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I am at the stage of life where I’m caught in a joyful bottleneck of weddings. I don’t think there was a single month this year where I wasn’t attending at least one wedding or hen party somewhere in the country, and that’s before even attending my own — which is still yet to come.
It’s a great complaint to have. Life is an unknown quantity. We don’t know how long or happy it will be. It’s a privilege to spend a few short weekends over a few short years marinating in the infectious joy that comes with watching your friends get married. I would be loath to crib about the wax sealed envelopes filled with vellum and linen paper that are coming through my letterbox at a rate of knots. The only real drawback to being a willing passenger on this carousel of weddings is the cost that comes with it.
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