Life is full of surprises. Wedding planning is, too.
Sometimes the surprise is discovering that what you thought was a perfectly simple concept makes no sense to anyone who is not you. Sometimes it’s that everyone else so blandly accepts an idea that strikes you as clearly and profoundly deranged. Sometimes it’s the fact that you don’t react to something the way you thought you would. It might even be how someone other than you reacts.
I think for me the single biggest surprise in the wedding planning/getting married process was how calm I was when the moment came. I was happy, I was excited, but I wasn’t nervous at all. I had no urge to laugh or cry without provocation. I’d always assumed that when the big moment came, I would need that hankie I’d so cunningly slipped up my sleeve… but it turned out I didn’t. Aplomb was my middle name, and that is something that happens about once every three blue moons.
What’s been your biggest surprise? Tell us all about it!
The number of people who think the blue on my dress (neckline and train) is somehow connected to my husband wearing a kilt! “So, the blue, is that a Scottish thing?”
@Katie: I think those are the same people who watched Braveheart too many times. They probably think it’s woad.