Planning Your Wedding Sucks by Joanne Kimes

Author:Joanne Kimes
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: epub, ebook
Publisher: F+W Media
Published: 2011-01-15T00:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER 7

“Shower” Refers to Your Gifts, Not Your Tears

As soon as your man gets up from bended knee, it sets off an onslaught of parties, lunches, gatherings, and bachelorette shindigs. As if planning a wedding isn’t exhausting enough! Fortunately, these parties aren’t your responsibility to plan. And unfortunately, these parties aren’t your responsibility to plan. Even though your friends and family may take on the brunt of the work, you’ll be paying the price as well.

If you like being in control, you’re basically screwed because you’ll have to hand off the party planning reins to someone else (and may hate the results). You may feel judged if the party is boring or the food is unpalatable, even though you didn’t lift a finger. There may be hurt feelings, and you’ll have to tend to complaints from friends or family who were innocently omitted from the guest list. You may feel guilty because of the large sums of money your hosts need to spend in order to throw you a shower, or the amount your guests need to spring on multitude gifts.

You naively believe the only thing you need to do for your parties is put on a pretty dress and ooh and ahhh at all your great gifts. And while there will be a pretty dress involved, and, if you’ve registered right, plenty of great gifts, there will also be some headaches too. These parties are not all fun and games (oh yeah, I haven’t even mentioned those corny shower games!), but perhaps, with a little preparation, you can lessen the suck factor.

THE ENGAGEMENT PARTY

The first celebration on the party circuit is the appropriately titled “engagement party.” Engagement parties aren’t as common as some of the other pre-wedding bashes. In fact, I’ve never been to an actual engagement party but, like men who enjoy vacuuming and babies that are born sleeping through the night, I’m told they do exist. The reason for this party is to celebrate the fact that after all the dating, the breakups, the makeup sex, the getting back together, the moving in, the moving out, the moving back in . . . the two of you are finally getting hitched! What a perfect opportunity to gather your closest friends and family around, have a toast, and show off your gorgeous rock. But like your sheets after that makeup sex, things can get rather sticky!

To begin with, you have to find someone to throw you this party. Emily Post would frown upon throwing it yourself. Sure, if you don’t give a crap about Emily, go ahead and do it . . . just don’t expect Emily to show up. If no one offers to host you the party, you can drop a few hints, but your hands are basically tied. This doesn’t mean your friends are losers or that they hate your fiancé and think you should drop kick him back in the dating pool. It may just mean that these people are busy with their lives or they’ve been to enough weddings to know how expensive they are.

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