Wedding Blog

ed. note: Mr. Monkey has long since married, but he posted this to his personal blog, and I asked him if he minded whether I repost it here.

Ok - so I have a confession that I haven’t really shared before. As far as most of you know, my wedding went really well - it was a low key yet large church wedding and it…

I think my wife has PTWS. Before you try looking this up somewhere (where you won’t find it, cause I’m the official discoverer of this rare disease), let me give you some back story first on how I came to find out about this disease.

I am a peaceful man - therefore I would want my bathroom to be the same. Normally, I like reading the Wall Street Journal or some…

So it’s inevitable that I would share some adventures in marriageland….little personal stories (that I affectionately call “wife tactics”) that I hope will help future husbands to better prepare themselves for a healthier and more fun marriage.

But before I go on, I must first put up the disclaimer:

My wife is the most wonderful person in the world. There is no one else like her. In no way is this post…

Item # 9872277 that Miss Monkey probably wouldn’t let me put on the wedding registry:

I mean, come on….everybody can use a bat shield table.

Amidst the crazy bustle and planning of the wedding, there are moments in the day where I stop and just can’t wait until I’m married. If you really think about it, there’s so many awesome benefits to marriage - here are a few I’m looking forward to:

1. Save money on mirrors
By putting on various things and just standing in front of the wife and reading her…

So we started planning out wedding invitations and I gotta say….wedding invitations is like watching a tree holocaust going on. There’s the outer envelope, the inner envelope, the invitation, the directions to the invitation, the clear tracing paper thingy, the vellum something that does something I don’t know, the little envelope, the registry card, the RSVP card, the stamp on the outer envelope, and stamp…

fiance: im gonna go look at wedding bands today at michael c. fina. k?
mr. monkey: who? who’s that?
fiance: it’s a store
mr. monkey: oh ok.
fiance: http://www.michaelcfina.com/
mr. monkey: sounds expensive
fiance: it’s actually not that bad
mr. monkey: i found a place to get my ring. they have a pretty good selection
fiance: ok!
mr. monkey: and its reasonably priced
fiance: better not be toys r us
mr. monkey: oh come on -…

Chris, our first groom blogger, has officially joined weddingbee as Mr. Monkey! Icon coming soon…

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Here’s a snippet of a conversation I had with my fiance this morning:

fiance when should we start our registry? i definitely want a vacuum, knives, mixer, one nice plate set
mr. monkey i want a giraffe, a swing set, and some gummy worms
fiance: cutting board, apron
mr. monkey: blow darts, giant bouncy balls, disco…

Please welcome back groom-to-be chrischoi! You can read one of his previous blogs here, as well as his most fantasticromanticwonderful proposal that we previously featured here.

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I think I have a lot of great ideas. The only bad part is, I don’t think the rest of the world agrees. This is most exemplified in my sad attempt to try to “help” in the wedding planning…

I’m beginning to understand what Steve Martin felt in Father of the Bride. There’s just so much stuff to think about when planning a wedding. I’m utterly convinced that males are lacking a gene that allows them to be able to plan a wedding.

I can plan a 20 person movie night. I can plan a beer pong party. I can even plan a star wars…