Wedding Season

In 2008, I attended 1 wedding.
In 2009, I attended 2 weddings.
This year, I've been invited to 6 weddings with another invitation possibly incoming!

I guess it's about that time in our lives. I love weddings as they also seem to double as a reunion of friends you haven't seen in a long time. Tragically however, I may only make it to 3 out of the 6. One was a destination wedding requiring a week-long Caribbean cruise that would've drained $1500 out of each of our bank accounts and decimated our yearly vacation days. The other two are 500 miles away and on Sundays. This would require us to take the following Monday off as travel days, which would not have been an issue had they been before June or closer to home/work...

But I start my residency training in June.

I do get 3 weeks of vacation a year, but apparently there are only 3 designated months during which I can take the said vacations. Which months end up being these so-called "vacation friendly" months depends on your rotation schedule, but apparently June and December are "no-vacation" months for every resident. (June for new resident orientation, December to cover for everyone else taking Christmas vacation)

This has been a major disappointment for me, as the 3 weddings I'll probably miss are ironically the weddings I was looking forward to the most. (No offense to the 3 weddings I'll actually be attending...)

But in the end, I'm still very thankful to all the friends who invited me to their weddings. (My own cousin didn't invite me to his wedding last year!!!) Whether I'll be in attendance or not, I hope your special day goes well and that I hope to see you all again soon!