Megan and Chris

So Mom called me on Friday (on my way from class to an awesome houseboating weekend!). Following are the essentials of our conversation:

Mom: So we just realized that May 23rd is not, in fact, the long weekend. It’s the Saturday after the long weekend.
Me: ….um. %$#@.

The problem at that point was that when Chris and I were originally setting the date for our wedding, we asked Lauren (my best friend, maid of honour and a teacher in Yellowknife) which weekend she preferred, as she would be the only member of the wedding party travelling to the wedding. She requested the long weekend, and booked her time off before last school year ended. Also, I’ve had lots of conversations with other people that included the assumption that the 23rd is the long weekend (not the least of whom is the mess manager at our reception venue).

So I called Lauren on Saturday afternoon and had a lovely chat in which she told me that she had actually booked her time off around the weekend of the 23rd, not the long weekend. Hurray!! And so, much to everyone’s relief, we are going to stick with May 23rd. But be warned, all, this is not really the long weekend! Please do feel free to make it a long weekend for yourself, but I can’t guarantee your employers will be on board.

Now my only question is, how have we been engaged for an entire year and just found this out now?

In other wedding news, the person we had hoped would DJ at our reception may or may not be in Europe next May. Not that I begrudge him that at all, but if anyone hears of a spectacular, yet reasonably priced DJ who is available the evening of May 23, 2009, we would be eternally grateful if you’d hook us up.