That's me, a bums bum. While I wouldn't say I've been lazy over the past week or two, I'd say that I am avoiding wedding planning at all cost... and believe me, it's starting to haunt me...literally! I keep having dreams about the wedding, some go really well, others make me want to wake up and cry.
So, if I can't be openly productive, I might at least write about being openly productive!
I've started on my wedding bouquet. I've been painstakingly embroidering, hand-cut, felt flowers for the job. Blues and greens are embroidered on white flowers, and white is embroidered on the green leaves. Believe me, it's not walk in the park. In my next post I plan on giving a tutorial on Do-it-yourself felt flower bouquets. But, if you have a wedding in less than six months, and you plan this feat alone, then you are brave... unlike me who was just dumb and thought "Hey, I could do that!" Someone rescue me? Please?
I've also decided that I am wearing a hat to the wedding. A 1940's white felt crown cap hat, and attatching my great-grandmothers antique, silver thread, chiffon shawl as my veil. I plan on this being a smashing success, and everything will turn out wonderfully! ...And here's the sticky part. Sam and I decided that we would set a budget for the wedding for clothes. He and I would each have $400 to dress, both ourselves, and our respective party. My father payed for my dress, Sam payed for my shoes and under things for the gown, and his mother payed for the dress material for the girls. So, to be precise, Sam and I have only spent $142... But the grand total for my party adds up to $519. Do I bend the rules? I'm a very thrifty person, and I found ...not the hat, but close to it, for $19 (the hat was $145, and I'm just too cheap for that!). Besides, I've already spent (completely unknowingly) $119 over the budget... This matter is still up for debate. Whatever the matter, either I buy the $19 hat, or I use the blue trimmed straw hat of the same style and era that I picked up for $12 just a month ago. To say the least, I really like hats.
Other than that I've been staying home, occasionally going out to work on the house that Sam and I are moving into, once married; and daydreaming about things that I cannot afford for the wedding, due to the fact that Sam's paycheck seems to go just as fast as it comes, and my paycheck is non-existent, as is my job. But, school still exists, which is part of the reason I can't get a job, since my GED isn't finished, and no one in their right mind is going to hire someone who is both uneducated, and attempting to finish their education. It's official, GED, job, and more wedding money, and less wedding time. Why does this not seem like a solution?
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