Category Archives: Wedding Bells

Road Trip

October 27, 2008 – 9:09 am

This weekend we took a trip to the western part of the Commonwealth to visit with HS’s future in-laws.
LDIL’s mom, who is much more organized than I can ever hope to be, had been kind enough to scope out a few possible venues for the rehearsal dinner, so the main goals of the weekend were [...]

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Overheard

August 18, 2008 – 8:36 am

HS: (Calling to let us know he was leaving his fiancee Nashville yesterday afternoon to return to Kentucky for the new school year):  I’ll probably just be a little ball of depression at dinner.

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Better Late Than Never

July 31, 2008 – 4:58 pm

My oldest sister and her fiance eloped back in October. Of 1983.
So this weekend, we’re going to their wedding reception.

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It May Have Been a Freudian Slip

July 29, 2008 – 7:46 pm

I have a wonderful mother-in-law, and I am hoping to be the same to my future DIL (henceforth known as LDIL, for “Lovely Daughter-in-law”).
So, shortly after she and HS announced their engagement, I wrote her a letter welcoming her to the family. I used some lovely stationery that a friend have given me sometime [...]

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Mystery Solved

July 6, 2008 – 9:26 pm

I figured if I made enough guesses about HS’s news , I stood a pretty good chance at getting it right.
And I did.
We took him and his girlfriend out to lunch on Saturday. My son, the talented writer, pulled out a bag he’d brought along. “Remember my essay on Southern literature?”
He then pulled [...]

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