Wedding Memories and Why My Aunts Stopped Feuding

For several years my aunts had been feuding with one another. What actually started the misunderstanding, finally ended in a misunderstanding. While I won't go into detail of the exact reason my aunts were feuding, I can tell you, it started tearing the rest of the family a part as well.

Well, on the day of my wedding come hell or high water I decided to invite both of my aunts. The cards were stacked against me and my family constantly reminded me that they might not show up. To my amazement and surprise, they both showed. And neither of them argued with one another the entire time. As a matter of fact they started talking to one another again!

I was so relieved that I told them so. It was then that I learned about the misunderstanding and that I hadn't been the only one trying to get them to talk to each other again. My Aunt C's husband had been doing th exact same thing!

It's wonderful to see that my aunts are talking again and it all started with my wedding. What a wonderful memory!

Weddings and memories are both precious. I remember when I first started looking at all of the different invitations available for weddings. There were sooo many to choose from! At that time going online to look at wedding invitations actually scared me. What happened if I ordered them and they ended up looking like something totally different than I had imagined? I seriously doubt most places would have allowed a full refund of my purchase just because my wedding invitation wasn't exactly how I pictured it to be. So end the end there would have been more frustration than anything.

Planning your wedding should not be about frustration or fear, however. And to make things a little easier I found an invitation website that is doing something about that fear. 1st Class Wedding Invitations has a very unique feature that I have not found anywhere else.

When you go to their website and find a wedding invitation you like, you can zoom over that invitation and see it close up. It's like look at the invitation right in front of you. I love it! My favorite happens to be the Modern Leaf Invitation. Check it out! I really wish this feature would have been available when I got married! Instead I chose to create my own invitations. Which was just as nice, by the way.

A Weekend Gone WILD!!!

Well, not really... but it felt that way!

I started out wondering why my period was sooo out of whack. Never found the true answer, so I'm guessing it's from stress. On top of the period however, I seem to have gained a nasty little cold. My fiance and I thought it was the flu at first, but it turned out to just be a simple cold.

Friday, I received a surprise phone call from my kids. They were excited about the birthday cards I had sent them and thanked me for them. It was great to be able to talk to my kids even if it was for only a few minutes!

Saturday was really a lazy day, but we managed to make it to the grocery store, my soon-to-be brother-in-law's house to pick up a pool pump and play a game of heroscape. Originally my fiance was suppose to play paintball with his brother, but it rained and it was going to cost way too much to rent the paintball stuff. Soo hopefully he can reschedule a game of paintball with his brother again soon.

Sunday we went to a family reunion. At first my fiance didn't really want to go, but after I begged and pleaded with him, he finally gave in. The reunion started out a little awkward for both of us. Neither of us really knew anyone (distant relatives I hadn't seen in years), but by the end of the evening my fiance seemed to be enjoying himself.

After the reunion we stopped by my aunt's house to pick up some plants that she had for me. I thought we would stay longer than we did, but I should have known better when it comes to my father... Back up.. Reverse... To make a long story short we drove down to the reunion with my parents because my fiance's truck has been giving us a lot of problems lately.

Soo anyway, our visit with my aunt was about 20 minutes or so and then my dad's desperate, if not down right rude attempt at leaving, was made known. His reason behind it? My uncle showed up to visit. Another long story, but my dad doesn't get along with most of my mom's family and especially not with my uncle. And when I say get along, I don't mean fights or anything like that. I just mean, my dad chooses not to get along with him. You'd really have to know my dad to understand I guess.

So after our fast getaway from my aunt's, all the way back (a 30 minute drive) home, I heard this and that about my uncle. It got tiring after about the third repeat of the same negative thing and I finally stuck up for my uncle, which stopped my dad dead in his tracks and we had peace and quiet the rest of the ride home. I often wonder why my mother doesn't say anything to him, when he degrades her family like he did that day. Funny however, she did agree with me out loud when I stuck up for my uncle. She just doesn't voice her opinion on her own. Sigh..

Soo that was pretty much my weekend... As for Memorial Day?? Well that's a whole other post on it's own!