After having my face practically ripped off my head, I thought I could not take any more wedding related shizz. But never say never!
Sore, irritable, and complaining to anyone willing to listen, I dragged my bridal ass downtown on Saturday morning to run errands, namely buying sugared almonds for wedding favours which I'm making myself (all that work and no one even keeps them afterwards) and picking up some fabric to make a dress for the casual part of the wedding day.
I went to the same shop I always go to for fabric and in the chit chatting about the fabric, I revealed what it was for. So the lady in the shop was kind enough to knock a few euros off the price since it was for a 'special occassion'.
On the ride home I was furiously running through all the things that were irritating me, like a kid picking at a scab. My thoughts sounding something like this:
* I can't BELIEVE I have to make so many of these favours when no one even keeps them afterwards!!
* My newly unblocked pores are sweating so much!
*Why is this flyer stuck to my shoe? Disgusting, melted chewing gum. Yet another thing to be pissed off at
* EUR 300 for hair and makeup? Are these people insane? I'll just do it myself and screw anyone who disagrees
And blahdy blah blah. It was a full on moan fest. I got home, threw the fabric into the washing machine to pre-shrink it and hung it out to dry.
A few hours passed and I forgot about the fabric. Finally on Sunday morning I remembered that I'd put it out but it had since disappeared from the line. Where could it have gone, one wondered.
Peeking into the back yard, I was horrified to see my poor dress fabric lying in a heap, crumpled and mashed into the mud of the yard. Yes, Brush-With-Death puppy had got bored of having no one to bark at and had a great time ripping a full variety of holes into the dress fabric, ranging from huge to teeny tiny. It was hard to find a square metre without some sort of hole through it.
I began to cry. And then I stopped. I rewashed the fabric and worked all around the holes to cut the pattern pieces. Not an easy task considering the dress is bias cut.
As a result of my pity party and lashings of negativity, all I did was attract even more bad luck. So from now until D day, I am no longer blogging about anything wedding related.Having found myself in a Catch-22 situation where giving my opinion results in people doing what they want to do anyway, and where not giving my opinion results in them insisting they know my opinion, then doing what they wanted to anyway, my new answer to any question is: "Do what you think is best."
I have adopted a zen-like attitude, a sort of mental hibernation. I'll wake up after the wedding.
2 comments:
One day, not far from now, you will look back on this and laugh. All of this stress will fall away in the moment you look into your beloved's eyes and are united.
Also, that investment in making the sugared almonds favors? Totally worth it. You will know that you made them. So will your beloved's family. Think of it as modern prikia!
Hi Bollybutton,
Sound awful!
I remember the expensive hairdresser bit,I think I left on earlier post-insisted on no makeup (husband actually)- pictures came out great-
As for boubounieres(favors), mine were simple, but graceful- our clans, in home country & stateside tend to keep them in china cabinets- my mother has mine as well as hers- so I do not know which is worse!Take a breath and laugh-Did you get the seaside place?
PS. the dog needs more training school!
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