OK, I'll share my weird wedding planning story with you.
Without internet to assist me, I went out and bought a planning book. It was full of WONDERFUL information. It really did help me plan the wedding - it was great! Several years later I bought a book by the same authors about preparing for your first baby, and again, it was awesome.
After that I saw an obituary in the Dallas Morning News for a girl who died from AIDS. She was the author's sister. I volunteered extensively at the time, and I was really saddened by reading about her death. I wrote a note to the author and mailed it to him through his publishing company. He wrote back to me - by hand - a very nice note. Not too long after that his mom (who is local) started volunteering at the same agency I volunteered with! She is an amazing woman, and I told her how I had enjoyed her son's books and how he responded personally to the note I sent.
So, even though I had to buy a planning book, make a thousand phone calls, and plan each and every detail of the wedding "the old fashioned way" I still have a cool story that came from it!
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