Green Thistles 'n Tea

Driving to work this morning up the Napa Valley, brilliant with mustard, I'm thinking how lucky I am to be planning a lovely event at a very late stage in my life. And it occurred to me - that there is very little encouragement from the commercial world of marketing and product availability - to support what I'm doing.

What am I doing? I'm planning a wedding. A big event. Driving away from the post office where I handed over a box of lovely sage green envelopes with heart candy stamps... I'm thinking how good the world is. How did this happen? A couple years ago in a moment of desperation, I put up a little posting with Match.com. I lied about my age, because I thought that on one would even search for someone up to 60.. so I put in 57. Old. Not too old. Starting out lying is not a good thing - but hey - it's my age and it was an anonymous thing - I just did it. People put in age brackets for searching - and I figured 60 was a little up there. It sounds old.

Very shortly I had an e-mail that started out... "I grew up dreaming of being a cowboy..." and on it went. I was amused and liked the content, responded. After 6 weeks we met at a winery, then to lunch and have never quit talking. This gem of a guy - cute, fun, smart, much loved by his friends, employees and family - is as good as it gets. True. Two years later, we have not stopped talking. The magic is there. What fun. It's a little miracle, no it's a big miracle. I've been single for 22 yrs. Never say never.

So - back to the drive to work. I'm thinking. Everything out there for weddings is geared at 20-somethings. How about 50-somethings. There are tons of people getting married on the second go-around (or third). Anyone out there have great ideas for how to make one of these lovely events? I put together these very classy invitations on paper I found on-line at Paper-Source.com and they are setting the theme for this event. Very pretty, classy, understated elegance, simple and fun to do. I need to write this all down, I thought. Here I am. More later, because I have a tax appt. on Tues. and I must get to it.