It's My Life - Melody Carlson [65]
Saturday, November 3 (fun day)
Last week, Tony and Steph invited Beanie and me to go out for dinner with them. And then, just as we sat down, Steph said she couldn't wait any longer and asked if we would consider being her bridesmaids. Well, we were both so surprised and honored–and of course we said yes! And today, we three went shopping for dresses.
Fortunately (since there's not much time), Steph and Tony want to keep it simple and inexpensive so we only looked at dresses we could buy right off the rack. And wonder of wonders (I'm sure God had a hand in this), we found them all in one shop! Steph's dress is a tea-length gown of creamy white lace (it looks like something from the Victorian era), and Beanie and I will both wear tea-length satin dresses made of this luscious, coppery color that's sort of iridescent. Absolutely gorgeous (even if it isn't my best color). Steph wants everything to be in fall colors (golds, rusts, olives), and she plans on having chrysanthemums everywhere (she says they're cheap but pretty).
Now, since our church meets in the school, this presented a small problem for the wedding location, but my mom suggested that Steph check into having the wedding at our old church (which has brick walls and stained glass and looks all very proper and churchlike), and both Tony and Steph agreed to this. Tony has a pastor friend coming from New York to officiate, and it just seems like everything is falling right into place. As my grandma says (and she just left for Arizona today) “that's what happens when you live right.” Well, I'm not totally sure about that because I know there are lots of people who try to follow God and live right, yet have all sorts of trials and tribulations coming at them (you should read some of these missionary books I've got!). But I am totally glad for Steph's sake that it's going pretty smoothly (she's gone through enough hard stuff in her life) and it's good to see things falling into place for her now. She's a little sad to see Beanie moving out to my grandma's, but Steph understands. And it didn't hurt when Beanie and I offered to keep Oliver over there during the honeymoon after the wedding.
So next weekend we'll look for shoes to go with our dresses. In the meantime, Beanie and I are planning a big wedding shower for Steph (we read in Bride magazine that the bridesmaids are supposed to do this), and we really don't have all that much time to get it together. We'll just invite friends from church and family and stuff, and Beanie wants to host the whole thing at Grandma's (which she already got permission to do). She will officially move in tomorrow. I'm going to help her, not that she has all that much to move, but it'll be fun seeing her get set up. I asked if she felt scared or nervous about living a house all by herself and she just laughed, then reminded me of some of the things that used to happen when she lived with Lynn. Yeah, living alone sounds a lot safer!
Sunday, November 4 (moving day)
After church, Beanie and I loaded my car with everything she had at Steph's and took it over to Grandma's house. It was kind of weird watching Beanie pull out the key and unlock the door as if she lived there (which she does!), but I suppose I'll get used to it. Then Beanie asked if we could swing by Lynn's place to get some of the things that Beanie had never moved (since Steph's apartment was pretty crowded) so we drove over to Lynn's.
“I sure hope we don't see that Harley parked in the yard,” said Beanie. “I'm not really looking forward to meeting this loser.”
I was actually hoping that no one would be home. I never enjoyed seeing Lynn, and I know how hard it could be on Beanie. But when I pulled up we saw Lynn's old beater car sitting in the driveway.