Thank goodness. I am grateful that I have survived... sanity & pocketbook (mostly) in tact.
With the wedding in San Diego over, I can officially end the jozjozjoz Summer 2003 Wedding Season which consisted of:
5 weddings (none of which were mine)
4 bridal showers
3 bachelorette parties
2 times I got stuck wearing a hat to a wedding
1 time I got yelled at by my mom for forgetting my hat
0 times I caught the bouquet (whew!)
I am proud to announce that at the 4 weddings where the bride actually did a bouquet toss, I managed to successfully avoid catching it every time.
I was quite happy that for the two family weddings that my cousin Jennifer & I attended, Jenn caught the bouquet both times. She's less than a year older than me and everyone kept asking us "Who's next?!" and we'd sit there pointing at each other. Of course, at the first wedding, I grabbed Jenn, pulled her to the middle of the floor, pointed at her when her sister was going to toss the bouquet, and I held her in place so she couldn't move away from the spot her sister was aiming for. The bouquet bounced right off her torso and fell into pieces on the ground. Jenn turned around and started handing pieces of the bouquet out to everyone. The second time, the bouquet was flying right at me and as I was panicking and trying to decide if I should run away to the left or the right, I saw her hands fly up over mine and the flowers land squarely in hers.
Anyway, this means that the pressure is happily off of me to be the next bride. I mean with two bouquets caught at two family weddings in the same summer, she's going to have to be the next... because it's sure not going to be me. More importantly, people will remember that she caught the 2 bouquets and will focus their attention on her and be nosy about her love life, etc, etc.
For the record, it's not that I don't want to get married, because I'd be lying if I said I wasn't at least a little bit envious of all the beautiful brides I've seen this summer. But weddings are an awful lot of stress, time, and money. I've already got too much stress and not enough time and money. And as I always say when people ask why I don't want to get married yet... "I've got an awful lot of work to do before I can get married."
Anyway, aside from not catching any bouquets, I also did not win any bridal shower prizes. I suck a bridal shower games. I am totally and completely terrible at them. You'd think that by the fourth one, I'd possibly get the hang of it... not so. At the last bridal shower I went to (the pajama party one), I got a prize at the end of the night because there was one left over and I was the only one not to win any games that night.
So long as we're talking Wedding Season stats:
15 *separate* weekends (since June 28) when I had to do something wedding-related
Hundreds and hundreds of dollars spent on gifts, travel, food, alcohol, etc. for all this wedding stuff
6 new pairs of shoes (ok, I didn't wear any of them to any weddings, but I did buy them while *looking for* new wedding shoes)
4 weddings where my poor brother got stuck with me as his date
3 manicures and 2 pedicures
Lots of dancing (some of it lame)
2 weddings that my car ended up carting stuff back to the bride & groom's home
1 wedding on a boat
1 wedding involving Korean traditional garb and date tossing
2 male strip shows
1 wedding at the Ritz Carlton
1 reception at a country club
1 spa day
1 wedding with cool HP stuff
Countless extra empty calories from all the booze
1 wedding afterparty
1 wedding afterparty afterparty
1 wedding on a military base
1 trip to Vegas
1 cheesy bachelorette party photo with mostly naked guys
2 money dances
1 trip to San Diego
1 ruined dress
1 betta fish (named Eme) we had to fishsit when our friends were on their honeymoon
0 new wedding clothes
...and many new friends and acquaintences :)
So if you're wondering why I am weddinged out, the above should give you a clue. I did not count the two weddings I attended earlier in the year as part of the Summer Wedding Season. And I've been informed of at least one wedding next year that we might be attending.
However, my cousin Jennifer beat me in the wedding count... she's been to seven (or was it nine?) this year... and was in the wedding party for several of them. But the doctor I met at my cousin's wedding last week took the cake... he had already been to TWELVE this year... with SEVEN MORE to go!
I guess I don't have nearly as many friends and family as that guy does, but I still am appreciative of everyone who invited me to be part of their special day.
Posted by jozjozjoz at October 12, 2003 12:59 PMYAY!!!! its the end of hat season!!!! :)
Posted by: Meeta at October 13, 2003 11:13 PM
Hah, but I'm performing one this year...most people can't say that =)
Posted by: Michael Doss at October 13, 2003 12:50 AM