Remarkable change of attitude, really

I think I’ve broken through all the wedding nerves and wedding doubts and I’m now really looking forward to it.
It helps that the ceremony is at 10am - I won’t have ages to spend pacing around and fretting, we can just get there and get on with it. It also helps that we’ve only got 24 people at the register office, and they’re people we really want to be there. 
Philippa’s mum is still unhappy that we’re staying together the night before the wedding, but that’s just something traditional and superstitious and it doesn’t bother us at all. We both think it’s hugely romantic that we’ll be spending our last night of singlehood together, because in our minds we’ve been committed to each other for years so it becoming legal isn‘t a huge step for either of us. Who needs a ‘last night of freedom’ when you don’t want one? Why should we do certain things just because they’re normally done in the run-up to a wedding? 
It’s our big day and we’re doing things exactly how we want to.
So we’re having the day of December 23rd at a luxury health spa at a local hotel, then we’ll have an evening meal in the hotel restaurant before retiring to one of their best rooms, then in the morning of Christmas Eve we shall have breakfast together, then get ready together, then travel together to the venue at which we shall become married. If that’s not accepted as ‘the usual way’ then tough. It’s what we want. We want to express our love for each other and join in matrimony for life and that‘s all that matters.  We’re not interested in doing things ‘the usual way.’
I’m not even having a stag do, despite protestations from my old colleague Jared. He’s decided to go ahead and plan one anyway, which I’ve already insisted I won’t turn up for, so it will basically be him and his mates using me getting married as an excuse to lose themselves in an orgy of drugs (not that they need an excuse most weekends…) 
I don’t want all those money-making trappings and peripheral shite that goes with a wedding - I just want to be Philippa’s husband, and the sooner it happens the better. 
And at this point I refer you back to the title of this blog….

RC 18-11-15