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dream time: wedding edition
Sep. 1st, 2011 09:47 amI had the absolute most bizarre dream last night. I often have dreams that aren't quite what you'd call a nightmare - like being chased by monsters or stuff like that - but I do often have ones that are bizarre and disturbing, so that I end up waking up totally creeped out. Once in a blue moon I'll even have one that sets off an anxiety attack, but that hasn't happened in quite a long time.
Last night I dreamed about the wedding. But it was really really weird. We were in some sort of auditorium, not the nice little hall we're planning on. I was wearing white (which I'm not planning to do), and Ian looked like more of a cross between himself and my first long-term boyfriend, Greg. And for a good chunk of the wedding, almost all of the lights were out in the auditorium.
The part of the dream that weirded me out the most was the actual ceremony. The person doing it looked like a native guy (and not that I'd have any problem with a native marriage commissioner, but there are no native marriage commissioners in New West, and I'm hoping to have a female marriage commissioner do our ceremony), and within a few words of starting the ceremony, it was filled with Christian theology and stuff. Considering I'm pagan and Ian is a staunch atheist, this horrified dream-me. But for some reason I didn't say anything because I didn't want to cause a fuss.
Then something else interrupted the ceremony (I don't remember what), and I took that opportunity to bring up the content of the ceremony with the officiant, who got all weirded out that I wouldn't let him just say whatever he wanted, even though we had supposedly discussed the ceremony beforehand. I told him fine then, we'll wing it with our vows, then you can say the absolute minimum necessary to make the marriage official, and that's it.
And at that point I woke up. I didn't even get to hear what dream-me came up with as vows! It was absolutely bizarre.
In reality, Ian and I will be writing our ceremony ourselves, and I can't see having any problem with any of it. I plan to screen our potential officiant heavily to make sure their beliefs line up with ours. If I can't find one who doesn't have a problem with our beliefs, then we'll get married beforehand in private to make it legal and then have someone else do the public ceremony.
Last night I dreamed about the wedding. But it was really really weird. We were in some sort of auditorium, not the nice little hall we're planning on. I was wearing white (which I'm not planning to do), and Ian looked like more of a cross between himself and my first long-term boyfriend, Greg. And for a good chunk of the wedding, almost all of the lights were out in the auditorium.
The part of the dream that weirded me out the most was the actual ceremony. The person doing it looked like a native guy (and not that I'd have any problem with a native marriage commissioner, but there are no native marriage commissioners in New West, and I'm hoping to have a female marriage commissioner do our ceremony), and within a few words of starting the ceremony, it was filled with Christian theology and stuff. Considering I'm pagan and Ian is a staunch atheist, this horrified dream-me. But for some reason I didn't say anything because I didn't want to cause a fuss.
Then something else interrupted the ceremony (I don't remember what), and I took that opportunity to bring up the content of the ceremony with the officiant, who got all weirded out that I wouldn't let him just say whatever he wanted, even though we had supposedly discussed the ceremony beforehand. I told him fine then, we'll wing it with our vows, then you can say the absolute minimum necessary to make the marriage official, and that's it.
And at that point I woke up. I didn't even get to hear what dream-me came up with as vows! It was absolutely bizarre.
In reality, Ian and I will be writing our ceremony ourselves, and I can't see having any problem with any of it. I plan to screen our potential officiant heavily to make sure their beliefs line up with ours. If I can't find one who doesn't have a problem with our beliefs, then we'll get married beforehand in private to make it legal and then have someone else do the public ceremony.