March 2009

Originally Mike and I were thinking that we wanted to get married this coming August or September. We wanted to get married as soon as possible. And I guess I was a little optimistic about the support I was hoping to get from my family. Well, my mom is way supportive, financially and otherwise, but, surprise, surprise, my father is dropping the ball once again.

Haven't I been his one and only daughter for 28 years now? Shouldn't he have been planning for marrying me off someday? Doesn't he realize that it's a father's responsibility to give his daughter the wedding of her dreams? Apparently, my father didn't get that memo the day I was born. He didn't get a lot of memos about parenthood, but that's another story!

So...in order to save some money ourselves, and maybe do a little fundraising with family, we've decided to wait until March 2009 to get married. That gives me 15 months to plan the wedding of my dreams! We're hoping that March 28 will be available at a location that we like, but we'll have to wait and see.

We didn't think there was any significance to this date at all. I wanted to pick a date late enough in March that daffodils and tulips may be in season. But it turns out that March 28 has a little significance. Mike and I met through eHarmony. He started communication with me on March 20, 2005. On March 28, 2005, we entered "Open Communication" which basically means we were finally able to communicate as ourselves without the eHarmony people guiding our conversation. We didn't even realize this when we picked March 28, 2009 as a possible date to get married. This will be exactly 4 years to the day that we started to really get to know one another. Pretty cool, huh?

Well, I'll keep everyone posted, but for now keep March 28, 2009 open and available on your calendar! Now I'm off to work on my wedding.