Think about the future

[andrewducker]

One year from today I will be married.

This feels...odd.

Good. But still odd.

(I've been watching the weather all day. I could live with it being the same as it was today. Not perfect, but nice enough to get married outside in.)

Comments

[poisonduk.livejournal.com]

awwww

[crm.livejournal.com]

happy -1th anniversary.

[star-tourmaline.livejournal.com]

That's rather lovely :-)

[ashfae.livejournal.com]

Being married is awesome. Just sayin'.

[dalglir.livejournal.com]

This :-)

[diotina.livejournal.com]

yay! just 12 more months to go :D *is excited*

[apostle-of-eris.livejournal.com]

Congratulations!
I have one or two suggestions which may be of use. One way of looking at a wedding is that it's a gift to the people attending. If it's all about them, and not you, you can get through the planning, staging, and execution more easily. ymmv
A sneaky trick for arranging a honeymoon, if you don't already have some dream trip, is to ignore it while all they hysterics of running a wedding go on, and 10 days out from The Day, go online for the cheap travel packages. If just Getting Away is for you, that can be the easiest, cheapest fun.

[andrewducker]

I'm definitely seeing it as a celebration, and that everyone should have a great time. We're not looking to create a perfect event, but to make sure that everyone (including us) goes home happy.

I like the honeymoon idea - 10 days after sounds like a good idea actually, and I've already been discussing possibilities with Julie.

[alitheapipkin.livejournal.com]

A year, a month and 17 days for me. We are getting married outside too, my weather charm is buying a velvet cloak to wear over my dress to ensure the weather is too nice for me to wear it!

[tiny-vice.livejournal.com]

congratulations!

how did you propose? also, how did you know she was the one?

[andrewducker]

I proposed on a beach in Tenerife, on the bit of beach you can see here, where the view was something like this.

It was romantic, but not everyone's idea of it. We'd been talking about getting married since about 3 months after we got together, but we'd both had awful previous relationships, and wanted to be sure. And we didn't want to actually get married until after Julie's PhD was over. So we'd agreed that we'd wait to get engaged until a year-or-so before that. And we'd even gone ring-shopping together (see this entry). So it wasn't a surprise. But the surroundings were lovely, and it was a great moment, and it made both of us very happy :->

And I knew that we were suited because we get on. And we make each other happy. And we like playing computer games together. And we like making IKEA furniture together. And we have similar ideas about raising kids. And we have similar ideas about how people's brains work. And we get excited about similar things. And we rarely argue. And we approach problems the same. And we're both attracted to each other. And we're both similar kinds of geeks. Basically we're best friends who also want to have sex. What's not to like?

(Oh, and we love each other. Which is also necessary, but not sufficient.)

[tiny-vice.livejournal.com]

d'awwwwwwwwww!

[d-c-m.livejournal.com]

Congratulations. :)