Wedding madness
I’m engaged! It’s all very exciting and romantic, and the best birthday surprise I could ever imagine. We’ve had some lovely cards and generous gifts and our family and friends are genuinely pleased for us.
We’ve made the decision to enjoy our engagement for a while before getting caught up in the apparent madness that is wedding planning. I’m not one of those girls who secretly buys wedding magazines and chose her dress before she even had a boyfriend. I’m probably as near to the opposite of her as you can get – I’ve just never given it any thought.
I’m not knocking people who want to blow the budget, pay attention to every tiny detail and spend £20,000 (the average cost of a UK wedding) on their wedding day (the first time I read this figure I sat staring at my computer open-mouthed for such a long time my colleagues thought I’d had some bad news!), but I just can’t justify (not to mention afford) spending so much money on one day of our lives. To me, getting married is a life-long commitment and I’d rather spend that kind of money on buying our first house or putting our children (if we have any) through University.
Needless to say, our wedding is most likely to be a small, modest affair. But this doesn’t mean it won’t be lovely, it doesn’t mean we’ll make our guests pay for their own dinner, it doesn’t mean I’ll wear a bin bag instead of a dress… and if one more person looks at me like they think this is what I’m planning I think I’ll scream!
If you’re there, don’t get excited about the colour-coordinated table confetti… because there won’t be any.
