Well, it’s a new month. Time to the wedding can be measured in days now (39!) and we should probably get a big checklist together to see what’s complete and what still needs to be done.
So far, I think we’re doing pretty good. My Fiancee and I had lunch together yesterday after spending some time at the florist that my boss recommended (his wife has done a lot of work with them). We’re getting a good number of RSVPs back, so pretty soon I’ll have a final guest list to take to the caterers…
And my stand-up guys have forewarned me about the date of the bachelors party.
My boss has been sharing horror stories from past bachelor parties that he’s attended. None of them had any fatalities, but still… At one of them he was the designated sober person and someone tossed his ring of car keys onto the roof of the hotel they were staying at. Fortunately, they managed to miss any ventilation intakes and the keys didn’t slide down the other side of the roof and into the river behind the hotel…
One good thing is that my guys aren’t likely to do anything like that. On the down side, I know the kind of mayhem that they are capable of. I attended the party for a friend of mine. For the sake of his pride and marital stability we’ll call him “Dave.” The party started at a local brewpub and progressed to a strip club out near Dearborn. I managed to stay relatively sober through the whole thing, at least enough that I only had a minor headache the next morning. Dave was incapacitated for several days. His wife is still upset about the condition he was in.
Still, I’ve got a few weeks to prepare myself… I’m sure there’s some sort of exercises I can do to help survive severe intoxication, right?