning was an alien concept.
I mean, that's girl stuff, right?
So it is not without irony that I find myself enjoying it so far. It's certainly a matter of reaping the fruits of Ri's labor, so the enjoyment might be an easier proposition for me than it is for her, but I do expect that she expects me to be bringing home copious amounts of bacon (and other meaty goods) eventually, so this might just be some sort of "investment opportunity" for her.
One thing that certainly would not have occurred to me, had anything about the planning phase actually occurred to me beforehand, is that Location Scouting is a golden opportunity to get into places for free. You know that museum, the aquarium, that zoo you're accustomed to lining up behind loud, sweaty children behind and shelling out hard-earned dollars to enter on any normal day?
Guess what, you're getting married! Now you're a VIP! The curtains part, the golden rope is raised, and these people will out-and-out pay for your parking just for the privilege of granting you free entertainment for the day. And that's just for places we're actually considering. Imagine if we were unscrupulous, and decided to book meetings with cruise lines, insisting on 3 days aboard to help us make up our minds...
On second thought, maybe we should consider extending the engagement. There are a lot of cruise lines out there.
-J.
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