My Marriage Fantasy

I am so sick and tired of those monies being spent on weddings. I don’t be grudge these people waving how rich they are by waving their money in my face but I wonder if they ever think about all those poor people who don’t had the same enjoyment. I go for the free food at the weddings and usually buy them a classic novel book. Excuse me while I roll my eyes at those big fancy wedding announcement while I speculate how many months before they will get a divorce. Joking.

Here is my perfect ideal of a perfect wedding.

My spouse and I go into city hall with me in my comfortable outfit, which is a jean, a white blouse, and no make up with him in his regular outfit. We sign the papers in front of the judge or whoever is in charge of it than we go back home. When he said I do, I want him to see me as the person he would want to spend the rest of his life with, not some princess for a day fantasy.

I want him to see me in a white blouse, jean, and no makeup while saying the word “I do” because that is what I would look like for the rest of life. I don’t think that I would be wearing a white wedding dress with a great hairdo and perfect makeup every single day of my married life to him, because that is not me. No honeymoon, because to me spending the rest of my life with my spouse is a honeymoon. Get the joke?

I also just want it to be between the two of us, no maids of honor or best man or a fancy giant dinner. The reasons why I don’t want anyone to be there other than the judge is that I think that only the two people involved in the marriage should be present given that these two people will be the one making the decision in the marriage. I don’t think that my sisters or his friends or whoever will be living with us, acting as husband or wives. Although I do support polyandry but opposed polygamy.

After the signing of the certificate, I want us to go back to our apartment or house and get a can of beer for him and a glass of wine for me with two plates of vegan pizza. We don’t have to get out of our wedding clothes because it is too comfortable. We than watch Mississippi Burning or a classic movie with me in his arms; afterward, he will scope me into the bedroom. The next day, we wake up and go to work. He will go to his day job at the Peace Corp (yes, I am bias against non-Peace Corp workers) and me to my environmental job at the Peace Corps. Yes, I planned to go to the Peace Corps because I like helping people, traveling, and saving the planet.

No, really I don’t want to go to on a honeymoon because I would much rather spend our newly married life just as we are, going to work, or doing stuff around our house in our married clothes. Since we both work at the Peace Corps, our time together there is my honeymoon. We are doing what we love, saving the planet and helping people. No fancy hotel room, just a warm bed and mud hut is enough for me.

Of course, those clothes that we wore on our wedding day would not be uncomfortable given that they are regular clothes. Can’t you believe people send thousands of dollars getting married only to get a divorce later on? What a waste of money. Gosh, how big my wedding is or rather we had enough money to go on a honeymoon is not priority to me. I just want to married the person I love, no giant wedding and no giant honeymoon.

I don’t want to go on some fancy honeymoon after the marriage because spending every single day with him, sleeping with him, waking up with him, and bearing his (one) child with four adopted girls with different ethnicity is a honeymoon to me. I don’t need to travel on a fancy cruise to know that I love my man because I had already committed myself to him when I sign that marriage certificate.

However, if people wishes to congratulates me on my marriage, they can buy me a classic novel at a family own book store or they can spend a day at Planned Parenthood or a social service area in my honor.

It is not so much as I resent marriage but it is more in that I don’t want to waste a whole lot of money of something given the divorce rate here in America but also because I think that spending the rest of my life with my spouse is more important than a fancy wedding or going to some expensive honeymoon.

What about you? What is your fantasy of a perfect wedding or marriage or honeymoon?