Fall is Falling

Pardon my sickness. It's been a long week. During my time as a captive to my cold, I have been watching much local news. (I've exhausted my Netflix queue for the time being.) All local news casts have been reporting the "optimal time" to view the changing leaves in Tennessee.

I have been fretting over the weather for our wedding for a while now. We are winging it, not renting tents and faithfully believing that Tennessee's notoriously temperamental weather will subside and give us a crisp and clear fall evening. I know that's a tall order, but I believe it can happen.

Forecasts are calling early November the best time to see the glorious fall colors that the Cumberland Plateau is known for. I am looking forward to serene afternoon in front of Lake Standing Stone, riotous colors reflecting back from its waters.

It's only 37 days away, you know.

It's a Small Wedding or Why I'm Not Inviting Everyone I Know

Who doesn't love a wedding, right? Its a joyous occasion to be shared with loved ones and those closest to you. At least that's what I want our wedding to be. No distant aunts or cousins, none of your parent's friends whom you don't know, not those weirdo coworkers out for a night of raucous drinking on your dime, etc.

I have tried hard to make our wedding small, intimate and filled with love. This is why "you" weren't invited.

I have grown tired of people asking me to be invited to our wedding. If I only talk to you at the bar or better yet, if you are a friend of a friend who has no emotional investment in us, you're not invited.

You're not invited if I haven't talked to you in years. You're not invited if you're not part of our daily lives. You're not invited if you once bought me a beer three years ago. You're not invited if you just happened to show up at that awesome Halloween party I had in 2007. You're not invited just because I know you. You're not invited because I don't have a bazillion dollars to spend entertaining people I barely know and have no connection with.

The Boy and I are extremely private people. We have worked hard to cultivate the friendships that we have. I am sorry that there are some people that I can't invite. I would love to have all the fun party people I know there. But, unfortuantely, I can't.

Feelings will be hurt. Acquaintanceships will be severed. I get it. But YOU should get it, too. YOU should understand that times is hard, monies is tight. YOU should also understand that because you don't have a car, I am not picking you up to take you to my wedding that I didn't invite you to. So please stop asking.

K. Thnx. Bye.