Planning a wedding sucks
Otto and I finally decided to set the big date for October 9th of this year. We’ve been engaged since the end of August but a lot of things happened in between then and now that getting married was the last thing on our minds. For one thing, in a span of six months, we’ve had five deaths in our family - including the death of my cat, Blackie. In addition to that, not long after Blackie was put to sleep, Doo Doo began having serious problems again… 1st - having a major allergic reaction while we were away for christmas 2nd - being impacted with poop (something that the vets couldn’t get enough of “What? Doo Doo can’t Doodoo?”), 3rd - finding out he has a mass in his colon through this whole process and finally - oh how I hope it’s a finally - having major colon surgery which he is currently recovering from. Since December, we’ve spent well over 6,500 dollars (or rather we are in debt of over 6,500). That certainly put a damper on wedding plans…and of course it doesn’t include the fact that our cars are breaking down and I’m still in graduate school. The wedding was postponed indefinitely for a while but through all this, I decided that I just couldn’t, didn’t, want to hold off anymore. Our lives has never been stable since we met - what would postponing our wedding do? Give time for more bad shit to happen? Besides, these past six months filled with death and illness, I need something to feel good about. So yes, October 9th is the date and I’m realizing just how poor we really are and how unaffordable the “dream wedding” is but fuck it, I’m loving the stress of it anyway.
So far, nothing has been planned yet. I’ve tried on a few wedding dresses for the first time this week. I looked great dammit! But there are so many things that MUST be done. Otto’s side of the family MUST have an open bar, I MUST have a chinese banquet but don’t want it in a crappy restaurant since I need to change three times during the banquet, Otto MUST have a band, and finally…the worse of the worse… we have over 200 people that WE HAVE TO INVITE - most of them being family. It’s so surreal to me, this whole wedding. I can’t even imagine it happening right now.