A Man With a Plan
Roger Kure had the perfect idea for a wedding celebration: a pig roast and camp out. He was overruled. Learn his thoughts on being a groom-to-be in the wedding planning process.
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.”
At the end of the day, I like to think that I wear the pants in our relationship, even when it comes to the many decisions in wedding planning. But truth be told, the only victory I’ve had in my verbal sparring matches with Jenna is that simply everything in the wedding can’t be pink. But I am proud to say that I was the one who selected the square cake pattern with medium-sized spacers… whatever that means.
Jenna throws me a bone everyone now and then to let me think that I still have those pants on, but her ploy obviously isn’t working (since I recognize her tactics). Unfortunately, I couldn’t sway her from adding peacock feathers (correction by Jenna: ostrich feathers) and a jumble of other decorative additions to the cake.
The thing is, my idea of an ideal wedding sticks to the basics: food, family, friends, a little bit of alcohol and BYOT (bring your own tent). Add a live band for a splash of entertainment, and roast a gigantic pig and you’ve got one awesome, reasonably priced celebration. I’d even allow Jenna to dress it up with “decorative additions” and whatever that may encompass. But as you can imagine, I was cut off from any important decisions the moment I shared this revolutionary idea with Jenna. Except the shape of the cake. That was all me.
Roger Kure
