Day 43 Arranging a Wedding

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Day 43 - Arranging my wedding!!

This is a list of everything (that I can think of) that I did while arranging my wedding. Keep in mind this was happening between May and October in the year 2000. Most of this time was winter season down under but Auckland does not get any snow. The wedding date was set for 21 October 2000. My fiance arrived in Auckland in early August 2000. He would stay until early November. I am adding in 2 stories of my adventures while arranging my wedding.

First I had to choose the colours. I knew I did not want to go with the white virginal dress. That was just too normal. I wanted to be different. This was after all MY wedding. I also knew that I wanted some red, but I did not know how to incorporate the red into the party. That is, until a colleague showed up at my job wearing a long red skirt and black blouse for which I had the exact same red skirt at home. So I pounced on her and asked her to be in my party as my second witness, provided she wear that exact same ensemble she was wearing that day. She agreed. and I had my colour scheme. I sent out red colour swatches to my sister and my nieces whom I had already asked to be in my party and asked for them to have someone make straight skirts in that colour for them - which they all did. My sister would wear an off white top like me, and the nieces would wear black tops like my colleague.

A few days after my fiance arrived in town, I invited the marriage celebrant to dinner at my favourite Mediterranean restaurant so she could meet us. She needed to see how compatible we were especially since we had not seen each other before now. So on the evening she came to dinner, she drove to my home, parked the car and we all walked the 3 blocks to the restaurant. I gave my fiance my wallet to hold, since I did not have any pockets, and he dropped it. When we got to the restaurant he started joking that he had lost it and I thought he was just teasing me. Until he indicated that he was serious. So I sent him back up the road to find my wallet and come back. Fortunately it was getting dark and noone else saw my wallet lying on the grass so he was quickly able to find it and return to the restaurant. We had a lovely meal of chicken kebabs and pita wraps. It was messy but delicious. The celebrant had no trouble talking to us and watching how we interacted with each other. At the end of the evening she said she was very happy for us and that she would be more than happy to officiate at our wedding.

Supplies
Everything from the Reminisce Bundle by Jessica Dunn, because the red matches my skirt so well!!
https://www.digitalscrapbook.com/jessica-dunn/kits/reminisce-bundle-yesterday-days-gone-by-good-old-memories-remember-love-birds-red