The Chapel

It means a lot to J that we get married in the chapel on his alma mater's campus. I'm cool with that, I don't have any particular attachments to any church (since getting married at my church out in California just isn't an option).

So I called today. From October - December, they have 3 weekends available. And not the ones I was expecting. October 1/2 (they only allow one wedding per weekend, and on Friday or Saturday), 15/16 and 29/30.

Well I can tell you right off, I'm not interested in that last option, for 2 reasons: 1) I'm not the "Halloween" type of bride, and 2) my crazy ex is getting married on the 31st. I know, I know, I shouldn't even know that. Facebook is a b!tch sometimes. Either way, no thanks!

So I guess we'll get married in October? Hope the restaurant is available one of those weekends...

OR, J finally came around (you know, AFTER I researched my tush off from around the world to find stellar reception venue options) and has said, as of this past weekend, that he thinks a destination wedding would be nice. You know what finally changed his mind? It sure as heck wasn't my eloquent soliloquizing about the beauty of getting married on a white sand beach, or how much money we'd save on having everyone we know come into town. Nope, it was the couple in front of us in line at the supermarket. They saw me perusing Brides magazine, asked if we were planning a wedding, and said that they're DW in Mexico is coming up soon.

And like that, he was suddenly on board with this idea.

WHAT!?

*sigh* Oh well. It's a good back up option, should we need it, I guess. For now, I'm pretty sure we're going to pursue the more traditional route (I think my parents would have a heart attack if I suddenly sprung a DW on them ... they were sosososososo happy that we decided to stay in town for the wedding), but I'm trying to stay open to options.

At some point, I need to close myself to options. But that time isn't yet. I just really hope I'm still enthusiastic about this wedding by the time it actually gets here. Maybe sooner is better...

ps - October 1st. That was our 'original' date. The first one we ever talked about. Evers. Fate? Maybe. Hehe...