A Wedding With an $800 Budget!

Well she may be what some refer to as a troll, but why feed into it if you believe she is a troll. Just say something nice or nothing at all and there won't be any drama for a so call troll to cause. This is so commom all across the board on many sites, I just don't understand the need to tear people down that they don't believe, when all they have to do is read it, don't like it, then move on, just my two cents.

If you live in a place where tornadoes can occur (I do) then I made a choice and knew it was a risk. 99% of cancers are either preventable or you are able to catch them early. Are there situations where there is 100% nothing that you did that lead to them, sure, but those are rare, most of the time it's your own fault (even if it's something as simple as deciding where to live) and your choices that got you to where you are now. Watch this episode of HIMYM for some insight on this:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lucky_Penny

Congratulations on your day!

When we first got married it was by the JP and only about 2 people knew right up until it was time to take my break from work, walk across the street to the courthouse and got married. I wore a dress I bought at some store for about $25. Then we called our friends to let them know and we all met at our usual weekend hang out bar where there were live bands every Friday. That night our favorite band was playing. Our friends brought a cake, decorated some tables and added a few hanging decorations (nice surprise) and we had such a blast. I think the most expensive thing was the bar tab.

Now that we can afford it we are having the big ceremony, reception, etc but I wouldn't change my origial wedding for anything.

Oh and I forgot to mention we got engaged in May and got married 2 months later because we didn't want to wait.

If I have something to say, nice or not, I'm going to say it.

/sigh

Tornados is not a choice, but you have a CHOICE as to how you react to them and what you do during and afterwards. Say one comes and you are left in a hard spot because you have no power, water, or food. You THEN have to make a choice to ride it out and not learn from it OR make the choice to ride it out and get prepared for the next time by making sure you have a way to cook food (fire supplies), get bottles or water and plenty of food to ride it out.

Cancer isn't a choice either, but you have the choice after to either fight it or let it win. Sadly, there are times when cancer will win, BUT it's the point that you decided to fight for it.

Like I said, somethings that happen you don't have a choice on, BUT you do have a choice on how you are going to react to it, what you are going to do about it, how your attitude is going to be, what you are doing to do or change so if it does happen again and etc.

@Mrs. S - OP stands for Orignial Post(er)

I'm sorry Glenn, but that comment you made about cancer is pretty ignorant. I'm a cancer survivor and I sure as shit didn't do something to cause it.

I'm not saying we don't have choices in life...of course we do...I'm just saying that sometimes s*** happens =)

As a person whose family history deals with cancer, I speak this my sister was dianosed with cancer. She had the deadlest form of skin cancer you can get. Everyone knows skin cancer is caused by the sun. She didn't choose to get cancer, but it was her choice to go out in the sun all the time without sunblock and etc. It was also her choice to FIGHT the cancer and beat it's butt after she found out. Her cancer recently came back and it was her choice to fight it again which she has.

My aunt was dianosed with cancer that was too far gone by the time and the doctors gave her 2 years to live if she did chemo. She didn't pick to get cancer, but she did make those choices to avoid going for proper check ups and such which would have allowed the doctors to find it sooner and she'd probably still be alive today. She also made the choice to stop fighting the cancer after a couple of treatments and died 6 months after she stopped the treatments which the doctors told her would happen.

I never said you did something that caused it, I said that it's either preventable or it can be caught early. What part of that says you did something to cause cancer (btw, TONS of people do things to cause cancer. My grandfather died of stomach cancer caused because he worked in a factory that had asbestos and it got into his system and eventually became cancer).

Shit does happen sometimes, but that shit happens, most of the time, because of choices you have made in your life that got you to where you are.

You said "most of the time it's your own fault "

whatever....you're on a pretty high horse today.

How does op still only have 1 star after all this? *shrugs* moving on....

I would say that most of the time EVERYTHING that happens in our lives is our fault, again it could be something as minor as picking up a penny (watch the HIMYM episode).

Sooo this post has pretty much turned into a free for all of various topics????? Any how Congrats Mrs. G glad you were able to have a fun wedding regardless of the cost.

I was wondering that too Nicole.

@Glenn, I hear what you saying, and that's great, I even agree with SOME of what you say, I could give you some scenery where the choice you made had nothing to do with what happen to you, But I AGREE wholeheartedly with you in saying you make the choice to come out of what happens to you after the fact. I could go out tonight and get hit by a drunk driver (Lord forbid) nothing I DID cause me to be in that situation, nothing I could have done except be told it was going to happen so I would not be in that spot at that time could have prevented it. So that's the part I believe I don't see what you're saying, Nothing I did would have cause that drunk driver to hit me. But I agree that what happens after the fact, that's where I control the choice of how to handle and come out of that situation. Anyway, Glenn I love your positivity and I respect your opinions and your voice. You just make me go "what the heck" sometimes. LOL!

See I disagree, you could have not hurried through that yellow light, you could have stopped for a moment to say hi to someone as you leave the office putting you a few moments behind thus keeping you from getting hit, etc... Obviously you didn't cause the accident, but you put yourself in the position where you were hit. Sure you are making some decisions with no knowledge of how they would affect you but they all affect you.

SMH. Glenn, I understand what you're saying, but I really don't think you should be going there with the whole cancer thing. YES some cancers are preventable, I get that, but as a cancer survivor, I've been through a lot and that comment really offended me. I don't get offended often, but I think you just sort of crossed a line.

Check yourself before you wreck yourself