Dealing out the tables...
Was, again, fun. Most of what we're doing with wedding planning as fun, which is, to be honest, a pleasant surprise. I was expecting it to feel more like a chore, but we're cutting up through the whole thing, and I'm enjoying it.
The toughest part was not letting any people from the same aspect of life wind up at the same table. For instance: I have at least a couple dozen co-workers who are invited to the wedding. It would be easy...very, very easy...to simply put them all at a few tables together and call it good. But crap, this isn't the faculty lounge. This is our wedding. You will meet people, and if you don't like them, you can stand up and move around as soon as you get the cake.
As is, we managed to only break that rule once or twice. You will meet cool people who we believe you have at least one thing in common with, and there'll be people you've never met before.
My favorite table: Table 21. The commonality everyone shares: TOP SECRET.
The toughest part was not letting any people from the same aspect of life wind up at the same table. For instance: I have at least a couple dozen co-workers who are invited to the wedding. It would be easy...very, very easy...to simply put them all at a few tables together and call it good. But crap, this isn't the faculty lounge. This is our wedding. You will meet people, and if you don't like them, you can stand up and move around as soon as you get the cake.
As is, we managed to only break that rule once or twice. You will meet cool people who we believe you have at least one thing in common with, and there'll be people you've never met before.
My favorite table: Table 21. The commonality everyone shares: TOP SECRET.
posted by TeacherRefPoet at 10:11 AM
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And to add to the excitement - tables are only numbered now, come the wedding they will be named. So no one will ever know if they were at table 21 or not. So you can tell yourself on the day of the wedding that you were at table 21, our favorite table.
Wow. How did you even find out which of your guests have Top Secret clearance? And won't they be jealous of those of us at the License to Kill table?
Oh wait. You probably meant that the unifing factor, whatever it is, is being classified top secret. By you. Not by the government. Probably. Let's go with that. 'Cause otherwise we get into forms, and reports, and the wiretapping alone...
I've said too much. Nevermind. Nothing to see here.
Look into the pen. I'm just gonna put my normal-looking RayBans on.
Joe - your comment just reinforces in my mind that you were put at the correct table. And I'll just let you wonder what that means for the next 7 months.
Dude--now we need to name one of the tables TOP SECRET.
That's OUR table.
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