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Wedding Planning (Part 2)

What’s a little wedding without some drama?

The wedding planning has been easy and painless so far (for the most part)! As the date draws near, however, the crazy people are starting to claw their way out of the woodworks.. Luckily for us, we predicted this! So, it certainly didn’t come as a surprise when a certain ‘family member’ of mine decided that her daughter needed to have a huge birthday party, and that it needed to be on the same day as our reception…

This information came out on one of my fiancés and I’s visits to a family member of mine, let’s call her Glinda. I should also mention that I don’t have the best relationship with half of my family (or any relationship at all), and that most of them are not invited to the reception! With that said, let’s continue…

Upon visiting Glinda, she had informed us that she wouldn’t be able to attend our small gathering in the woods to celebrate our marriage, as something had come up to prevent that. We had inquired as to what had come up that had clearly been important to her, and even asked if everything was okay. To our shock (sort of), we were informed that a family member person (let’s call her Elphaba) in the family had suddenly remembered that their daughters birthday was coming up! And she suddenly needed to throw a big party!

One thing you should know about Elphaba… She’s the Wicked Witch of Michigan! Truly! And for some reason, she’s got it out for me! So, when it came time for my fiancé and I to send out our reception invites at the beginning of the year, we had predicted that something like this would happen…

You see, we love Glinda! Glinda is invited to the small gathering!
We don’t like Elphaba. Elphaba is NOT invited to the small gathering. And neither are any of the flying monkeys from that side of the tree. But everyone in the tree regularly goes to Glinda’s house, so any invite we sent would be scrutinized by ALL of them.

When we sent an invitation to Glinda, we knew that people were going to see it. My fiancé, my maid of honors, my parents, and I all knew that something would happen. Because those flying monkeys could all see the invitation, as well as the time, the date, and the place. As soon as we sent the invite, we knew we would be giving the Wicked Witch of Michigan and her flying monkeys all of the information she would need to potentially ruin our party.

(Personally, I just wanted to kidnap Glinda and bring her to the gathering. Or maybe send her a fake date on the invite. But I was told no.. So this is where we are now…)

So back to the day that Glinda told us that she couldn’t make it to our gathering…

We had known that something like this would happen. All we could do was nod our heads and give a sympathetic smile and a ‘we’re sorry you’ll miss the party‘. All the while, in our heads, we were wishing we could pour a bucket of water on Elphaba and make her melt!

Now, this ‘party’ of Elphaba’s, starts right in the middle of our reception. And when I had asked why she couldn’t just come to our party for a little bit, and then to Elphaba’s party, I should have known that Elphaba had an evil plan for that as well.. Elphaba had demanded that Glinda came to the birthday party early to help set up, so that she couldn’t come to my party at all. Sneaky right? She truly IS the Wicked Witch of Michigan..

Now of course my fiancé and I were upset, but what could we do? (Don’t worry, that was thought of too!) After this encounter, we had talked to some of my family members (from the other side of the tree, the side that throws the apples at bad people 😉) about this, and another family member of mine (let’s call her Dorothy) had told me that she had been there when Elphaba had invited Glinda, but that Elphaba had sounded ‘quite surprised’ when she had found out that she had somehow picked the same day as our reception to have her daughter’s birthday party! (Yeah, right.. 🤨) In fact, Elphaba had even offered for us to pick up our reception and move it to where she was having the birthday party! You know, that way Glinda didn’t have to choose whose party to go to, we could ‘share‘ the day. So nice, right?! 🤯

One good thing about this is; at least we know that Elphaba and her flying monkeys aren’t going to crash the party! (Because honestly, that was a real worry for us!) They will now be all too busy at a nine-year-olds birthday party, to care enough to ‘crash’ the gathering!

And you want to know what else was great? Elphaba not only decided to have a party the same day, and same time as us, but she had also invited multiple people on our guest list! Thankfully, we have an amazing group of friends, and we are only inviting those closest to us! So, most of them told her to stick it where the sun don’t shine. 😉

We truly love our tribe, and we couldn’t be happier with our small gathering in the woods with our friends and family who are closest to us helping us celebrate. It’s reasons like this that I wanted to keep the guest list small, and also reasons like this that Elphaba and her flying monkeys weren’t invited in the first place! Blood family doesn’t mean much to my fiancé and I if they treat us like this, our tribe of friends and family who have our backs no matter what, those are our real family. Those are the only people we want on our special day. Period.

Now honestly, we aren’t mad. It is what it is, and we saw this coming. We are moving forward with this happy occasion no matter what tornado sweeps through, and we are keeping our eyes out for any more falling houses!

With that story out of the way, we are getting into the final stages of planning for our small gathering in the woods! Everything is coming together nicely, and there will be another wedding update as time draws near!

If you would like to read my other Wedding Planning posts, click the links below!
Wedding Planning (Part 1)
Wedding Planning (Part 2)
Wedding Planning (Part 4)
How I asked my Best Friends to be my Maids of Honors