A Tasteful First Date
Ask any bride-to-be about her wedding plans and she could probably tell you every detail. But what’s it like to be the day’s other shining star? 26-year-old Roger Kure is marrying the love of his life in August 2010. He agreed to share his experiences of wedding planning from a guy’s perspective, sharing every big decision from now until his says “I do.”
I was taking Jenna to dinner for our first date. We were running pretty late compared to a “normal” dinnertime. At the time, I was a full-time graduate student and class didn’t get out until 8:45 p.m. But the simple dinner outing had now became a two-tiered problem: 1. How do I make a good first impression? and 2. How do I eat my normal mass volume of food while still accomplishing the first objective? It was a catch 22, unless we visited the Olive Garden and I ate three helpings of salad and a handful of breadsticks. For whatever reason, dates expect you to eat a lot when visiting this venue. So the Olive Garden it was.
It turned out to be a fairly normal first date. Both Jenna and I had a lot of questions and we were both a little nervous to answer them the “right” way. All in all, I don’t remember a lot of the conversation that took place that night, but I will never forget the silence that was mutually allotted while we stuffed our faces for ten minutes after the waitress put our main dishes on the table.
It might sound slightly primitive, but when I’m hungry I put on the blinders and I eat. Period. Which is why I found the situation to be so strange… I was the one who acknowledged the eerie silence outside of slurping drinks and chomping food. As a matter of fact, I recall acknowledging the silence by asking Jenna “Do you realize we haven’t spoken to each other in ten minutes?” Her response was simply, “Is that a problem?”
Back to figures of speeches… I then broke out my fishing net to secure the catch.
Roger Kure
