Interesting Weekend

Friday night we had a family dinner to go to. Janis Cook was marrying on the morrow and Ellen and Boyd were throwing a shindig at the Honeyville Church. It was to begin at 6:00 p.m. Dad was marrying Janis and Rusty and he was scheduled to meet with them after the dinner. We start out at about 4:45. We knew we were going to hit traffic but there wasn't anything we could do about it. We hear on the radio that the traffic is slow go because of two accidents on the Freeway and also because it is Friday night - in the middle of rush hour. So we decide to go by way of Beck Street. Bad idea. So did everyone else. It took us one hour to get from our house to North Salt Lake. So we thought, "this is ridiculous. We will never make it." So we turn around at the next exit and head for home. Meanwhile I call up there to let them know. No one answered on Ellen's phone so I called Nancy. She said she would have Ellen call us (Nancy was enroute and almost to Honeyville.) Ellen calls and we explain our predicament. "No problem, " she declares. She puts Janis on the phone and I proceed to tell her that Uncle Jim will meet with her and Rusty at 12:00 noon to go over the paperwork. She replies, "What paperwork?" "Well, the marriage license." She says, "What marriage license?" Then I hear Ellen say in a loud voice, "You didn't get a marriage license??????" Then the phone went dead. I couldn't get anybody.....Anne, Carole, Ellen or Nancy. We didn't know what was going on. Here it was after 6:00 on a Friday afternoon and no marriage license. Finally after a couple of hours Boyd called and said after much finagling and such, they got one. Ellen, as mayor of Honeyville called in her favors. The County Clerk is a good friend of hers. Boyd drug Rusty and Janis down to Brigham City where he forked over the $50 for the license because they didn't have any money. Janis's reply was, "Nobody told me you had to have a marriage license!" Everyone was laughing about it on Saturday, but not on Friday. We thought it was a blessing in disguise that was had got stuck in traffic, because had we not called, it would have been after 9:00 on Friday. Crazy....

Saturday we took off to the wedding. We stopped at the Layton Mall so dad could get a new tie and I could pick up a couple of things at Deseret Book. I noticed that the lining in my dress was sagging. I tried to pin it to no avail. So Dad said he would buy me a new outfit between the meeting with Janis and the wedding. We head over to Logan and I try on several dresses at Dillards. We get one. Then we run over to Famous Footwear and I get new shoes. Then I took everything in the bathroom and changed clothes. Then I had to come out in the mall where Dad cut off the tags and clipped the hem in the back of the dress. Then on the way out, I stopped at Penney's and bought a new purse to match. We made it back in time for Dad to do a bang up job marrying them. We made it back home at about 9:30 last night. I was so tired - but I looked good. (Of course, Dad accused me of sabotaging my own dress lining - hey I am not stupid).