Weddingbee Blog

It was an ordinary Friday night. As memory serves, Mr. Potato Head and I had just gotten home from the most exclusive nightclub in town, after treating ourselves to a decadent five-course meal at the most sought-after bistro in the city.*

A knock at the door! Who could it be? A surprise visit from one of my Best Women!

I feel blessed to have some amazing women in my life and am excited to have four of them stand up with us at the wedding. Both SistahChips and my lifelong BFF agreed to partake in the wedding shenanigans in the role of my best women. My BFF—we’ll call her Sweet Potato, because she is—and I have been attached at the hip since the first grade! We even won our high school superlative for “Best Friends” in our high school yearbook! Our bff-ship will live on in perpetuity within the graduating class of 1998!

Whooaaaah, don’t you tell me I look the same!! Don’t you do it!

I know I know, I totally look the same.

Sweet Potato and I have been together through thick and thin! She even works at the university I attend, so we get to see each other almost every dang day to catch up, kvetch, and drink pumpkin mistos.

So back to that Friday night, with the knock on the door, and the surprise visitor. Sweet Potato had dropped by to give us our very first wedding present. Wedding-Prezzie-Seven-Months-in-Advance-say-whaaaa???! I know, she is nuts! She is an avid reader of this blog (or she tells me so to stroke my ego, either way is fine) and was tired of hearing me yap about my craptastic point-and-shoot.

A photographer I am not, but I do take a LOT of pictures, particularly ones that document this journey to the altar (and ones of my food, but that’s neither here nor there). So in order to digitally capture our planning, parties, wedding, and beyond, we received this:

Canon

A new, totally awesome point-and-shoot! I was floored by her generosity. Being in our wedding is gift enough—she certainly didn’t need to buy us anything! Not to mention, I am totally weird about receiving such generous gifts.

Me: “What!! No!! You’re crazy! Too much! It’s too much!! Are you nuts?? Why’d you do this?? I can’t believe it!! Are you sure?? You spent too much!! In this economy?? You’re bananas!! Thank you!!! Seriously! Aughhhhh!”

Gifter: “Just say thank you and shut up.”

This is totally inherited from MamaChips, b-t-dubs. It’s related to the Portuguese Guilt Complex, I think.

What was your first wedding present? Was it a total surprise? Do you have extreme reactions that make the gifters roll their eyes too?

*”Sought after bistro”=takeout curry from suburban Indian restaurant. “Exclusive nightclub” = our couch