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...Or how not to get run over by it.

A very few of you may know that my S.O. of nearly 8 years and I have decided to get married. We're doing it for a largely bureaucratic reason that I won't get into here, but decided that we might as well have a nice big party for our friends while we were at it.

We have come to the conclusion that weddings are one big pain in the arse. (Most commonly heard sentence in our household the last two weeks, uttered by either one of us: "I love you, sweetie, but this wedding is a big pain in the arse.")

No doubt our problem is that a) we're older, b) we know what we like and don't like about weddings c) we're trying NOT to do all the stuff we hate and d) the damn Wedding Bus keeps tryin to either get us on it or run us over. My favourite moment was when we were trying to convince our caterer that, no, we did not have to do X (fill in the goofy wedding tradition of your choice), that we were going for a non-traditional ceremony that was far more relaxed that she was used to. She smiled, said "I think that's great!" and then proceeded to try and convince us to do X anyway. Sigh.

For anyone who ever goes through this themselves, here's some of the ways we have negotiated our way around the Wedding Bus,

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