The date has been set...

Well shoot the date has been set and I have less than a month left of being single! Tiff and I decided to heck with it we are going to get hitched the 3rd of next month which will be the anniversary of us getting together. We were suppose to get married during the last summer but neither one of us was working and so we held things off. We are both working now and while the jobs aren't the greatest so money isn't exactly "rolling in" I am at least finished with school and things feel right.

We are just going with the justice of the peace thing for the ceremony and then we will have a big reception afterwards with all the family and friends. My friend from work is making me a ring out of a 100+ year old Damascus shotgun barrel. Tiff thought that would be more "me" than getting a generic ring from a shop. Later on I will have the inside plated with gold or something. My mom offered up the services of her new boyfriend to help cook the food for the reception and I think Tiff will bake the cake.

I suggested that I could sell one of my rifles to help pay for the honeymoon so we could maybe get away to some place a little nicer. She looked right at me and told me "Don't you dare. I would rather keep the rifle than have the honeymoon." Gotta love that girl of mine. Might sell off some car parts or whatever to help out with things. Think we are going to try and head to the coast for a few days or something. Then later on when we have more money coming in we will take a bigger trip somewhere.

Congrats Rebel - that sounds like a really awesome ring Idea!

Congrats Rebel, you definitely have the right idea. I was just stuck as best man in a friends wedding, they did about the same as you're planning aside from actually having a ceremony at their church. The family cooked for the reception and so on. They stayed in state for their honeymoon and are planning something special/farther for one of their anniversaries.

Thanks guys. I am lucky Tiff isn't one of those crazy girls wanting to spend a fortune on the wedding and all.

I have always thought that the fancier the wedding, the shorter the marriage. 23 years ago, I got hitched at the courthouse. Had a ball. 10 friends and family, about half the courthouse staff showed up. We got off to a good start. And no debt.

Congrats!

Congrats. Good choice.

Congratulations. That ring idea is outstanding.

rebelgtp wrote: Thanks guys. I am lucky Tiff isn't one of those crazy girls wanting to spend a fortune on the wedding and all.

Mine either. Looking at $500 for the nice garden park around the corner, outdoors, invite the good friends back to the house afterwards.

My idiot cousin had a massive full catholic mass wedding, I joked the ceremony would last longer than the marriage. I wasn't far off.

(Congrats BTW!)

Congradulations.

Congrats.

And you are lucky on the lack of big wedding thing. We talked about doing something simple but then we realized that our families weren't going to let that happen. Oh well they are paying.

Congratulations!!! If you choose the Washington coast; y'all are free to stop by!

Congrats!

Wife and I knew a big Wedding was expected. So we went to Hawaii instead on her parents money and the guests paid their own way. So we had about 30 people instead of the 250 or so we could have easily had. :)

In reply to Javelin:

Nice man I will keep that in mind!

Yeah the small wedding thing I think will be much less stressful.

Are all the GRMers invited? If so you will want to have lots of those little sausages in BBQ sauce with toothpicks. Don't assemble them though, we are a DIY crowd!

logdog wrote: Are all the GRMers invited? If so you will want to have lots of those little sausages in BBQ sauce with toothpicks. Don't assemble them though, we are a DIY crowd!

Wrapped in bacon.

Congrats.

Congrats !!!

Congrats! Low-key is the best way to have a wedding - much more fun than stressing everything. We invited about 100 people, got about 70. My wife sewed her own gown and bridesmaids suits (which we dyed ourselves). Lots of finger foods and an open bar at the reception. It was a ball and even with only 70 people there I still didn't get enough time to spend with everybody.

Looks like you have a real keeper - you two sound like the type that will work together and get through anything! Enjoy.

Awesome! Congrats!

In reply to logdog:

Mmmm little sausages in BBQ sauce insert Homer Simpson drool noise here

There is an idea have a bunch of GRMers show up and we can have a whole group attack my Cutlass at one time to see how fast we could swap the engine, rear end, steering column and suspension getting the car "on the road". That would make Tiff very happy because then her Invicta could go in and she could start working on it.

We had talked about doing a cross country road trip originally for honey moon and I was gonna stop and visit a few of ya'll along the way but with gas prices and us doing things on a shoe string that has to wait. At some point I still want to prep a car and come to the challenge. I actually have a second Cutty I could use for a base that I traded a $200 rifle for.

Duke Yeah she is a real keeper. She loves workin on cars, shooting and photography all of my favorite hobbys. She also puts up with my occasional goofball behavior and listens when I talk about a car or gun build.

Congrats!

rebelgtp wrote: Thanks guys. I am lucky Tiff isn't one of those crazy girls wanting to spend a fortune on the wedding and all.

Very lucky. Congratulations! Mine is much the same way, and we're figuring out when to set a date for our equally simple wedding. Pretty much the same plan as you: justice of the peace followed by an inexpensive reception somewhere local in the evening.