January 26, 2012
Save the Date
Wow. My year just got even busier and more expensive. And also I'm adding another First for me: going to the wedding of someone I don't know. We just got an overly-designed (THREE photos!) save-the-date magnet from one of Husband's co-worker's off-spring, i.e.
Such-and-such date 2010
John and Mary have their first date doing something completely predictible.Such-and-such date 2011
John proposes to Mary at restaurant I've never heard of.Such-and-such date 2012
John and Mary get married with you in attendance!
I don't know who this person is. Husband doesn't even ever mention the co-worker in funny work-related anecdotes, and by this, I can only assume that said co-worker is boring, and so is his off-spring, and so will be the wedding. Which is a huge leap but, hey -- I don't have a lot to go on here, so unfair assumptions are the only option.
The only option.
I've never been to the wedding of a person I've never met, paid for by parents I've never met. I can't help but go into this with a total eyeroll attitude. I mean, it's obvious an obligatory invitation. Like, Well, we're inviting A, B and C from the office, so I guess we'll have to invite D and E. And Husband and I are totally F.
Are we really expected to attend? Can I just pick something nice to send them from the registry, or do I have to go sit at a table of Husband's co-workers and make small talk over loud music which I am officially too old to dance to? (Shit, I am now one of those old people who only gets up for the token "Unforgetable" or maybe "Brown-Eyed Girl," if we're really feeling our oats that evening.)
Oh my God, that reminds me of the only fun thing about weddings -- looking at the registry and mocking the things they are asking for! People get soooooooooooo greedy on their registries. I love to act all superior and like, I can't believe they think their friends and relatives can afford that in this economy! Awesome.
And if I'm expected to make small talk with Husband's co-workers, will it be the co-workers that I've come to know and like from the two Christmas parties that I've attended? Or will it be other people too boring to make the cut into Husband's work stories? Or worse, will it be the people that Husband does talk about, but only because they are the most intolerable people alive?
So many questions! So many possibilities! Whatever am I to do?
I know what you're thinking -- Pray for an open bar, Wenchie. But, alas, an open bar is no good to me. I have a one-drink personal limit, which partially comes from having spent much of my formative years surrounded by alcoholics. But the other part is this -- NO ONE wants to see me with fewer inhibitions than I posess on a regular day. I am barely clinging to what shred of a brain-to-mouth filter I have -- and it's getting more and more difficult as I age and get crabbier -- so it would be ill-advised to throw my reserve to the winds when I'm supposed to be playing The Good Wifey.
No, the best I can hope for is a short ceremony, an open dessert buffet, and something inappropriate to blog about.
Comments
I sent out my save the date cards last week. Instead of over fretting, just don;t go to the wedding and save the lovely couple the expense of your meal, because if you don't know them, then they invited you out of obligation.
:)
Posted by: Stacey at January 26, 2012 09:17 PM
I wouldn't go, but I also don't feel obligated to attend anything no matter how well I know someone :)
Posted by: Hope at January 29, 2012 08:29 AM