Dear Prospective Husband-to-be,
You know I love you dearly, but if in the event I leave you standing at the altar on the morning of the day we solemnise our marriage, please do not think I've become a runaway bride. Rest assure that when I choose to marry, it's for keeps.
But please, I beg you my love, never to schedule such an important and life-changing event within a week after I return from a business trip involving late nights (read: socialising and drinking) and early mornings (read: meetings and presentations). You see, it takes me at least a week to recover from the accumulated fatigue and sleep debt incurred.
You certainly wouldn't want a repeat episode of what happened on Saturday when a friend of mine registered his marriage. Thinking that I could wake up in time for his ceremony at 10:15am, I didn't set my alarm as I thought I'd give it and myself a break from each other.
But guess what? Your wife-to-be, yours truly, really had a lot of beauty sleep to catch up on, and ended up waking up at 9:34am. And that was only because someone from a tuition agency rang my mobile asking if I would be interested in teaching a Primary 2 kid who lives in Toa Payoh. Imagine my horror when I saw the time on the phone after I hung up!
So your dearly beloved rushed to get ready at breakneck speed--showered, dressed, slapped on make-up and sped out of the house at 10:15am, flagged down a taxi and made it to the Registry of Marriages JUST in time to witness the solemnisation ceremony.
When I arrived fashionably late, my friend said to me, "Hey, this is MY wedding you know!!! " To which I replied, "Yes, thank goodness it's yours and not mine!"
The whole ceremony was pretty uneventful though. Everything was over and done with in five minutes. Pretty tacky actually. The Justice of Peace mutters a few sentences, and then the couple are pronounced man and wife. It's like a factory churning out married couples! Honey, let's make sure we don't have to go through something like that! An exchange of vows out in the open field, facing the beach/marina would be most lovely.
So darling, don't say I didn't warn you!
XXXOOO
Posted by DSD at February 7, 2005 9:11 AM | TrackBack*giggling*
Posted by: tiggie at February 7, 2005 9:32 AMHilarious!
And that's the reason why I never wanted to have to go through the marraige registering before the church wedding. It just didn't make sense that the registering should be such a cold, clinical process.
Posted by: monoceros at February 7, 2005 12:10 PM