The honeymoon was one of my few responsibilities for the wedding. This goes some way towards explaining why it happened five months after the fact. The other reasons were lack of funds and vacation time, and wanting to use any break as an escape from a probable Boston winter that would make a eunuch of…
Waking up the morning after the wedding, I felt better than I had after previous weddings I had been to with Christina. At her cousin’s wedding the previous summer, I accompanied her up to the room with the intention of putting her to bed and going back down to continue the party. I did as…
There is little to say about this day that can’t be done by videos and photos. That doesn’t mean I’m not going to jot down a couple thousand words anyway. I got up at seven and made my way down the road to take a walk around the farm, partly to make sure everything still…
It was Wednesday evening and all of the “this-time-two-days-we’ll-be…” shite-hawking was uttered with embarrassing regularity. We were readying ourselves for the church rehearsal and dinner afterwards. All wheels were turning. Jeans and a shirt weren’t deemed respectable enough for the groom to wear and I was forced to change into something more dashing, not only…
Living in America and marrying an American gave this wedding a whole new dimension, one that I had only ever seen satirized on television and in the movies. At least I thought it was satire until I lived it. The Registry What is a registry, you ask? Well you know how people in Ireland give…
A wedding is the most stressful time in a woman’s life. This is not good news for the groom in particular but happy soon-to-be-wife, happy life, as the saying goes. I didn’t want any Bridezilla-on-the-blob type stuff. With that in mind, we decided that we would arrive in Ireland a full two weeks before the…
Since getting engaged, many people have given me advice on getting married (“Don’t do it!”), planning the wedding (“Let her do it!”), and married life (“You’ll have to do it yourself!”). In all my 25 years on this earth however, no one has ever told me not to make my own wedding invitations. I have…
I had passed the audition with flying colors. I was to be the leading man in Christina and Joe: The Wedding. It was only a minor part compared to Christina, who was to be in the leading role of Bride, as well as Producer, Director, Location Scout, Casting Director, Costume Designer, and the entire Art…
My favorite part of the wedding is the different approaches we take to certain tasks. We also have wildly different shopping techniques, methods of inviting people to become members of our bridal party, and ideas on what the fun parts of the wedding are. Fun vs Crippling, Mind-Numbing Boredom One example of this happened very…
Planning Ring in hand, or rather in a shoebox in the closet, there were only a few things that needed to be figured out. We’ve all seen the videos of guys going to extraordinary lengths to get their proposal to go viral and give women the world over unrealistic expectations of what men are capable…
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