Love is in the Air....
I just exercised. I'm proud of myself. I mean, I used to do it very regularly but had stopped for a while. Finally sick of myself, I decided to go back to a regular regimen of exercise.
Actually, part of is that I have about 4 weddings to go to and I don't want to look like crap. On Saturday, one of my oldest and dearest friends (and the one responsible for my becoming a metalhead- God bless her) is getting married. She is actually not really considering this her wedding as she plans to marry in the Catholic Church in September of next year but by Church rules her future husband needs to become confirmed in the faith and in order for even that to happen, they need to be legally married ASAP because right now they are living in sin. This Saturday is her parents' 40th wedding anniversary so they plan to have a get-together to mark both occasions, and to this is what I have been invited.
I am also planning to attend my cousin's wedding on October 6th, just a short week later! This is an actual wedding ceremony although she has apparently forbidden her father to either drink or make a speech, his two trademarks! (This is according to her own mom but I don't know for sure. My dad's forbidden to drink too, not that I blame them...). I plan to sneak a bottle of Scotch into the party for him and then when the DJ introduces the "father of the bride" I'll start chanting, "Speech! Speech! Speech!" Or not....her future husband is a cop and he might taser me. I'll have to yell, "Don't taser me, cousin-in-law! No! Ow! Owwwww!" (Just kidding)
Then on November 10th I'm supposed to be in New Jersey, where one of my best friends happens to live with his partner and as it so happens where gay men can get married or at least have a civil union. I can't afford it, however, so I'm not sure how I'm going to pull THAT one off....But I already know if I don't go he'll be dreadfully p.o.'d.
And I just found out that just three months later I am to fly to Florida for the wedding of a girl whose family home we stayed in at one point in Nicaragua as we drove from city to city avoiding death during the war. While we stayed there our German Sheppard puppy was bitten by a scorpion and died, not a casualty of war per se but a casualty nontheless. Well, she's marrying a guy whose family owns a large house reminiscent of the plantation Tara from "Gone With the Wind". He's also a Southern Baptist who recently converted to Catholicism for her. I can't get men to convert for me- what gives????? And before you assume SHE gave- she didn't. She firmly told him no sex until marriage. GOOD FOR HER!!!
Meanwhile I can't even use the addage "Always the bridesmaid but never the bride" as none of these good friends have asked me to be in their wedding! Well, I have hopes for Marci the Metalhead as her REAL wedding isn't until September '08, as I said. We'll see....And maybe even my Floridian War Buddy might ask me. That would be nice!
Anyway, I wish all the best and lots of love to all my fortunate and wonderful friends in their future marriages.
Actually, part of is that I have about 4 weddings to go to and I don't want to look like crap. On Saturday, one of my oldest and dearest friends (and the one responsible for my becoming a metalhead- God bless her) is getting married. She is actually not really considering this her wedding as she plans to marry in the Catholic Church in September of next year but by Church rules her future husband needs to become confirmed in the faith and in order for even that to happen, they need to be legally married ASAP because right now they are living in sin. This Saturday is her parents' 40th wedding anniversary so they plan to have a get-together to mark both occasions, and to this is what I have been invited.
I am also planning to attend my cousin's wedding on October 6th, just a short week later! This is an actual wedding ceremony although she has apparently forbidden her father to either drink or make a speech, his two trademarks! (This is according to her own mom but I don't know for sure. My dad's forbidden to drink too, not that I blame them...). I plan to sneak a bottle of Scotch into the party for him and then when the DJ introduces the "father of the bride" I'll start chanting, "Speech! Speech! Speech!" Or not....her future husband is a cop and he might taser me. I'll have to yell, "Don't taser me, cousin-in-law! No! Ow! Owwwww!" (Just kidding)
Then on November 10th I'm supposed to be in New Jersey, where one of my best friends happens to live with his partner and as it so happens where gay men can get married or at least have a civil union. I can't afford it, however, so I'm not sure how I'm going to pull THAT one off....But I already know if I don't go he'll be dreadfully p.o.'d.
And I just found out that just three months later I am to fly to Florida for the wedding of a girl whose family home we stayed in at one point in Nicaragua as we drove from city to city avoiding death during the war. While we stayed there our German Sheppard puppy was bitten by a scorpion and died, not a casualty of war per se but a casualty nontheless. Well, she's marrying a guy whose family owns a large house reminiscent of the plantation Tara from "Gone With the Wind". He's also a Southern Baptist who recently converted to Catholicism for her. I can't get men to convert for me- what gives????? And before you assume SHE gave- she didn't. She firmly told him no sex until marriage. GOOD FOR HER!!!
Meanwhile I can't even use the addage "Always the bridesmaid but never the bride" as none of these good friends have asked me to be in their wedding! Well, I have hopes for Marci the Metalhead as her REAL wedding isn't until September '08, as I said. We'll see....And maybe even my Floridian War Buddy might ask me. That would be nice!
Anyway, I wish all the best and lots of love to all my fortunate and wonderful friends in their future marriages.
posted by Spleengrrl @ 7:11 PM
2 Comments:
At 4:43 PM,
waldocarmona said…
"Marriage?
Family? Kids? They're man made prisons!"- kosmo Kramer
At 5:17 PM,
lucy4 said…
I love weddings especially the receptions. I don't know anyone close getting married this year but I know lots of people having kids. Though I was always hesitant of marriage because my parents were not the role models for marital bliss, I decided to take the plunge because my biological clock was ticking. But the strange thing is that marriage is really working out well for me. I haven't felt I lost anything but did gain a lot.
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