I got engaged last weekend. As you can imagine, that has kind of kept me occupied this week. In the preliminary research I've started doing about wedding timelines, how to do what, what to avoid, etc., one peice of advice I have found is this: the wedding is an opportunity to tell your story as a couple.
I've done a lot of storytelling in a lot of different media over the years: theatre, dance, straight-up storytelling for kids, writing, tours, and even costume design. It had never occurred to me before that a wedding could also be a storytelling medium.
I was kind of in a panic this week - I'm not the most social person, and the idea of having to host a party for all my cousins, my finace's cousins, and our close friends was very unnerving. But now I have something familiar to hold onto. Now Jason has something familiar to hold onto. As a long time role playing gamer, he's not unfamiliar with the idea of being a storyteller.
Plus, that also gave me an idea for the theme for the wedding (or at least the invitations, ha!) - the idea of inviting our guests to join us on an adventure or quest. Yeah, it'll probably come off as goofy to some people, but really, when you get down to it, the wedding is about us. It is about this weird, goofy, somewhat anti-social couple and our story.