Billboards are cool, too.

My former roommate, Susan, recently made a keen observation about this blog. I won't put it in quotes, because honestly, I don't have the energy to even scroll the mouse on over to copy-and-paste what she (er... her cat, actually) said. You can read it in the comments section of the "Buy Mark a Pony" post.

No. Really. Go on over there and read it. You can scroll. Scroll those scroll buttons, baby. Scroll. And then click.

For those of you who didn't make the journey over to the comments to check it out, here's the general idea: that this blog should be used for more than just advertising space.

Wh-wh-what? I'm not just a billboard? But... I AM just a billboard!

I guess people want more to life than the commercials. The thing of it is, if the actual program were as important as the commercials, they wouldn't play the commercials SO RIDICULOUSLY LOUD. Maybe I should just put the ads in all caps so's that I can compete with regular commercials. Because who doesn't want to hear about the absorbency of paper towels at that ear-bleeding decibal level?

Susan's (okay... her CAT'S) suggestion was that I write more about how difficult wedding planning is.  The thing of it is, when I do find time to write, the last thing I want to write about is this wedding that's been LOOMING over me like a... like a.... well, like a great, big thing that looms.  It's not the idea of marriage that's looming.  Just the actual wedding.

I think if I'd really dug down into the heart of who I am at the outset, I would've realized that I'm the type that should really just elope.  And then have a big ol' party afterwards to celebrate how clever we were in eloping.

But, really, weddings for me (and my family) have been about celebrating and sharing TOGETHER.  You can't put your heart into doing the Hustle at a wedding when you didn't really see the wedding.  You can't circle up for a chicken dance when you didn't see the chickens tie the knot.  You can't boogie-woogie-oogie when the couple did the Electric Slide without you.

All this is to say that no matter how ridiculous I think it is to plan a year in advance for a wedding... I'm going to do it.  Because weddings -- for me and for Matt -- are about sharing the moment with all the wonderful people we know and love.

So there.

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- Meredith

P.S. My longtime buddy, Britt, made a donation to the wedding fund.  Britt is an amazing lady who makes interesting paintings out of ketchup and tells me things like, "I want to take your head home with me on a stick."  Thank God she didn't take my head on a stick all those years ago.  The wedding pictures would look COMPLETELY different.