I tried to be a sneaky bride...
Posted
Friday, December 21, 2007 12:16 PM
So I guess I'm not the only one who has seen the "Best Wedding Dance Ever" video. As we speak, this little video is busily infecting the email accounts of all my friends and family. Like SARS. Or Britney's va-jay-jay.
I know this because people have sent this to me with the Subject Line: Great Idea! Jen~Check this out! And not just anyone. My fiance's mother. My mother. Any day now, I know I'll get one from my great-great-grandmother.
The very people I pictured jaw-dropping to our lock-n-pop wedding dance. The very people I imagined would be wiping away tears and slapping their knees, shaking their heads and saying: "That Jen! Woo-hoo, what will she do next?"
*Please excuse this blog interruption*
THIS WAS SUPPOSED TO BE A SURPRISE! I wanted MY (meaning, of course, our) wedding dance the be THE BEST EVER! It's NOT FAIR!
*Now back to our regulary scheduled blog*
So, as you can tell, I'm in a bit of a pickle. At first, I thought my answer was obvious. Ignore the videos. Pretend like maybe they fell out of my inbox or got lost in the transmission. Proceed as planned, and unveil our surprise at the wedding. Which worked for about 2 days. Then fiance's mother re-sent the video. I stuck to my plan. Then she questioned him about it when he went to her house. As far as I can tell, the conversation went like this:
"Did Jen get that dance video I sent her?"
"Uh, yeah."
"Oh. Well, did she say anything about it?"
"Uh."
"Well, I think that would be a great idea for the two of you."
"Uh."
"Do you have anything planned for your first dance yet?"
"I don't know, Mom, you should ask Jen."
Geez. I think it's kinda late to be playing the stick-my-head-in-the-sand game. I know my mother will grill me about the video next time I see her, too. Do I tell these web-savvy, well-meaning mothers that we have it all planned out? Do I make up some outrageous lie, like we're not planning on having a first-dance? Or do I come clean about the whole surprise, and enlist their help? Or do I just cut their modem lines?