When-dding Plans

There comes a time in one's life (yeah, even for uglier people than us) wherein you must decide on leaving the single life and moving on to bigger things (perhaps the biggest understatement of our lives) called Marriage.

Marriage. Defined by me based on my friends' marriages as a thing two people enter into when they have reached the pinnacle or the end of their relationship as girlfriend/boyfriend or when the girl gets pregnant. Haha. I'm partly kidding.  To me, marriage is what two people in love get into when they are so in love and want to legalize what they are feeling as well as bring to God what they feel for each other. It is the hardest but most satisfying commitment that a couple can make. It's when two people commit themselves to each other for better or for worse, in sickness and in health, 'til death do they part. That's tough, right?! But for someone you really love and want to spend the rest of your life with, you do it. You promise in front of God. You give Him and your partner your word. If you're successful in all those vows then you have mastered the game called Marriage.

Now at my age, it is fair to get asked when I"m gonna get married and be pressured by people who aren't really important to me. Haha. I'd be lying if I said I'm not pressured. But the pressure is more by myself plus the fact that I don't want my girlfriend getting impatient then leaving me. Hey, I've seen this happen. But then again we can argue that the girl didn't really love the guy. The girl jumped into a new relationship a few months after and got married the next year. I don't want that happening to me. Especially because I really love my girlfriend now. And it would suck if we both get pressured by outside forces and end up marrying for the wrong reasons.

A lot of  people have also told me to forget about financial issues and that it would be easier to save up when you're already together. There's a semblance of truth there but I still want my wife (and my kids eventually) to be comfortable in life. Not really live a life like the Ampatuan's but just comfortable enough for them not to get embarrassed if I pick them up in school with a beat-up pick up with a fan belt you can hear from the next street. Been there. Done that. My girlfriend told me that she doesn't mind having a not-so-extravagant wedding just as long as I don't carry her into my room in my parent's house. That's fair. Good luck in cutting down friends from the guest list. Gooood luuuuuck.

So I've come to a point in my life wherein I must decide. And I have decided. As to when, where and who to invite, well, that's the least of my problems.

What's important is I found the answer to the "Who" and the "Why"...

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