I just found out that wedding I'm going to is, in fact, a pretty princess day. This is a really good friend that I gave more credit than this. We had been planning to attend their wedding next month, and were very excited about it, but then a few days ago, lo and behold, pictures appeared on Facebook of their actual ceremony that happened LAST month.
I guess there were some legal hoops because they wanted to "self officiate" their marriage rather than have an officiant because they are not religious, but the state they are having their "wedding" in (I hate having to put it in quotes now!) does not allow for that. I can sympathize with that. They want to have their ceremony the way they want it and didn't want to be constricted by weird technicalities. But if that was the case then WHY would they put on a suit and a white dress and have someone take pictures of their (in their eyes) non-wedding and put them on Facebook where all their guests can see??
I'm still going to go. I'm sure it will be fine. But I'm definitely feeling a way about it that I didn't want to feel and if they were going to have a PPD why couldn't they have just kept their mouths shut about it so we would have all thought we were seeing the real thing?
Would you guys still go in this situation? Would you do anything or just roll your eyes and feel duped?
Re: Sneak Attack PPD
If this were a friend of mine, I'd go, but there would definitely be some eye-rolling. I hope you have a nice time either way!
Websites/blogs where our wedding has been featured:
http://www.dapperq.com/2013/11/a-very-dapper-wedding/
http://www.onabicyclebuiltfortwo.com/2013/10/wedding-christina-g.html
http://4realequalityweddings.com/2014/05/16/g-christina/
They got 'married' by a friend who got ordained online to marry them but out county doesn't recognise that so they're not really legally married.
And they did that because it was too much effort to get the real licence in their DW state because that would require them to show up a whole day early.
I'm just confused about the point of having two ceremonies, neither of which actually legally marries you.
I will never, ever, EVER understand people who want the legal benefits of marriage but can't be bothered to figure out how to make that happen in one ceremony.
Of course you did, QueerFemme, because you're probably not a weirdo. I'm an atheist too and it's not that hard to get a JP. It's not that they couldn't get one, it's that they didn't want one. If it sounds weird that's because it is.
Websites/blogs where our wedding has been featured:
http://www.dapperq.com/2013/11/a-very-dapper-wedding/
http://www.onabicyclebuiltfortwo.com/2013/10/wedding-christina-g.html
http://4realequalityweddings.com/2014/05/16/g-christina/
Websites/blogs where our wedding has been featured:
http://www.dapperq.com/2013/11/a-very-dapper-wedding/
http://www.onabicyclebuiltfortwo.com/2013/10/wedding-christina-g.html
http://4realequalityweddings.com/2014/05/16/g-christina/