A Wedding Gift

Getting married has its perks.

1. The Gift Registry: You go to a store that you like, sign up for the gift registry. Listen to an obnoxious person drown on and on about how you NEED crystal goblets, when you really don't. This person shows you china patterns on colored place mats (cause don't you know they look sooo different, and then finaly you pick one. All the while just thinking, "GIVE ME THE SCANNER DAMN IT!" -and then it happens, you get the almighty scanner, to scan any fucking thing you may want or need in the whole store for someone else to buy you. Its the greatest feeling on earth, until...your fiancee wants to do it... ugh. -disapointment

2. "CONGRATULATIONS": Everyone congratulates you. Even people you've never met before. Like you won a pulitzer prize or something. Like you did something to deserve this amazing person to love you for the rest of your life. At first it is all very sweet, and then as you work your way through the wedding planning process, you begin to feel its almost being said as an inside joke. Like, "ha ha, enjoy the fees and stress associated with this". Wasn't it just 2 weeks earlier that these same people were telling "never get married, promise me that."? hmmmm. -confused

3. Gifts: Everyone loves to get a present, and as you check your gift registry online you get to see which one of your amazing picks have been approved by those you know. You feel validated that you arent' some crazy chick scanning tea pots for nothing -Other people appove. -yeah

4. Random Acts of Kindness: The printer that my father has used for years, who writes my name as GEENA -eeerrrr, wanted to give me my invitation inserts as a wedding gift. Very nice, now if she could just figure out my name is Genna not GEENA....