It's done! We're done! You're done! I'm DONE!

I have learned over the four months since my engagement that there are TV shows all about weddings. I'd never seen any of these shows. In fact, I didn't even know that most of them existed (Say Yes to the Dress? My Fair Wedding? who knew?). Did you know that there's a whole TV show dedicated to... wait for it... wedding cake. I'm serious. To quote Steve Martin in Father of the Bride, "a cake is made of flour and water," but this is the stuff of a 30-minute show.

And yet again, I have this mocking tone when I talk about this stuff, as if I'm so far above it. Surely I would never get SO wrapped up in my wedding that I would have to watch TV shows about it (nevermind the magazines and websites and the many invitations to talk about it). But alas, since I got engaged, for some weird reason, I have started watching the trashiest of them all . . .

BRIDEZILLAS!

This show is just revolting. They found the brattiest, most horrible engaged women in the United States [what moron proposed to them?!] and put a camera in front of these women. These women are rude, ungrateful, and tacky. They completely disregard their budgets and cry a lot. They love to stick their bitchy hands in people's faces and announce, "I'm DONE!"

But . . .

I'm hooked. This trainwreck is just too awful to stop watching.

P.S. My wedding is one year from tomorrow!!

Yup, I'm Drinking Some Sugar-Free Kool-Aid

Not too much going on with the wedding planning the past few weeks, but I do have something I must share.

Since I got engaged and therefore started Googling bridal things and perusing The Knot, I have seen things change in my online ads. Thanks to Google and the cookies these sites are apparently dropping on my computer, I'm being told to:

a) buy lots and lots of wedding stuff! and
b) lose weight... fast!

(And, by the way, I don't seem to be seeing ads for online dating services anymore.)

Interesting, but not certainly not illogical.

As you all know by now, I expect to stick to my guns about not buying weird wedding crap or rationalizing blowing my budget because "I deserve it!" or "We're only doing this once!"
However, I must admit something. I'm owning up to giving in to something stereotypically bridal. I'm going to buy a scale (I threw mine out 9 years ago) and start losing some weight! (Sort of funny that I'm going to sign up for Weight Watchers in part because a COOKIE was dropped on my computer telling me that I should lose weight.)

There's something else I have to admit. Yesterday, I went for a quick run on the treadmill, and I didn't grab Us Weekly or Shape to cover up the time. I grabbed Town & Country Weddings. Yes, yes, I did. I flipped through pages of $10,000 gowns and blingy-bling rings and sterling silver ring boxes (hey grooms, if you really love her, get her one on Madison Avenue for just $250!) and descriptions of honeymoons that sounded too extravagent for Brangelina. Instead of Town & Country Weddings, that magazine should be called Wealthy & Budgetless Weddings.

Anyway, I guess if I'm going to drink some Wedding Kool-Aid (that would now be sugar-free!), eating better and exercising more isn't anything to be ashamed of (even if it is majorly cliche!!).