It's time for the next instalment in Paula's wedding story (have you read 'The Proposal' yet?). This week she is sharing her family's reactions to the Leap Day proposal and how they are getting involved in the planning process.
Family Involvement
Wedding Fever is rife through my family at the moment. Obviously, as the youngest of nine and in my forties myself, all my sisters and brothers have already married. But the next generation have taken the baton and are currently charging up the aisle with it. Three of my nephews have recently married, all subdued affairs, two outside of their native Ireland and none of which I could attend. It's my nieces who are mad for matrimony. One of my older nieces got married last year with a wedding that was everything she wanted. Not too expensive, everyone she wanted was there and she wore her perfect dress which just so happened to be free. She was what I'd call The Practical Bride. I have a niece who lives in Canada and after getting engaged in February, she already has her wedding planned for October. She wanted a castle in Ireland as her venue and got it. She has her sister and her mum doing all the arranging and will no doubt turn up looking stunning and be the centre of attention. That makes her The Princess Bride. Her sister, who got engaged last year, has a summer wedding next year booked. Every detail has been fine-tooth combed and needs to be just so. She's obviously The Perfectly Planned Bride.
Once they'd established that my intended accepted my widely publicised proposal, they, along with my many sisters and other nieces demanded details. I hadn't even sealed my engagement with a kiss and already I had to decide a date, a theme (?), a venue... damn, I hadn't even decided whether I'd get married here or in my home town of Dublin! Fleetingly, I considered waiting until my fiancé had returned to make these important decisions together..... and then, how I laughed! Why is it men in straight relationships have no interest in weddings? I never thought I conformed to society's notions of male and female and yet here I was, talking chair sashes and table centres in a metaphorical parlour (a Facebook group chat), with increasing hyperactive women while the only male input, was by my brother-in-law offering to dye his body hair green for the occasion.
And my fiance's reaction to all this when he finally made it home to kiss his Bride To Be?
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Come back next Wednesday for the next instalment
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