We headed back down the aisle to Tech Triumph. We gathered up some folks and started the family portraits. With Pastor Cook With all of my relations With my mama’s side of the family With my dad’s side of the family With my immediate family With my parents With Mac’s parents and grandparents Mac’s immediate…
After our processional, Pastor Cook welcomed our guests and began our ceremony with an invocation. Pastor Cook: Who gives this woman to be married?Daddy: I do. Pastor Cook gave a short homily that involved a story of him growing up on a farm in Minnesota. Probably 85% of his sermons include this farm. Our first…
Now that the honeymoon is over and the thank yous have been mailed, it’s time to calculate how much this bitch cost. Weddings are expensive, duh, and ours wasn’t totally an exception to that rule. According to www.costofwedding.com, a wedding in the Fayetteville area should cost around $28,000. I had all sorts of commentary in…
I wrote most of our thank you notes the week after the honeymoon. I still have a few stragglers from gifts received after the wedding (like a wine.com gift card, yippee!). As I mentioned before, we received a fair number of gifts from our registry. Some of our family surprised us with some impressive homemade…
As I discussed here, we decided to do our own flowers. Our Fifty Flowers order arrived the Wednesday before the wedding and a customer service rep called within an hour to verify 1) we received the correct flowers and 2) the flowers were in good condition. All was well, and I filled up some containers in our…
Jane at Taingamala (a fellow Alpha Gam!) just posted about going on a business trip after her hubby returned from deployment. It really it home with me because Mac has been gone for the past three weeks. The year that Mac was deployed, I adjusted to being alone. I created routines that helped me deal…