Bridget and Ed (Seth)'s Wedding

So, we have decided what we are going to do with favors. Ed came up with the idea of M&Ms because they are easy and our monogram is going to be an M, which is perfect because every piece of candy will be marked with our wonderful initial!

So, anyway, while we were at Target a few weeks ago we saw bags of just pink M&Ms. We thought that was fabulous! We figured if we bought pink M&Ms this season (they are out because of breast cancer awareness month. Which is weird because why wouldn't they choose February? February is a very pink month. Anyway, that's off the topic...)and buy green ones come March during St. Patty's Day, we would be set.

So, I went and bought several bags, and when I say several I mean 20 bags. Right now they are sitting in the bottom of my freezer and we are not allowed to touch them. We got 14oz of M&Ms for $2 versus ordering special colors on line for $6.99 for 7oz. I think we got the better deal here.

Now we just have to hold onto these bags of M&Ms for 8 months and hope the drawer to my freezer doesn't freeze shut!

I recently "voluntarily attended" a wedding. In a church. That was Catholic. With God, and stuff. What this has lead me to believe is that Catholics are the addicts of Christianity.

I don't mean that solely vis-a-vis their devout commitment. I mean that also because they "take communion" practically every other day, what with all the weddings and funerals and baseball games and baptisms and new popes and old popes and on and on. You might say they were Cathoholics. But then you'd just be wishing Pope's wrath on you. Thou shalt not get waaay too smashed and drunk dial thy ex, and all that. Oh, it's in there. Trust me. Number eight, or something.

The church itself had at least seven different statues of Jesus on, carrying, or generally near a cross. There were stained-glass windows depicting various scenes like Jesus on a cross, Jesus being crucified, Jesus shopping at Target for Dr. Scholls, Jesus rising from the dead...

Anyway, I decided that that sort of Gaudy wedding is a little over the top. (Hah! You see what I did there?) There wasn't a paragraph gone by (theoretically speaking; of course most people don't speak in paragraphs) without mention of God, how holy the bond of marriage is in the eyes of the lord, or how a good wife is a good servant of God. I found some of the readings rather amusingly dated, actually. It reminded me of the 1950's "Good Wife's Guide".

I think I'd rather not try to shove that sort of thing down people's throats at my wedding.

I know I haven't written on here in quite a while. Hopefully I will be writing more as it gets closer to the wedding. As of right now, we have less than 300 days to the wedding... in fact we have 297 days! I'm not freaking out yet, but talk to me in about 200 days.

So you're probably wondering about "grassy shoes". I have a couple of pictures to show you. The first is a picture of where the wedding is going to take place. It's going to be in the little town of Truman at the local bed and breakfast, The Whitler's Lady.

As for the shoe part. I had my wedding shoes custom made. I decide long ago that I wasn't going to wear high heels. They are not me and they don't mix with outdoor weddings. I am going to be comfortable for my wedding and this is one of the ways I can be. They are Converse (A.K.A. Chuck Taylor's). I made them myself on the converse website. I decided to follow in the footsteps of my brother Andy and my future sister-in-law Breezy.

If you look closely you can see our wedding date embroidered on the side. I hope these will be a conversation piece for years to come!

Me and Bridget are getting married in exactly 1 year from today, barring any extraordinary circumcisions.

Now, I know what you're thinking, "Me and Bridget? Did he say Me and Bridget? That's grammatically incorrect!" Well, technically, I guess you could say so. I was taught that to tell when to say me vs. I, you take out the other members and try it by yourself.

ie. "Frank and I are going to the park" becomes "I am going to the park (by myself)" whereas "Me and Frank are going to the park" would become "Me am going to the park (by myself)" which sounds somewhat silly. But then, "I am getting married (by myself)" is no better.

I could also rant some more about how "T-Minus 365 days" is really "T dash minus 365 days" or even "T minus minus 365 days" and so it's redundant, which is to say that it should be written "T-365 days" but nobody does, but I'm not going to rant about that. I'm above that.

I know what you're thinking, "RSVP!? I haven't gotten my invitation! Am I not invited!?"

No. You're not. Not if you're going to act like that.

But that's not my point. Those of you who are (going to be) invited can now RSVP online, using the link in the bar just over there on the right side of the page. I wanted to do something like that, and I couldn't find any suitably small and specific programs to do so, so I whacked that out earlier today.

In other news, Bridget already picked up her wedding dress. I was with her when she picked it up, and she made me leave so I couldn't see it. Now I feel dejected and sad. But we're looking at cake ideas, so that's always a pick-me-up.