In looking over the first few posts, the cart is very much in front of the horse and I have some explaining to do for coherence's sake.
MOVING: I'm moving out of my cute duplex back to my parents' house. I was fed up with the weasely landlord's attempts to wring more money out of his tenants while we (mostly me, justice-seeking rabble-rouser that I am) had to fight to get plumbing and electrical code violations repaired.
Want horror stories? I got a million of 'em. My favorite tale of spectacular neglect: a backdoor awning that came tumbling down one month after I showed Matthew it was pulling away from the roof. His crackerjack Persian homeboys built the awning around a utility line, so it didn't fall all the way down but dangled two feet off the ground from the strained line and blocked the back door. I took pictures. I started calling him at 5:30 am and it was gone by the time I got back from a lunch date on the west side.
Anyway, my parents were willing to have me move in and house sit while they're re-roofing their retirement home this spring. I am happy to keep my hard-won earnings in my own pocket; it will go a long way toward paying for the wedding. I probably owe Matthew a thank you; I'm coming out way ahead.
WEDDING: I'm getting married this summer. I have not been envisioning the wedding since age 7, so I'm starting from scratch and it's a lot of work! The tentative/likely date is July 22, but I haven't done much else because of the move. (That's not true: I pinched a copy of Town & Country's wedding edition from the restroom at work; since I'm not speding the equivalent of a developing country's GNP, it wasn't worth the trouble). I'm wearing my mother's wedding dress and we have a venue. Trying to pick colors and bridesmaids' dresses that aren't hideous. Trying NOT to get sucked into the wedding industry's idea of what I must have. Foo.
ANNIVERSARY: My parents' 50th wedding anniversary is in March and I'm planning a fete with close family and friends. Not sure how much or if my brother will help. I can look at it as a trial run for the wedding planning--what works, what doesn't work.
HIGH SCHOOL REUNION: The 10-year reunion was expensive, blah and a long drive from where we actually went to high school. And there were a lot of people who weren't invited to the 10th even though they/their parents lived at the same address. I'd like to cast a wider net and include as much of our class as we can track down--not just the 15 popular/athletic/beautiful people who peaked in high school and have stayed in touch with each other.
I've heard from a few clasmates who want to make a reunion happen. Thankfully, we won't have to work hard to make the 20 year reunion better than the 10th. Still, most interested parties are out-of-state, and by the time fall 2006 rolls around, I will have moved out of the area, too. Maybe we'll just hire a reunion-planning company and let them do the heavy lifting.
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ME - resist the pull of the wedding demons. I LOVED my little Thai barbecue outdoors-in-the-canyon wedding with my off-the-rack white linen dress from Marshall Fields, and lovely multi-colored flowers. The food was sooo good (partially catered, partially home-done by my family, all delish) and it was nice to just have about 50-ish people there. It was the most fun! I didn't follow any of the proper wedding rules, but I certainly dug the end result. The whole thing including invites, thank you notes, flowers, cake, etc., came to less than $6000. Good times!
I LOVED your wedding! Was the most fun one I'd been to in a long time. Plus it was fun to be there for the prep work and hang out with everyone who was there to help out.
I'm nixing favors and save the date cards (abbreviated STDs on the craiglist wedding forum--makes me think of high school health class). And I don't want to fatigue guests by having a dozen parties/events before the wedding.
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