{"id":2175,"date":"2013-04-15T20:58:00","date_gmt":"2013-04-16T01:58:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lizardek.com\/blog\/index.php\/2013\/04\/15\/wedding-plans-garbage-cans\/"},"modified":"2022-07-05T14:35:24","modified_gmt":"2022-07-05T12:35:24","slug":"wedding-plans-garbage-cans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/lizardek.com\/blog\/index.php\/2013\/04\/15\/wedding-plans-garbage-cans\/","title":{"rendered":"WEDDING PLANS &#038; GARBAGE CANS"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In the interest of helping my daughter be more organized with her homework, school books and papers, I promised to give her a large plastic case I had up in the back of the closet. It&#8217;s bright blue with 10 or so pockets and a flap that folds down over the front and closes with elastic bands. The pockets were all neatly labeled and there was an index card in a pocket on the front listing the contents of each pocket as well: ceremony, flowers, reception, catering, photographer, etc. I bought the case in 1995 and used it to hold all the documents and materials that I accumulated while planning our wedding, which took place in June, 1996.<\/p>\n<p>The elastic was stretched out and floppy and the layer of dust on the cover of the case was, frankly, embarrassing, but in my own defense, I HAVE cleaned it out once before&#8230;a long time ago, after we moved to Sweden. But every pocket still contained something of enough importance that I felt the need to hold on to it.<\/p>\n<p>Tonight, I went through and winnowed it down again. I threw away the following:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>receipts &#038; copies of checks, business cards and contracts for the photographer, the violinist (that my sister met on a plane!), the dress, the DJ, the flowers, the cake, the catering, the reception hall, the church, the hotel room, and our travel itinerary for our honeymoon<\/li>\n<li>spreadsheet of cost comparisons for photographers<\/li>\n<li>1996 White Sox schedule<\/li>\n<li>spreadsheet of costs of each section of our month-long honeymoon (Athens, Istanbul, Santorini, Naxos, Sweden)<\/li>\n<li>lists of household items we already had<\/li>\n<li>wishlists for the wedding registry for things we DIDN&#8217;T have yet<\/li>\n<li>printouts from actual purchases from the wedding registry (strangely, no one bought us the $150 espresso machine)<\/li>\n<li>pages ripped from magazines with pictures of my dress (long since sold) and the bridesmaid dresses and a page of flower ideas that I liked<\/li>\n<li>sheet music for the Delsbo Wedding March<\/li>\n<li>The minister&#8217;s play-by-play for the entire ceremony including instructions such as TELL THEM TO SIT DOWN<\/li>\n<li>page after page after page of photograph orders by number and placement for albums<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Things I actually kept anyway for posterity:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The catering contract which listed all the food for the reception including, of course, Swedish meatball appetizers<\/li>\n<li>The questionnaire for the DJ which has NO checked for the following: Hokey-Pokey? Bunny Hop? Polka&#8217;s? (sic) but YES checked for Ethnic Music and then the description: Swedish\u2014Peps Persson, Dan Hylander \ud83d\ude00<\/li>\n<li>Receipts and appraisal information for my wedding and engagement rings<\/li>\n<li>2 copies of the ceremony program<\/li>\n<li>2 copies of the wedding invitations<\/li>\n<li>spreadsheet of the invited guests, which included columns labeled &#8220;sent&#8221;, &#8220;likely&#8221; and &#8220;responded&#8221;. There are at least 3 people listed that I have no recollection of whatsoever.<\/li>\n<li>copies of our wedding certificate<\/li>\n<li>The angry 2-page letter that I wrote to the first Swedish church that dumped us, just because I write an awesome angry letter<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Keep in mind that I have 4 photo albums plus all the original proofs, the guestbook from the reception that everyone wrote in, a framed copy of the invitation that my friend Sharon who sang at the wedding gave to me (currently in the back of the closet) plus a little organizer notebook with most of the details filled out, and which also includes such helpful information as a entire page of text, divided into columns, headed &#8220;Who pays for what&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>I should scan some wedding pics, shouldn&#8217;t I? We should go buy a new scanner\/printer, shouldn&#8217;t we?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the interest of helping my daughter be more organized with her homework, school books and papers, I promised to give her a large plastic case I had up in the back of the closet. It&#8217;s bright blue with 10 or so pockets and a flap that folds down over the front and closes with elastic bands. The pockets were all neatly labeled and there was an index card in a pocket on the front listing the contents of each pocket as well: ceremony, flowers, reception, catering, photographer, etc. I bought the case in 1995 and used it to hold&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[4,19],"class_list":["post-2175","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","tag-beinglizardek","tag-meandmyman"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/lizardek.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2175","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/lizardek.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/lizardek.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lizardek.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lizardek.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2175"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/lizardek.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2175\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4181,"href":"http:\/\/lizardek.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2175\/revisions\/4181"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/lizardek.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2175"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lizardek.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2175"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lizardek.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2175"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}