Too blessed to be stressed! By Andrea

Dre is always relaxed. Always. I've been worried about credit card bills, student loans, and car notes and a tanking economy while trying to plan a wedding...it just seemed like an overwhelming amount of stuff to have to pay for and it was stressing me out. Dre kept telling me to chill and trust that everything would work itself out. But even though I tried to be calm I just couldn't get past the feeling of uncertainty. So when tax season rolled around, I started gathering everything I could think of that could get me some extra deductions. Dre filed my taxes, and I was very pleasantly surprised to hear that new homebuyers get an extra refund! Who knew?? (Ok, I'm sure plenty of people knew about it, but I didn't.) So I used the extra money to pay off the stuff I've been stressing about and Dre is just sitting here all cool and relaxed saying, "See? I told you not to worry about it." My great uncle, Archbishop James P. Lyke, once told my dad that you can't worry and pray at the same time. So I guess while I was busy trying to balance the prayer and stress, Dre was "too blessed to be stressed." Andrea

Seven weeks from the wedding by Kelly

This is what my mom's kitchen table looks like. Kelly

More Wedding Drama by Kelly

This wedding drama never ends. I decided I wanted to add more items to my Macy's registry. So I was having trouble trying to log in and I decided to just search for our registry. Nothing comes up if you search for my name. So I guess I don't exist. I decided to check under Jake's name....and I found two entries. There are two Jake Wambolds, and two Kelly Hagertys!!! And one is getting married on 11-11-09. Which I know I don't even have to bother telling you that's my birthday. I know everyone knows.

Now I know some people out there might be thinking that it is just a typo. Who gets married on a Wednesday? But I know the truth. That other Kelly Hagerty is me. I am just in another dimension. The other Kelly Hagerty lives in the world where everything, in fact, does revolve around my birthday. How nice. Kelly

Update from Jake!

First off I would like to apologize to all the readers out there. It’s been quite some time since I graced this lovely website with some Jake Gospel. It’s hard to use the computer when Kelly is always hoggin and bloggin. So on with the show.

It’s almost wedding time and it has arrived very, very fast. We had like 8 months just yesterday it seems. And weddings are expensive! So to all those out there getting married and you think you have tons of time, YOU DON’T! Get what you need done right away. It will just save you a headache later.

Kelly and I did a pretty good job I think when it came to getting stuff done asap. Well I say we but it’s probably like 70/30 me to her. She’s done a little work but very important things so it evens out. I kid; she has been amazing and working so hard. And my beautiful future mother–in-law has been handing writing every single invitation. That’s like 4,000 envelopes. I had no idea the nuns back in the day
turned her into a professional calligrapher. She has been working so hard and I want to say thank you to her.

So to recap hurry and get what you need done done before it's too late, save your money, be nice to your future mother-in-law, and don’t drink her last Diet Coke...ever! Jake

Dana's second wedding by Kelly

The daytime is so boring. I only have to work at night so I sit around all day dreading about how I have to be at work. Today I get to go in at 2 and am excited.

While working a seminar last night about home buying, I wrote down all of the money we've spent so far on the wedding, and all of the money we still have to spend. I almost died. We still owe like 4 billion dollars. Four billion is a lot to come up with in two months (how is it already two months away?).

It's not like we are having an expensive wedding either. I'd like to say I researched for hours about all of the cheapest places to have the wedding at, and the cheapest flowers, djs, everything....but I didn't. My friend did. Dana got married about a year and a half ago. So she gave me all of her info. She managed to have a beautiful wedding for not a lot of money for 400 people.

So lucky Dana, she gets to have two weddings. She will have to be a spectator for the second one though. Kelly