If you have any semblance left of any feelings that I’m not completely lame, I wish you would stop reading here…
Мой жених (my fiancé) and I have decided to pretend get married in May of 2014. I don’t know how to say “pretend fiancé” in Russian yet (I’m sure this is not a common expression in Russia!). 2013 won’t work because it has “13” in it which is unlucky and 2012 won’t work because it is a leap year and that is unlucky also. It seems like many Russians are very superstitious. Either that or he wants to put off the pretend marriage as long as possible!
The budget will be unlimited because it’s a pretend wedding. Just let me know if you would like to be invited and I will add you to the guest list, haha. Location of pretend wedding? Not yet decided. Милый мой (my dear) suggested that we get married in a mosque (He’s so silly) and I suggested the beach. We have agreed that I will stay home and clean (sigh) and cook (I’ll have to learn) and kiss him on the cheek every night when he gets home from work (such a good wifey!). I might be glad to be at home to avoid the cold out in Moscow! I suppose later I will have to pop out a few babies. For a boy’s name I like Илья (Elijah) and for a girl’s name I like Наталья (Natalie), though Солнышко моё (my sunshine) thinks it’s too early to think of baby names.
But I haven’t done much planning beyond picking this dress:
I have plenty of time since the pretend wedding is over two years from now and my Russian will probably run away to Malaysia before then! Машенька (That’s me!) will be very sad!
I will keep you updated though I’m sure you don’t care, haha! (Should I just change the name of this blog to my online adventures??)
If you want to go full-on nerd about it, you could always plan to stage it in an MMO and script out an elaborate objection drama and mini-online war like I saw someone do a while back (which could be funny/sad depending on how you feel about that kind of thing).
ReplyDeleteI'm not sure my Russian would go for that... haha
DeleteThey've got one that is supposedly really popular over there that involves WWII-era tanks that he might get a kick out of.
DeleteHere comes the bride: http://i1209.photobucket.com/albums/cc400/WladimirAndrei/WoTForum/17771978144f057cdf3ba31.gif
I'm so impressed by your Russian skills! Well, actually your Swedish too (I'm a Russian now living in Sweden). It's all so correct and it seems as if you've actually learned it instead of just autotranslating with google translate. It's warms my little Russian heart :)
ReplyDeleteI suggest you feed your pretend guests some caviar (other Russian dishes take forever to cook),decorate with a lot of gold (the budget is unlimited, go nuts!), and enroll in some pretend martial arts class since friendly wedding fights tend to occur...
The closest thing to a pretend-fiancé would be выдуманный жених (made up fiancé).
I'm looking forward to some updates on this!
I'm picking up on Russian very slowly! I'm still working on the alphabet and a lot of the rules are confusing! My выдуманный жених helps me! :-)
DeleteThank you for the tips on Russian cooking and on Russian weddings!! :-)
I would love to be invited! Since the budget is unlimited, I assume you will take care of my airfare and lodging and food and spending money. The dress is gorgeous and will look amazing on you!
ReplyDeleteOf course you are invited! Your mom too! You'll have to be a bit patient because it's over 2 years from now! But since the budget is unlimited, we will take care of all expenses, as soon as I can iron out some of the details!
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