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Speaking of weddings, wedding costs can spiral quickly out of control if you let them. Here are 6 ways to rock your wedding without emptying your wallet!
Joint Expenses. I personally dislike the whole concept of a proposal. Especially how men are under substantial social pressure to spend 3 months worth of their income on a ring, hoping that it is her taste and that she’ll say “yes”.
No, thanks!
Chris and I made the decision to get married together and so we shared the cost of the wedding, as well as the cost of our rings. Why not start your wedding the way you hope to start your marriage; as a partnership! It is much easier to keep costs down if you are not spending ‘someone else’s money’.
If I had to do it all over again, I would have skipped the wedding and eloped instead!
It was important to me, however, that my friends and family take my marriage to Chris seriously. Here I was, fresh out of college, making the ultimate lifelong commitment! And while I wasn’t the first of my friends to get married, it was still highly unusual. But they needed to understand that he would be my husband and that meant something to me.
Plus our courtship period was laughably short. We were married 11 months from the day we met, and it was only the arduousness of planning that stupid wedding that kept us from getting married more quickly.
Michael Jackson was a hot mess.
He had issues stemming from his unusual childhood and early fame, as well as familial problems we can only imagine. Michael Jackson has never not been famous and it is no wonder that the eerie, ghost faced man we saw in his later years had little concept of reality.
His abnormal ideas of appropriate adult/child interaction, how to procreate and raise his own children, and even his own perception of what he looked like…all warped through the lens of fame that had been so entrenched in his life.
But when he danced?
It’s like he was suddenly electrified, radiant, fierce with precision and attitude and joy. On stage the shambling creature was purposeful art. On stage the strange and aggressive sexual expression accepted. On stage he was free.
Getting the Love Bungalow ready for our departure was no small test of my powers of organization. And cleaning. And ability to work as a team a la divide and conquer. (Did I mention cleaning?!)
It also gave me a golden opportunity to encourage Chris to go through and organize the hot mess he called his filing. We had a carpet paper picnic and watched Star Trek and laughed and laughed over his minuscule, bright orange volleyball shorts from his days as a junior olympian.
(Let’s just say the 80′s were not the best time for men’s sportswear.)
Apparently it was pretty prescient for me to have written a post on how to keep cool with no AC.
We’re heading into summertime in the south and Chris and I are staying in “The Loft”. The Loft actually has air conditioning but little insulation to keep it cool. At best we are enjoying “warm”…which happens to be loads better than “sweltering mid-day sun”.
The experiences of the last year have been rife with these little synchronicities.
We interrupt our regularly scheduled awesome to advise you that we are in transit to Tennessee. Through The Illusion will be back rocking the fabulous on Wednesday, June 24, 2009.
And because you can never have too much cute…
Photo by Clone of Snake
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