soaking in sin....
Jun. 23rd, 2008 12:38 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
So - several folks - after seeing David and I in the background at Tommy and Morgan's wedding Saturday - emailed me or IM'd me "so - when are you and David getting married?" - and my answer is very simple: We are having SO MUCH FUN living in sin - we're in no hurry to get married. So much sin - so little time!
We actually discussed what a wedding ceremony would be like - say "rent the English garden at Filoli and let me arrive in a Cinderella-esque carriage while F15's fly over and a symphony orchestra plays the wedding march while David and his harem of "best-men" would stand at the alter as the throngs of wedding goers wept as the giant over-the-top ceremony proceeded...."
and he said "I think we'll elope instead."
well - oh well - back to living in sin.
We actually discussed what a wedding ceremony would be like - say "rent the English garden at Filoli and let me arrive in a Cinderella-esque carriage while F15's fly over and a symphony orchestra plays the wedding march while David and his harem of "best-men" would stand at the alter as the throngs of wedding goers wept as the giant over-the-top ceremony proceeded...."
and he said "I think we'll elope instead."
well - oh well - back to living in sin.
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Date: 2008-06-23 07:57 pm (UTC)Preferably in several complete sets.
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Date: 2008-06-23 07:58 pm (UTC)None of them ever did.
Most of them later told me they wished they had.
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Date: 2008-06-23 08:09 pm (UTC)But I've noticed that weddings often bring out the worst: bride(zilla)'s expectations, the mother's desire to have the wedding she never had (in terms of grandiose expense), obligations to people to include them, and so on. It gets ugly. Dash out for a quiet wedding, and then throw a monster party later.
There were exceptions to this, of course, but I am mindful of one wedding where the bride spent more than I made in a year on her gown, and was divorced three years later.
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Date: 2008-06-23 08:13 pm (UTC)http://fpcor.org/sermons/090207.htm
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Date: 2008-06-23 08:24 pm (UTC)I had not read before Ms English's sermon. A bit Christly for my theological tastes, but not untrue.
I was lucky that no one ever quibbled over the fee that I charged for doing a wedding, but my friend Libby had one couple that didn't want to pay her the $250 she charged. She just looked at them and said, "If you can afford a $4000 wedding dress, and $2500 in flowers, then you can afford a measly two hundred and fifty bucks for the person who signs the marriage license."
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Date: 2008-06-23 08:09 pm (UTC)Jesus H. Christ. Just because gay people CAN do it, does that mean everybody in California now HAS TO do it? WTF!?
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Date: 2008-06-24 12:43 am (UTC)my
god
you are NAUGHTY!
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Date: 2008-06-24 01:51 am (UTC)The prospect of planning a wedding is almost enough to make me glad it's constitutionally denied in Wisconsin.
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Date: 2008-06-24 03:06 pm (UTC)love to you
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