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Wedding Blues -
You’re Not the Only One!

You go out to your mailbox, praying for not another stack of credit card bill and there you see it, that cream colored envelope and written in calligraphy is your name in bright shiny black letters.  A sudden shudder runs through your bones.  Wedding season is back and has snuck up on you like those extra 5 pounds you can’t account for. Another invite, another wedding, another night of flying solo.

Now don’t get me wrong, you are a strong, successful, beautiful women of the world, but yet that all seems to fly out the window when the words “single” and “wedding” appear magically in your head.  First, there is the every happy moment of sending in your response card with just your name scribbled in, not Mrs. Brad Pitt.  Hey, this isn’t that bad, after all the groomsmen could be cute?  So you snap into reality and remember you worth and break out the credit cards.  You might be single but you are far from spinster!

The day arrives, all is at peace, until you glance around and see all the couples, ogling at each other as the happy couple exchanges their vows.  Stay cool; you tell yourself, one day it will be you.  So they sit you at a table surrounded by the glisten of ring fingers and the sugar coated love stories, giving you a bit of a twitch. 

You start to think of your happy place (Mrs. Pitt) as the mother of the bride glides towards you with a huge grin on her face, and a complete stranger on her arm.  You want to run into the bathroom because what is about to take place is going to be painful.  Your single, he’s single, you’re a match made in somewhere?  Why is it that just because you are unattached that every other unattached male figure is “the one”?

Deep breath – it’s almost over.  The cake is cut, toasts have been toasted, and you’re in the home stretch.  And then you hear it, and you begin to be nudged.  What is going on?  You finally come to your senses only to find yourself on a dance floor surrounded by determined faces.  As the flowers fall to the ground in slow motion, they seem to be headed straight for you.  Here is the lightning round, hands in the air or duck out of sight? You catch the golden ticket to happiness and leave the reception with hope in your heart and the $50 that was tied to the bouquet. 

Sure, being the “single girl” at a wedding isn’t always the easiest, but God has given us a hope in our heart that one day it will be our turn.  He has our real Brad Pitt close in his hands.  Until then sit back and wait patiently for that day to come…or for the next invite in the mail.

By Bree Reiber

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