Wedding Blog - Big Day minus 196
Posted: Sun Jan 27, 2008 5:09 pm
Paying for the wedding. Ah, yes. This is going to cost us. An all-inclusive us, as BD and FSIL will be picking up some of the tab. GW and I have set a limit to our monetary input, which we will try not to exceed. The Idiot's Guide to being the FotB (hereafter to be called "the IG") says that it's next to impossible not to exceed your budget. The IG also gives an average cost, and then proceeds to tell you that it's difficult to go under it. Someone must. Otherwise, how do you get an average? Meanwhile, I should have befriended a photographer along the way. Wedding albums are amazingly expensive. We are seriously considering handing our camera to one of my cousins (who has been looking at it covetously at every family affair), and letting him play with it for the candids.
Anyway, you will be seeing on eBay a steady stream of my collected comic books, sports memorabilia (anyone want a 1967 Boston Patriots Yearbook?), Laugh-In magazines, National Lampoons, etc. Look for blacklab44. Any profits will go into the wedding fund. I've been meaning to sell them in any case, but it feels quite strange, nonetheless. Some of the earlier items were purchased new, when I was eleven years old. Now I'm selling them to help pay for the wedding of my grown daughter. If someone had come up to me and told me that back then, I'd probably have run away, screaming for my mother. Of course, if someone had told me that when I sold them, I'd be auctioning them myself via a computer sitting on my desk that was hooked up to the same wiring as my television, I'd have probably done the same thing. It would have been only slightly more credible.
Illness has befallen us. BD yesterday, now GW is feeling nauseous. Both plan to stay home tomorrow. I am well, for the present. MIL also slipped on the ice last weekend and broke her shoulder. Better than a hip, at her age, but she's in a rehab center for a few weeks. BIL is looking after her interests, as he usually does. What would you do without family in the area? I shudder to think about it.
Anyway, you will be seeing on eBay a steady stream of my collected comic books, sports memorabilia (anyone want a 1967 Boston Patriots Yearbook?), Laugh-In magazines, National Lampoons, etc. Look for blacklab44. Any profits will go into the wedding fund. I've been meaning to sell them in any case, but it feels quite strange, nonetheless. Some of the earlier items were purchased new, when I was eleven years old. Now I'm selling them to help pay for the wedding of my grown daughter. If someone had come up to me and told me that back then, I'd probably have run away, screaming for my mother. Of course, if someone had told me that when I sold them, I'd be auctioning them myself via a computer sitting on my desk that was hooked up to the same wiring as my television, I'd have probably done the same thing. It would have been only slightly more credible.
Illness has befallen us. BD yesterday, now GW is feeling nauseous. Both plan to stay home tomorrow. I am well, for the present. MIL also slipped on the ice last weekend and broke her shoulder. Better than a hip, at her age, but she's in a rehab center for a few weeks. BIL is looking after her interests, as he usually does. What would you do without family in the area? I shudder to think about it.