Weddingbee Blog

Zeb and I always said we wanted a wedding in the dead of winter. What an odd time (put your puzzled face away!) you might say, to have a wedding.

Not for us. You see, New England is a place where most people hunker down after Christmas and don’t emerge from hibernation until spring is in full swing. By February, most of us have a hefty dose of cabin fever, unless you ski of course. We wanted our wedding to be at a time when most people could attend and would look forward to attending. You have not experienced the peak of aggravation when you have swamp ass at a non-air conditioned church, at 7pm on a Sunday, on a three-day weekend that your office does not recognize, just so you can see your uncle’s stepson’s cousin-thrice-removed say her vows. Sometimes, in the summer, you just want to be at a BBQ by the river, especially after hibernating all winter.

Looks fun, doesn’t it?

One problem with the actual dead of winter, however…

Sometimes it looks like this.

We (read: I) decided on a date pretty quickly. I printed out calendars for 2011 and 2012, saw that our nine-year anniversary was on a Saturday, and asked Zeb if we could get married then. “I don’t care,” was his answer (and apparent wedding-planning motto.)

However, March in New England can be unpredictable—very unpredictable. Can I tell you something that is burn-after-reading, bat-shit top secret?

I can control the weather. WHAT?! It’s true! True, I tells ya!

I was in fifth grade and neglected to do my science fair project. When I remembered that I forgot (did you get that?), it was already too late to start. I hoped and prayed for a snow day…and that, folks, has since been referred to as the April Fool’s Snow Storm. I kid you not, I willed it to snow. I believe it is the latest that my area has ever seen substantial snow, but I’m no meteorologist, so who knows? As it was melting, I was doing cartwheels in shorts next to the piles.

Even though I have this amazing talent, I will not be using it on my wedding day. Why, you ask? Because, I will be fully prepared for any weather on our wedding day. I believe it was Benjamin Franklin who once said “If you don’t like the weather in New England, wait a minute.” I shall be prepared with these:

Boots, Raincoat, Fan, Grandma, UGGS, Ella, ella, ella, eh!

All images without notation are a part of the ZAFP.