The Wedding of Angie and Brad

My son, Brad, is getting married this Saturday, December 12,2009. He is 30 years old. It is to be at 3:00 at the Church of Christ in Henderson, in the Parlor. He met Angie in high school and wanted to date her then but was to bashful or afraid to ask her out, so time went by and he went to Firemans college, police college and finally finished an associate degree at Kilgore college in paramedics. He finally moved to Dallas worked for a Hospital up there and then decided to go overseas with a job for Kelloge, Brown, and Root, to see the world. He was a medic for the group in a forward operation base in the wilderness of Afghanistan called Worrier. While he was home on leave he met up with Angie and over the 5 months or so, they became good friends over the internet e mails. So when he finished his year of work over there he came home and they wanted to get married. So Sat. is the day. She is a sweet young lady and I think she is just the kind of person Brad needs. She ask me to go with her the other day to be fitted for the dress she had picked out and I was so excited to get the honor. It is a pretty dress and fits her very nicely. The weather has turned so very cold for here in Dec. I hope she doesn't get too cold in the halter style dress. She picked out a veil to go with the dress, but decided it was too expensive. I took note of the style and we went to the fabric store and found some net that just matched it. We couldn't find the ribbon to match so left without it. Later that day, I went back to the fabric store, bought the net, found some ribbon and went by the bridal store to make sure it matched her dress. I came home and made her a veil that she really likes. I told her she didn't have to wear it if she didn't like it, and I really meant it. It is hard to do things like that because they feel like they have to use it, even if they really didn't want to or like it. I hope she was honst and is happy with her decision to wear it. They picked up the marriage license monday and transfered over insurance on the cars. We are going by the church tomorrow just to look and get some ideas on decorations before the last day before the BIG DAY! I have found some accapella wedding songs and am in charge of the music. I pray this all comes together and it turns out to be beautiful. I went with them to pick out the wedding band for him today also. He liked one, but the only sizes they keep in stock is a ten. He wears an 8. They had two rings for him in a size 8, so he bought one simple white gold plain band and ordered the one he really liked, should be here in a couple of weeks. They had planned for all to go to Olive garden to eat after the wedding, but they won't make a reservation for all 24 of us, so we will have to just stand out and wait for a table....they are looking into something else. It is the holidays and I tried to warn them about a place to eat and the need for reservations during the weeks before Christmas. They are so in love...I am so happy for them. I haven't heard where they are going to stay after the wedding but they are off to Cancun for 5 days monday morning. Hopefully!!! More later.