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i do
i love them a lot
i also love when planning them doesn't involve mom oversharing about her wedding to dads
or oversharing about the wedding night

also mom is approaching this like a tactician anticipating a 6mo siege...

[do not let on that you would not mind oversharing, minseok, do not]

okay
so you need to get out of the house

if it were possible yes
barring that i'm texting you and telling mom i'm hashing out details with you

which isn't entirely a lie since
this is OUR wedding not just MINE
and definitely not Mom's...

do you need an out
i can be an out
babe use a safeword i can get you away from your mom for an hour

this is the time mom and i agreed upon for planning
i'm not sure i can "red light" my way out of this

what did you have in mind?

i have not planned that far ahead babe
sorry to say
i guess you could say i am on my way up

are you actually that close
because mom's more likely to drag you into this
you know what we're debating right now?

what kind of paper to use for save the date cards
and what photographer to hire for the save the date card pictures
did you know we're working with an engagement photographer?
because apparently that's what People Do

i can get out of work early no problem, it's been slow as hell all day

wait
are you telling me
that's a real thing
babe
who doesn't use just regular card paper for cards

omg no you don't have to?
i mean i always love seeing you...

and yes it's a real thing
hang on

[Mia sends him a picture of ten different pieces of stationary set out. All different. All stylized differently. But some styles are repeated on different kinds of paper that are only subtly different.

The next picture is Mia's pouting face.]

[they look the same. granted, he is looking at a picture of them, on a phone screen. but it just looks like he is just staring at different styles... and a cute face]

i'll head out in half an hour then
somebody's got to leave or we'll be losing money on today

goddamn
just
pick the color you like babe
i'll agree on it
that one

is it going to lose you too much money to leave early...?

also i will but
also consider
a fairytale elopement
planned
by us

fancy dress up and running away to a quiet intimate wedding with just the two of us babe

i can make it up
don't worry

okay, but consider also
telling your sisters about that
and your dads
and how much you'd hate not having your dads

okay then yes
please rescue me
help me obaek won kenobi
you're my only hope

and fine
fine
you have a good point
what about a destination wedding instead
to cut down on guests and things

i know

is the destination my place
because barring winning the lotto i don't think i could afford tickets

that is a really good point
and a really good way to possibly put some sanity into this process

i'd rather have my sanity by the end of this process than a "dream" wedding and a mountain of debt

i mean all that matters is that it's you and me, right?
you and me and rings and vows...

and your dress and family and friends
doesn't have to break the bank

okay you rescue me
i'll tell mom we're going to reconvene when you and i have hammered out more details

hopefully by then we'll have figured out a way to tell mom to chill out about everything.......

but if we can't
and we can't get dads to stop her from trying to steamroll everything
i want elopement still in the cards okay?

understood
let the girl choose her own wedding

let the girl AND boy
i mean
you DO want a say, don't you?

well sure
i'd look dumb in neon green with an orange tie
but you've been thinking about this since you were little so i figure you have a few more ideas to toss around

true...
it's so much easier when you're small and have infinite barbies to work with

but i promise
no neon green and orange tie
neon blue and pink is so much better :>

and also none of the barbies fight your choices
or use the mom voice

i should not have given you that idea

when mom wasn't animating anyway

also i'm teasing ofc
no neon
but there could be navy blue with very light pink accents
it looks better than it sounds i swear

is that still the mom voice
or just mom's voice

see that's cool
beats jeans and a tee in vegas

once it was The Mom voice
freaky as hell

who says it would have been jeans and a tee in vegas?
vegas can still be fancy af