Marriage/wedding things that I think about

I still take off my engagement ring when I exercise and when I go to bed. Do most people do this? I have these visions that one day my ring is going to be scratched by a free weight. Then I see girls at the gym wearing their wedding rings and it makes me wonder if I’m breaking some sacrilegious oath for taking it off. I take it off when I play tennis because what if it got permanently blemished from the black tape on my grip? That would be ugly. My mother told me never, ever to take my ring off. She’s now caught me on the EFX sans wedding ring and brushing my teeth pre-bedtime sans wedding ring. It’s like committing a crime.

Another thing that I think about is carving stations at cocktail hours. I know it sounds weird. I nixed the carving station at our cocktail hour because the thought of serving slabs of turkey and roast beef seems so 1980s to me. Is that wrong? I had to fight my dad a little on this one because he comes from a family of kosher butchers who will be at the wedding and will anticipate the presence of carving station. He still doesn’t understand why sushi gets all the hype. Pigs in a blanket we agree on.

I also think about my honeymoon. I’m going to Italy for two weeks. That’s one darn expensive trip. My parents said the groom’s parents traditionally pay for the honeymoon. My dad’s parents did. What’s the deal with that? Plus, should I be saving money for my honeymoon? I probably should. But I’ve never been so good at the art of saving.

Lastly, I’m nervous that when everyone comes out to do the hora the dance floor is going to be way too crowded. There’s nothing worse than a hora that doesn’t move. You wiggle your way into the circle only to stand there and nudge the people next to you. Eventually someone starts their own line with 5 people and it looks silly. In my perfect wedding dream I have a huge, uncrowded hora where no one gets their toes smashed and I don’t fall off the chair.