Seems I can't get my head around anything anymore these days. Could it possibly the thousands of things that are swimming in my head already? Hmm...
Anyway, I swear I want to be good at this....
About a week ago, I got this great idea that A and I should renew our wedding vows while in vacation in Hilton Head. Took a little convincing to get A to go along with this. I'm not sure why. Who wouldn't want to marry me again? :) There are few reasons I thought this was a great idea. First and foremost is that, I want to renew my commitment to my husband and family. Lately, A and I have been nit picking at each other. It's really easy in day to day living to forget to appreciate your spouse and remember the attributes that you married them for in the first place. A little romance never hurts!! The second reason is, it's our ten year anniversary this year. In the old days, ten years was no big deal, but with divorce rates sky rocketing, ten years is a big deal. I barely know anyone my age that has made it this long. There are only a few couples. I think this is something to celebrate! We tend to think of our anniversary as just another day (with A's work schedule, we rarely get to celebrate). We deserve something to feel good about and our anniversary and vow renewal is perfect! This is a great year to do something like this, not only because it's our ten year anniversary, but because literally almost our whole family is going to be in Hilton Head with us. Perfect timing!! Finally, we originally wanted to get married on the beach, but opted for a normal wedding so all of our family and friends could come celebrate with us. This is a perfect chance to have a beach "wedding"! A didn't want to spend too much $$ on this shindig and I'm OK with that. My only concern was finding a decent priced dress. I went online and looked a few dresses that I kind of liked and they were all around $80-100 (when did clothes get SO expensive??) My mom and I went to the mall and poked around. I tried on maybe six dresses and found one I really liked. It's a simple white sun dress. It was on clearance for $67. I figured that was better than what I was expecting. I went up to pay for it and it rang up $21!!!! I almost started crying. What a perfect start!
I was thinking it would nice to carry a small bouquet, but didn't really want real flowers. My mom found a great tutorial for beaded flowers using seed beads. This project couldn't be more perfect for a jewelry making fiend like me! Currently we have 15 or so flowers and a few leaves made!! They really are beautiful! And similar bouquets online sell for $300+! I am on a roll here. I asked my sis-in-law, a budding photographer, to take photos for us and my other sister-in-law's father to "officiate". All we need to do is get a white button down shirt for A. L already has his white shirt and khaki shirt, so he's all ready! I am really excited about this and truly hope A is as well!
PS- I'll post pics soon of the bouquet. It truly is beautiful!
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