Family Gatherings: Being Single At Weddings

Family Gatherings: Being Single At Weddings

WEDDINGS ARE THE MOST STRANGE THAT ONE ?

Last week the phone rang. One of the worst kind of phone calls, keeps you awake at night. The type of tone that makes you stop dead in their tracks and take deep breaths to overcome that instant feeling of terror. I could not explain. I just knew. "Hello, I hope you have not forgotten that it is the wedding of his uncle, Trevor and the following Saturday will be good for anyone with you? And I could hear myself let out a silent scream. I was sure that I was afraid the cat next door, but in reality it was inaudible. How, how they manage to remember and make you feel like you're a spinster or a hermit in so few words.
I am a single man. It is true that I am 37 and single and never married and still much more than my mother crying about the lack of grandchildren, she put the son of a stoic face when another family reunion takes place. Overall I'm sure she apologizes kind to his friends about how busy I am with the race and how I am doing so well, while at the same time I wondered if you really like the opposite sex. But there is nothing more uncomfortable standing in the field of family life in close and distant relatives who receive all the evidence, as the last question of Who Wants to Be a Millionaire. Maybe I am the weakest link! And nothing is more ideal for this situation to a family wedding.
Now you and I know that we will ask a thousand times before the big event that we are taking with us. To advertise with indifference, we're almost in silence usually do not like making it almost melted back to the phone to try to understand how we can persuade to be our guest. Fear, in fact, started a few weeks ago when it was royal invitation.
The invitation is in front of you and eventually have to be treated. Of course there is the possibility of simply going to the wedding ceremony alone and just freestyle with enough beer or wine cellar in you sink the Titanic, however, not be so easy to be my friend. In addition to a cast of thousands who looks at him with a sidelong glance and a wink nudge to get on their own, not the empty chair next to him to fight, and the place beside him at dinner after the ceremony. However, because clean is what you do not take anyone that will give you two places anyway. Almost to show you what is lacking in others.
Okay so let's get on the phone and make an ex. A former colleague is always good for the wedding, as everyone already know and are comfortable enough to find an ally in its hour of need. They, of course, will lead to severe discomfort, drink the most, without being able to drink and flirt with the best man or maid of honor outrageously and marvelously drunk and dance just to shame. Of course, the family liked ex that you should never invite. The wedding had the opportunity to drone on how they did as a couple in love and how errors will be your next turn. You will be asked prying questions like why do you never leave you. The fact that he had never seen his ex used to eat banana fritters in bed at 5 am or leave the basin full of hair has nothing, of course, to do with it. Secretly, of course, your ex wants you back and forth at night in a dialogue about how the two get back together and give it another chance. Avoid.
The second option is to take a friend of the opposite sex. Big mistake. What will happen this time is that curious relatives decide that you are a match made in heaven. Add a couple of bottles of champagne in the equation and before you know it, have slept with his best friend and woke up with a hangover from hell and all her household are a couple for the ceremony next, and are proud of their bad matchmaking capabilities. Do not go there.
Okay so now is the time to think about bringing along a person who has dated three times, but I really like. She or he will do very well as they do not actually see themselves being together, but impressed can and intends to host. Relatives of evil you can smell the sense of fear in the host and make a B-line to ensure that you are a good guy or a girl really. The family of trawling endless stories when they were three and were sick from the neck of his cousin at a christening. If your blossoming relationship was not doomed before it is now. His family have just been replaced by the cast of the Adams family. Your guest will be able to see relatives who marry and good intentions will delight in making you squirm. It should be an Olympic sport.
The law as it was then decided. Go on your own and face the consequences. That will take care of the empty chair next to you at a later stage. Great. Not good. Coming just announced that there is great difficulty to sit. Since you are a unique seating arrangement has become a problem. You can run the gauntlet and placed with his aunt Rosa and other relatives of all kinds. But he was not given that opportunity. No, it's likely to be found in 'freak' table behind the column on the back. It is always the road. How strange that all people are only placed in the outpost of a wedding dinner. Here you can live that long lost inner One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, muttering pointing away from the tables are made to breeze through the music of the quartet "in the corner.
On the other hand, a fate worse than death means that you will be sitting next to second cousin Edwin (a) everyone has decided now is your perfect match .. You and I know that hell must freeze before I ever close to that person but fate, my friend, is no longer in their hands. The full battle strength of families have taken and are looking with joy as they try to stay as far away from his party proposed that while sitting right next to them. They shout for joy, announcing aloud how to make the perfect couple and that he had never seen before. Pray and pray some more. Then run.
At the wedding reception, have not realized that this is not just a celebration of the wedding, but is a show of gladiators to feed the lions. This is manifested in the beginning of each two seniors, which means that the question about whether you're single, why you are single, if you eat correctly and if you have friends. Usually incredulous look when you say that you really cook for yourself and then usually respond by asking what is cooking again as if just descended from space or 3 years old. You will have to repeat this conversation with about 15 elderly relatives separately scent of lavender before leaving the store to start smoking again.
The final insults are so numerous that should make a list. As a woman who is expected to catch the bride's bouquet before enduring a marathon "of your next turn" dialogue .. During the service of marriage vows will remind you why still single and probably always will be now. Dancing after the ceremony with the awkward gangly teen will make you realize they are just a stone's throw from old age and death, and all the while wondering if your wedding will be like while secretly promising only married on a deserted island with no family type.
Back home at the end of all this in a quiet house is one of the greatest feelings of relief that does not sit home alone and will never be a more attractive appearance. Put your feet up and have a coffee and the next time the phone rings .. is not the answer.