I'm About As Organized As Ran, I Guess? [closed post]

[summerdude]

"And then we realized Frigg was knitting with clouds. Actual factual clouds," Magnus says, passing another box that, as it turns out, holds nothing useful down to Galahad. He climbs up another rung on the little stepladder and starts in on the next shelf. "How many boxes of Legos do we have so far?" He knows it's certainly not enough for a bachelorette party yet, but surely there's something they can go on. He'd kind of tonight that this far after Dark, there would be... more? "Do you think we should find another room to look in? Maybe the game room isn't the best choice."

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[summerdude]

"I think it took him a minute to rally. Like maybe he didn't expect an invite."

[onthewillowsthere]

"Oh. But that's different. It's for me."

[summerdude]

"To any of it," Magnus clarifies. "He looked surprised you were getting married."

[onthewillowsthere]

"Were you surprised?"

[summerdude]

"I can't remember," Magnus admits. "I think I was mostly immediately excited for you guys."

[onthewillowsthere]

"Me too."

[summerdude]

Magnus tweaks his nose again, dislodging another cloud of dragonflies. "I'd hope Proposal Guy would be immediately excited."

[onthewillowsthere]

Galahad smiles, wrinkling his nose. Then he pauses. "Should I have a maid of honor?"

[summerdude]

"I thought that was me?" Aren't maids of honor and best men the same thing?

[onthewillowsthere]

"You're going to give me away because you're my family."

[summerdude]

"Oh," Magnus says, deeply pleased. "Those are different things?"

[onthewillowsthere]

"Yes. The person who gives away the bride is her family, but the maid of honor is supposed to be a woman from the groom's family."

[summerdude]

"I thought that Claudius was going to be the bride? Are you both gonna be brides?"

[onthewillowsthere]

"Claudius is both," calmly confident. "And I'm neither, but Lady Post doesn't say what to do for neither, and you're giving me a bachelorette party, so I've been choosing the bride things."

[summerdude]

Magnus considers this thoughtfully. A dragonfly lands on his nose, and he wrinkles it. "So you'd need to pick someone from Claudius's family to be your maid of honor?"

[onthewillowsthere]

Galahad nods, slowly, so as not to disturb his own shawl of dragonflies.

[summerdude]

"So that would be, like, Laertes or Hanguang-jun, right?"

[onthewillowsthere]

"Lan Wangji is already the best man. Is Laertes Claudius' family?"

[summerdude]

"Wait, so the maid of honor has to be from the groom's family but the best man doesn't have to be from the bride's family?"

[onthewillowsthere]

"No, the best man is someone who is important to the groom. It can be his brother or best friend."

[summerdude]

"Whoa," Magnus breathes. "That's so messed up. How come the bride has to populate her side with the groom's people but the groom doesn't have to do the same?" He blinks. "Is the wedding industry, like, sexist or something?" (Crucially, up until Galahad proposed to Claudius, the only wedding he'd thought he'd be involved with was Samirah and Amir's, and they'd been betrothed since before he met either of them, and they were following different traditions.)

[onthewillowsthere]

"We have chosen not to consider the question of the dowry," perfectly solemn.

[summerdude]

"The what?" Magnus asks, and then says, "Based on the, like, stuff I've seen, I'm pretty sure modern brides just pick their best friend to be the maid of honor."

[onthewillowsthere]

"Shen Yuan is my best friend after you. It should be him."

[summerdude]

"I bet he'd love to be your maid of honor," Magnus says. "Um, but I still get to plan the bachelorette, okay?" He pauses. "He can help if he really wants to. But it's mostly all sorted out... He can decide the snacks, maybe."