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Everyone knows that planning a wedding is a lot of work. It is a great relief for me to not have to pay for the event; as my parents were gracious enough to offer. However. This adds many more variables to an already complicated equation. Now finding a venue, becomes finding a venue that my mother doesn’t find to be a “more than inconvenient” distance away. Choosing a ceremony site now battles, “and then you can just get in the golf cart and drive away.” (I hate golf) There are enough problems with the process as it is- venues are already booked, venues that want $200 a person- no I’m not paying for it, but I also don’t want to rob my parents of their retirement-and then there are all the things that come after the wedding. Finding a place to live together, changing my name, keeping my middle name? Making my last name my new middle name? Having four names instead of three? Combining finances, agreeing on furniture-please don’t make me get rid of my orange velvet wing back chair, I know you hate it, but I think it is my best goodwill find yet. Whatever these persistent incessant details may be, I am trying to remind myself daily that no matter what my wedding looks like- my fiancé suggests we just get married in a field-“why not it’s free“- at the end of the day I will be married and that is all that really matters.