In an ideal world

"I want to pay for the whole thing."
"That's crazy, mom." I said "It's going to be crazy expensive. Why don't you focus on the flowers or something?"
"No. I want to pay for the dress."
"Well then maybe half. Would that be okay?" My mom pursed her lips and walked out of the room, I quickly followed her. "Mom don't be mad it's going to be expensive though," She continued out the front door. Senior was eating in his chair watching t.v. "She can't pay for the whole thing..." I said.
"It's her money, let her do what she wants with it." he said. Mom wanted to know when she would have to start saving for a wedding. I said how about next year. "Next year?!" was her response. Then she nodded and said okay. The tail end of 2013 was the goal. In an ideal world. Really we're hoping for a lottery win to solve all our problems. Ofcoarse, no amount of money would be enough to convince the UK government that I would be an asset to their country. That was one way to get a VISA. Marriage was another. Once married I can live there. Then I'm given a work VISA and it'll take another three years before I'm officially "British" so to say. Although it's been said to be impossible to take the american out of the American.

I had already been googling images of the wedding things I wanted and adding them all to an album. I had saved several pictures of dresses I liked (oddly enough it was difficult to find one that Alex and I both agreed on) but I still always continued the search until I found the dress I want. I actually found the pic while browsing google on my iPhone while I was bored. I quickly rushed to my laptop and found it and saved it - emailing Alex the photo as well. He agreed. Heavily agreed. Infact he told me to find it and tell him how much it cost. I couldn't find it but I will have one just like it. It's the one I want.



I've also hunted veils, tiaras, shoes, and hair styles (although the hair styles are proving to be a hard thing to truely nail). Really the dress and veil were what I was really looking into. I didn't want a long veil or one that stood out. I was actually very happy with they style collected for Bella Swan. A calm veil stationed behind my head. Like a veil pony tail.

As for wedding photos I'm sure my aunt would do them for free (probably as her wedding present) and I have a friend I met over Fanderson who lives in Florida who is a professional wedding photographer and (although Alex doesn't like him - its a guy thing) Steve has said that he would "LOVE LOVE LOVE" to shoot our wedding. And he'd be willing to work with us if we wanted him here bad enough. Alex's dad also is a photographer, as is Alex. So plenty of skill to go around. I know we're not officially engaged yet. But Alex said that my promise ring would've been an engagment ring if it wasn't for my mom being weirded out by everything. He said soon and I asked when. He said before the year is out.