It was a Tuesday morning. It was weeks ago and it was yesterday rolled together. It was hot as balls.
We were looking at an infographic on Digg about the rising cost of weddings in the US. According to the article, it cost $38k on average to get hitched. We decided this was ridiculous, and laughed together, and I felt little pearls of sweat coalescing on the nape of my neck.
She had brought chocolate bread back from a recent visit to Canberra, and I cut four slices and set them under the grill as our breakfast. We watched them brown.
I said, "We could do it so much cheaper."
She said, "Easily."
I closed my eyes a moment, and forced one long shuddering breath, and then another. And I said, "Do you wanna?"
"What?"
"Give it a go. For less than thirty-eight grand."
She stared at me, brow crinkling, not quite understanding. "What, now?"
"Well, not right now. The toast is burning."
She swore, and turned the toast, and then went back to staring, as if she was not looking at her partner of three years but at some new, terrifying lifeform wearing my stolen skin. "When, then?"
"In a while, I guess?"
She frowned, sucked on her lower lip. Then she said, "Yeah, that'll do."
Because sometimes you don't need roses and a ring with a big rock. Because sometimes you realise you have everything you need, and that every day is just fine, and all you want to do is continue living as you already are with the person you're already with.
Because it's all good.
So long as there's tea.
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I am delighted to be the first to say CONGRATULATIONS!
I hope you'll both always be happy.
My wife and I just passed our twentieth wedding anniversary, still happy, still in love. I hope you get that too.
Thanks Merrilee & Graham! We've been doing pretty well together for a good while now, and I think we can keep it up until long after the joints have failed and the hair has gone grey.
...which, speaking of my joints, might only be a couple more months =P
Dude, that's awesome. Congrats to you both! I hope invitations are forthcoming!
(I wonder if others of our cgs class have got hitched by now...)
ohh I am so happy for you! I'm blaming preggo hormones for making me cry, see I am that happy! And you can totally do it for under that, hell, hubby and I had a kick ass super awesome wedding for $5 grand 2 years ago on the 16th Feb. I could have done it for way less if it wasn't for the whole aussie family coming and my father insisting I have an actual sit down dinner!
Everything is always all good so long as there is tea. But I think that this should be extra good. Congratulations to you both.
Hopefully I'll get to see you soon. It's been too long...
Congratulations
You two are great together, hope everything goes perfectly for you both.
*tries to think of imaginative ways you can include Muffin in the ceremony*
Get crackin - http://mag.weddingcentral.com.au/checklist/planner.htm
Congrats, that's awesome, a great way to do it too, hehe.
And a nice piece of writing to go with it, haha.
Congrats again.
Congrats brotha!