Sorry it's been so long since I updated. I've had a bit of personal trouble.... As in, for all you gals out there, no Aunt FLO! For four weeks now. As in, yes, it's been eight weeks since I've had a visit.
And when my FH and I went and got a EPT, It campe up two pink lines. that was the first one, anyway. My FMIL found it and was surprisingly cool about it. MY FSIL had a COW. An absolute cow... She cried, called me a slut, him a Dumb ass... Said we ruined her life. Completely. If we were pregnant, we were ruining her life, because she would have to be the sister of the guy who knocked up his high school girlfriend.... OH MY GOD! I almost killed her. The bottom line is: I have two positive EPTs and two negs. I've got a doctor's appointment in two days. Sigh. I hope I haven't rambled on about this is... And I hope I haven't instilled a bad rep for myself as a slut, as my FSIL has told me....  Sigh.

To me, it's a bit early to be making MANY decisions about a wedding, but still, there are a few big dilemnas that I have to work through. And it's not easy!

Dan and I have fought till we're blue in the face over the wedding budget. Not with each other, but with our parents. My dad wants to pay for it, as long as it does NOT go over $15,000. WHAT? That's THREE TIMES as much as what *I* was considering! Then his mother comes in. First she said that it's NOT her place to pay for the wedding or anything in it, it's the bride's family. . I understand this. Totally. It makes sense. But then she started bitching to me and Daniel about how we need to "save money" by letting her Mom do the flowers (ew) and her sister make the cake.  THEN she proclaimed that she wants to be the 'host' of the wedding and put in $1,000 of her own money to be that host. Hello?

So we decided to host it ourselves. We made a budget of $8,000 (secretly, though, my dad'll be paying about $6500 of that), and are planning on sticking with it.

 

Oh yes. They actually make such things as CAMOFLAUGE wedding dresses. And the FH now knows they have them. Which is not good. No... Now he wants and is DYING FOR a camoflauge wedding. Heh. Not over my dead body. Sigh. He's an avid hunter and LOVES anything camo, so now he wants it as our wedding scheme. Maybe I can compromise and suggest a camoflauge rehearsal dinner? Has any of you come along problems such as this?

There's not that much to tell about us, so I feel funny adding a single post about it, but here goes.... I'm 18, Dan's twenty, and we were a year apart in high school. We started dating in my sophomore year, his junior year, and we just hit our two year anniversary. On May 30, 2007, he got down on one knee in the middle of his mama's kitchen and proposed. So we've set our date for December 12, 2009, when I will graduate from college as a LPN. Yay!

I'm a full time student, and he's a diesel mechanic (Yes, we're from Mississippi so, your probably thinking a mechanic is a pretty common job, but since Mississippi has so much river traffic i.e. the Mississippi River, plus TONS  of 18 wheelers going through to get to New Orleans, you'd be surprised how FEW diesel mechanics there are. Depending on who you work for, a diesel mechanic brings in anywhere from $25 to $40 dollars an hour their first YEAR.! Sorry, I've just been given heck on the whole 'mississippi hick sterotype' on other boards, and I wanted to clear that up.) We love camping and we love fishing in the Mississippi River, and since I am the only girl cousin on my dad's side, while I'm a girly girl, I love hunting as well (Dan's a hunting fanatic.)

I have dreams of throwing this wedding on a $5,000-$8,000 budget, though with Dan's mom's help (she's alright, just pushy at times but I like her), it's looking as if it's going to be $20,000 or more. Sigh. I want to be married in a church, with a reception elsewhere, so we can drink. She wants me to rent out the mulitpurpose building of our town (its large, metal, and UGLY) for the entire night, and marry there PLUS do the reception there. Ugh. This would be MUCH more expensive that my church wedding. But she wants to "save money" by having her mother do my flowers and her sister do my cake (I've seen samples. Neither one is what I envisioned for my wedding. It doesn't even come CLOSE.) Plus Dan's no help, he says "Whatever you want, baby," when I ask for his opinion or when I BEG for his help with my FMIL, he tells her, "It's her wedding, mom, not yours, let her be." This of course, lasts for five hours and we're right back at step one.

We're fairly civil to one another, though sometimes (on my side anyway) it's forced. Like since my wedding is in December, I REALLY want red, silver, and white.. Roses, white fox-fur, poinsettas, twinkle lights, the works. Dan's mother expressed her concern that she thought a pink and white weddng would be a lot prettier, but I quickly won her over by showing her sample snapshots. Dan's sister, on the other hand, was horrible. After Dan's initial begging (this is something he really wanted) I agreed to make her a bridesmaid, the fourth on my line-up. Well, she informed me (now she's not a kid, she's a year older than me, 19!) that she would NOT be a bridesmaid unless she got to wear the pink dress of her choosing, and that Dan would pay for it (her mother and father talked to her and basically told her to grow up, she'd be wearing whatever color I chose.) Then she told me that she INSISTED on being the maid of honor, since she is in LOVE with Dan's best man, and wants to be walked down the aisle by him to "win him over", even though he's happily engaged. Sigh.

My family are happy as clams about this, though my brother, who's 15, doesn't like Dan at all (sounds familar) but my dad, who we both live with, has put him in his place plenty of times. Now... All I have to do is plan a wedding! Lol!