PlatKat.com: Damn, It's June Already!

Wednesday, June 01, 2005

Damn, It's June Already!

Tis the season to get married and have babies, it seems. One of the baby-makers so graciously left a cake for all of us to enjoy as the fruits of his (and no doubt, his wife's) labor. Chocolate cream filling. Delicious!

I had lunch with a guy who is going to be married this month and another guy whose wife is having a baby. The guy who was about to get married was telling us all of the ridiculous details involved in planning a wedding. He admitted that he didn't really care what kind of plates they use or what the cake looks like, but that he has to pretend to so he doesn't get in trouble. As an adult, I hope the only "trouble" I'll ever have to worry about getting into is with the law. Sounds scary, but I'd rather have a run-in with a nasty cop once than a run-in every day for the rest of my life with a nasty spouse and/or in-laws!

The guy with the forthcoming baby could often trump the stories of pre-wedding silliness. His mother-in-law spent thousands of extra dollars on new chair-covers for his wedding because the first ones didn't match the bride's dress. That's thousands of extra dollars that could have been spent on a badass honeymoon.

The talk of marriage and babies and the month of June reminded me that my mom was getting married and about to have a baby (me) around this time at my very age. Yikes! I can't even imagine doing one of those things at this point in my life. I'm still getting over the fact that it's already June. Put a baby in my stomach and I'd be loony. Put a wedding on my calendar and I'd be Fucking Insane.

I don't know what it is about weddings, but they make normal women go batshit crazy. I watched my predecessor at TFA plan her wedding and come to work complaining of controlling in-laws and messed up plans. I watched my predecessor at NI do the same thing, and although she didn't go insane in front of me, I think she wanted to at times.

Why do people still have weddings???

I don't think I've ever really had fun at a wedding. Do the bride and groom have fun at weddings? They look too stiff and contrived to really be enjoying themselves. I don't understand the point. I can see why one would want to celebrate their love and commitment to their life partner, but putting on a white dress and playing a game of keeping up with the Joneses can't be the only way to do it.

Incidentally, I call Gus my life partner. Does that make us gay?

(Kidding.)

posted by platkat @ 3:23 PM