So my oldest daughter Dana is getting married. I must admit, I saw this coming the first time I met James. In fact, I believe I told some of my friends that he scared me precisely because I felt like he could be "the one". Mother's intuition at work, I guess. They came to us a few weeks ago and said they were planning to get married, and the first date they chose was September 25, 2010, which would be the 2nd anniversary of their first date (or meeting, or something). Then James decided to join the military and after some missteps, took his Army physical and got his date to leave for basic training. The wedding date got moved up to the end of June, then to sometime in April. Monday he went to talk to his recruiter about it and was advised to go ahead and get married before he leaves for basic training, which is February 10, so that the Army will have time to get Dana into the system and she can move with him when he's stationed. So now we have a wedding date of January 23, 2010.
When all this wedding talk started, they wanted to get married in Knoxville, which is where Dana was born and most of our family still lives. James' family is from Cincinnati and Knoxville seemed logical because it was in the middle of South Carolina and Ohio. Except that, as it turns out (and I warned them), it's not easy to plan a wedding long distance. First you need a location. Dana requested some information from her MeMe's church about getting married there and it promptly changed her mind. The cost and requirements were just too much. Back to square one. After a brief flirtation with the idea of a Charleston wedding, the happy couple has come to their senses and decided to get married right here in the church we all attend, by the pastor who knows them best.
Before the date was even set in stone, Dana and I were planning ahead. Our family doesn't have a lot of money to put toward a fancy wedding, and luckily they only want a simple one anyway. We were at Goodwill last Friday and Dana commented that she might just look for a dress at Goodwill and have it altered to suit her, so I suggested she look at the ones on the rack. The sign on the door said that all the blue ticket merchandise was $1 and we actually found a dress with a blue ticket. We looked it over and I told Dana to go try it on and see how close it came to fitting her, and we could ask the clerk if it was really only $1. On the way to the dressing room, we did ask the cashier and she said if it had a blue ticket it was $1. Dana said she didn't care if it fit or not, we could make it work for that price, and so as the MOB (mother of the bride) I proudly bought her wedding dress. For 1 whole dollar. We took it home and she tried it on - it fits! It needs to have the sleeves removed and be cleaned, and a friend of Jon's has offered to do that for free. We may just end up having the least expensive wedding in history!
We had already bought invitations ($18 for 96 on clearance at Michael's) and will print them on our computer at home. Today I bought a pack of index cards to keep up with the guest list and replies.
My expenditures so far: $20 ($1 for the dress, $18 for the invites and $1 for the index cards).
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