southern fried gal

Kelly over at Kelly’s Korner is having a Show Us Your Life party and this week’s topic is your wedding. I could not join in last week’s fun because I didn’t have a wedding dress. I’m a bit of a cheapskate and I’m a perfectionist. These two items did not combine well in my mind for having a wedding. I wanted it to be cheap but I wanted it to be perfect. I was having trouble reconciling these two as we planned for our wedding. And then DH had the perfect solution. He asked me to skip the planning (we had a future date picked and rings already) and just marry him that day.I told him if he could pull it off I would do it. Jeff called his mom and she called her local county clerk to see if we could get a marriage license that day. The county clerk agreed to meet us at the courthouse in Mt Ida, Arkansas at 6 pm. DH’s family lived about 20 minutes from here. We called my family (mom, stepdad, dad, granny, brother and sister-in-law) and asked if they could meet us at 6 pm at the courthouse. It was 4 hours away for my brother and his wife and 2 hours away from everyone else.

So shortly after 6 pm we all met here, got our license and were married under that tree to the right by DH’s maternal grandfather – he is a Baptist preacher! The ceremony was about 3 minutes long and we wore khakis!!! It was May 6, 2000 so the trees and flowers were gorgeous!The pictures were hilarious – especially the one my MIL posted in her local paper. There was a green water hose coiled up to the side in the picture! I about died when I saw that. Oh well!After the wedding we went to the Fish Nest in Glenwood, AR for dinner. My dad treated – he got off SO cheap. This is why I am his favorite daughter to this day. OK, I’m his only daughter, too.

Anyway – after 9 years we are still happy as ever and I LOVE our wedding memory. And it was the perfect way to keep it on the cheap. Come to think of it – what a perfect wedding for a Southern Fried Gal!!!

Thanks, Kelly, for asking us to share.