Wedding Lesson #1

It's been one week since Ben Meyer proposed to me and Wow! My whole life has changed. Funny enough, my friend Jen (runbigjenrun.blogspot.com, who incidentally got engaged the same day I did) has declared that her blog will not at all begin to resemble a wedding planning diatribe, but since I'm creating this from scratch I think I'm in the clear. I mean, I figure if you don't want to read about that, you'll just tune in next fall when all of the wedded bliss is over and Ben and I chronicle what I'm sure will be our most interesting lives here (hopefully, if I can get him to post).

The coolest thing about getting married is realizing that you're going to have someone in your life to share everything with now, from bumps and bruises to the emotional rollercoasters, elated moments to tough times. It's a good feeling. The craziest thing about getting married is planning the wedding. I didn't even think about all of the things I have to do in the next year until I was on my way back from Texas (for our proposal story, check out www.theknot.com/ourwedding/BenMeyer&MeganOrton), on an airplane, reading bridal magazines. I thought it was a good idea to get a head start, but now I'm not so sure. My mind has been spinning with wedding mania since last Wednesday!

Anyhow, I hope at least some of you are looking forward to sharing this experience with us, and hopefully we can help you to avoid any pitfalls we might have along the way. First off, lesson #1:

Fiance is a male engaged to be married, fiancee is a female engaged to be married.

Interesting. Blonde females get an extra "e" too. Since Ben and I are disgusting and like to sit around saying "Good morning fiancee," "Hi Fiance," "Love, your fiancee," it's good to know that spelling it any old way would just not fly by Emily Post's standards (or Merriam-Webster's). Now we know.