Well not quite, but it could have been.
There is a story before this story, so I’ve included a prelude below:
One of my best friends from college, lets call her Double T, became engaged during Christmas 2008. We met in Venice, Italy (sounds romantic doesn’t it?) during our study abroad trip in 2007. We had such a great time together experiencing and traveling Europe as any American girls would.
Fast forward to Christmas 2008 – I receive a text message that says:
Double T: “Justin gave me a diamond for Christmas.”
Me: “Are you engaged????????????????”
Double T: “YES!”
Holy crap, my best friend is engaged. I was so excited for her. She asked me if I would be her Maid of Honor, which this is not to be intended as a pun, but I was truly honored! I never thought that I could be someone’s Maid of Honor.
During the first couple months of her engagement she sent me pictures of her inspiration. She started asking me, “What have you envisioned for your wedding?” “What sort of things are you going to include and do?” She asked me opinion on many different things, and honestly I never really thought about it. Sounds weird doesn’t it, but in any case, I had no idea what sort of wedding I was going to have. So, from all of her questions, she began to pique my interest in wedding planning.
Fast forward to March 2009, Double T has yet to set a date, find a venue, or do anything. In the back of my mind, I’m thinking to myself, “What if I get engaged soon? We’re going to have weddings probably around the same time. Will I be able to plan my wedding and be her Maid of Honor as well?” Thoughts like these were flowing, and looking back I should have seen a foreshadowing here.
Ok, so back to Bride Wars.
I last left you with my experiences in setting our wedding date - June 5th, 2010. I was quick to start searching for our venue or venues. My preference was to have both the ceremony and reception at one venue, but more on that later! I had this eerie feeling that I had to tell Double T my date (soon) just so we didn’t end up picking the same date. She told me that she was leaning towards an August wedding, but knew that she wanted to have her reception outside in a tent. It must have been my sixth sense, because I had this strange feeling that she was going to switch her wedding month to June, which has a more ideal temperature for an outside wedding.
Sometime in May, I get a really excited instant message from Double T saying she has her venue and date! And sure enough....
No, she didn’t pick June 5th. She picked June 4th. And here is where Bride Wars comes in to play. I’m a little shocked at this point, and decide that the best thing to do is to tell her that I picked the following day for my wedding. So, I tell her. She doesn’t say anything for awhile, and neither did I. We start instant messaging again, and we see if we will be able to work out two weddings in one weekend. We both realize that it’s not likely to happen. But here is where is starts to get interesting. She gave me a bunch of reasons for why she could only have that date, June 4th. It had to be an even day due to chinese tradition, and it had to be on a Friday for the cheaper rate for her venue. She told me that June 12th sounded like the perfect date. I’m thinking that she is referring to herself. Nope, she actually had the audacity to say, are you going to change you date to June 12th.
Since I didn’t have our venue yet, it made sense that I was going to be the one to change my date. It doesn’t help that my personality is similar to Anne Hathaway’s character in Bride Wars -- a semi-pushover. June 12th did sound like a nice date, but my birthday is on a 12th, and sounds silly, but I wanted a new date to celebrate on.
So I was back at square one at setting our date. June 5th was out, June 12th was out. That left June 19th and June 26th as options.
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