Should I move my wedding date up?

[The Witch]

I have no doubt that if we nuke Iran that we will get attacked in retaliation and it will probably be a nuclear attack of some sort. My wedding's not for a year. Should I move it up and get married as soon as possible so I don't die single?

(Only half-joking...) :cry:

[wtmusic]

1. Show us a picture of the groom-to-be and then we'll decide

full-joking :P

[The Witch]

2. it's not the guy in your sig--

isn't that good enough? ;-)

[wtmusic]

5. yechh

Not good enough. He has to be a solid citizen like you, or we're gonna take a vote to stop the wedding.

[gkhouston]

19. um, it's not that guy Crispini was talking about in the Lounge

the other day, is it? ;-)

[cassiepriam]

18. Or how about a pic of the engagement ring?

If we can't see a pic of hubby to be......

[Poll_Blind]

3. A ring means so little, True Love so much.

PB

[napi21]

4. Iran has no nukes to do that! A bigger concern should be

suicied bombers, car bombs, etc.

I think you should follow your heart on the wedding issue. Calous as it might sound, it doesn't matter if you move the wedding date or not. You'll still be single under syour scenario.

[serryjw]

11. Unfortunately, I agree

They probably have many suicide bombers in the country already. IF we bomb( regardless of whether its nukes) we will be attached again. Your scenerio could potentially be worse. Remember 3 years ago with
the snipers in DC/Virginia. Life just stopped. People didn't send their kids to school and were afraid to go to the gas station.

[JuniperLea]

15. The bigger fear is China and Russia siding with Iraq

When the Chimperor goes off on Iraq, it could very well mean WWIII, the final encounter.

Don't let the RW echo chamber fool you... Iraq does not have nukes, but W does. Therein is where the danger lies.

[soleft]

6. Actually we would probably get nuked first

I think the neocons need at least a dirty bomb going off somewhere in order to use their bunker buster. So - I hear Hawaii's nice for eloping.

[JuniperLea]

7. Oh, Witchiepoo!

I feel for you hon!

It might be a good way to get out of all the big wedding junk and have a romantic elopement... secret even, with a reception later... (I have a thing against big weddings... every one I've attended over the past 20 years has ended in divorce, while the folks who eloped are doing just fine. Maybe it's just me.)

My boyfriend lived in Seattle all of his life. We dated long distance for some time. I was at LAX to catch a plane for Seattle when we got the news about the war in Iraq. The following summer, he moved in with me down here in LA. We said, we didn't know how much time was left on the world's clock, but at least we'd spend the last of it together.


My advice: be together. Married or not, be together.


:hug:

[sui generis]

8. well I WOULD get started on the

hot monkey world's-going-to-end-tomorrow sex starting tonight though, and just keep practicing. You never know when you might actually be called upon to use those well honed skills, and the perk is even if the world doesn't end you will still have some memorable stories to gross your kids out with when they're all grown up.

:P

[The Witch]

10. good point. think my sister will mind if we do it at her passover seder?

:rofl: :rofl:

[VelmaD]

14. Heeee...I was talking to someone about that last night...

we're separated by distance. I was trying to get him to re-assure me that the world isn't about to end and he promised he'd warn me ahead of time so I could be in bed with him in North Carolina when it happens. Of course...that led to the same kind of joke about "oops...world didn't end...sorry...my bad". *snort*

[Dogmudgeon]

9. Marry when you want

I doubt that you would die if we nuked Iran. They still don't have nuclear weapons.

If, however, an attack on Iran provoked a coup in Pakistan by militants, then they would probably try to get some of their nuclear booty into the USA, England, and (almost certainly) Israel. Since we only inspect about 5% of the incoming containers, we'd have to hire a lot of inspectors or risk a nuke in NYC, Philly, Baltimore, New Orleans, San Francisco, or San Diego. (I live in Philly. Yes, it's a sobering prospect.)

In times of social chaos, however, being married could give you and your partner an extra legal zone of "protection" in situations like mandatory evacuations and re-settlements, disaster relief operations, and domestic military deployments.

I myself am single. I am no longer really upset about the prospect of dying single. But I AM distressed by the idea that I might die -- and much sooner than I'd prefer. It wouldn't be such a big deal at age 90 or 95, but I'm not even 50 yet.

--p!

[The Witch]

13. I live just outside DC and I work in DC.

So eyuh, I am really kinda hoping that we learn how to be diplomatic and soon.

[cynatnite]

12. A meteor could wipe the planet out tomorrow...

:shrug: It's life, ya' know.

We could all be roasted by this time tomorrow.

(half-joking, too) :hug:

[onenote]

16. or you or your fiance might get hit by a bus

or fall down the stairs or any of a zillion other things that probably are statistically far more likely to occur to you than dying in a nuclear attack in the next 12 months. So maybe you should get married tomorrow, get pregnant the next day, do every other thing that you want to do in your life immediately. Or maybe you can just go on living, recognizing that the amount of shit that's outside your control that can affect your life is essentially infinite, and you either can let it rule your life or you can live your life.

onenote

[Sinti]

17. YES! Elope right away -- no kidding. You could get hit by a bus tomorrow.

[pecwae]

20. Be together

whenever, wherever you can. Grab all the happiness that is possible now. Iran or not, your love is what matters.

[Renew Deal]

21. Why don't you ask this at the knot?

www.theknot.com

My FH and I are scared shitless of getting nuked on our big day. :nuke: What should I do? :cry:

:rofl: