That title is a lie, by the way. We've been engaged a good two years. That's two years of planning. Working on color schemes, guest lists, budgets, and time lines. For someone who loves sticking to a semi-regular schedule, two years seems like a long time.
I found out recently that Colorado has a neat little wedding law that we'd decided to use to our advantage. It's called self-solemnizing or a Quaker wedding. Basically, we can perform the entire ceremony ourselves. Considering how broke we are and that neither of us have an officiant in mind, I'm pretty excited about it... that, and deep down baby me always wanted to have a wedding like in Brigadoon.
For those of you who haven't seen it yet, near the end of the movie, two characters get married. The town's pastor had given his life in exchange for Brigadoon to disappear and reappear once every hundred years. There is no one to officiate the wedding, so the two characters say, "I will love you until I die," and then there's a dance number. Let's be honest-- who wouldn't want a dance number at her wedding? Granted, we haven't had that conversation yet...
That's the plan, anyway. A while later we'll go to Indiana for a family and friend shindig, and all bases will be covered. Finally. And who knows, maybe we'll get a dance number going.
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