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How To Be A Stress-Free Wedding Guest
Whether dating or single; attending someone else's wedding can be stressful.
by Rebecca Wright
In Jackie and Neil’s case, it was the groom’s speech. Jackie, a 26-year-old advertising executive from West London, remembers, “He said that when he had first seen his wife he thought, ‘Wow!’. I realized that I didn’t go, ‘Wow!’, when I first saw Neil, and had always felt that he was the one who was more into me.”
Although she and Neil had been seeing each other for four years and living together for one, Jackie knew things hadn’t been right for a while. She admits, “I’d already started worrying, and was looking forward to the party side rather than the romantic side of going to the wedding.”
The death knell sounded when Jackie overheard the mother of the bride urge Neil to “get a ring on that girl’s finger.” She called it quits the very next day.
Family weddings can up the ante even more. Jennie, a doctor who lives in Devon, and Martin*, a Royal Air Force pilot, had been together for four years when Martin’s brother got married. At the event, “I was being considered part of his family,” Jennie remembers. “I felt as if I could be married to Martin already, which felt very scary.”
Martin was affected, too. “They looked completely in love,” he says of his brother and sister-in-law. “I always thought that everyone had some issues, but this made me think that maybe issues were just a part of my relationship! The vows really made me realize that marriage is all about loving forever unconditionally. I didn’t know if that was Jennie and me, or not.”
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2 JoJo // Jul 16, 2006 at 5:59 pm
Why are so many woman ready to RUSH to the alter? Nothing is more sacred and long lasting.
I appreciate the relationship I’m in and going to a wedding is an event about them…NOT us. Just relax and enjoy THEIR happy day and be HAPPY FOR THEM!
3 Anonymous // Jun 20, 2006 at 11:44 pm
I recently called off a wedding, days before the event..realizing, this man is not the one for me. Going to a wedding now would break us up I am sure. Any invites?
4 Anonymous // Jun 20, 2006 at 11:22 pm
she was just wishing she had martin cause when you don’t have someone…and you go to a wedding, it makes you sad. It makes you lonely. It makes you think that you will never find “the one”. but if things were not great…then do not settle…it just sets you up to miss out on the opportunity to find “the one”