June 1st 2005
timing is everything
I have two cousins getting married this summer. One is very organized (to a fault, really) and one is not organized at all (also to a fault).
The latter’s wedding is in three and a half weeks. I JUST got the invitation last Thursday. This cousin also JUST called me on Sunday to ask if I would sing in the wedding.
He swears the music will all be stuff I am familiar with, along with a simple psalm tone. If he is being truthful (and I am sure he THINKS he is being truthful) this will be fine. What worries me is that he also said he and his fiancee haven’t finished PICKING OUT the music yet.
How can he know I’ll be familiar with it when they don’t know what they’re choosing? Also, I’ll be singing with two other cousins, who both sang at MY wedding. That’s fine, too, except one of those two is the overplanned bride-to-be (who also happened to be the cousin who changed out of her nice clothes into khakis at my wedding) and she’s a little neurotic for my taste lately. Also, we won’t all be in the same room until the night before the wedding. The wedding is at 10 am the next day. I’m not sure I want to be practicing wedding music for the first time after a four-hour car trip, much less with only 12 hours till showtime.
But I agreed and am very happy to do this. I just wish my cousin had made it a little easier for me to be excited about it.
