Boy, the Men's Wearhouse really likes us. Day after we bought my wedding dress, we went in to see what they had and ended up walking out having spent over a grand. My platinum card was crying very loudly that weekend.

My better half is now the proud possessor of a full tuxedo - from bow tie to shoes and everything in between. Including the shirt studs, braces and cufflinks. Plus we found a very nice sport coat, two pair of slacks, two shirts w/ties and an additional set of braces.

The nice thing is, for every $500 you spend, they send you a $50 gift certificate (gotta join their little club but its free). So, when the gift certificates arrived, we went back on New Year's Day and found a nice 3/4 length coat for Fred that ended up costing us $11 out of pocket.

Now all I have to do is mail off the invitation, now that everyone is on the list. Got the chapel contract signed and faxed off and reserved the private room at the restaurant for the dinner after the ceremony. Plus the deposit for the private room. Can't forget all those pesky deposits.

Have to talk to my daughter - she's the maid of honor - about what she's going to wear. She's been a maid of honor of brides maid so many times, I'm hoping she has something already that she'd be willing to wear again. The dress she wore at her foster-sister's wedding would be fabulous, if it still fits.

A friend from grade school, who lives in Vegas, can't wait for me to arrive. We haven't seen each other since grade school and only found each other a couple of years ago on Classmates.com and have been e-mailing ever since. It's nice to have someone in the know down there. Especially since we have a lot of similar likes - motorcycles, guns, chocolate and working for a transit district. I don't work for a transit district but my better half does and so does my friend and her husband.

Less than 3 months until the wedding day. Got to make that man of mine an honest man.