More About Weddings

As much as I boast about my computer saavy, I did something yesterday for the first time ever. I found a friend's daughter's gift registry on line when I wasn't told in correspondence where she was registered. OK, my daughter-in-law helped me big time with this one. I had searched all bridal gift registry hot spots and could not find the happy couple. That's when the Wedding Channel.com was suggested and that's where I found my blushing bride.

Until last night every bridal gift I had bought was something on a page printed in a department store. You get the list, check for one in your price range and go find it.....Out of stock? You go find another and on and on. I think for every one... I bought it, took it home, wrapped it and delivered it. It may not have been as thoughtful as I wanted it to be but, it was on the list. I can honestly say that only in recent years that I had a store deliver one.

My current bride, I have not seen in almost 20 years since we moved back to our State from her State. She was my son's first play mate and, her Mom and Dad were our next door neighbors and did such a great job acclimating us to our new home in a far away place. Her brother and my daughter were even born a month apart a couple of years later. Her Mom and I shared miscarriages within days of each other and did not tell each other for a month as not to make the other feel bad.

After six years of knowing this bride and her family we got to go back "Home". I have the Christmas card pictures from each year since we've been gone. She even had a sister I've never met. Her Mom and I have done a wonderful job of keeping each other up to date through these many years. Our letters became emails which went on to be Facebook. I pretty much knew the basics about the bride.

It was not until I shopped on line to buy her a wedding gift did I get to know her tastes. I see so much of her Mother in the things she picked. It was wonderful to be able to choose a gift, though suggested, that I knew she liked and I liked as well. Plus, the stores wrap and deliver!

Thanks again to Al Gore or whoever invented the internet. This wedding gift shopping thing is so cool!