OMG you guys. Seriously.
devilducky and I are getting married on the 31st of October. We are having a wedding with a judge in chambers because we both hate weddings and don't have any interest in planning, hosting or paying for one. We have invited our mums, who are driving both driving from Wisconsin to Minnesota to be there.
The female relatives on my mother's side of the family are all up in arms about the fact that I am not having a wedding. It is driving me bonkers. I am hearing all of this second hand stuff about conversations they are having about the whole thing - which is how I HAVE to hear about it because my mother's side of the family is so passive aggressive they won't call me directly to talk to me about it. Am I too embarrassed about getting married to have a wedding? If I AM too embarrassed should I even be getting married in the first place? MAYBE THIS WHOLE WEDDING THING IS NOT A GOOD IDEA. To top it off they keep calling my mother to talk to her about this and she is starting to let them talk her into believing their retarded line of reasoning. I told her that these are the same women who got into a screaming match with each other about mashed potatoes and that she shouldn't listen to anything they say but she is having a hard time dealing with them. OH MY GOD I am going to kill these women come Thanksgiving. On top of all of this my mother and both of her sisters are going through menopause so they are all extra super special hormonal insane.
I have expressly forbidden my mother from talking to anyone about any of this any more. She has been instructed to tell them to call me directly with comments, questions or complaints. And they haven't. Instead they stopped calling my mother and started calling each other so their stupid hormone logic is slowly becoming inbred. Soon they'll be thinking that I'm being forced into getting married and maybe they should all drive to Minnesota in the night to rescue me from DD who is so clearly and OBVIOUSLY an alien from the deepest, most evil depths of wedding-hating space.
I realize that this in itself is passive aggressive but I have no interest in calling any of these women and speaking to them about this directly. I don't want to get sucked into their madness. I talked to my grandmother very briefly about the whole thing and told her that I hate weddings, don't want to have one, don't want to make them drive to one and she seemed okay with that. This was obviously farce because my mother just told me today that she called my aunt and bitched about the whole thing for about an hour.
Can you imagine what sort of hell I would be trapped in if I WERE attempting to plan a wedding with these people involved? Good god.
devilducky and I are getting married on the 31st of October. We are having a wedding with a judge in chambers because we both hate weddings and don't have any interest in planning, hosting or paying for one. We have invited our mums, who are driving both driving from Wisconsin to Minnesota to be there.
The female relatives on my mother's side of the family are all up in arms about the fact that I am not having a wedding. It is driving me bonkers. I am hearing all of this second hand stuff about conversations they are having about the whole thing - which is how I HAVE to hear about it because my mother's side of the family is so passive aggressive they won't call me directly to talk to me about it. Am I too embarrassed about getting married to have a wedding? If I AM too embarrassed should I even be getting married in the first place? MAYBE THIS WHOLE WEDDING THING IS NOT A GOOD IDEA. To top it off they keep calling my mother to talk to her about this and she is starting to let them talk her into believing their retarded line of reasoning. I told her that these are the same women who got into a screaming match with each other about mashed potatoes and that she shouldn't listen to anything they say but she is having a hard time dealing with them. OH MY GOD I am going to kill these women come Thanksgiving. On top of all of this my mother and both of her sisters are going through menopause so they are all extra super special hormonal insane.
I have expressly forbidden my mother from talking to anyone about any of this any more. She has been instructed to tell them to call me directly with comments, questions or complaints. And they haven't. Instead they stopped calling my mother and started calling each other so their stupid hormone logic is slowly becoming inbred. Soon they'll be thinking that I'm being forced into getting married and maybe they should all drive to Minnesota in the night to rescue me from DD who is so clearly and OBVIOUSLY an alien from the deepest, most evil depths of wedding-hating space.
I realize that this in itself is passive aggressive but I have no interest in calling any of these women and speaking to them about this directly. I don't want to get sucked into their madness. I talked to my grandmother very briefly about the whole thing and told her that I hate weddings, don't want to have one, don't want to make them drive to one and she seemed okay with that. This was obviously farce because my mother just told me today that she called my aunt and bitched about the whole thing for about an hour.
Can you imagine what sort of hell I would be trapped in if I WERE attempting to plan a wedding with these people involved? Good god.
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wear ivory and take a SHIT TON of pictures. find one of the billion wedding blog sites or set one up on blogger or wordpress. flood your family with pictures. people don't take tons of pictures if they're embarassed or being forced. make sure to get pictures of the post "wedding" dinner. i know a lot of people who have been in your shoes.
i'm sure it's not your style, but you could also suggest to your family that one day you might renew your vows at a small reception down the road.
Got my tix for Saturday. Hope to see you there.