… of course I didn’t name her that.
So I belong to a wedding planner’s website. One of the women - I think she’s in CA - has a caterer that she works with exclusively. She’s called the food whore - makes you wonder. At any rate, she has a blog that keeps me generally entertained for days…. when I grow up in blog world I want to be just like her. Read on:

It’s not that I am not a romantic person by nature, I mean - I have that in me.

But some of the stories we hear when dealing with Brides for Wedding Tricks - well, they seem just a little over the top.

We recently met with a bride, and she went into great length discussing her desire for an ice sculpture. She wanted >”… flowy and graceful… I want it to evoke emotion. I want it to be The Groom and I entwined in a loving embrace - and to look like we are floating to the sky in a cloud of passion…I want it to reflect how our married life will be…”

She was dead serious. And hey, good on her. But when she left The Partner looked at me and said, “Maybe I am cold and dead inside, but I think I threw up a little during the ice sculpture description.”

“Yeah. If an ice sculpture reflected my married life it would be a picture of me slumped over my butcher block with an empty martini glass while the husband sat watching Battlestar Galactica in tattered sweats.”

“Good times.”

“Yeah, good times.”

She should be writing for someone at Fox, for crying out loud!

For someone like me who is going on 20 years of marriage, this really struck my funny bone.

Definitely a day to remember! The day we completed the venue. WHEW! That was a very long haul. I thought the day would never come.
We spent all of Sunday in the basement - me shining a flashlight into the electrical panel and Tony installing breakers. Every so often I was given the responsibility of handing off instruments, taking me back to the OR days. Thank goodness Tony’s not as snippy as a surgeon - no pun intended.
Anyway…. it’s complete…. and workable. Now to just start finding those bookings….
Bring on those Christmas Parties!

The tour is finally over and it was totally awesome. We were out looking at other houses and met up with some friends who wanted to see our house so we came back. Well when we got here we couldn’t get out! Everyone kept asking questions… I finally put my bag away and smiled and answered questions. I don’t remember ever seeing that many people at one place that weren’t prepared to cut-a-rug and toast the bride and groom. Not only that, I truly didn’t think that our place was that intriguing…. I’m not trying to be humble. When we restored the place we didn’t take into consideration all of those people who thought we should do things differently. We merely did what was best for us. I was very touched that so many people thought the place was fabulous.
Also, it really made me happy to see that there were a lot of young people involved with the tour. For some reason I thought that mostly older folk were interested in architectural history but not so. I bet 1/2 the people that toured the building were in their 40s. … Hey, that’s still very young! Someday you’ll agree with me!
At any rate, Columbia will be featuring a Ghost Tour in October as well as a Christmas Lantern Tour in December. You should check it out! You will not be disappointed!

This post goes without saying…. I’m truly saddened by today’s events, here in Lancaster County. All of the forthcoming details have literally made me sick. I do pray that the community would bond together and reach out to the Amish. Those children - the hurt and unhurt will need lots of counseling. I do hope that the Amish will allow the outside community to help them in this regard.

I originally set out to post (this am) about this weekend’s marathon of floor laying….. I’m too exhausted to talk about that now….