Rail-roaded, or anything for a peaceful life?

[slowwww]

It was our 15th Wedding Anniversary yesterday.

Remarking on this a couple of months ago, my wife suggested that we should have a party or something to mark the occasion. I wasn't listening properly and my rather non-committal answer that it wasn't a particularly notable one like Silver, Gold, etc. clearly missed the mark.

Cue wounded spaniel look on my dearest’s face which immediately put me on the back foot. Since then the conversations every few days have been as follows:-

"Shall we go to the church where we got married a take some pictures outside?". If you like, dear.
"Shall I wear my wedding dress and you your wedding suit, etc?". OK (thinking, how long can I hold my stomach in for?)
"We'd better get the girls (our daughters) new dresses if we're going to take some pictures" Oh God, this is starting to get expensive.
" The vicar said that we can go inside and take some pictures there". OK, if you really want to
"If we're going to do that we'd better get some flowers for the girls to carry". OK, but Tesco's/BP's finest only please
" The vicar has offered to say a few words" Righhhhttttt??!!!!

Long story short, tomorrow we're having a full renewal of vows at the Church with music, flowers etc, and then 40 people coming back to our house, including the Vicar!! All in, probably the cost of a mid-range Bianchi
......and all because I wasn't listening properly and didn't provide the appropriate response in the first instance. You would have thought that after 15 years I would have learnt, wouldn't you?!!

 

[Lee_M]

aww thats nice

that'll teach you

 

[Black Sheep]

hahahaha, she got you there!
I'm afraid to say, I think you deserved it!

We used to live not too far (you wouldn't want to walk it) from the church we got married in on our way to various places, and although it wasn't always the most direct route, we'd sometimes make a slight detour to get to or from where we were going to drive past it.

We no longer live in Coventry but would, when heading back from visiting parents, pass through to switch from M1, via M69 to get to the M40 (avoiding Oxford and the A40 iirc), so would often go past.

We now live north of our parents so not sure when we'd next be passing, ah well.

 

[Night Train]

Ahhhh, you see, I planned ahead.
Arch and I can just revisit the NRM, in York, and get a load of friends to meet us there for a and cake.

 

[Yellow Fang]

Long story short, tomorrow we're having a full renewal of vows at the Church with music, flowers etc, and then 40 people coming back to our house, including the Vicar!! All in, probably the cost of a mid-range Bianchi
......and all because I wasn't listening properly and didn't provide the appropriate response in the first instance. You would have thought that after 15 years I would have learnt, wouldn't you?!!

Got to be cheaper than a divorce though?

 

[TVC]

Serves you right for not listening properly in the first place.

 

[DCLane]

Aaaagh

Just think - if you only have to do this once every few years it's probably worth it; the next one'll be the 25th. Or the 20th.

However, a couple I know renewed their vows for their 19th anniversary and she left him less than 6 months later

 

[mattobrien]

Just book a weekend away for the next anniversary - cheaper than said mid range Bianchi and you can then pocket the difference and put it toward a new toy. It puts you in control and removes you from the vicinity of the church and the opportunity to renew vows for a third time.

You could always book somewhere than happens to have an event on that you wanted to see or somewhere you have always wanted to go, obviously by accident though

Alternatively, this time if you wanted to get in the really good books, you could always buy a nice new sparkly diamond ring for Mrs slowwww as a surprise for when the vows are completed and that ought to last you for another 30 or so years...

 

[Kiwiavenger]

doesn't the counter reset to 0 now though