wedding planning notes
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ravenNot sure I ought to have to say this, but here it is anyway: I am allowed to make fun of Indian weddings. You - white, don't-they-last-four-days-and-they're-all-colourful-tee-hee, thoughtless you - are not. Getting married in a grey church in England is not a "normal" way to get married. Thanks, glad we've cleared that up.
Anyway, so. Wedding planning has taken its great leap forwards. The Scottish shindig now has a guest list, a photographer, (probably) a cake, (probably) a ceilidh band, two readers, two witnesses, a venue, a menu and even favours, ye gods. I need to get my dress altered and am cleverly combining this with![[community profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/community.png)
vidukon_cardiff (don't even ask). We still need a playlist, a script, a last-minute narrative resolution to a continuing spat re: canapés, and sixty-five tiny screwtop jars.
The Indian wedding has dates, venues, three documents in progress (schedule; historical and religious contexts, with footnotes; visa procedures, a beginner's guide) a vague guest list, invitation wording if not actual invitations (I drafted this yesterday while putting up with heckling from all sides), a cast of thousands, and a certain sense that Things Are Getting Done. Not by me, I hasten to add. But done.
My to-do list is still in three parts and synced between three devices. But... hurrah? I think?
(I think I shall pre-emptively declare 2014 the Year of the Hammock, With No To-Do Lists At All.)
(I hope to begin it in a houseboat in Srinagar.)
Anyway, so. Wedding planning has taken its great leap forwards. The Scottish shindig now has a guest list, a photographer, (probably) a cake, (probably) a ceilidh band, two readers, two witnesses, a venue, a menu and even favours, ye gods. I need to get my dress altered and am cleverly combining this with
vidukon_cardiff (don't even ask). We still need a playlist, a script, a last-minute narrative resolution to a continuing spat re: canapés, and sixty-five tiny screwtop jars. The Indian wedding has dates, venues, three documents in progress (schedule; historical and religious contexts, with footnotes; visa procedures, a beginner's guide) a vague guest list, invitation wording if not actual invitations (I drafted this yesterday while putting up with heckling from all sides), a cast of thousands, and a certain sense that Things Are Getting Done. Not by me, I hasten to add. But done.
My to-do list is still in three parts and synced between three devices. But... hurrah? I think?
(I think I shall pre-emptively declare 2014 the Year of the Hammock, With No To-Do Lists At All.)
(I hope to begin it in a houseboat in Srinagar.)
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on 2013-02-13 09:29 pm (UTC)I don't have much nice to say about white people and wedding preparations; this has tripped up several attempts at commenting. In many ways, I feel like weddings bring so many assumptions and prejudices that people may or may not otherwise voice under other circumstances to the surface. I was horrified by some of the things my family members said when we were planning our wedding and what that revealed about their beliefs and assumptions. I'm so sorry people are saying thoughtless, racist things to you.
The Year of the Hammock sounds like a wonderful plan.
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on 2013-02-19 10:22 pm (UTC)