please dont mispronounce my name

K and I met with the priest today for last minute questions and finalizing of plans before the wedding.

I brought up the subject gently: a lot of people have trouble pronouncing my name, Kirstin is pronounced Keer-stin. Kir sounds like ear.

He hasnt said my name before really, and I knew he would have trouble with it, and sure enough, there was Kristin, and Curse-tin, and over and over again I pronounced it for him slowly, carefully, tugging on my ear as I said Kir, and trying to help him learn it. Not a curse, my name is Kir like ear.

At my graduation from college, despite being one of the students coaching the announcer on the proper pronunciation of my name repeatedly, he messed it up and said Curse-tin. I stopped in midstride, unsure of what to do, here I was graduating and finally getting my college degree, and he mispronounced my name. sigh.

if there is one time in which I really dearly want my name pronounced properly, it is at my wedding.

my name is beautiful.

I deal with people mispronouncing my name literally every day of my life. I always deal with this. If there is one day in which I want it pronounced right, it is during my wedding ceremony.

so let me say I was more than a little disappointed, after repeating it to the priest and emphasizing the pronunciation and everything, that he said it wrong again. then I tried to correct him, and he said it was just a joke.

K did a nervous laugh to sort of acknowledge the joke, but I just sat there stunned.

how would that ever be funny to me?

are you kidding?

every single day of my life I’ve got people mispronouncing my name, why would this be funny? especially when you havent bothered to say it correctly enough to really assure me that you understand how to pronounce my name right? and that you will be capable of pronouncing it correctly on my wedding day?

I am sorry for yet another rant, but I’m so deeply upset about this. I was already concerned, and then the fact that he would tell me he was joking and doing it on purpose that one time when he still hadnt said my name right, I am irked.

I just want him to say my name right during the wedding ceremony. everyone there will know I am irked if he does not. everyone who knows me knows I hate to have my name mispronounced. I try so hard to be patient with people, to teach them the right pronunciation, and anything that will help them pronounce it right.

I just want my name said right on my wedding day.

at least I know K will pronounce it right, and his voice is the one I want to hear saying my name more than anything.