The Big Questions

I have found that whenever anyone whom I am not particularly close with sees or talks to me since I have been engaged, they ask one of three questions:

1) "Are you excited?" "Are you getting excited?" "Is Arthur excited?" "Is Arthur getting excited?" This question and its various incarnations has been posed to me for quite a while. I would say that since my shower at the end of June, it is the first thing asked. At first, I would reply with the assumptive, "yes." and leave it at that. Hey, they were the ones to ask the close-ended questions. When prompted to add details, I would. Yet, my response was inevitably followed by a glazed look in the eyes of the inquirer.

2) Similar to above, there is the "What is there left to do?" Or "Are you ready?" The isinterest quickly becomes apparant and I regret even answering. This angers me because since I do take a bit of an anti-bride stance, I do my best not to talk about the wedding at every turn. I never wanted to be that bride-to-be that has no other conversational topic in her arsenal in the months leading up to the nuptials. But THEY asked ME! Ok, lesson learned. So now, if asked, I just say a hearty, "yup" or "not too much!"

3) The above awkwardness has lately been replaced with, "are you nervous?" How is one meant to answer this question? What am I meant to be nervous about? The preparations? The ceremony? Marrying my enfianced? It gets a woman to thinking. Why don't I feel nervous? Shoud I be nervous? Now, I am just nervous about everyone asking me whether I am nervous.

It all leads me to understand that there are definite prescribed dialogues surrounding weddings. When one deters from it or tries to bend or change it, it becomes uncomfortable. At least, that's how I felt at times. Maybe I'm the one making it that way?

Two days to go!