Countdown to matrimony!
With a little under three weeks to go until our wedding, Kate and I are starting to feel the pressure. Not in any “cold feet” sense, I assure you; in fact, the two of us have been surprised at how unfazed we are by the idea of being married, and I suppose that’s a very good sign.
But as ready as we are for the marriage, the actual wedding is another matter. I mean, we’ll get there, but we’ve got a lot to do within the next three weeks, and we’re finally starting to feel the scale of it. For all my talk of working hard and being organized, there are a lot of little wedding jobs that I personally should have taken care of by now.
But I’m on it. Although the working day is done, I’m currently camped out at the office. I’m digging up notes, I’m sending out emails, and I’m not letting myself head home until I’ve made some serious progress. I figure that the both of us will sleep better if I stick to this – and besides, it’s not like Kate hasn’t been doing an incredible amount of work in her own right.
Between the two of us, whether working individually on this or together on that, we’ll get the job done. And I’d call that a pretty good metaphor for a happy marriage in general – if I didn’t think that our ability to rise above the little things that will inevitably go wrong on our wedding day would make for an even better metaphor.
By the way, if you’re one of the many men out there who’s recently gotten engaged, then I encourage you to pick up a a book called The Groom’s Instruction Manual. It’s a clear, concise and witty account of the many jobs you’ll have to tackle and the many things you can expect as your wedding approaches. Buy a copy, read it thoroughly, and keep it by your side until the big day.
And on a personal note, to the many friends of mine who have gotten engaged in the last few weeks alone, can I recommend one mass wedding next summer? Believe me when I tell you that these things are a lot easier to organize when you’ve got a lot of people working together. Also, it would mean I won’t have to go to thirty or forty weddings next year, and I think we can all appreciate that.
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