My little brother is getting married!

He’s turning 50 next Friday. He’s had a number of relationships over the years but none have worked out until now. He more recently starting dating a woman who grew up around the corner from us. She’s a few years younger than us so I didn’t know here although I did know of her family. I suppose I may have met her when young too.

Anyway, she’s living in the house where she grew up and they started dating and got serious and announced their engagement a couple of weeks ago.

My first thought when I saw this is I hope they give enough advance notice so I can try to come to the wedding. As it is, the fiancé is organising a surprise birthday party for my brother, and I was invited. I think this may have been just before they got engaged. I was feeling a bit iffy about going…part of me wanted to go but then I didn’t go when my other brother turned 50 last year. Once the engagement came up my thought was I need to save one of my rare trips for their wedding so the birthday was definitely off the cards. But then I realised this will be her second wedding and maybe they won’t do anything special. Well, it turns out they are having something but it will be small but I am definitely invited. And it’s at the beginning of November so I now need to see if this can be done.