Tuesday, September 09, 2003
Last night the SO and I had the ‘Why didn’t we just elope?’ conversation.
Buendia and I are back from exotic climes to the joys of wedding preparations. All the married people told us, but we didn’t listen: ‘I don’t know why we didn’t just elope. Have done with it. All the chasing around, the arrangements, you forget what’s it’s all about.’
It’s not that our wedding is huge, or particularly lavish. It’s just that the number of invididual chores required to ensure its smooth running is beginning to grate on us, especially as we’ve just arrived back in Dublin ourselves and have more than enough things to be doing without chasing after recalcitrant invitees.
A little over a week to the wedding (when guests are starting to arrive in the country already), we’re still getting guests giving us predictions on their attendance: ‘Well, I’m 90% sure I’ll be able to make it.’ OK, I’ll just save you 90% of a seat at the dinner, then.
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