Recently I have decided to go tea total for a while, as after some heavy weekends I felt it was time to detox. Well my fiances family are quite big drinkers and encourage me to drink with them especially planning the wedding. My abstinence has cnvinced my mother in law to be that I am pregnant and she doesn’t believe me when I protest.

It has made me think a lot about the old fashioned shot gun weddings, it used to be that couples would refrain from… erm… coupling until the wedding night. Therefore if a woman were to get pregnant the pair would be forced to get hitched, the father traditionally forced down the aisle with a shotgun to his head.

Noadays this is not so much of an issue as it is more and more common for people to have children out of wedlock. Although I think I’ll wait till I’m married before we start thinking about starting a family as my Grandmother is quite traditional and I wouldn’t be surprised if she had a shot gun hidden somewhere.