Beverley and I have booked a date and venue for our wedding! We’ll be getting married at 1pm on Saturday 13th June 2009 at Tredegarville Baptist Church. We’ve got a lot of planning to sort out, and it’ll be a while before we send invitations, but it’s great to have the time and place set so that we can move on to the next stage of planning.

When I told a friend from university about it, he said something like “Oh no, getting married, you’re turning into a responsible adult, Caleb!” I responded by pulling a funny face and saying “Oh, I’m not sure about all that!” in a joking tone. But thinking about it, it would have been better to respond with something like “Yes, that’s right – isn’t that great?”

In our culture we often see responsibility as a burden to be avoided rather than an opportunity to be embraced, and in a way that’s quite sad. I was given a book on my 21st birthday, The Pocket Guide to Adulthood. It’s got short chapters giving handy hints on everything from changing a tyre to job interviews to first dates. But the subtitle is “29 things to know before you hit 30” and the Introduction assumes a reader who is approaching 30. Since when did thirty years old become the start of adulthood?

A friend said that I was pretty young to be getting married and asked if I was worried about it. It’s a big step, and so naturally there are some nerves, and the wedding itself brings with it a lot of logistical challenges, but all said, I can’t wait. I love Beverley and so it’ll be great to start the rest of our lives together. But as well as that, why waste time loafing around when you can skip ahead and get married!?