It's not lying is it?

Once we started telling everyone our news, the questions started... "So, when's the big day?".

Almost immediately after the proposal, we'd started talking about how and when we would make it official. I'd always wanted to elope and Phil didn't want an elaborate event. We talked about many possibilities. A "small" wedding with just close friends... but where do you draw the line? A surprise wedding, where you invite everyone to an engagement party and just do it all then and there... but what if the people you really want to be there don't show up? Maybe eloping was the best solution...

Either way, we had to be prepared. We formulated a strategy for dealing with the big question - be as evasive as possible. Start spreading different stories so people get confused. Tell them that silly season is approaching and there's not much we can do at the moment. Neither Phil or I are very good at fibbing (we decided it wasn't actually lying) so we knew it was going to be VERY hard to keep this up for however long it was going to take us to get organised.