“Sometimes I don’t know if I really want to get married,” I told my mom. I glanced at her out of the corner of my eye, looking for a reaction. “Sometimes I don’t know if it’s the right thing to do.”
“Well,” she began. I could tell she was diplomatically searching for the right words. “You two have very… different characters.”
I felt a little panic rising in my stomach. “I don’t know. I think I want to call the wedding off,” I admitted. I thought about how everything was in place, and about how calling it off would change everything, forever. The panic rose faster.
Then suddenly I remembered: I wasn’t actually marrying that other guy, anymore. I was marrying the beau. I had merely forgotten! I WAS MARRYING THE BEAU INSTEAD. Relief flooded me. I turned back to my mom to tell her that now I actually couldn’t wait to get married, but before I could even open my mouth I woke up.
It was only a dream, but I couldn’t have asked for a better ending.*
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* Yow. Gettin’ smarmy up in heah.
If there’s one thing I’ve discovered, it’s that wedding dreams will EFF you up.
What a bad dream with a good ending! Much, much better to be marrying the right person than the wrong one. In my book, any doubts at all should be decided in favor of not getting married. It’s just too important of a decision to hope that issues will be worked out later.
i have definitely been having wedding dreams…
isn’t it weird that past relationships will stay with you??? sigh- a nice opportunity to realize just what true love is, and what it is not.
Craziness! I had a much similar dream a couple months back. My ex was trying to steal me and I kept thinking, “I don’t want to marry you. I hate you! You suck!” I felt like I was being suffocated. Then, in comes josh, shirtless, long hair flowing (when he had long hair) coming to my rescue. I think he really rescue me- my life has gotten so much better with him in it.
But man, you really had me going. Shoot. But yes, a lovely ending.
Crazy dream. I’m glad it was just that! You had me going for a minute.
ugh! i had a dream that it was the night before my wedding and then it was the day of the wedding and then i was walking down the aisle before I was like STOP! I don’t want to marry you! I’m marrying TURTLE!
because in my dream I was marrying my first boyfriend. I was so worried that his feelings would be hurt that i waited till i was almost at the end of the aisle. Ugh that was an anxious dream, though I felt SO much better when I woke up. I totally want to marry Turtle.
dreams can be such asses. i had a dream i left Ryan for a guy who drove trolly cars and was really upset by it the next day (not by the trollies, by the other man in my dream)
i’m glad yours had such a nice ending!
Ugh. I’ve had one of those before.
Yay for happy endings though 🙂
it’s nice when your dreams confirm your life decisions so strongly and remind you of how fortunate you are!
I on the other hand walked down the aisle in black loafers in a recent wedding dream…. that just confirmed I should really go shoe shopping
My fiance sent me this email this morning:
“So I got to the wedding early, but apparently got lost on my own, and everyone was there and ready but me, by time I got there (dressing at a house before going to the church I guess) everyone was gone except a few odd ball people, and nobody had my tux. So I franctically dressed in white socks, those khaki pants you like, and then realized I hadn’t showered yet, then I just attempt to wash my hair, find out I have a large gash in my skull from who knows what, then get a call from the pastor who had a Spanish accecnt, who said he had all day for me to get there, and then people started calling non-stop seeing if I was bailing, and it felt like hours passed, then I just gave up, but then people started encouraging me, so I went to wash my hair again and I used [his brother] Austen’s blue and green shampoo, and then I was told to get my head looked at (the gash was oozing) and I woke up.”
Wedding dreams SUCK.
I seriously have this dream about once a week. It is a wonderful dream to wake up from, because you still have that excitement…