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My sister is getting married in April, and with that comes all the drama and grief that goes hand in hand with planning a wedding. Only double.
You know those wedding movies and reality TV shows that are just packed with drama? That's what my family is like. On the outside we all smile and talk exitedly. We are all: "Oh yes, our darling Salena is getting married. In the ballroom of the Paramount theatre. Yes, the theatre with that marvelous painted sky on the ceiling. She's the top events planner there you know. We're all so proud." But behind the scenes everybody is snarling about each other, finding reasons to bad mouth one another, to exclude someone. Exclaiming that they are sick of the whole thing and wondering what's the point because Sis and Jimmy are most likely going to get a divorce anyway.
My mother just had a fit when she opened up Salena's invitation. Apparently, it doesn't say anything about our parents, and how they are giving her away. She didn't care about it at first, didn't say anything at all when Sis showed her the sample, but now that they are done and ordered, even though she knew about them before hand she has decided to scream and cuss and cry about how she is paying for the damn wedding and how it is the most self-centered invitation she has ever seen.
Maybe my brother is right. And my mother really IS bi-polar. What did he say it was? A fifty percent chance of passing it on to your children?
You know those wedding movies and reality TV shows that are just packed with drama? That's what my family is like. On the outside we all smile and talk exitedly. We are all: "Oh yes, our darling Salena is getting married. In the ballroom of the Paramount theatre. Yes, the theatre with that marvelous painted sky on the ceiling. She's the top events planner there you know. We're all so proud." But behind the scenes everybody is snarling about each other, finding reasons to bad mouth one another, to exclude someone. Exclaiming that they are sick of the whole thing and wondering what's the point because Sis and Jimmy are most likely going to get a divorce anyway.
My mother just had a fit when she opened up Salena's invitation. Apparently, it doesn't say anything about our parents, and how they are giving her away. She didn't care about it at first, didn't say anything at all when Sis showed her the sample, but now that they are done and ordered, even though she knew about them before hand she has decided to scream and cuss and cry about how she is paying for the damn wedding and how it is the most self-centered invitation she has ever seen.
Maybe my brother is right. And my mother really IS bi-polar. What did he say it was? A fifty percent chance of passing it on to your children?
