Eat, Drink, and Remarry

Back in Portland I find myself in the rush of an upcoming wedding approaching in just over a week’s time. I still do not have a dress. Now with no employment, I don’t have the extra cash to find the dress of my dreams. I suppose I shouldn’t care much, as it’s not my “big day” however, those wedding pictures will be around forever… so I gotta look G-U-D good.

In addition my soon-to-be step sister has fallen in love with a $500 dress that she wants her dad to buy for her. I do not have the luxury of being the only girl in the family, and with two sisters, I know that my mother will not be coughing up that much for each of us to adorn ourselves on her special day.

Last weekend I went to my friend’s father’s wedding. I had nothing to wear (if I had a nickel…). After some very last minute shopping I found a dress. At Ross. For $12.99. (Thank you very much.) I even got compliments on it. Now as my soon-to-be-sis dons her fabulous $500 gown… I will be in my bargain find. Brilliant.

I walked upstairs at my mom’s house yesterday and saw a large box sitting on the floor near the living room… looking in I saw that blue… a BIG box of that blue… the wedding gifts have begun to arrive. Beginning with a large gift from Tiffany’s… I suddenly remembered that marriage isn’t so bad.

I have also been trying to decide what I should get my mom and her new husband… starting with a wedding card. We tried to find a card last weekend for his father’s wedding, and finally settled on something rather generic. Trying to find a suitable card for your parents’ second wedding is not easy.

I have no desire, nor do I find it appropriate to get a card for my mom, telling her the sanctity of her and her husband’s vows… she already had them with my father. Honestly, it feels nearly rude for me to remind my mother of how serious one should take their vows.

This is my million dollar idea, another one of them anyway. I am going to create a line of cards for children to purchase for their remarrying parents. Several of my friends’ parents have remarried in these last few years, and it is an entire market that is being neglected. I think so anyway. I can fill the section with important words of wisdom like, “Eat, Drink, and Remarry!”

In between preparing for a wedding, and drooling over robin's egg blue… trying to find a job, and deciding what state I shall live in… fielding calls from random exes that suddenly want to “hang out” again now that I am back in town and kicking it with friends I haven’t seen in awhile… I will also sell parents second (or third or whatever) marriage cards… I’ll be rich…. Maybe I will be able to find a fab dress then…