I recently added a new word to my vocabulary. I won't bore you with the details except to say that it was a beautiful day and I really was glowing. I didn't make him wear a tux and he wasn't surprised when I announced that I was re-designing the $10 dollar dress I had found at Value Village. When I brought my dress to the local and very talented seamstress, she thought that I was a little crazy…it didn't look like a wedding dress! To her credit, she heard me out and worked with my vision of the dress. After a few meters of organza (found on sale), I had a unique one of a kind dress that was perfectly me. All for under $200…and that included my shoes and vintage earrings that I bought a few years earlier on one of our road trips to the BC interior. We rented the local art gallery..gathered around a backdrop of great art…happy knowing we were supporting the local art gallery and local artists. ( and it was cheap!) We also choose the day before a holiday so that we would at least always have the next day off and some fireworks ( which would happen when he forgets to buy me flowers)Living creatively and treading gently is good for the soul and the bank account too. And I'm sure this little rock we call home appreciates it as well. I'm thrilled to spend more on the honeymoon to some great place (Iceland) and not still be paying off the wedding a year down the road........like when he is driving me crazy with the dirty socks in the corner. Or when he holds my head under the covers and farts. Not mine though....that was the deal we struck to not have to wear the tux..
