Wedding Plans

back to the story of my wedding anniversary then. So I'd popped the question, got the right reply and we were feeling quite smug about doing it on our terms and not to meet other people's expectations. Lots of brownie points accrued to me for the ring bought as well. Everyone's a winner.... Then we thought through the logistics of getting married and the problem of people's expectations started to rear it's head again. Practicalities were the first thought - where would we get married? My mum lives in the Lake District, Mrs Zilla's parents live in Manchester, one of her brothers lives in Birmingham, the other in Cheshire. The rest of her family live in Scotland, the rest of mine in the North East of England. Should we have it locally? Somewhere in the middle? Then what type of wedding to go for? A big white one? Quick civil service? How much hassle did we want? Neither me or Mrs Zilla are big on lots of attention. I was willing to do whatever she wanted, but she wasn't keen on being the centre of attention for a whole day. It was me who said "Wouldn't it be great if we could just run away and get married without all the pressure?" To my surprise Mrs Zilla thought this was a most splendiferous idea. Where do you run to to get married? Gretna Green? The local registry office? Las Vegas? Las Vegas? Hmmm that had a ring to it. We couldn't, could we? A few tentative enquiries revealed that it certainly was possible, without a lot of fuss and considerably cheaper than doing it over here. The more she thought about it and found things out, the more Mrs Zilla was convinced this was a good course of action. The service could be broadcast over the internet so all our friends and family could watch, wherever they wanted. We could put on a local party for immediate family. The plans quickly came together, a holiday in Vegas combining a wedding. We would need to specify what sort of service we wanted, the holiday company would book the chapel, minister, photographer, limo etc etc. We would just have to arrange our wedding clothes and the marriage licence. Ideal. So Godzooky 1 was left with our families and we jetted off. Our first taste of America and we were going to get married into the bargain. We sorted out our wedding attire on the first day. A limo came to pick us up from our hotel and took us to the hire shop. We picked out what we were going to wear and it was arranged for it all to be dropped off at our hotel on the morning of the wedding and picked up again afterwards. The only other task we had was to obtain the wedding licence. A slightly surreal experience. There were definitely people in there getting a licence who shouldn't have been. We had some great days in and around Las Vegas while we waited for the day to draw closer, more of that later... Tomorrow is my actual wedding anniversary, and the details of the wedding day will be revealed then. There may even be a picture of me depending on how it scans and how brave/foolish I feel....