Wedding Planning

I'm getting married in the Fall and my finacee' is in the process of teaching me everything I didn't know or deem rational about planning a wedding. She's winning. Apparently there's a ton of protocol and etiquette (let's just call them what they are....unsubstantiated rules), surrounding the wedding planning process and actual event.

Basically I'm learning that I'm a huge a tool when it comes to these things. I try and shimmy in my opinion or view on a given issue, but I might as well be talking directly to a Mr. Potato Head Doll telling it that it can't leave the house looking like that. My reasons and logic seem to fall on deaf ears. But I'm okay with it because it's "her day". And I truly do want the attention on my bride come ceremony time, she's the real prize here...I'm just an average-looking dude that got lucky, REALLY lucky.

However, every once in a while I feel the need to address the presuppostion that it's "her day". It's my day too, after all. Now I'm not saying that I want all eyes on me and that I should walk down the aisle to meet her at the alter (though that would be friggin' hysterical in my mind), I'm just sayin' let me shimmy in a request that's in my favor once in a while. Throw one my way every so often, is what I'm asking. My fiancee' is getting better at this but she still has a ways to go. The reason I know she has a ways to go is because she still thinks the Bee Gees aren't gonna be played during the reception party. Well, I have news for her......embrace the idea, cuz that shit is GONNA HAPPEN.

Now I'm not gonna cheeseball the whole reception by coming out to How Deep is Your Love for our first dance, that's silly and cliche. But Night Fever will be heard loud and clear once people are on the dance floor with a few (probably several) cocktails in them. And if I break out into a solo, I break out into a solo....circle it up and let it happen. There's only a few things that I'm hell bent on having or doing at my wedding, and that is merely one of them. Some form of red meat would be on the list as well (also happening).

Flowers, colors, location, time of the ceremony, china patterns and crystal stemware? Knock yourself out babe! But let me mix in some cheesy scallop potatoes on the menu and an Issac Hayes tune (preferably from the Hot Buttered Soul album).

I want her to be super happy and overjoyed with this important day. She's the beautiful one, she's the coveted prize, and I want all eyes on her and all attention going towards her on our wedding day. All I ask for is maybe a handshake, and an enthusiastic pat on the back when Hall and Oates hits your ears......cuz that was MY call.