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Ta-da!

Posted by Mark | Filed under Life

Ladies of the Inter­net, you missed your chance! By the time you’re read­ing this, my fiance Ariesna and I will have com­pleted exchang­ing our wed­ding vows and will be shov­ing cake into each other’s faces¹. I’ve known that this day was com­ing up for some time, but it hadn’t really sunk in what was hap­pen­ing until the rehearsal tonight² at the church. The sun was shin­ing down and flood­ing the church with light. My grooms­men were fol­low­ing me to the front of the church and would crack into “Whis­tle While You Work” or some­thing equally silly. We got to the alter area and we waited for the bride’s maids to come up and finally for Ariesna to be walked up my her father. Then we were hold­ing hands and she was star­ing up into my eyes with this smile that just radi­ated joy at me. I’m pretty sure the pas­tor said some­thing or other to us, but I wasn’t really pay­ing atten­tion to him at that point. I did hear some­thing about prac­tic­ing our kiss and that part went really well. Then it was all over and back to my Mom’s place to fin­ish up a few last minute things before I headed back to the apart­ment while Ariesna headed down to her parent’s place.

I’m sure that seems hor­ren­dously old fash­ioned but we’re not going to get to see each other until we show up at the church for our day of wed­ding bliss³. She’ll show up at the church and get changed into some sort of remark­ably girly wed­ding dress that I’ve yet to see. I’ll show up fully out­fit­ted in my kilt. Yup, a kilt. I’ve got some Scot­tish blood in my veins and over the past cou­ple of years, I’ve become more inter­ested in that side of my ances­try. Back in the early stages of plan­ning these fes­tiv­i­ties, I decided too get a kilt and wear it at the wed­ding. Many of my male friends and fam­ily have mocked this deci­sion, par­tic­u­larly after learn­ing what the full out­fit cost but I think it’s a good invest­ment. Though I do have to wish I’d found those online kilt rental places ear­lier so I could have the grooms­men in kilts too. Per­haps then they’d not be so quick to make snide remarks about me wear­ing a “dress”. Oh and that reminds me, I’ve heard and read many a good quip as a reply to what is worn under a kilt. Most of them I just laugh off, but I’ve got one that works for me. When asked by my old­est brother what I planned to wear beneath my kilt; I told him if he really wants to know, he has to buy a ticket from Ariesna to find out. :p

I apol­o­gize if this post seems even more ram­bling than my usual bab­blings… But I’ve got my country’s 500th anniver­sary to plan, my wed­ding to arrange, my wife to mur­der, and Guilder to frame for it. I’m swamped. So now I’m off to get some rest; because as you know, if you haven’t got your health, you haven’t got anything.

¹ Note: I am under a threat of pain of death if I get any cake on her dress; so I’ll prob­a­bly be all nice and gen­tle when I feed her that first piece of wed­ding cake.
² I’m writ­ing this post shortly before mid­night on Fri­day, 6 May 2005 but I’m going to change the date/time of the post so that it doesn’t appear until the wed­ding cer­e­mony has begun. I may get my past/present/future tenses a bit mixed up because of this, but you’ll just have to cope with that.
³ And yes, we’ve already heard many, many, MANY times about the lady from Geor­gia who had her break down and ran away to Alberqueque. Rest assured safe guards are in place so we won’t be kid­napped and so that nei­ther one of us goes any fur­ther insane than we already are. Thank you for being the 900th idjit to make that joke to us.

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