Archive for September, 2008

Please Bring The Potato Salad

September 14, 2008

No page of mine would be complete if I didn’t post this somewhere.  I wrote this a long time ago and its made its rounds.  At the time it was my idea of what a wedding-on-the-cheap should be.  Funny enough – my actual wedding wasn’t too far off the mark.  Beating a horse unto death?  I say neigh, neigh.  Ahem.

You’re Invited to Dawn and Goober’s Wedding….

Please Bring the Potato Salad

 So you want a wedding on a shoestring?

So you want a shoestring wedding?  The decision isn’t an easy one to make.  Still on the fence?  Consider this:  the average wedding costs $30,000.  The average down payment on a house is $30,000.  ‘Nuf said.  

Living with your new spouse is going to be hard enough.  Now imagine having make up sex with your parents in the next room.  

So now you’ve weighed the option of an expensive wedding against living with your mom for the next two years.  Now you have a lot of planning ahead of you…

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