Small Wedding, Big Memories
Arianna McCollough
Mrs. Arreola
English 1301.020
19 February 2014
Essay 1
Small Wedding, Big Memories I never thought that it would happen this early in our lives. Of course I never thought that my best friend would get pregnant and have a child this early in her life either. We both knew that getting married was a rather big commitment, but she was willing and ready. As her best friend of ten years, I was willing and ready to be by her side and help however I could. As soon as Kalyn told me that she and Colby were planning on getting married I was excited for her, but a little reluctant also. Eighteen was a young age to get married, I was just glad that it wasn’t me in that position. I remember talking about all the planning and how she wanted everything to look, the different flowers and place settings. She had already decided also that their colors would be silver and royal blue and that November 2, 2013 would be their special day. I was just happy they were able to agree on that first detail. It was exciting because what girl doesn’t dream of getting married every day of her life until it happens? Three months. We had all of three months to have everything planned out for their wedding. First things first, we had to get invites made and sent out. Kalyn already knew what she wanted them to look like but we were on a budget here so we decided we would make the invites ourselves instead of paying a butt load to have them made. I mean how hard can it be to make sixty invitations? Well I’ll tell you how hard it is. We had to type up everything first and then figure out how to center it correctly to where it looked flattering on the pre-made cards that she had bought. Then we had to make a trial print to see if the words were where they needed to be. We probably made about 5 trial prints before we finally decided just to leave it where it was. I told her, “it will be fine, no one is going to notice that the words are just a tiny bit off center.” At that
Mrs. Arreola
English 1301.020
19 February 2014
Essay 1
Small Wedding, Big Memories I never thought that it would happen this early in our lives. Of course I never thought that my best friend would get pregnant and have a child this early in her life either. We both knew that getting married was a rather big commitment, but she was willing and ready. As her best friend of ten years, I was willing and ready to be by her side and help however I could. As soon as Kalyn told me that she and Colby were planning on getting married I was excited for her, but a little reluctant also. Eighteen was a young age to get married, I was just glad that it wasn’t me in that position. I remember talking about all the planning and how she wanted everything to look, the different flowers and place settings. She had already decided also that their colors would be silver and royal blue and that November 2, 2013 would be their special day. I was just happy they were able to agree on that first detail. It was exciting because what girl doesn’t dream of getting married every day of her life until it happens? Three months. We had all of three months to have everything planned out for their wedding. First things first, we had to get invites made and sent out. Kalyn already knew what she wanted them to look like but we were on a budget here so we decided we would make the invites ourselves instead of paying a butt load to have them made. I mean how hard can it be to make sixty invitations? Well I’ll tell you how hard it is. We had to type up everything first and then figure out how to center it correctly to where it looked flattering on the pre-made cards that she had bought. Then we had to make a trial print to see if the words were where they needed to be. We probably made about 5 trial prints before we finally decided just to leave it where it was. I told her, “it will be fine, no one is going to notice that the words are just a tiny bit off center.” At that