Wedding Planning

Being a man I had always imagined that if and when I got engaged to be married I would have little to worry about in the way of wedding plans and issues of that nature.   Maybe I was being a bit chauvinistic in my assumption that brides took care of and addressed all plans and problems surrounding the wedding.  In truth all I ever wanted at my wedding was an open bar and some great rock n roll.  I cared quite small about anything beyond those two ought to haves.

Well my fantasies of the perfect “man gathering” as my wife calls it where shattered post haste as plans for the wedding took off at a hurried pace and I was swept up in the pandemonium that is planning for such an event.  My then fiancée expressed excellent interest in having me participate along with her in the planning of our day of joy.  She didn’t expect me to pick a DJ, band, and brand of liquor to serve and then quietly sit back and watch her finalize the rest the plans.  She conveyed with fantastic emotion that she had hoped that I would be with her to meet with florists, DJ’s, photographers, etc.  As a man I had no opposition to this nevertheless I wanted to stay away from this type of thing for fear of becoming stricken with boredom.

As the fates would have it, I agreed and gave our wedding my full attention and partook in all aspects of planning our wedding.  Ironically meeting with all the different vendors and even wedding officiants was anything but boring.  These individuals treat weddings as although they are creating fine, priceless pieces of art and I was amused at just how severe they took each and each wedding they supplied services to.  This helped to make the encounter significantly more enjoyable than I had envisioned it to be.

There was one activity that was much less than thrilling for both my wife and me and that was looking at Mens Wedding bands and attempting to locate one that I would truly think about wearing.  Prior to obtaining engaged I had in no way given much thought to men’s jewelry and though I had accepted the fact that I would be wearing some sort of wedding band, I had powerful reservations about wearing any rings I considered to be effeminate.  The search for a suitable wedding band was lengthy and arduous and the tension that mounted with every single pay a visit to to a jeweler was palpable.

Eventually soon after what we agreed to be an exhaustive and tumultuous search we began looking online for Mens Wedding bands and we were both surprised at what we discovered.  Men’s rings produced from platinum, titanium and tungsten where littered all over each site.  It appeared to us that these sites had been truly pushing these sorts of rings and after reading multiple reviews on such topics we found out why.  Luckily for me I turned out to be but one of several men who despised the traditional gold, silver, and diamond men’s rings.  Not only do many men feel those rings are a misrepresentation of their masculinity, but they also really feel these rings lack any style.  When our online expedition for the ideal ring concluded I ended up with a multicolored Tungsten ring with fancy inlets.  It is both reflective of my inner man and oozes class and style.

As soon as our quest for a ring was finished we wrapped up a couple of little loose ends and then waited out the remaining six month between that and our wedding on the couch watching our favorite movies and television shows.  Any men who are close to proposing or accepting a proposal really should prepare themselves for a lengthy but enjoyable planning procedure.  Do not be afraid to take component in the planning of your wedding.   It can only serve to make the event fantastic.