There is this young woman who owns my heart. She came into my life when she was best friends with my niece and lived next door to her. She had the biggest blue eyes and you would just melt looking at her. I later married her father and though we went through some very difficult teen years, she has become and amazing young woman. Her name is Tami and she is getting married in May. Her fiance is a welcome addition to our family. Dakota liked him immediately and Dakota is a good judge of character. Normally the bride's parents foot the bill. We would not have been able to give Tami the wedding I want her to have. Her future inlaws stepped in and are taking care of all the major expenses. I am picking up what I can for her. We went to the florist a few weekends ago to pick out her flowers. I told her me and her Dad are taking care of this and not to base her decisions on what she thinks we can afford. The florist is a friend of the family so we are getting off fairly easy. It's the darn centerpieces that had me in a tailspin. We could have rented them from the florist at $25 each, but with 18 tables that was rather pricey. I discussed it with Tami and we decided to do it on our own. Each table will have a fishbowl filled with glass gems, a light submersed in the gems and filled with water with a rose floating on top. It seemed pretty simple to us and less costly for us to pick up the supplies. However, no one carries such a large quantity of fishbowls! We want glass bowls and they are not your normal bowl with the narrow opening and the lip. Looking online we found them cheap but the shipping would have been much more than the actual bowls. Thank god for Ebay! Found a petstore on ebay that charges $7.00 shipping with one cent more for each additional item. Total shipping was $7.16!!! They should be here Friday.
I just want Tami to have the fairytale wedding. I know it's an outrageous cost for a one day affair. But she is and always will be my princess.



I hope the pic turns out, it will be similar to this but with one rose floating on top and not as much filler in it.