EIGHT REASONS TO MOVE OUR WEDDING DATE TO NEXT SPRING
- We’ll have more time! More time to plan and enjoy the process!
- We’ll be able to save more for the wedding.
- After a few months without rain, September in Santa Barbara is usually hazy and dry. Also, there’s a higher probability of wildfire. And of fog.
- A spring wedding will not interfere with my viewing of season four of Mad Men.
- A spring wedding may give me just enough time to thoroughly remove Lady Gaga’s “Bad Romance” from its number one slot in my mental jukebox, so that when the officiant turns to me and asks whether I will take this man to be my lawfully wedded husband, or whatever, I will not respond with “RAH-RAH-AH-AH-AAH, ROMA-ROMA-MA, GA-GA-OOH-LA-LAA.”
- Two words: Beer Festival.* Yeah, we put on a beer festival each autumn, and it never fails to be a crazy busy time.
- Spring = fewer European tourists. Sorry, but men shouldn’t wear skinny jeans.
- There are a shit-ton of weddings happening inside our circle of friends this autumn, which increases the possibility that some of our favorite people may not be able to make it to ours.
NINE REASONS TO KEEP OUR AUTUMN WEDDING DATE
- We’ll have less time. Less time to plan and panic about the process.
- We’ll spend less on the wedding.
- Spring increases the chance of rain on our wedding day. Also of wildfire. Fire season is year-round, now. That’s what The Governator said, anyway.
- A September wedding will not interfere with my viewing of NHL hockey games. How am I supposed to frighten my neighbors by unexpectedly shouting “TAKE A SHOT!” and “FUCK!” at my TV screen if I am too busy getting married?
- By spring Lady Gaga will have released a new song that will have permanently, hopelessly, embedded itself in my brain, anyway.**
- Two words: rugby season. Likelihood of the beau sporting a shiner on our big day jumps to 60%.
- Fall farmers’ market = biggest harvest, better food and flowers.
- Absolutely no one else we know is getting married next spring, which increases the possibility that more people will be able to attend ours (a.k.a. longer, more expensive guest list).
- Nobody else but me wants to actually move the wedding date.
Guess that solves that one.
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* The beau’s rugby team wouldn’t be real rugby players if they didn’t manage to combine their annual fundraising activity with heavy drinking.
** Title suggestion for first big single of 2011: “Mad Bromance.”
oh man. you are kinda makin’ yourself nuts huh. been there done that. i guess the closer our wedding comes, the anticipation is AWESOME, but i also wish we would have just gone way simpler on everything and had it like 6 months sooner.
but that’s just me.
Aw man. I’ll be singing that song all week now.
We picked our wedding day based on Saturdays where the Flames didn’t play, so I hear you on that one!
(And then one of the best men’s toast was about how to have a happy marriage by NOT running your relationship the way the Oiler’s run their team. It was awesome. Oh, hockey!)
I was laughing out loud at most of this, seriously hilarious. We scheduled our wedding around our CFL team (Go Roughriders!). We wanted a long weekend for our wedding, but nope, we couldn’t with the Labor Day Classic game in September! Lol.
When we were doing our date-switch calculus to push our date up from September to May, I worried about hockey too! Even though I am not a fan! But the NHL season covers way too much of the year to try to work around it. If you already have a date that doesn’t conflict and you do care, I say stick with it.
Okay, now I really want to go to your beer festival. Rugby player, huh? Hardcore.
Although, honestly I think that the best reason for moving it the spring is being able to watch Mad Men untroubled. It’s tough one…
I know my vote doesn’t count, but I vote spring. Primarily due to the beer festival and firsthand knowledge of SB fall-season fires. This probably isn’t enough to sway anyone
This is hilarious. I had Bad Romance stuck in my head for months.
I’m a strong believer that the planning/stress/money/etc. will all conform or stretch out to fit the space you allow them. If that makes any sense at all…. basically what you were communicating in points 1 and 2. Of course now that I’m less than three months out (in a 9 month engagement) that belief is slightly wavering… but only slightly. I really do think I would have just driven myself crazy if I had more time. I would have definitely spent more money. And I think the end result would be only marginally different. Being a math nerd, I think of it as a line reaching an asymptote – after a point, more time adds ever diminishing returns 🙂
P.S. I get wayyy too invested in hockey – heart palpitations, swearing, etc. the fiance finds it hilarious.