first decision made

well, we've done it. we've decided where we're getting married...

somewhere in america.

this is a groundbreaking decision for us. really.

and how did we decide, you may wonder (since we haven't been able to come to a decision for 3 months)?

well, future husband has three guy friends visiting from philly right now. it's songkran here in thailand, which is a five day new year celebration involving lots of water fighting. not kidding. originally, people would pour a little water on each other as a symbolic cleansing for the new year. now it's totally out of hand. you walk down the street and get ambushed by people with super soaker water guns and buckets of ice cold water. it gets a little boring after the first couple of days, but the guys seem to love it. it's their third year in a row visiting during songkran.

one of them got engaged 4 days after we did, on christmas eve. he and his fiance had already picked their date by the time i saw him for drinks on december 30. as you can imagine, this guy stresses me out, too, because he seems like the last dude on earth who could beat me at wedding planning. he's the vince vaugh character and i'm supposed to be the responsible girl.

anyway, something about those guys from back home all being here made me start to think we'd better get working. so, after a very long night of revelry (and the biggest bar tab i have ever seen in bangkok) fiance and i got to talking and decided we'd get married back home. it would be a lot easier for our parents, plus two of my sisters have small children. i don't want them to have to spend thousands of dollars dragging their families across the globe.

although we will have to kiss goodbye our dream of a casual, elegant beach wedding in southern thailand, we will have another reception here for all of our friends on this side of the globe.