Starting Over from Scratch January 20, 2009

Ahh, wedding…

For a few weeks, the word “wedding” was equivalent to some of the nastier 4-letter words floating about the english language.  Fortunately, things have calmed down some. 

My mom and I got into quite the fight last week… she said some awful things that never should have been said, and I don’t really care to dwell on it beyond that.  She apologized, and believe me when I tell you that I don’t believe my mother has ever apologized before.

The fight with my mom came on the eve of Val’s parents offering to help with wedding costs, which essentially enables us to have a much nicer, much easier wedding than we’d originally envisioned.  Their suggestion was that we look into the location where Val’s sister was married two years ago.  It was both beautiful and affordable, so we jumped on the phone to find out about availability.  They didn’t have our July date, but they did have August 22nd.  

We were excited.  I was ecstatic.  It would be more the dream wedding day and less the mountain of stress that our original wedding plan had been shaping up to be.

And then Val’s sister called to say that she didn’t really want us having our wedding at the same location as her during the same time of year.  

You can probably imagine how well that went over with this redhead.  (Not so well.)

But in the end, it is all working out for the best.  We’ve visited 3 potential wedding locations so far, and we’ll visit two more tomorrow.  We decided to give ourselves some extra time, and so our July wedding that became an August wedding is now actually an October wedding.  Summer plans have all been tossed in favor of a whole new look and feel for Fall.  The wedding will be October 3rd or October 10th, depending on which location we choose.  Regardless of that, we will leave for our 7-night cruise of the Mexican Riviera on October 11th.

And so the wedding insanity has begin again.  Starting over has its benefits, though.  Somehow, looking at cakes this time around seems so much more real.

Our new colors are scarlet red, chocolate brown and ivory.  We have a total of 4 bridesmaids, one matron of honor, one man of honor and two ushers.  Two fathers to walk two brides down the aisle.  Two father daughter dances.  Two brides for one bridal dressing room.  

Hang in there, folks.  This is gonna get interesting.