Nine and a half men

Dear Diary,
 It was now J's turn to pick his groomsmen. I knew it was going to be hard for him because, unlike me he has sooo many close friends. He agonized over it for weeks. One day he said to me he picked his groomsmen. I was excited to hear his choices and reasoning.
I only have six girls and he was stuck because in his head he thought it had to be even. I told him, "It doesn't have to be even. We have whoever we want and we make it work".
Once he got over that issue it became a bit easier for him. I told him to do the same thing as I did. Think about who is in your life today. Who are you close with? Who would you call to tell good and/or bad news to? I think that really helped as well.

The final tally was eight and a ring bearer. So we thought.

He has a close knit group of friends from childhood so that was a no brainer. He chose one as his Best Man and the others as his groomsmen. Then he added on his friends that he became close with from high school. J and I happen to go to the same high school and college so we had a lot of the same friends so it's like having 8 of my brothers in the wedding. There were two other guys I questioned him about since he didn't include them and he said he had to draw the line some where or we would have 20 guys. I agreed and supported his decision. We chose my 18 month old nephew as our ring bearer so that should be interesting.

Now that the line-up had been set J started asking the guys to be in our wedding and they were all very exited about it. Until one that he didn't include found out he wasn't in it and pretty much freaked! It was one of the guys I had mentioned to J about not including. He called me and asked me why he wasn't in it. I told him I had nothing to do with that decision and he had to talk to J about it. He said he would get his own tux and walk with flower girl! I was cracking up. he also said if there was any one wedding he had been waiting for all these years it was ours so what could  we do? I found the whole situation comical but I wasn't getting in the middle of it. People say girls are the catty ones but in this case the boys were in Groomzilla stage 4! haha
So J being the caring, pushover that he is told him he was in the wedding and apologized for not including him to begin with. And that is how we ended up at nine groomsmen. It's kind of our running joke now every time we see each other.

The girls have been chosen. The guys have been chosen but will everyone be there on the day of the wedding?
Stay tuned

My Dearest Diary,
 The Blushing Bride To Be