Jenn060306
03-27-2006, 09:05 AM
I still am totally in shock about this. I keep thinking was it a dream? A mistake?
Yesterday we went to Mark's dad's for dinner. He really wanted to get the whole family together before our wedding. It was a good night. We looked through photo albums of Grammies and some of the stuff from her house. After we had dinner Mark's dad and step-mom gathered us all together in the living room and Brian started to make a speech about being so glad we are so close and that we can get together like this and how important family is to him. He then proceeded to pull a stack of envelopes out from the back of his shirt and gave us each one. Inside was a card signed with love dad, grammie and ildi, and a cheque. I think the whole room then erupted in tears because of it. Both Mark and i looked at ours and thought.... 'Is this a mistake?!' There seemed to be too many zeros. No mistake. Mark and i, His sister and her husband, his younger sister, and 2 step brothers all got cheques. Just because. Mark's dad acknowledge that they haven't always been able to afford to help us out and now they can and want to. They also told us that the money they were giving us last night had no affect on the money they are planning on giving us for the wedding. I am in such awe of their generosity.
Mark and i just cried. We cried on the way home because just the night before we were starting to worry about how we were going to make this work. Money has been really tight for us, and we have been thinking about what we can cut back on for the wedding so we could afford it. I'm getting teary eyed just thinking about it. A huge weight has been taken off our shoulders and i now know how much his family cares about me and i really feel like i belong.
Yesterday we went to Mark's dad's for dinner. He really wanted to get the whole family together before our wedding. It was a good night. We looked through photo albums of Grammies and some of the stuff from her house. After we had dinner Mark's dad and step-mom gathered us all together in the living room and Brian started to make a speech about being so glad we are so close and that we can get together like this and how important family is to him. He then proceeded to pull a stack of envelopes out from the back of his shirt and gave us each one. Inside was a card signed with love dad, grammie and ildi, and a cheque. I think the whole room then erupted in tears because of it. Both Mark and i looked at ours and thought.... 'Is this a mistake?!' There seemed to be too many zeros. No mistake. Mark and i, His sister and her husband, his younger sister, and 2 step brothers all got cheques. Just because. Mark's dad acknowledge that they haven't always been able to afford to help us out and now they can and want to. They also told us that the money they were giving us last night had no affect on the money they are planning on giving us for the wedding. I am in such awe of their generosity.
Mark and i just cried. We cried on the way home because just the night before we were starting to worry about how we were going to make this work. Money has been really tight for us, and we have been thinking about what we can cut back on for the wedding so we could afford it. I'm getting teary eyed just thinking about it. A huge weight has been taken off our shoulders and i now know how much his family cares about me and i really feel like i belong.